Christmas Eve and day

CHRISTMAS EVE
We stayed in Hawaii for Christmas this year and Landon's entire family came over from Canada to spend it with us. We decided to switch things up a little bit this year since we are in Hawaii and had a BBQ on the beach for Christmas Eve. It was a lot of fun!

Julien and Abi were Mary and Joseph this year...Julien was not very excited about his role. We had to keep feeding him chocolate just to keep him happy.

Getting ready to go to bed so Santa can come!

CHRISTMAS DAY!

I love how Julien is using a package of toothbrushes to "talk on the phone"

Everybody forgot their stockings so we had to use knee highs instead

Taking a little candy break

Santa was really good to all of us this year!

Abi got a pack and play for her little baby and I think Julien was a little jealous...haha!

Mele Kalikimaka!!! We had a wonderful Christmas this year and hope that you did as well!

Merry Christmas!

A weekend on the North Shore

This past weekend we got to stay at our friends beach house on the North Shore and it was amazing! It was so peaceful and relaxing and of course Beautiful!

Sunset on our way to the North shore

The view from the house

Playing on our private beach

Julien loved having a yard to play in...especially when we turned on the sprinkler

Thanksgiving

We got to spend Thanksgiving with my entire family this year! This year is the year for me and my siblings to spend Christmas with our in-laws and since we all live so far away we never see each other so I decided that we all needed to get together for Thanksgiving and I am so glad that everyone was able to go (thanks Mom and Dad!) Julien and I left a week early so that we could spend as much time as possible with my parents...too bad we both got the flu the day before we left and were sick almost the entire time!!! So, we didn't get very much sleep but we still had fun just being together. I don't have very many pictures yet, I am waiting for Amy to send them to me but I will post them when I get them. I am so thankful for such a wonderful family and SO glad that everyone was able to get together! Love you all!!!...and thanks again Mom and Dad!

Seriously???

It was really hard to leave my family but the nice warm sunshine as we walked off the plane definitely helped. I started having thoughts like why would people live in places like freezing cold Utah when they could be living here...then I poured my cereal this morning and it was full of cockroaches...ya I am pretty sure I would take a little snow any day over freaking COCKROACHES. May cannot come fast enough today!

Happy Halloween

Julien was a turtle this Halloween and he was SO cute!

This was at our ward Halloween party last week. Julien wasn't too sure of his costume until he saw all the other kids in their costumes...then he thought it was pretty cool. This was Julien's favorite game at the carnival...and he was pretty good!

Julien and Abi have so much fun together!

This was Julien's first visit to a real pumpkin patch and maybe mine as well. It was SOOO HOT but I am glad that we went.

Playing in the mud...yay!

He found the perfect one!

Carving the pumpkin with Daddy

He was pretty proud of his work

First time trick or treating!

He loved it!

He went with his friend Zak...they ran from house to house together

Keep up dad!
Julien was a turtle, I was a monkey and Landon was the Zookeeper

Nice work Julien!...don't worry Landon and I did save a few pieces for him!