it's a wonderful life

Monday, March 18, 2013

Spotlight on Preston: 9 years young!

HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY PRESTON!!!

We had a fun family party with all the neighborhood coming, plus Jacob's family and some of Katie's friends. Cupcakes for all! All the boys had a great time play Nerf Gun Wars in the yard.

Preston enjoys his scout group. He received his Wolf in January and just moved up to the Bear Pack!

UP Primary Science Fair was a fun catapult project for Dad and Preston to create together.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Emily's Recital

Mike and I had such a fun trip to Utah in March to attend Emily's Senior Recital. She did an amazing job!! We had such fun seeing old friends, going out to La Jolla Groves for dinner, staying with my sister Julie and Craig and seeing family and friends. We celebrated Emily's birthday #24. It is an exciting time for her as she finishes her undergraduate degree at BYU.

Cutie Emily at age 4.

Emily and Carly sang their cute duet as the finale in the recital.

I know this is kind of random...

but look who we found roaming the streets of Provo

while we were driving to Emily's apartment!!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Hawaii !!!!

We had a wonderful trip to Oahu....here are the highlights in pictures.

Our rental house on the North Shore in Laie was wonderful! We had amazing sunrise's and were just a couple steps from the sand and the beach. After a day exploring the North Shore we would come home and Preston immediately ran outside to enjoy the surf on Laie Bay. The waves were big enough to boogie board but not too dangerous, although they did wipe me out a few times. The first morning after we arrived Preston shouted..."Whoah! We are in Paradise!"

WAIMEA Falls and Valley

POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTER was a wonderful day complete with lots of fun cultural shows from the Pacific Island cultures and a Luau and Ring of Fire show.

Turtles on the North Shore beaches!

So much fun to have Grandma with us...Happy 83rd birthday!!!

Just one of our neighbors in Laie...haha

New family hobby...we have been strumming it up on the Ukelele!

Laie Temple and visitors center was a special place for a Sunday visit.

After 5 nights on the North Shore we moved to a place just west of Honolulu, th Marriot Ko Olina with it's beautiful lagoons. It was another paradise. We loved the lagoons, the pools, the beautiful rooms, snorkeling, paddle boarding, the sunsets and the restaurants.