Happy Birthday Abby, Abby It's Your Birthday, It's Your Birthday Abby!

Yay!!!!!

Abby's been walking for a few weeks now, I just thought you all might enjoy it!

Kaua'i!!

We had a blast while Matt's Mom and Dad were here. We flew to Kaua'i and spent a few days exploring the beautiful island. Then flew back to O'ahu and went to the Polynesian Cultural Center, Hiked Diamind Head, ate at our favorite Thai restaurant and celebrated Matt's birthday. It is always fun to have visitors come because then we get to feel like we are on vacation too and we try lots of new stuff. Thanks Mom and Dad for exploring the islands with us!!

Beautiful Girl!

Krista took these pictures when her and Nic wer here. I just wanted everyone to see how beautiful these two girls are!

Abby's new dress Mama's bought her while we were in Utah! Thanks Mama's

Catching Up!

Oh where to begin.........Abby and I went to Utah the end of Janurary and had a wonderful visit! I wish we could go back next month. We loved seeing family and we were even lucky to see some friends! I wish we were closer so you all could get to know Abby better. I took my camera with me but it sat in my suitcase the whole time, so no pictures from Utah:(
We got back on a Sunday and Nic and Krista (some friends) flew in that Friday! We had a GREAT vacation with them. They loved being with us so much they extended there trip 5 extra days!!! We snorkled, hiked, surfed (well I did, their swimsuits were already back home by then), ate yummy food and lots of candy, played lots of games of Ticket to Ride, saw the Temple, ate Shave Ice, boogie boarded, whale watched and wore the baby girls out! I only have pics from the last half of their vacation so you will have to ask them for the rest!

Matt's parents are coming Wednesday and then we are off to Kauai on Thursday!! I will definately be taking my camera and hopefully it won't stay in my suitcase this time!

"I will NEVER drive a minivan"

When Matt and I were first married I told him that when we had children I was NOT going to drive a minivan. I was too "hip n' cool" to drive one and I would need a fancy SUV. He said he would NEVER buy an SUV because they took too much gas. Well here we are four years and one kid later, Matt drives a Chevy Blazer and I just got a minivan! (and I LOVE it by the way!)

Sorry this is late Mom

I Did It!!!!!

I've been trying to talk myself into cutting my hair for a while and today I was brave and I did it and I love it for two reasons 1) It's harder for Abby to get a hold of 2) It's off the back of my neck so it makes Hawaii a little cooler!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Happy 2009! Sorry I am late posting our Christmas pictures. Here is our Holiday season in a nutshell.....
On Christmas eve we had a yummy lunch with our friends and then it was off to the Hawaii vs. Notre Dame game. It was a great game for the Irish fans.


Matt and Abby Christmas morning opening and playing with some presents.


After presents and a Christmas breakfast we headed off to the beach with some friends. Abby loved eating the sand and Matt and I enjoyed the snorkeling.


Abby waiting to ring in the New Year!

Getting our "Mojo" back

For christmas our friends gave us a box of golf balls to tell us we need to start doing the things we love again (After all Abby is 9 months old and we had yet to go golfing) We used to go every Monday before she was born and we fell in love with the sport. So "Thank you" Thelers for helping us get our "mojo" back!

Ward Christmas Party

Saturday night was our ward Christmas party. They had a middle eastern market place set up when you first walked into the building. There were booths with fun things to do like make beaded necklaces, have your name written in Arabic, weird peices of bread to eat and lots of other neat things to do. After we walked up and down the marketplace everyone went into the gym for a program, which Matt narrated, and a yummy dinner!

TIMBER!!

Early this morning around 2:00am Matt and I were awaken by a loud BOOM followed by shaking of our home. We were both out of bed in .2 seconds flat just staring at each other trying to figure out what just happened. Matt went down stairs to check on things and when he passed a window he saw a HUGE tree just lying on our back porch. We have been having TONS of rain and I guess it just got too heavy. When I called maintenance today and explained our situation they lady replied "You have a large branch on your porch?" "No, it's an entire tree" I explained!

This is where the tree was.....


This is where it is now!

What a rough life!

This is what Christmas shopping does to a little girl. And this is what a teething little girl does to her dad!

Grandma and Grandpa's Thankgiving visit!

My mom and dad came to visit us the week of Thanksgiving. We had fun trying to show them things they hadn't already seen. We went to a Budist Temple, took a bus tour of Kualoa Ranch (where they film most of the movies/TV shows that are filmed in Hawaii) had picnics at the beach and ate a yummy Thanksginving dinner (but I forgot to take pictures of that:)