Monday, January 28, 2013

Hawaii 2013

We are back from another GREAT vacation to Hawaii!  It started off a little rough with Jesse being sick, a 3:30am wakeup time and some really tired kids but we managed to overcome.  For the 3rd year in a row we stayed at the Kiahuna Plantation.  It's prefect.  We know where the stores are and the nearest happy hour!  Once again we traveled with the same crew of 18 people!  We added a traveler this year, baby Maize joined us at only 3 months old.  She was the only one who didn't have a meltdown.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.  The highlights were Meredith losing 2 teeth and Delaney venturing into the ocean for the first time on her own.











































Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Christmas 2012!

Finally crossing the finish line into 2013.  Better late than never!  Here are some pictures from around Christmas time.  It got so busy there I just never picked up the camera.  Then after Christmas I was too tired.  We had a great Holiday Season.  Can't wait to see what 2013 will bring!

Grammy Dana and I took the big girls to the Nutcracker.


The loooong wait for Mass to start on Christmas Eve.  Thank goodnes for ipads.
That's Quinns 'scary' face.  I'll say.  Yikes.
After Mass the Ramstads came over for dinner! 
Poor Summer gets mobbed when she visits.

It's so fun to army crawl across the dirty floor.

Opening Nana and Papa Mikes gifts on Christmas Eve.
New boots for all
Some girly legos.
An American Girl Doll Stage
Pink boots!

Dinner was filet and hotdogs.
Making Sum Sum laugh.
Brooke brough the Yule Log.
More baby torture.
Cookies and milk, check.
Game on!  Presents all opened in 3 minutes.




Delaneys favorite gift.  Her own CD player.  She loves that thing.  Hard to find too!
Papa Gene the jungle jim
Surprise gift from Dad.  Like a typical snowmobile, it ran for 13 minutes then needed repair.
After Christmas we headed to McCall for a whole week!  We got in LOTS of skiing with lots of friends.
So fun to see Delaney really figure it out.  No more bunny hill!
Delaney had fun with her buddy Lucy.
New Years Eve.  6 kids on the couch...
and 2 sleeping kids