Kauai Hawaii Christmas Vacation

So Tim and I decided to go on a trip to Hawaii this year for Christmas and our 1 year Anniversary. We had so much fun and are so grateful that we were able to go on this trip! Here are some pictures that we were able to catch! Enjoy!

Ok so we were trying to get a fun picture saying Merry Christmas. Right as I was finishing, the wave came up and washed it all away! It was pretty funny.

Waimea Canyon! It was a little cloudy but still gorgeous! It looked similar to the Bryce canyon and the Grand canyon, but had a lot of green on it. It was really stunning!

Timmy loved playing in the Ocean. He's such a stud

Ok, so scrabble was one of our favorite games over there, and Tim ALWAYS wins... this is his concentrated face when he's losing! haha.

I'm winning!

the beautiful view from our pool at our awesome resort!

We were so lucky to get on this plane! It was totally overbooked and we were on standby. We were so happy to get on! =)

Apple Sauce!!!

Making Apple Sauce with mom was so much fun! Courtney and Mom picked about 100 or so apples and it was a lot more work than we had anticipated... we only got about 10 jars of apple sauce!!! Can you believe it?!? Oh well we still had a bunch of fun grinding apples and just being together! =) I love making new things and having fun with family!

By the way ... the apples sauce is suuuuper yummy!

Football at the Park!

So we went to the park for a fun birthday party for the September October birthdays. They started a game of football and everybody joined in! It was so much fun. Steve was telling all of the kids on his team to go and hug someone so they can't move. Haha it was so funny! This was so much fun to watch everyone interact with each other and have such a fun time.

I officially have the cutest nieces and nephews!

Craft Night!

Craft Night with the girlies while the boys were at Priesthood. We made some blocks that had the seasons on each side so we could keep it out all year long! This was so much fun! We used Dad's printer to pirnt out the stickers in our favorite fontswith all of the seasons so everyone could pick out what fonts they wanted to use! Thanks for such a fun night Ladies!!!

We had a ton of fun and couldn't stop painting/decorating when it was time for dinner. We had so much fun with Mom, Court, Ash, Grams, Stacey, Pam and Tiffy. Not all of us did the blocks so in some of the pictures you'll see other projects around! We had so much fun and can't wait until we do this again!

Tiff helping me a lot with my decorations!

Stacey painting away~!

Ash and her hat that she and her mom spray paited and glittered and put some awesome deco on!

Mom and I painting together!

Grams with her awesome decorating skills.

Mom posing for the camara.

Court very very concentrated on her blocks!

Pam, Ash and Tiffany
Here is how my Blocks turned out!

Then the guys got back and turned on a football game! It was awesome! =)

Our First Time Camping!

So I got home the other day and Tim randomly asked if I wanted to go camping!? So we hurry and packed up ... went and got Steve's truck and headed up to Bountiful peak. On our way up we stopped on the side of the canyon in the perfect spot to watch the sunset since I'm in love with them! Anyways, we got up there and found a campsite and started to find some wood for our fire! Tim took an ax and started to chop the rest of a dead tree down so we could put it in the fire, while i found some kindling and started making a teepee. Tim found a bunch more sticks and our fire turned out awesome! We had a blow up mattress so we could put it in the back of the truck... but we didn't realize that it was about 2 feet thick! haha and we only had a hand blow up pump so it took us ab out an hour to blow up the whole mattress. Once we were done and sweating a lady came over from the campsite next to us and asked if we needed an electrical pump, haha a litte too late! So then we started up our fire and roasted marshmallows and made s'mores and roasted some mamba's... MMMMM SOOO YUMMY! =) We then got all of our bedding ready and watched a movie on Tim's laptop! It was a great way of camping ... even though we were frozen the next morning! Haha we had a BLAST!

Fun Cooking!

Ok so I went and saw Julie and Julia with Jettilyn a couple of weeks ago and it made me want to cook. So I decided that I would cook for Tim before he got home from school. I decided to make something healthy and yummy so I cooked some Salmon. First time ever cooking this dish! I turned out to be pretty deliciuos! Tim loved it, and I liked it ... I'm not s huge fish fan but i'm liking it more and more! We're also going to Alaska this next week so I get to try the good seafood!!! =) Yay can't wait!

I'm now attempting to cook a new meal once a week while Tim is at school at nights. =) I can't wait to see what will happen with that! Hopefully I will keep it up!

Lake Powell Again!

So I know that I just did a post about Powell ... but we went again luckily! We had a blast! It was perfect weather... hot hot hot and warm water! Yay! It was perfect! =) Grams and Gramps came with us; Casey and Michelle; and Andee my favorite girl ever came along too!!! I have to say that I absolutely love Lake Powell and couldn't ever get sick of going each year. So Tim had to work for the weekend cuz they had a huge event at the Miller Raceway for work. So I was under the impression that he would not be joining us for Lake Powell... little did I know ... he was surprising me. Everyone went out on the last run of the day and I decided to stay on the houseboat with mom, dad, grams and gramps. I was too in to my book to set it down (which is very abnormal for me if any of you know me haha). Anyways it was getting darker and the boat still wasn't back. I kept asking my mom why they weren't back yet ... little did I know, they were picking up Tim at the Marina. When the boat got back, my mom hinted to me to come and help catch the boat on the back of the houseboat, and I simply said "Oh they'll be fine, they've got plenty of people on the boat." So I started to walk into the kitchen when I saw Tim running to the front of the houseboat to greet me!!! I love my husband! It turned out to be the best trip ever! =)

Check out the CURL in Dan's hair! haha it's awesome!

Tim and I working on our tricks! =) We love to wakeboard!