Paradise (Hawaii)

Aloha! We just got back from Maui and it was such a fun week that none of us wanted to come back to reality! We spent most of our time in the amazing pool at the Grand Wailea or a few feet away at the beach. We went snorkeling, surfing, and some of us golfed a lot. Being that we were in the water all the time we hardly took any pictures! But here are the few we did get.

This is the boys doing shaka, which Joshua pronounces "shotgun," and we didn't correct him enough times I guess.

Here is one of our only group shots, and we are missing Daniel and Emily. They left one day earlier than we did so they could get to Connecticut for Daniel's brother's farewell.

The kids did a lot of fish feeding, it seems that every restaurant would hand out fish food to throw to the giant fish in their ponds.

The cousins had a great time playing together. Josh is the leader here with Brigham, Bailey, and Benjamin. It was fun that Bailey and her cousin Ellie can finally play together, Ellie definitely needed a girl to play with cause boys are crazy!

Some of the men, they golfed many times, I think this might be on the island of Lanai where Tobi has wanted to play golf for years, and he finally got his chance. Brian is not here because he and Maren and their boys went over to Oahu for a night to go to the P.C.C.

We took some Hula lessons, it was interesting... lets just say we are not dancers in our family!

The newlyweds, they are so cute and we love Daniel! I think "Daniel!" was the word said most by all the kids, they were all in love with him. He fit right into our family, no adjustment period, I feel like he has been a part of the family forever. Good choice Emily!

At dinner one night Brigham who is three, was sporting the napkin bandana and so all my kids wanted to try it. Brigham is going to be a trendsetter!

Goodbye Hawaii, we'll miss you!

Nothing in Particular

So I have sort of lost my desire to blog, and it has been almost 3 months since I posted anything so I thought I would put up a few pics for the couple of you who want to see what we have been up to! Tobi's mom Dolores came to visit us for the weekend. We love Grandma Dee! We had a fun time just hanging out, not doing too much. We did go miniature golfing and to Andrews baseball game.

Andrew is 8! I can hardly believe it. He got Baptized on May 1st. He was so excited!

I don't know if any of you will see it, but I can see the stress on my face. A baptism day should be stress free and wonderful right? Well I had had a really terrible week and then done a bridal shower the same morning as this baptism and by this time I was ready to give away all my children. Seriously, I was spent.

Andrew played baseball for the first time this year and he loved it! It is his favorite sport so far. And I really enjoyed it too. It was great to be able to watch him individually, catching, throwing and hitting.

This is random. So Andrew sometimes gets up at night and doesn't really know what he is doing. This sometimes means that Tobi and I come up from downstairs around 11 pm and find him sleeping like this at the top of the stairs.

Emily got married last weekend and it was so fun. She looked gorgeous and we love Daniel and his family. I don't have any pics yet, maybe I will get those posted in less than three months!