or... Mele Kalikimaka!
Baloo hated me for doing this to him, but I just couldn't resist. Fat little reindeers are just too cute, and I felt like Baloo should do his part to get into the holiday spirit!
Have a great holiday season everyone!
We had SO MUCH FUN this Thanksgiving weekend!
This year we went with the Nathaniel and Camille Dixon over to Maui! It was so much fun. We left Baloo with Lacey's Grandma in Honolulu and left Wednesday night. We stayed in North Kihei at some random vacation rental that actually turned out to be really nice! We ate Thanksgiving dinner at Bill and Shelly's, who are friends of Camille from back in Idaho. It was DELICIOUS! We all ate a ton and spent the rest of the day on the beach! The next day we went to Hana, which was a day trip. To get there we had to go on a crazy windy one lane road next to a cliff! It was nuts! After surviving the cliff drive and local people speeding past us on one lane bridges, we made it to Hana and stopped off at a lot of beautiful places! Then we did a hike up to Waimoku falls through bamboo forest, and it was awesome and so much fun! Seth and Nathaniel ended up jumping off of some rocks into the pools. We all got to go tree climbing and the swimming under the waterfall.
The next day we decided to go to Haleakala crater, which is 10,000 feet high! It was FREEZING up there. Everyone had jackets and windbreakers except for us...haha. When we climbed to the top we ended up getting in our bathing suits to show how tough we are but ended up looking kind of stupid...haha! The view was breathtaking because we were up in the clouds! Then we went to 'Iao valley to see the needle! The valley was really gorgeous and lush. Camille and Lacey wanted to get a good pic of the needle so they climbed over the rail and some random grumpy tourist asked if we went to school and if we can read...too bad there was no sign that said we couldn't go over the rail! We deemed him the grumpiest man in Hawaii. haha.
So then went on another crazy road on the way to Lahaina--another one lane cliff road!! Who was the guy to design these roads? Seriously it was scary. But we made it to a random spot in the middle of nowhere and climbed down a cliff to some cool tide pools where we got to go swimming with fish! And then we found a blowhole that was going off! It was awesome. And lets not forget the many many stops at Krispy Kreme! They really should build one on O'ahu. So we made it back in time for school on Monday. And we're glad to have Fatty back! It was an AWESOME trip!
Next stop: California! (..and Disneyland!)
**there are a lot of pictures of our Maui trip below!!
Well we just found out that next summer we will be living in the Philippines for 2 whole months doing research for BYU Hawaii! The school is completely paying for everything! We're super excited because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and it will be fun to get to know the Filipino people and their culture. Our research projects will also look good our both of our resumes for future job opportunities. We can't wait to go!
On Saturday we decided to go to our favorite spot by Turtle Bay to watch the sunset. We knew it would be beautiful, but we were still surprised by how breathtaking the view was! This is what we saw:
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Isn't it amazing???
This morning we were able to attend the Inauguration of BYUH's new president: President Wheelwright! President Eyring was there along with Elder Nelson. The spirit that was felt there was awesome. It was really cool to see President Eyring and Elder Nelson in their professor robes too! Our digital camera is not the best when it comes to taking pictures from a distance! ...but these are the pictures we got!
(Click on the picture to get a clearer view of it!)
President Eyring (Pink robe) and Elder Nelson (Black/green robe) walking in the CAC followed by President WheelWright, Elder Kerr, and all of the professors of BYUH in their dress robes.
Everyone up on the stand. (We couldn't get a good picture with the flash on!)
Elder Nelson conducted the ceremony.
Elder Eyring did the Inauguration. This is us experimenting with the flash.....
...and with no flash!
I think the people around me were getting annoyed with the flashing camera, so eventually we stopped! But it was really nice to be able to experience this and be able to see President Eyring and Elder Nelson.
We finally carved pumpkins with Nate and Camille! It was fun making ugly pumpkin faces and trying to keep Baloo from eating all of the pumpkin mush! (and too bad Baloo looks like a demon dog in this picture!)
Seth calls his pumpkin the unibrowed freak-o-lantern. Mine turned into some sort of Drag-pumpkin when I found some glitter lying around!
Nate and Camille made a nerdy-surfer sort of pumpkin and used the glasses that we got from seeing the Nightmare before Christmas in 3D (which was awesome by the way)!.JPG)
...and lets not forget fatty! We tried to put him in the pumpkin but we forgot how fat and big he really is. haha!
My mom sent me a picture of the pumpkin that my little sister Jordie carved...I thought it was funny:
Both of our mom's birthdays were this month! Lori's was today (the 22nd) and Pattie's was on the 16th!! We're sad that we weren't able to spend their birthdays with them at home back in California, but we were able to call and talk to them--and we hope that they both had excellent days!!! We have the best mothers in the world and we love them lots.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Little fatty Baloo tries to look super cute so we'll give him food. ...and sometimes it works. :) Who could resist this wrinkly face?
**From left: Pasepa, Seth, BJ, Moroni, Maryanne, Joseph and Lacey.**
This is our cute primary class that we get to teach every week--they're so adorable and so much fun to teach! Our calling rocks.
...after we took this picture the kids decided that because we're the teachers, we need our own picture!
These are the kinds of things we teach them every week.....
just kidding---kinda. We're such an example, arent we? haha.
Seth came to the PCC today and recorded my solo and dance!---I thought that everyone might enjoy seeing what I do for work everyday! :)
Ia Orana everyone!!!!
I have been dancing at the PCC since I moved to the north shore in 2006 and I absolutely looooooove it! It's loads and loads of fun. I dance for the HAMATA section--which is Hawaii, Maori and Tahiti. We love how it works out with our schedules: When Seth goes to the PCC to work on his poject, he can watch me dance!! I'm usually on Tahiti, dancing the Tamure, which is my favorite section to dance. I've been practicing my shake for over a year now, and I've been getting better and better!! It's really a lot of fun, and the tourists seem to love it!! I love learning about the Tahitian culture and their dances. We're working on getting a video camera to record the show so that all of our family at home can see how fun this is!! :)
shake shake shake shake shake!
With Seth's car gone, and with both of us having such busy schedules, we used some of the money we got for Seth's car to buy a sweet scooter! It's fun to ride, and we love going for drives on it! It's really heavy though, and always falls on Lacey when she tries to park it (there are scars to prove it), so Seth is usually the one to drive it around Laie. haha. We have yet to take Baloo for a ride on it! We want to put a basket in place of that red "thing" on the back of the scooter so Baloo can ride on it with some sweet goggles and a bomber jacket on!! haha! We'll let you know if that ever happens!
So we went to check on Baloo the other night before we went to bed, and we found our fat little bulldog sprawled out on his back, sound asleep! His snoring was almost as loud as the fan! Is there any other dog in the world that loves to sleep on his back like this?? :)
