Caleb turns 14 and Miranda goes to Prom

Caleb turns 14. And is now as tall as me.



Miranda goes to Prom with one of her best friends Sam.


What is prom with out cosmic Bowling.

Hawaii

So for spring break we went to Hawaii. Harold had to travel to the states anyway to pick up an airplane. There is some pilot rule that says for every time zone you cross you need a certain amount rest time. So long story short he would have to just sit in the states for 5 days before he could fly back home. So instead of him just sitting alone we all went to Hawaii to sit with him. It was a blast. Juliana even met us there. It was so much fun. I can see why people go back to Hawaii over and over again.


The boys swimming in the ocean.


Logan building a sand castle

Ana on the beach

Miranda on the beach.

We love this place.


Caleb just chillin'

Building a sand castle.

Emma

Everyone told us we needed to drive the north shore and get some shaved ice. We looked up witch place to go and drove til we saw the line. Here we are waiting in line.



Logan with his shaved Ice.

The Dole Pineapple Plantation


I love this quote.


This is how pineapples are grow. Look at the baby one.

Pointing to home.

The Polynesian Cultural Center

Hottie in the tree. Miranda made me take this picture. She said she was in love.


Trying to start fire before the other guy.

He totally won. It was awesome. I Love that man of mine.

Harold with the Samoan fire dancer. I love how he is on his tippy toes.

Snorkeling

We went snorkeling. It was our favorite thing on the whole trip. I really want to do it again.


Harold snorkeling.

The boys after snorkeling.


Me and the girls after snorkeling

The end

Juliana took my camera and I found this little surprise picture when I go home. I Love it. Looks like that speedo is comfy. I do have to say I saw a lot of over baked people there.

Time to catch up this blog

One of the reasons I started this blog was so that I could kinda use it like a family journal. Well, like all my journals, I got behind. I really want to print it out some day so I need to catch it up so here goes......

Emma and Logan with their spoils from Australia. We all love it when Harold guilt buys.
"sorry I am never home, but here's a present." Yes we are that shallow.

I love this picture of the girls just chilling. It makes me sad that Miranda is getting so close to leaving the house. Where are my sweet sisters. I miss them.

Feeding the masses. As activities leader this is what I do. Our Branch just combined with another branch and now we are huge but we are still a branch. It's good because we used to say we were more like a twig. Sorry if you are not Mormon, I know this will make no sense.

So a couple of my friends here decided we needed to enrich ourselves and try something new. We came up with the idea of Tuesdays with More(e). After Yoga we would spend the day together doing something new. One of those days we decided to make a Souffle'

Have you ever made a souffle'? We used so many eggs. Here it is before we put it in the oven.


It really did look pretty and then this happened, still it was so good.

Jen and Amanda eating chocolate souffle'


I guess you can just get too much of a good thing.

Ohh and by the way I learned how to make the best chocolate chip cookies ever. If you want some just give me advance warning because they have to sit for at least 24 hr. before I can bake them. Totally worth it. All ingredients are weighed and not measured . It takes a good cooking scale, two types of flower and over a pound of Chocolate chips to make. So yummy.


Crazy amounts of baby blankets. The idea was to maybe sell them. Mostly I just have fun making them. Ana Do you see one you like? Tell me and it's yours.

I have been sewing blankets like crazy. One of Harold's brilliant guilt buys was a new sewing machine. Something to keep me busy while he's gone. Plus he was stuck in a little town in Alaska for a week and apparently there was an awesome quilt shop there. Thanks to the sales lady who ripped him off. If I am ever passing through I will stop and give you a hug.

Team Awesome. We love the Fabric market. It makes all things possible. Miranda needed supper hero cloth for girls camp. She actually squealed when she saw it. It was less the 3 dollars a yard and came in like every color. Man I am going to miss that place when I leave.

Life in the Land Down Under

Harold had to fly a mission to Australia a few weeks ago. He actually took some pictures so here they are.

He stopped on a little island called East Timor. He said it was a sad little country with bad food. Who knows why this rooster is tied up or why the fish are in the tree?


Here is a picture just before they landed in Australia.

He was in the Perth Area in Australia. He saw all this just a short walk from his hotel.

Crazy to see pretty birds like that just flying around.

There was a golf Course behind the hotel. He said it was full of Kangaroos. Somehow I think my brothers would like a game of golf like this. They did tell Harold to keep his distance because Kangaroos can be quite aggressive.




Of course we have to have the fighting shot. Strange creators. They look kinda human throwing punches like that.

Sweet 16

Sweet Sixteen. Scary. I am so glad she's a good kid.




She got a new car, actually she got like 5 of them.


Happy Birthday Miranda