.*＊SNOW DAY＊*.

It finally snowed! I cannot express to you how excited I was to be able to bring Noa out and have him enjoy the snow....doing winter things I enjoyed as a child.

By the end of the day, Noa was exhausted.

{A special thanks to my amazing sister, Yoko, for taking these photos}

Such a fun snow day for our family.

Our Christmas in photos.

Thankful.

 

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I know we did.

It started out for Chad with an early-morning surf session, then some Turkey bowl....for three+ hours....then we all had fried turkey dinner with some fabulous friends. We finished off our day black "friday" shopping at Wal-mart, and getting ourselves some early Christmas presents. AND we got home before midnight! ~ I think we can call that a great day!

I have so much to be thankful for this year. so much. My loving, supportive and ever-so-patient husband. My two very active but very sweet boys, and to be called their mommy. I am thankful for family all over the world that love us and support us even though we are so far away, and for friends, some that have become like family to us. I'm so thankful that we live in Hawaii- warm, sunny Hawaii...I am truly thankful for the gospel and the great blessing it is in our lives. All the little things that make me smile....I am thankful for it all!

Have a great holiday season, everybody!

Halloween

Happy Halloween!!

This year the kids were a couple of game characters... ^0^ ...I know, so Asian, right?

Well, I am pretty proud of my heritage, and I embrace it 110%.....

which is apparently a bit less than my other half. 

{here he is, controlling our kids}

The costumes were composed of hand-made hats, thrifted clothes, and other bits and pieces lying around our house.

I will post how I made the hats later. But first, aren't they just the cutest?!

We went to our ward's "trunk-or-treat"/Halloween party on Friday.

{end of the night, with faded mustaches and all}

Noa enjoyed every sugary second of it.

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our not so "jack-o-lantern" >>>> not a pumpkin, and not a lantern <<<<

with the recall on pumpkins, we had to improvise.
This is what we came up with.

Have a spookilicious Halloween everyone!

xoxo

Red. White. and Blue.

Happy 4th of July!!

We had a pretty low-key 4th of July. 

Chad had to work the whole day, so I hung out with my two babies and baked some cupcakes.

o yeah....that's a good day.

[I know you want one...come on over :)]

the boys sported some red white and blue outfits and got us in the spirit of the holiday.

Noa enjoyed his "すいた"...or watermelon...and got himself covered in juice. head. to. toe.

it was a sticky mess. and he loved it.

me, not so much. but it was cute watching him enjoy every second of it.

After Daddy came home from work we ate some beef stew, enjoyed family time, and watched the Macy's 4th of July spectacular fireworks show. it was amazing.

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th!!!

we sure did!

Easter Goodness.

Happy Easter!!