I'm all caught up now.

I think I'm actually up to date with everything. It only took me all year to do it. Hopefully, we"ll keep all major events like moving to a minimum next year. Enjoy. Our Thanksgiving post is up as well (you know the drill).

I Think It's Genetic

After a physical and a check-up at the eye doctor to confirm it, our little Kara has been blessed with an extra pair of eyes. LOL. Doesn't she look cute. The optometrist said she had an astigmatism. That's four out of six now with glasses. Kara picked out the frames herself and was actually excited about it all. She seems to be in awe at how much clearer things are.

Tree Lighting at BYUH

BYUH had their annual holiday tree lighting ceremony. The entertainment was provided by the local elementary school here in Laie. I have to say, they did an excellent job. Each grade sang and danced to a Christmas song. There seemed to be a rock-n-roll kind of theme. At the end of that, they had Santa come out. Santa was getting laughed at when he took the mic because he didn't realize that his stuffing (the pillows in his pants) were showing. It was kind of funny! They had a big screen that showed the tree in the little circle (another part of campus), and we did the count down and watched it light up. It was fun.



Afterwards, the kids were given candy and we strolled through the Aloha Center bumping into old college friends while admiring all the Christmas decorations in there. We had a fun time. Before going home, we picked up some pizza, ate dinner and went straight to bed.


Sorry again, the pictures are so dark. I think I was too preoccupied with finding food to try and play around with my camera, much less take more pictures of all the lights. Merry Christmas.

Is it December already?

So, I say this in all seriousness. Every time I go somewhere and I see Christmas decorations, I'm actually surprised and say to myself, "Oh yeah, it's Christmas." I think after living in AZ for the past few years, I'm so used to a drastic change in the temperature. It does get very cold there during this time of year (although I did here this year it is a little warm). Day time temps are about in 60's and 50's, while at night it would drop to below freezing on occasion.
My memory of Christmas time in Hawaii is that it did get cold here. I don't know if I haven't felt it because I live on the North Shore. It was a little colder in Mililani. Without that change in weather, my brain can't wrap around the idea that it is Christmas. Maybe I just need to throw on some seasonal music to get me in the mood.

Cub-O-Ree

This morning the cub scouts in the stake had an activity called "Cub-O-Ree". I was serving double duty at this activity. I went as a den leader and was also asked to be the official First Aid Person. There was supposed to be two us at the First Aid Station, but only I was able to make it, so I was more the First Aid than the Den Leader. That was fine by me. That meant I got the snacks they had on hand for the staff as well as my own tent with a cot. Seeing as I was sick, that cot looked really cozy, but I resisted. Anyhow, enough about me.

Tyler and my bears had so much fun at this activity.

The theme was Olympic games.

They played several different sports. My personal favorite that the adults got to join in was a local game they play here called "Sham Battle". What is it? Well, kind of like a complicated game of Dodge Ball.

The ominous clouds that hovered all morning finally gave way. Run boys run! (Notice I'm not out there. LOL).

We ended a little early, which was fine. I think the boys (me included), were tired and ready to go home. As far as my First Aid Station duties ---- out of about 50 or 60 boys that were there, only 1 injury.

Guess who?

Seriously.

Are you even surprised?

In case you're wondering. It was a soccer ball to the face. Results, a REALLY bloody nose and a fat lip to go with it.

Mac vs PC

Warning, this is a RANT! All you PC owners and lovers, do not be offended or take this personal but I HATE PC's!!!!!!!!!!!! We aren't able to get our hands on a mac until the summer. In the meantime, we thought we would just get the available PC to use. It is driving me CRAZY! I didn't appreciate my Mac until it's passing (sniff, sniff). Every time I try to do something, it seems my husband has to come and set up something, or disable something to allow me to view or post. Grrrr! I have no idea yet how to upload my pictures (thus the picture of my hubby and I on the blog banner, it was the only thing available). My biggest problem that is causing me the most grief is downloading music from iTunes! Because our ipods are sync'd for a Mac, if we sync it to a PC, it will erase all our music. I won't even share how much music is on there. Those of you who know me well, know that I can't run without my music. I have music on my ipod currently, but I love to download new stuff all the time. I'm gearing up for the Great Aloha Run in February, and I'm hoping I will be able to download some music by then. Aahhh! Wish me luck.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year! Getting together with family for that big holiday meal. We all met up at Julie's house for the yummy holiday feast. Julie did the turkey and it was soooo good. She brined it. I'm gonna have to try that.

We brought dessert and salad. Leigh made an apple pie all by herself from scratch. It was really good!

I wished that I had taken pictures of the kids playing "Uno Attacks". I learned that game from Jess. We bought and showed all the cousins how to play. They loved it and played it over and over and over again.


Food, family, and fun. What more do you need.