Friday, December 12, 2008

Christmas-fied!

Christmas time is here! But it never quite feels like it until you put up decorations. I did some decorating last week, here's some of it.

I made this door hanging..Wanted something a little different than the traditional wreath.. its very sparkly too when our outside lights shine on the glittery flowers
A lovely garland for the entryway banister..
Our cute little 5 foot tree..I don't think we could fit anything bigger into our place..

Monday, November 17, 2008

Hawaii pics

We just got back from spending a week in Hawaii on Seth's company vacation. We had a great time and did lots of stuff. Here are some pics. This first one we are at Hanauma Bay, where we went snorkeling.


Here we are at Pearl Harbor.  Here I am being the Gunner's mate, something my grandpa actually did in WWII.
view of the harbor
taking a tour of the USS Bowfin Submarine- close quarters!

At the Temple


At the Polynesian Cultural Center- Here's a Samoan climbing a coconut tree.
We went out on a catamaran snorkling tour- notice the rainbow in the background!
Hanging loose at waikiki beach
messing around at the Dole Pinnaple Plantation
Seth liked the plantation gardens a little too much..
Those buildings look familiar? Its the YMCA camp where they filmed the other's village on Lost. It was one of my favorite things we did because I was hoping to find it and we did! Its pretty easy, its right off the main road along North Shore. I was so excited about it! They sure did a good job of making it look isolated in the show!
more proof it was the "other's village"
we enjoyed shave ice at the famous M. Matsumotos Store on North Shore. I guess its famous because you can get it with ice cream and get this, beans. Seth tryed it with the beans and it pretty much tastes like how you would imagine ice cream and beans would taste together.
i loved my non-bean shave ice and ice cream
at the luau Seth's company foot the bill for. there was lots of fun activities as well as the meal and show including..
Tatooing! Seth went all out with the face tatoo..no worries, it washed off fine!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Superhero Halloween

Halloween was pretty fun this year. We went trunk or treating with the boys and had a little party. The theme was Superheros, which was pretty much Zach's idea, because he wanted to be batman and wanted us to be superheros too.
Catwoman and Batman action shot!
Jenny playing it up as catwoman, isn't she cute?
party food: chili, mummy pizzas, cornbread with "blood", monster teeth apples, bloody punch.
Mae as Batgirl
And I was Wonder Woman, obviously a homemade costume, but its my halloween tradition.
Supergirls!
Batman and Batgirl unite against the deranged dragon!
Supposed to be an action shot, and no, I'm not punching Luke, I think he was pulling the star stickers off my skirt at the time.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Happy Birthday Seth!

Today Seth turns the big 3-0 and instead of going the traditional cake route (which he doesn't even like anyway) I decided to make him some dessert sushi (he really does like sushi). It's made from rice crispy treats and candy. Mae helped me and we made even more than the pictures show for his party tommorow night. I think they turned out pretty cute, don't you?
I love you Baby! Have a great day!



Thursday, September 25, 2008

Fall Family Fun!


This week I went up the canyon with Peter, Jenny and the boys. We had a great time exploring the Fall landscape. We even saw this HUGE Moose running through the park.
                                                           Peter and the boys hiking.

                                                            Holding hands, too cute!

Zach with one of the fall leaves. I told him that the leaves changed colors. I said "they change colors to red, and yellow and orange.." To which he replied "and blue!!"


Peter taught them to throw rocks in the creek. From then on they wanted to collect rocks. When Peter told Luke not to put them in his pockets, he proceeded to put them in my pockets. I had quite a few by the end of the hike.

                                                Family photo and pudding break!

                                                             Family dog pile!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Summer Memories '08

Now that we're officially heading into fall,  I thought I'd post some pics of some of my favorite memories from this summer

Playing ping pong with Mae during our Sexton Family Reunion in Park City


Hanging with the May cousins during the reunion
My Mom's anniversary present to my Dad was to have Johnny (Peter's bro-in-law) play his bagpipes for him. Ah, Scottish Pride!
Luke's 2nd B-day (one of manyb-days this summer) Wish I got a pic of Zach's b-day too...
Corbin Riggs 3rd b-day party shared with...
other nephew Jamon's 1st...
Camping! We went twice! The second time it rained the whole time and hailed a bit too. Serves us right for going on a Sunday.
Cuddled in one of our brand new mummy bags
Mae at her tent, cute girl!
Ah!!! It's hailing! We made a mad dash to get our stuff packed up!
Poor Seth didn't bring a coat and had to wear mine. Mae and I kept thinking he was the other one of us...

Other Good Memories not caught on camera:
-Spending our anniversary in Park City and riding the alpine slide
-Going to the Scottish Festival with Spencer and Megan
-Swimming with Zach and Luke at leaste once a week
-My B-day party and having Ben and Nicole and fam stay with us that weekend
-Fixing up bikes and riding them. Riding to the near fairgrounds with Mae and watching the rodeo people practice their sports in the evenings.
-Trip to WA
guess thats all for now..i hope to make some good autumn memories too.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

A Day at the Beach

Mae and I took a little trip to Washington this past week. We had a great time, especially hanging out at the beach by the Columbia River. Really cold water, but it feels nice in the hot weather.

With our cousin's daughter Sophie.

Cute beach bum!

Tabby and Sophie


This is what the beach looks like in WA



Another pic of the cutie!