Missing our friends...

Cody has been carrying around his little Alabama license plate a lot lately and I realized...I'm lame and didn't post pics from the box that the Wade family sent to us. :) Cody was so excited because it was addressed to him.

Cody loves his Alabama license plate...

and his Halloween card from Layla...

and his Alabama shirt. He really does love it...I don't know what's up with the evil look.

Jon and I love the shotglasses we got for our collection. I think this puts us somewhere around 130.

There were a whole bunch of clothes in there for little miss Kaitlyn too. Most of them are things she'll eventually grow into...but the one thing that does fit now is just so adorable. It's ladybug coat and she loved wearing it. It should still fit when we move back to WA too which will be so fun.

Cody decided he had to try on one of the jackets that she'll grow into. He was all excited that he was wearing Layla's coat :)

We love you and miss you Megan, Thomas, and Layla.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

Yesterday morning started with a trip to Starbucks....mmmmm! It was chilly so we all bundled up a bit (minus our feet....we all wore our slippers).

Cody has been LOVING the hot cocoa lately.

What could possibly make a trip to Starbucks better than drinking a peppermind white mocha twist? Drinking a peppermind white mocha twist and getting a Starbucks winter cup ornament!

:D

Even when the weather is crappy...Hawaii does have some pretty sunsets :)

I like the neighbors snowmen...made for some fun bokeh photo taking :) More Bokeh to come...I'm having fun with it.

The lights are up on our house and the tree is up, but I'll post pics later. For now it's chow time.

End of November...who would've guessed?

Saturday afternoon was BEAUTIFUL! We headed over to Steve's house so Jon could help him work on his boat. I can't wait for them to get it finished so we can go out in it. Cody decided to keep himself entertained by playing in the water with the hose. Arean't you all jealous?

Kaitlyn Loves to just lay outside on a blanket and play...or nap. She loves being outsite, and unlike me, LOVES the feel of grass!

Turkey Day!

I know I'm a bit late on this, but wanted to share anyway.

Thanksgiving preparations started on Wednesday afternoon. Mindy came over to help bake pies. We only got one done, but I'm so proud of us. We made an apple pie from scrach. I did the crust and Mindy did most of the filling. It turned out SOOOOO delicious.

Mindy and I decided we needed photos for evidence that we made it ourselved and didn't buy it. Jon decided to step in and claim the pie himself even though he didn't do anything to help...other than hold K for the last couple minutes :) He's such a goofball...K just wanted to eat it, she didn't care about a photo op.

Done baking...a little messy looking, but oh so good!

Thanksgiving morning started with a bath for Kaitlyn. This was her first bath sitting up in the sink. I usually use the little cradle thing that sits in the sink and she lays down. She loved it this way though. She's getting way too big.

TURKEY!!! I was so proud of myself. I did the turkey and stuffing all by myself...well mostly myself. Jon stuffed the turkey, but that was about it. :) It turned out so good. Brice brought a turkey too. His was really good too. We had a ton of leftovers which is the best. I love eating Thanksgiving leftovers.

The day went so well. It was great to be surrounded by wonderful friends for the holiday. Cody wasn't in a picture taking mood, but here are a few more of little missy. She's growing up way too fast.

It's like crack for kids...

Starbucks hot chocolate. Cody had the kids size hot chocolate and OMG...it was like he was on crack. That kid sucked it down and turned into a little spazz. He kept asking for his coffee and we kept telling him it was just hot chocolate. Think we drink too much Starbucks?

More updated blogs to come...since I'm so bad at keeping up with this thing. I promise I'll be better during the holidays. If I go more than a couple days someone please yell at me to update :D

Our comical weekend.

Saturday morning we headed out to the pumpkin patch. I knew it was going to be an interesting trip without Jon there, but I had no idea! I loaded the kids up then we went and picked up Mindy and her kiddos. Her hubby is at NTC as well so it was the two of us and the 4 kiddos. It was sprinkling on Schofield when we left, but when we got the the pumpkin patch it wasn't, it was just a bit overcast. We got some pics with the pumpkins that were already picked and out of the field, then headed into the field to see what we could find. After just a few minutes the sky opened up and it started dumping buckets on us. We were all soaked really quickly. Mindy threw a blanket over Kaitlyn so she wouldn't get too wet and we all started to head back to the car. The dirt here in hawaii doesn't just turn to mud...it's like red clay. It was caked all over our slippers, the wheels on the stoller got so much stuck to them they would hardly turn. We ended up not even getting any pumpkins because there were so many people standing around the tent to pay and we didn't want to keep the little ones out in the rain any longer than we had to. Cody cried all the way to the car because he was sticky. Needless to say...it was a comical day. I knew it would be interesting, but it was way more interesting than I could have anticipated. All Mindy and I could do was laugh at how messy everything was. She actually just left her slippers in the middle of the field by the car :) Well...here are the few pics we got.









Yes...we did wear our slippers :)




It had cooled off a bit this weekend...and by cooled off I mean it was in the high 70's :)...so I dug out Kaitlyns leggings. I LOVE THEM!!! The lighting on these sucks...shaddows, blown out, but I still love them because she is to stinkin' cute!

Spotty bananas....what should we do?

Bake...

(I love having a metal backsplash behind the range)

OK...so it's not really Cody's recipe. It's actually Paula Dean's recipe, but when he was little my aunt would make it for him and he loved it so she started calling it Cody's Banana Bread and it stuck. Cody and were having lots of fun making it and I was a goof and didn't take any process pics, but here is the finished product. My house smelled so good!

On a totally different note, Kaitlyn has been loving her Jumeroo....yesterday she even took a nap in it :)

Welcome to the world Nicole Isabella!

Early yesterday morning my sister gave birth to a beautiful 7 lb 5 oz 19 in little girl. I am already in love. I'm so excited to have a little niece. I'm also very proud of my sister as she did this all with no drugs...way to go! Congtrats to Brooke and Dan. She is perfect...even if she does have Brooke's nose...It's way cuter on her :D hahaha...I say that with love.

Now on to more pics...

I wish I was back in WA so I could snuggle with her...

Playing catch up!

I've slacked off for the past week. I'm good at doing that :) It seems like things have been so busy since Jon left, but I really don't have too much to show for it. Here are some from the last week or so.

I forgot to post these with the pics from the day Jon left. These are a couple from the night before Jon left. He was loving the piggyback ride from dad...once he stopped freaking out.

He loves trying on daddy's gear.

Just being silly...she had big smiles before this one, but the P&S was too slow.

Frowns :(

Look at that lip...

She was done taking pictures...it was time for boob and a nap.
Finally, after a full tummy and nice long rest...a big smile :)

I didn't have any problems getting this little camera ham to smile...

Call me nasty, but I couldn't help it. This poor little guy didn't know what was coming to him. I changed the sheets on our bed a couple days ago and found this little one squashed between the sheets and the matress. It's kinda crazy the places you find geckos here. I found one dead in my freezer once too.

Wednesday we went to the FRG playdate. It was Halloween themed. Cody liked his cat tatoo...

but only for about a minute. Then he started saying that it was an "owie" and wouldn't stop picking at it.

This morning was coffee at Sara's house. I made scones! Mmmm...they turned out pretty good. I did find out a couple things thouhg...I can't use my thin cookie sheets. They burn on those, the thick air ones work great though. The other thing...I need to invest in a sifter. I thing they would have been a little more crumbly if I had sifted the flour. I was so proud of myself...they were completely homemade, I used the blackberry jam that I made during our trip back to WA. Up next...Pumpkin Scones!

Last but definitely not least...I finally got pics of my sis with her big preggo belly. She's due anytime now. I'm gonna have a niece! You look beautiful sis!