Hawaii!- Day 1

Here is our trip to Hawaii finally! We left on Jan 12th after dropping our kids off at G & G Harpers (thanks again!!!!). Here is Woodson, Ben, Jenny and I at the airport all ready to go and praying we'd make it on the flight. Luckily we did, but we all sat separately. I sat next to a very large man, I didn't enjoy an arm rest for the entire flight, but we made it!

Our adorable husbands arranged to have us Lei'd at the airport. It was so cool and all the other ladies were jealous! Here we are in the Costco parking lot. Yes we really are in Hawaii even though we are wearing long pants and shirts. It was hot!
We made it to our place and changed! I wish I could wear shorts all year long. I just had to give my new fins a try on. I was excited to go snorkeling!

Here is the Sunset from our Balcony. What a beautiful view!

Happy Chinese New Year!

We decided to celebrate Chinese New Year a little early. So on Friday we invited Ben's parents down for a Chinese dinner and game of Mah Jong. We had a great time and it was fun to use our decorations and stuff from Singapore. We also had a little adventure with our electricity which I will tell if I can get Ben's permission.

While Grandma Harper was down we decided to take pictures of the kids with the quilts she made for them so here they are.

4 Months Old!

My Handsome little boy is 4 Months Old! He is growing so fast. We took him to the Dr and here are his stats.....

25 1/4 in tall 65th %

16.09 lbs 82 %

Head 17 in 76%

I couldn't believe that he wasn't actually in the 90th percentile! That's a first for me.

Garett is such a wonderful happy baby.... I hate to use the word perfect, but he really almost is! He sleeps well, eats well, is always happy, smiling and laughing, and rarely cries.

I love him so much and can't imagine life without him!

We made it!

Thanks to all the sympathies for my Breast Infection. I did sufficiently recover and was able to make it on our Hawaii trip! We just got home this morning and will post pictures soon. We had such an awesome time and it's hard to be back home in the snow when in my mind it should at least be spring! Only a few more months right? I can make it.....

This Stinks

Let me just say that Breast Infections HURT!!!!!!! and that for the past 3 days I have wanted to do nothing else but lay on the couch and cry. Luckily that's exactly what my Dr told me to do, and the medicine is finally working. I may be able to face the world by the end of the day!

Sledding

We decided for our family activity on Friday to go sledding. We all bundled up and headed out. Here is baby Cate all snuggled up. I love this picture.

We went to a park by AF Highs School. It had a perfect hill, long enough to have fun, but not too hard to climb back up. Grace was totally excited to go down. She and Ben were one of the first from our group.

Elise, Rob, Abbie, Heather, and Spencer all waiting at the top.

Grace, Sydney and Spencer

Grace again. She would go with anyone that would take her, and then got the courage to do it on her own. She even tried going down without the sled, but then got stuck in the middle of the Hill until Ben went down and rescued her.

We only had 2 casualties of the day. Abbie went over the jump pictured above accidentally, but landed on her tummy laughing. She thought it was great. Kurt got hit in the back by some crazy sledders and was pretty sore for several days.

We headed home after that for some Hot Chocolate and Rock Band!

My Favorite Christmas Present

Ben's brother Bryan had my name in the family drawing for Christmas this year. So as they were asking what I wanted I requested some drawings by his amazingly talented wife Alyssa (who is majoring in Art at USU) of my babies. Here are the results. I absolutely LOVE them and can't wait to frame them and hang them on my wall!