Christmas time fun

We have been busy with fun activites this christmas season. Here is what he have been doing. Hope your holiday season has been filled with fun stuff as well.! Merry christmas

Santa Train



Brooklyn school christmas Program

Christmas Program


Cookie Party with Friends

Lights Downtown Honolulu

of course my batteries were dead after this picture

Some people can build snowmen but here in Hawaii we build Sandman

Okay acutally shirlyn and the kids made it we just took the credit

5-6 Months

Well here we are 3 weeks into David being gone and I am just updating this. It has been crazy crazy around here. You would think David just left and it was soon Christmas or something! HA HA

It is time again for David to be out to sea this time until may so depends on how you count 5-6 months. He should be home in may. I hate being away from him. He is the greatest person I have ever met. He is so great with the kids, he is such great friend to everyone he meets, he is a great husband. I really feel so blessed to have him as my husband. Even when he is away I still feel like I am the most loved woman out there. I still feel like no matter what type of day we have had here in Hawaii I know that thousands of miles away he is thinking I am the greatest person out there. Probably the cutest to ( I just had to throw that in there for my own self esteem).


I didn't think that being married would take me were I am today. I truly couldnt be happier to be were I am today and having the adventures that we are having. As hard as it is to have him gone I am constantly learning new things about the strength I have and what I really can do. The kids have been so great I really cant complain about them Again I think that reflects on me. Okay just kidding. I feel like I rely on the kids so much. They brighten my day so much. I feel like when David is gone I am all they have to get them through this and right there I want to make it the most positive thing for them.

Now this might get a little mushy so just skip on if its not your style,

David, Were ever you have pulled into port and you are reading this I want you to know that I love you so much. As it has only been three weeks since you left I feel like things are going good. I feel like mentally and emotionally I am doing good. I hope you are doing well and taking care of your self and hanging in there.

You mean so much to me. I cant picture things with out you. Thank you for always putting us first. The kids miss you dearly. They always ask if it Landon's birthday yet. You are a great dad to them. I see so much of you in the kids everyday. I see all the things that you have taught them. They are so lucky to have you.
I miss you so much. I hope this time goes by fast. I cant tell you enough how much your confidence in me while you are gone gets me through the rough days. Thank you for trusting me enough that I know I can do this.
I love you so much I cant wait to see you when ever that is. Good luck out there. I love ya

Chasing Turkeys

In utah we went with davids dad (Grandpa Duane) to Zions Canyon. We went on a hike along the river It was fun. The kids had so much fun just being out and free range of running. Grandpa Duane kept telling the kids that he knows how to chase and catch turkeys. So the whole hike brooklyn kept asking for the turkeys. We finally saw some on our way out of the canyon. Grandpa Duane has a certain style to catching a turkey you have to crounch down, get your arms out, and chase saying gobble gobble. Oh the kids had fun. I couldnt stop laughing so the picures are a little funny. The kids were so excited to chase turkeys

The hike that we did is called the river walk. It is 1 1/2 miles each way. It is a paved path that goes along the river. It is so pretty in zions this time of year. The kids had such a fun time hiking, looking for animals. and throwing rocks in the river.

Resting Spot

Grandpa Dad and the Kids

Christmas Lights

Every time we have gone to utah in the winter time we always say lets go see the lights at temple square. We never do and so this time me and david were determined to get down to see the lights. The lights are so pretty. we rode trax down which was so fun. Then we walked around and saw all the pretty lights. The kids had a good time. Dawson wasnt to sure of everything but he was a trooper.

It was seven years ago on dec 26 that david propsed to me. So for momentous reasons we had to take a pciutre at the exact place he proposed. We havent been to see the lights since then. We handed the camera to a wonderful and cute photographer named brooklyn and this is what we got.

Who would have thought 3 kids 7 years later????

Family Pictures

We took some family pictures at the beach a few weeks ago. We took them with our camera and using a friends tri-pod. They turned out pretty dang cute I think. So in case I dont get around to christmas cards whick hopefully I dont slack that one off consider this our chirstmas message. Have a wonderful and safe holiday season and a happy new Year.

Rees Family 2009

Brooklyn was our photographer on this one

Vacation!

The time has come and I am so excited. We will be leaving tonite for two weeks to go to utah. I am so excited to be able to have our whole family together while we go on a vacation. It will be so nice to visit with family, eat at some yummy places, and just hang out all together. Since we have been married we have never been with our famioy for thanksgiving. I am excited to have thanksgiving with my sisters and also thanksgiving with davids family. I am truly thankful that we are able to all go as a family especially this time of year. So I will share all of our many adventures while we are in utah. Happy thanksgiving to all!

Family Halloween Party

This year me and david decided to start a tradition of having a family Halloween party one monday for family home evening. So we had a fun time this year. We bobbed for apples,

Getting an apple out fo the witches Brew

Dressed up like a MUmmy

The cutest mummy's

The goodies for homemade carmel apples

Yummy!!

Trick or treat

This halloween we went to a few houses in the neighborhood with our friend Logan and his mom. Of course I didnt have the camera. Then we went to the church for a trunk or treat. This year brooklyn was a Geisha girl, Landon was Darth Vader, and Dawson was Sully from Monsters inc. Thanks for the costume Beth it was a big hit and fit Dawson so well. Of course it turned into a crazy night so we just got a good one of all of us.

Happy Halloween 2009

Halloween Parties

I love the fall time and Halloween. It seems like every Halloween that goes by I have more and more fun with dressing the kids up doing Halloween activities and decorating. Well this year was no different. We were invited to an adults Halloween party. David had already bought a penguin costume so I was trying to think of something that goes with a penguin. I came up with an Eskimo. So I went looking for a puffy vest and some sort of winter looking boots. Well it was a little bit of a challenge being here in Hawaii and not really hitting rainy season yet so I was put to a challenge of shopping. Well that is how I looked at it. Thanks David for all the excuse I made to go shopping to get the perfect outfit to match you costume.

All the way from the Arctic

It was a fun party we had yummy food things like, hairball pie, dried skin flakes, Brain autopsy, maggot pie, and some yummy pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. we played some games. The games were boys against girls. Of course the girls killed the boys. There was one game that was how well do you know your spouse. It was a fun game. Me and David got 18 out of 20 questions right.

The girls

we are missing shirlyn she had to get her cute baby

I have to say that David knows me way to well. Some one was saying something about our costumes and David said oh it was just an excuse to get her to buy some winter stuff for our trip to Utah for thanksgiving. He is so great he didn't say a word. How did he know that i didnt say anything??? He know sme to well.. What a great guy!!!

It was a great Halloween party. We had a lot of fun. Thanks for a fun night of good food, friends, and games.

Paddleboarding

Ever since we came to hawaii and I saw someone doing some paddlebaording I thought I want to try that. Well on saturday we went with some friends to hickam beach. I think this is my favorite beach by far. They have a rental shack there that you can rent kayaks, lounge chairs, paddleboards, and other various things. So we decided to rent some paddleboards. It was an awesome deal. It was $9 for two hours or $25 for the whole day. There were four families so we decided to split it up and take turns watching the kiddos. So we got two boards and each couple was able to go out for a bit. It was so fun. I think I am addicted. I do have to say that I was able to stand up and acutally paddle standing up. It was fun do something new with david. It was such a fun day.

way to go David

We are both up

Getting the hang of it

totally addicted

Soccer

Lanodn has started soccer and he is loving it. We go every saturday morning. They havent started started playing games yet. They have the kids learning the basics of the game first and some techiniques. They have learned to stop the ball, walk the ball around, kick a goal, pass the ball, and the gorilla stand. He is having a great time. So this adds one more thing to our schedules to do. Busy Busy FUN!!!

Kick the Ball

Goal!

Stop the Ball

Two good looking boys after a good day of practice

Early Halloween fun!

This weekend we had some early Halloween fun. The kids and I go to the YMCA so I can work out and the kids are in the child watch room. The great part about this is the child watch is FREE! So when David is gone it is a great escape that I get. So they had a Halloween party for the kids on Friday. They had the kids come in costumes, the decorated treat bags, went trick or treating and played some games. Brooklyn is going to be Hannah Montana but I didn't have all of her costume yet and Landon is going to be Darth Vader. I didn't want there costumes used so we had some other costumes on them. When David went to japan he brought Brooklyn home a Kimono and Landon a ninja outfit. They had the younger kids like Dawson only go to a few people so I didn't get a picture of him.

Trick or Treat

That night me and David were able to go out thanks to our friends Shirlyn and Deven. We decided to make dinner (that David made that was really yummy) and carve pumpkins. David made a yummy dinner of steak stuffed with arugula cheese, spinach and bacon, mashed red potatoes and a green bean salad. It was divine. When it came time to carve the pumpkins I thought how hard can it be to carve a spider? David went straight to the book of patterns and picked one out. Lets just say his turned out much better then mine.

the skilled carver

The perfect pumpkin

What a fun date night