It's Tradition

I am so behind on blogging. So this week is catch up week :)
It's tradition to spent Christmas Eve at Dave's parents house. Here are all my nieces and nephews with my kiddos.

It's tradition to get Christmas Jammies on Christmas Eve. In fact the all kids asked,"Can we open our jammies?"

It's tradition to have matching jammies (or at least coordinating jammies) however I was working SO much that I didn't get around to even looking for jammies till a few days before Christmas. I struggled even finding jammies at all!!!! It's tradition to read Christmas stories and read the actually Christmas story together! This year we added the Hawaiian Night Before Christmas!
It's tradition to play musical chimes. One year my wonderful husband made 15 set to give everyone. I must say that they have gotten pretty good. Here is a video of Jingle Bells

It's tradition for the girls to stay up all hours of the night wrapping presents and playing santa. This year was the record till 3 o'clock in the morning. Needless to say there is a rule-the kids can NOT wake up before 6 am!

I love this picture that Dave took of my sister-in-law....my mother-in-law passed out in the background!

It's tradition for the boys to stay up with the girls and play with the kids toys and to play video games. It gets pretty loud and out-of-hand. In fact this year the old girls kept on texting us to keep it down. I am surprised that the kids even get any sleep!

Unfortunately some of our traditions will stop next year. We will not be spending the night there. It's kind of a bittersweet. Kind of excited to have Christmas at our house...by ourselves. We have only had one Christmas at home since the Malulani was born!

We had a wonderful Christmas-the kids got spoiled (not by us) Dave and I stick to 3 gifts usually consists of an outfit, a game, and something they asked for. Well and their santa gift! It's the grandparents that spoiled them rotten!

I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!

Eight is Great! 8)

I remember the day I had my Bree. Crying because as I went to the hospital I thought that I couldn't love another child as much as I love Malulani. It was a little too late to back out. When I had her it was instant (maybe it was all the drugs they give you -just kidding)! She was so different but I loved her so much. Their personalities are so different. She kind of scares me!

For her birthday she wanted to go sledding which didn't ever happen but we have a few weeks to make up for that! Most importantly she wanted to go to the mall and get her ears pierced.

So off to the mall we went.....


(If you haven't taken you kids to Macy's - you should they have a place where you can write a letter to Santa and an adorable mailbox to send it!)

I just got to say girls are so much fun to dress. This is the only shot I got from head to toe of her birthday outfit. And I {heart} her shoes! I know you can't see too well but they are patent leather with a zipper exposing the same fabric from her tie and headband. And needless to say "skinny jeans" don't look like "skinny jeans" on my Bree!

Here is my birthday girl before she has holes in her ears and......
here she is w/ holes!
She was so excited to get this makeup case-I am in trouble. Luckily it mainly lip gloss!
Because my mom just got back from Hawaii she was able to get Aubree some neat gifts. One of which I wanna steal! A coconut purse-A D O R A B L E
And because she is getting baptized she get scriptures- I am so glad she was stoked about them!

Her is her yummy ice cream cake and her traveling bear that is a school assignment.

My parents also got her a white muu muu for her special day that is coming up and for all of you that are wondering we are having her baptism on the 2nd and her luau a few weeks later (Dave and I need more time) Happy Birthday Aubree and thanks mom & dad for letting us have it at your house and for putting holes in my daughters ears!

I haven't fallin off the face of the earth

Though it feels like it. So much to do and so little time to do it. I have been working so much. Normally I work 16 hrs a mth and lately I have been working 34 hrs a week. It has exhausted both my family and I! Needless to say I am looking forward to going back to normal (whatever normal is) Here are a few thing we have been up to.....

Temple Square-man whoever has the job of lighting all of these floating candles has their work cut out for them every night!
Aubree thought that this would be cool...and it is! About the closest we have been to life size!!!

The last couple of years we have been too busy to go to Temple Square and see the lights and I am so glad we made time. Maile just oohed and ahhed!

For those that don't know Aubree's birthday is Dec 21 and Maile's birthday is Dec 29th! Why am I tell you this-well up until now I have been so crazy about keeping the girls birthday separate from Christmas. From NOT wrapping their gifts in Christmas wrapping, to NOT combining their gifts, to NOT decorating until after Aubree's birthday and I would take the tree down before Maile's birthday! That included having the Christmas tree up for 6 days. Crazy I know! Well Aubree is old enough I asked her if she even cared and she loves it up. So I actually was normal and we decorated the tree early in Dec. Baby steps right?!?

It seems like we have are constantly changing the theme of out tree but for the last 2 years we have kept it Cowboy themed. The best part is instead of stockings we place one cowboy boot out.

And every year my uncle dresses as Santa and visits all the grandkids at my parents house. Even tho every kid know that this is NOT the real Santa they still have to believe!

The best part-Maile didn't even mind him! Not a tear :)

So other than Aubree's birthday post I won't be posting anything before Christmas so

Mele Kalikimaka and a Hauoli Makahiki Hou!

Act II Scene iv

These delights have violents ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and power,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
-Romero and Juliet

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure I was dreaming.......

So about 4 mths ago a friend of mine had we watch the Twilight Movie. It got me somewhat interested so she handed me all the books and I got sucked in!!! As I know many of you have been counting down the days for New Moon to premiere. So anxiously waiting for Nov. 20th to get here....well about 3 weeks ago we check on line for tickets and the theater that we wanted to go to was sold out till Nov. 21 :( Not a huge deal right?!? It all worked out. We decided to have a Twilight/New Moon party before our movie started.

The Plan-to got to my parents house and watch Twilight (w/o kids) and pig out on food....that we did, then to go to New Moon. In preparation of that Christa and I made some of these werewolf cupcakes.
They were sooo fun to make and turned out amazing-Thanks for helping me execute them Christa :) I also got some soda and put new labels O positive and A positive. I found some fun candy at Shopko-chocolates and conversation hearts that sparkled and said "bite me" and stuff.

My friend Liz each gave us a goodie bag that had "Twilight Wood" lotion which I really like and a movie is not complete with out hot tamales.And of course pizza!!! Me and my camera...the theater had this cute little display of Bella's cake. Which was pretty cool! Sorry girls for my craziness with the camera!I was able to refinish the book hours before the movie and I must say they did an amazing job with the movie. I felt like Twilight there was a mixed up stuff and some added stuff but New Moon was pretty much on. The movies were night and day and I know the budget was a lot more but seriously there was only one cheesy part. All the running scenes and fighting scenes where AWESOME ! Planning to go again...IF you haven't seen it GO, IF you haven't read it DO it......let it suck you in. I heard through the grapevine that they start filming Eclipse in March!!!!

Thanks girls for well needed girls night!