Baptism and Luau *WARNING Tons of Pictures*

This is an overdue post! I am apologizing for the extremely long post but this is important part of who we are and I didn't want to leave anything out.

Aubree Nanimakamae Olson turned 8 and she had the privilege to be baptized on Jan 2nd. She had the choice of waiting to get baptized so that we could have the luau together or get baptized and then a month later have the luau. Well she definitely made the right choice.
Dave and Nani
I just have to add that our family is so blessed that Dave is worthy of the priesthood and he is able and willing to perform ordinances like baptizing his daughter-♥Love ya Babe!
Some of the gift friends and family gave her but the best gift she received that day was little letters from everyone that attended. She reads and rereads them over and over. Also she has her "traveling bear" which was an assignment from school that join us.

After the baptism we invited everyone to Farr's Fresh for ice cream. It was easier than cramming everyone into my house and all the stress that follows. Funny story about Farrs we get there and they proceeded to tell us they are out of spoons. What kind of ice cream place runs out of spoons? We ended up going to neighboring restaurants for spoons.

Aubree was defiantly born in the right season because this is what she chose to spend the rest of the day doing....................We have THE best support from our families. Love you guys ♥
And of course when it comes to snow this is what Dave is doing.Maile would only sit on it when the engine was off.Yes this is as scary as it looks. She almost convinced Dave to let her ride by herself.Maile went down twice and that was all she stood and watched for hours!Dallin has soooo much energy and her was able to burn a lot of it :)
If the sun wouldn't have gone down they would have kept going. Three hours was long enough!This was the first time I was able to ride "my sled"! Dave said he got it for me but I am still doubting it. I had never even sat on one till that day.

So after weeks of preparation.....shopping, cooking, and stressing

Party Day!!!! I really wish we could have invited everyone but it just wasn't possible.

Our centerpieces!

Met Orange Strider-our pet. Surprised that it is alive still. I was really trying to give them all away but somehow we ended up with one.
My mom made this cake for Bree.I had a hard time letting people help. I know we could not have pulled it off without help and we have THE best support team-Thanks guys♥We were able to sneak a few photos-Thanks KariBree with Freddie and X (Thanks again Ash for the photos!)

Aubree's "best friend/cousin"....Kaila and friend Chantel and Tripp CowdinAshley, Kayli, Feddie, and TaylorGray FamDenise and Josh and no that is not a beer-altho he does look drunk-LOL

Dad (Dave's dad) Chris and Chelsie - they are finally engaged after 5yrs of dating :)

The Dye Fam

Soni and Fam -He calls Dave his Tongan Cousin LOL! Soni said the prayer in Tongan which was cool

Romer Fam

Jones Fam

A Luau is not a luau w/o Hawaiian food. We had 70lbs of Kahlua(thanks mom and dad for making it), 40lbs of Teriyaki, Rice, Chicken Long Rice (if you can get it to stay on you utensil long enough to taste it, then if you can get past the sliminess-it's good), Potato salad-mmmm(thanks mom for making it), fruit salad, Haupia (thanks Christa for making it), poi (an acquired taste ♥ it), and Lomi Lomi (♥my fav♥)

I wish I got pictures of eveyone and everything!

Kristin not only feeding her baby but my baby. She is amazing-so giving and willing to help! I was running in so many different directions...it was nice to know my kiddos was being taken care of. Thanks again Kristin and Alan for help setting up, running errands, and helping with everything. I have THE best friends ♥

The Lysager Fam-Christa help sooo much she went shopping with me, she was my personal day spa, she made the Haupia, and she even bought the goldfish (so you can blame her if you ended up with one j/k)...I am just glad I didn't get all 20 fish! Thanks again Chista and Tyler you guys are awesome!

The Salvesen Fam

The kids entertainment-our well used bounce house-it has paid off time and time again!

Kaila, Malulani, and Aubree hula dancing to Puka Pants

The hired entertainment

I think he was like 65 yrs old and still able to hula dance!

My brother Dale....him, my brother Kawika, Dave, and my Uncle Kalani got dragged on the stage to hula with the other dancers
Kawika and Kahialani

This is Dave ♥ it :) (he told me I couldn't post it on FB and he really didn't want me to post it on my blog but oh well-its too good not to share)

I am so glad it is over, I love doing it-it is just a lot of work!

Bree loved all the presents if you couldn't tell. Thank you all!

Lessons I have learned-I can't do it all by myself, that memories like these last forever, that you there is no limit of pics you can upload on one post, I really need to stretch when blogging for too long, and that I can ask for help and people are willing to give it!!!

We are so blessed to have Aubree as part of our life. We are also blessed to have you as part of our life too! ♥Mahalo Nui Loa♥

Happy Birthday Dave-Man your old

Alright that makes me even older :( but don't tell Dallin he is convinced that Dad is older than MOM! Why because "dad looks older" I love that boy :)
Okay so once again I am weeks behind but I would someday like to print my blog post out and so I don't wanna go out of order. For Dave's birthday we decided to take the kiddos to a Grizzlies game. They always have heard about "latest love" hockey games but have never been to one.
We actually was able to have two games for the price of one. It was Guns and Hoses night (Cops vs Firefighters) The game started at 2 and of course it wasn't intense but still fun. Dave's family joined us. In Dave's family his mom was a firefighter and his dad just retired as a cop. The cheering was for both teams. Hoses won.!And because we a 2 hr break between games-we went down the street to Chili's for dinner.Aubree makes THE funniest faces. Okay she had a lemon :PAnd no I did not give Maile ketcup to dip her chips in! LOLThen back to the real game. Well the pre game (warm ups) were I always walk away w/ a puck from the players. Well this time the goalie Erickson handed me a puck-which I gave to Aubree (the goalie never give out pucks) then while they were warming up they shot one in the net in between the the glass and it was stuck so Dallin was boosted up to knock it loose and he got one. So I reached in my purse and gave Malulani a puck from last game. Crazy who carries a puck around in their purse-ME! They we so excited to get their own puck! Dallin carried it around for days showing people.
I was nervous taking the kids to the game-I knew it was gonna be a LONG night about 8hrs. Wasn't sure how long Maile would be. Afraid that they would ask for a ton of food (and the food there is soooo expensive. They did so good and they were exhausted afterwards-it made for a quiet trip back.

The only thing that was a bummer is we never sit anywhere other than the front row and I missed it. Spoiled-a little! Nothing like the players smashing into the glass right in front of you. Ohhhh and the leg room :)

We did find out that if the kids become a member of the Grizzlies Kids Club for $10 they get 3 games, t-shirts and any other game they wanna go to is just $5-we told them next season since this one is almost over *sad*.

1 + 1= 2

Ok so another 2 more days and it will be a month since Maile turned 2! Pathetic I know. She is an amazing little girl. I get teary eyed every time I think that she could possible not be in my life. Some of you know that she was not at all planned. In fact I was more than convinced that I couldn't handle anymore children. After a hard trial I had come to the realization that Heavenly Father really wanted us to have her. I am so blessed to have her continually bless my life. Oh how I so forgotten how cute 2 yr olds are. Some of the things she does and says HI-LAR-IOUS!
No she didn't get glasses but yes this is what she would look like if she did. She put the glasses at the tip of her nose (what nose she has) and said "Grandma Hansen"-that is how my mom wears her glasses. She now thinks that Aubree's glasses are hers-not a good thing.
We kept on asking her what she wanted for her birthday and all she wanted was "BOOTS" and "BOOKS" Well boots and books is what she got and more of course.

Hard to tell but Maile has her 2 fingers showing that she is 2!-one on each hand!!! It is so cute :) She is also my lil parrot. Her favorite things to repeat one of Lou Gehrig speeches...Today... today...is the greatest day....is the greatest day....! It is pretty comical. My favorite is "tot-ta-looo" instead of bye bye and "peace out"(she kisses her 2 fingers and does peace) and "shaka bra"(still working on the sign) and "bounce"(she evens bounces her head thanks to my brother-in-law). Her absolute favorite things is puzzles and books. She has named all of her babbies "baby Kyson" after a cousin that she has only see pictures of. I really could go on and on but I won't!

As many of you know we don't "do cakes" unless they(my kiddos) request it. Maile hates cake she will eat the frosting and say all done and when I ask her to finish she tells me "no likey"! So we did brownies and ice cream cones.

With the kiddos gone to school I spend most of my day with her. She is the most polite and kind 2 yr old I know-constantly saying "thank you", "excuse me", and "sorry" for things she never even did. She is so precious and just like her middle name she does strive for righteousness. I am one lucky mom!

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!!!!!!!!!!