Christmas and New Year's. Our trip Home!!

Christmas and New Year's

Christmas was fun but a little crazy too. We had decided to surprise our kids with a trip back to Arizona the day after Christmas. They Loved it! But I had to pack in a day for a two week trip for 6 people. Yikes. But it all worked out. It was baby's first Christmas too. She wasn't quite sure what to think. She loved the paper of course.

Our Trip home was Fun, Furious and way too FAST! We loved every minute and didn't want to leave. We enjoyed spending time with family and friends and we even looked at a few houses because we are hoping we will get back there this summer. Thank you to all of you for the memories we share each time we are home. Can't wait to go back!

Finish Update.....

Ok so it took me a few days to get back to this but it got crazy....
December 13-20th
When I got back from my trip to Arizona it got crazy. Only two weeks til Christmas and I wasn't even close to being done. The night I got in we had a ward party, then all three of my kids had Christmas parties on 3 different days the following week, Jordyn had a Choir on concert on the 18th and then on the 19th I had my enrichment dinner that I was in charge of. Got released from that job the following Sunday! Whoo hoo!! and then it was Christmas....

Tired going to Bed!!!

Ok so I didn't get finished tonight updating my blog so hopefully I will have a chance tomorrow to finish. It's going on midnight here. Goodnight!

Wow!!! Finally cont...

While I was in Arizona I mostly stayed with Becky and my mom. I got to spend some time with my friends as well. We had a Christmas party the day after I got there with all of my Best Friends. It was kind of crazy getting to that point but we all had a wonderful time and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. We laughed and giggled and ate lots of yummy food of course. Thank you to Stacey who hosted it at her beautiful home. I wish we could do it more often.

I was also able to attend the Cooper Ward Christmas Party put on by Becky. It was fun to see everybody there again and not have to worry about chasing my kids around. I loved to catch up on everything going on in the ward and all the people having babies!!! and I thought it was just Hawaiian water that was the culprit...JK

Becky, Stacey and I went to Olive Garden for lunch to celebrate my birthday a little early. Sorry everybody else couldn't be there. It was yummo!!! We don't have one of those here in Hawaii.

Even though I got tons of calls from my husband telling me how stressed he was("men can't multitask") and how much more he appreciated me and all I can do at one time, it was so worth it to be able to enjoy that time with everybody. I wish I could do that once a month, excluding the air travel that is.

Wow...Finally!! December 5th-

Ok so it has been forever since I updated this blog and my life so I guess I will go back to December and try and recount since then in as simple as I can. Let's See...

December 4th I left my husband and 3 older children behind in Hawaii and flew to Arizona to surprise my sister and a few friends. Raylene was having a baby and I really wanted to be there for it although she actually had him the week before I got there. I was able to pull off my surprise. She started crying when Kylyn and I were standing at her door as she answered it while I was talking to her on the phone pretending I was still in Hawaii. It was great! She had a boy named Keston.