Happy Thanksgiving. . . early!

This year Thanksgiving was spent with the Mosser family in HAWAII!! Yea!! I loved HI when we went 4 years ago and was so excited to go back. Go snorkeling, see fish, eat fresh fish, and visit family. We had a group of 7 adults to one little 16 month old, I think we can handle this.

I was excited to be near the ocean and in 85 degree weather, but had no expectations since we were bring along Isaac. I was mostly dreading the airplane, our layover/spend the night in Seattle, all our luggage, and did I mention the 6 hour plane ride! My philosophy is if I think the worst then really how much worse can it be. The positive side, we were over water and the Airlines could not land the plane due to a screaming baby. My little baby was the best kid on the plane. He was an angel. Took naps on every flight, loved watching the plane engines, and sat on our laps the entire time. OK on the way to HI we had maybe a 20 minutes flare up, it was my fault trying to get him to take a nap when clearly he did not want to. The portable DVD player was my lifesaver and a kid who does not really watch TV (too busy) he watched the animals on TV for an hour.

We finally landed in Maui at 1pm, got the car rental by 2pm, took Isaac to MacDonald's, and finally checked into our hotel by 3pm. This is 6pm our time and Isaac was exhausted. All he wanted to do was go to sleep. We let him take a little nap from 4-5pm. When he woke up he came down to see the ocean for the first time. I was thinking he was going to be a little catious. I'm starting to think this isn't in his vocabulary. He ran right in, good thing Grandma Sue and Doug were already wet and in the ocean water. He played until sunset and was ready for bed. This did mean he was up in the morning at 4:30am, too early!

Create Your Own

Here is a photo of the family Grandma Sue, Grandpa Dave, Uncle Jason, Aunt Nichole, Mom, Dad, and Isaac. Also, Great Uncle Doug joined us and we had so much fun together all week. Doug was our condo roommate.

On Sunday the whole family took a trip to Hana. This is a full day in the car, and yes poor Isaac did awesome once again. By 7pm that evening I was even getting tired of the car. We got some great pictures of the black sand beaches, seven sacred pools, and beautiful landscape.

Create Your Own

We had such a fun time. Here is just a list of some fun things we did while in HI. The women got a full morning of messages, heavenly experience - THANKS GUYS! We love you. We got to golf, boogie board, snorkel, visit the aquarium, see a luau, and play, play, play on the beach.

Here are a bunch of photos from the trip.

Create Your Own

These are kind of cheesy photos, but to get Isaac to smile at the camera hit or miss. I thought they were cute.

We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now back to the real world - cold 30 degrees.

I promise. . .

I promise I will write about our trip soon. Here is a photo from our room.

Happy Halloween & The Maze

So the weekend before Halloween we celebrated my brother's birthday and took the kids to the pumpkin patch/The Maze. They had a lot of fun going down the slide, riding the cow train, playing in the corn box, and watching the pig race. I should also mention that this was the windest day I can remember in Billings. I dislike the wind SOOOO much!

I didn't know what to make Isaac be for Halloween this year, so he was a hand-me-down pumpkin. A little small Gage wore this when he was 6 months old, but Isaac was still pretty cute. It is really nice that my parents let all the kids come into the business and go trick or treating. Although this year was the warmest Halloween I can remember at 60 degrees.