Hawaii, part 1

 On President's Day we headed off (minus 2 little boys) on our long awaited trip to Hawaii!!!

We spent the next 10 days with Chantell and Raymond on the island of Kauai.

We had so much fun.... the time flew by and I can honestly say that 10 days was not enough.

(Dakota would disagree with that)

 Us, finally arriving after 10 hours of traveling...

Below is Chantell's bag, which of course was too heavy, 

along with being too big in dimensions :-)

 

 The first morning we got up bright and early to
watch the sunrise at the beach right by our condo.

Getting up and running on the trail along side the ocean
 was one of my favorite parts of the trip...

but boy did the humidity and heat make it hard.

 these 2 creatures were everywhere... 

especially the roosters, which became our permanent alarm clock.

 A must have, was the shaved ice at a place called Hee Fat (don't mind my spelling)

They consisted of ice cream topped with shaved ice and then drizzled with melted vanilla ice cream.

 We made the mistake of letting Scott and Ray get "Hawaiian Slings" on our first day.

For the next week they thought of nothing but spear fishing and where and how they could get big fish.

As soon as they rented the spears we had to go get butter and lemons

 to season all of the fish they would be getting.

Sadly, on our last day we drank a lot of home made lemon aide. :-(

 And of course the best part of every trip is all of the eating,

and Hawaii was no exception!

more to come...

yellow belt,

 Last Friday Dakota earned his yellow belt.

They only do belt promotions every 3 months and Dakota has been waiting.... 

not so patiently.

Each time they go to karate they get a small stripe "tip" on their belt.  

Dakota had so many that he could barely tie his white belt.

It is going to be fun for him to start over and fill up his yellow belt!!!

Skiing

 A few weekends ago we took the boys and stayed in Park City for lots of skiing fun!!!

The first day we took the boys to Sundance and did the rope tow.
Even Bridger got in on the action.

He was super nervous at first, but was loving it by the end.

 The next day we just took Dakota to the Canyons. 

 He is getting so good and it is so much fun to watch him ski.

Happy Valentines!!!!

 I Love, Love, Love this holiday!!!!

I usually get the boys a stuffed (or "comfy") animal for Valentines.

This year I took them to Build a Bear and let them pick and build their own.

Dakota built Alvin the chipmunk and Bridger built Ruff the dog!

 Yesterday was Dakota's Kindergarten Party and they got to wear hats and have an etiquette lesson.  They then got to try out their skills while eating
heart shaped sandwiches and Love Potion!!!

The kids were all so cute and did great with their Thank You and No Thank You!

  Bridger was super naughty at the party and Scott had to come pick him up :(

At one point this is how he was found on the playground!

 We didn't quite have enough moms for the party
so Aunt Autumn was nice enough to come volunteer.

Dakota teacher said that she new right away that we were sisters because of our eyes....
I don't see it!

 The boys showing off all of their Valentines from school....

 These are some strawberry cookies that I saw on pinterest and tried out...

they were super easy and super yummy.

 Last night, Scott and I went out to our favorite restaurant "The Happy Sumo".

Sadly we didn't make a reservation and the Salt Lake one had a 2 hour wait and the Provo one had an hour wait and they were only seating at the bar.  We called a few other places, but decided to just go to the Provo happy Sumo and wait and sit at the bar.  Some how we totally lucked out and only had to wait about 20 minutes and were seated at a regular table!!!

 Scott me this cute Fossil purse and I got him some new basket ball shoes!!!!

Such a fun day!