A Little Bit of Aloha

Christmas 2008.

Christmas Eve we went down to the mission, a beautiful old stone building FULL of candles. We listened to beautiful Christmas carols and had hot cocoa. Kea loved looking at the lights!! The night before we walked through a beautifully lit neighborhood and had fun looking at lights and just being silly.

Christmas morning with Auntie Nina.

GG gave Tom an Xbox 360!! And I gave him a vibrating chair with LCD lights, and a subwoofer for when he plays his games. Kea loves it too! When Tom plays Xbox games Kea loves to sit on his lap with a controller too. She especially loves driving the "CAH!" (Car games). She likes to make the 'vroom' sound as she drives...so cute!

 Lost in a sea of presents!! Santa really had GG working for him this year!! This is Kealani showing us what (Pri-ee) pretty looks like.

After opening presents at our house we headed to Maiya and Papa's house for pie and more presents!! Kea got all sorts of fun things including a new baby doll that giggles and lots of clothes and shoes (much needed since this kid is growing like crazy! :))

We had the BEST time after Christmas as the family headed to a Cabin not too far from home for a few days. Here is our car and the ATV's getting covered with snow. 

The cabin had little heat, so we stayed in the dining room together where the heaters were. We had a lot of fun keeping ourselves busy with cards...ALL day long!! We found a super addicting game. We also got to ride on the ATV's, but we didn't last long because our fingers froze!! That was a favorite part of mine. Tom and I got to go riding together in the morning. The sun was shining and it gleamed off the white snow on the ground. So fun!

I can't even tell you what we are doing here, but we thought we were so hilarious! I am not sure who won either...maybe who ends up on top?? :) If you put a bunch of us in a small space together we get pretty creative at entertaing ourselves.

Kea loves snow. She stomps around trying to say, "crunch crunch crunch". She kept on telling me while looking out the window at the snow, "pay? Pees!" (Play please).

After riding ATV's Tom and I went on a walk and enjoyed the beauty of the snow and the mountains!

We had such a great time enjoying the snow here in AZ. Then we got to drive right back to our sunny warm neighborhood! :) I have to say Arizona is really growing on me!! And I also have to say, I love Tommy!! :)