Happy Valentines Day!! Aren't these beautiful? I spent a lot of time making them. HA, yeah right I wish I could claim them. They tasted as good as they look. Our friend made them for us. She does our books at the accountants office and the girls just LOVE her. She has a treat for them every time. They even made her a valentine with a lollipop so you know they think she is pretty special. But I have to say we definitely got the better end of the deal here. Well I can't complain about our Valentines day. We have had a pretty good one and we are getting together with some friends tonight for dinner which should be a nice break for me from sick children. The girls have been sick which has not been fun at all. Lucky for Kamden she is feeling better now so she was able to go to her school party. She had a great time and got lots of candy and cards. Aspen on the other hand has gotten the sickness a lot worse. She has been absolutely miserable. Besides the girls being sick I have nothing to complain about. Life is good, I have a great husband, wonderful children, and endless blessings in my life!
Here are the girls holding their stuffed dogs that their dad got for them. Growing up my dad always had something for us on our dressers for valentines day until we had a valentine of our own. I thought it was the neatest thing. So now Brock is passing that tradition on and having valentines on the girls dressers when they wake up in the morning on Valentines Day. You can tell by their faces they thought it was pretty neat. The stuffed dog was also holding their favorite, caramel kisses. Which Kamden decided to save and Aspen dove right into. :)
Here is our pathetic little Aspen. Looking at this picture you can tell she is sick. She rarely ever just lays and watches TV. I didn't even put her like this. She got her baby and covered her up and then got a blanket and pillow and covered herself up. Hopefully she gets feeling a little better before we fly back to PA in a less than a week.
All week it has been dumping snow. In the 4 years we have lived here this is by far the most snow we have gotten. It just keeps coming. Today school was cancelled which doesn't happen often here. We have had a little bit of wind with a ton of snow so it gets really hard to see where you are driving. We have probably gotten between 12 and 14 inches just today added to our 4 feet we already had on the ground. The crazy thing is, the snow isn't letting up until Tuesday. So needless to say the pictures I was going to get of the snow sculptures are useless now because they are so covered you can't even tell what they were supposed to be. I should of taken the pictures the first day they were finished. So sorry about that, there were some cool ones too this year. Below are a few pictures we took today of our crazy amount of snow. If any of you love to skii or board this would be the time to come visit us. We have LOTS of powder.
Kamden riding in her hummer about to start the parade.
She and some friends from class about to start throwing their candy to the crowd. 
Brock and Aspen standing out in the snow, look how many bead necklaces Aspen has gotten. She thought it was pretty neat.
This is just a puppy that was sitting with its owners right next to us. He was a little bit like Aspen and didn't like how loud they were so they put some ear muffs on him. He didn't seem to mind either. I thought it was pretty funny.
Hawaii is known for their really big waves in the winter on the northshore. There is a beach called Pipeline where surfers from all over come and compete. I was lucky enough to go and watch a competition. This picture is really blurry but kind of cool. If I can figure out how to do movie clips I will post a pretty cool video I got of a surfer in the barrel. This was one huge highlight of my trip. Partly because I was there getting as many pictures and videos for my brother as I could, my brother is very into surfing and knows all the surfers, growing up with him has made me understand the sport better and appreciate it more. But really I always tell Brock I am a wanna be surfer girl. I love it, the water, the sun, the beach, just the atmosphere in general but mainly the excitment and challenge of catching the wave. So for me to be able to see some of the best surfers around surf these huge waves was pretty amazing. Something I will never forget. Now you all know something new about me that I am sure you didn't know before!! :0)
Me, Rexanne, Arriann enjoying some awesome shaved ice. I could of eaten some every day it was SO Yum!!
Just a nice scenic picture near a beach where we went swimming.
Just a cool picture, I don't know that surfer dude but I thought it made a better picture. :)
Brock and I got tattoos at the Poly center in one of the villages. Behind us is a canoe that they built without using one single nail.
Brock and I at the Poly center right before the night show started. We really enjoyed ourselves there, it is so fun to learn about all of the different cultures, I really enjoyed trying to learn each of the different island dances. :)
Brock and I in front the the temple, I think it is such a beautiful temple.
Rexanne, me, Brock, Barry, Arriann, and Wade in front of the Outrigger Catamaran. We took this out on our last day. It was so fun, we got to see a whale which was a bonus. The ride was so relaxing, you get to sit on netting in the front of the boat which I thought was pretty cool because you can look right below you and see the water underneath.
After our Catamaran trip we ate dinner at this really good restaurant, which was outside and as we ate, we got watch this beautiful sunset. Hawaii is very beautiful and we loved every minute of it.
