Visit with Santa!

On Thursday we went to the mall to visit Santa--Chase's request:) It was a fun night. I'm glad we did. Greg was a trooper. He's not a big fan of big crowds. Chase told this Santa he wanted 1000 silly bands:)
After the kids' visit with Santa, we went for dinner at a fun restaurant. It feels like your in a circus.Carl is starting to set in a high chair

Chase and Savvy got cool balloons. Chase picked Rudolph and Savvy a snowman.

White to Orange belt...

Our orange belt, karate-kid will be back to training January 5th. School break is on going. Dear Chase, for as long as I can remember, you have had a passion for kicking and punching. You would always want to fight with bad guys. At one time you thought everyone was a bad guy and wanted to fight with everyone. I don't know how long your passion will be for karate but you have a goal to get to black belt. You have been in karate classes for 2 months now and have learned all the white belt forms really well.

On testing day you were really awesome. I was so proud of you, and watching you made me smile from ear to ear. I hope your karate passion doesn't get you into trouble:) I hope all your karate skills will protect you, but really I hope you never have to ever use anything that you've learned.

Love your mom.The kids are anxious for Christmas.

Kuleana award

Yay!! Chase earned a Kindergarten Hoku Award for Kuleana (Responsibility). Mrs Iwane, Chase's teacher, said he showed responsibility in class. We were excited for him because there were only four other kids in his class to get one. I told him he had to work really hard to get one. He said he would try:) and he did it!

Greg's marathon

If you want to see some pictures and a video of greg finishing the marathon, you can click on this link: Action Sports International I'm trying to talk him into blogging about it.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree..

The Christmas tree is up and doing a ginger-cracker house with Chase in his classroom...it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas:) Oh just for the record, my friend Lety and I drove around our town like crazy hunting down a Christmas tree. Thank goodness we found one! We learned for next year we are getting our Christmas trees early in December!

A fun, short visit to Cali....

My niece Kayla was baptized on December 3, 2010. She is my parents' first grandchild to get baptized. I am super happy I got to be there for it. I couldn't wait until March to visit with my family. It was awesome to see them all! And it was even more awesome that Carl got to meet his family for the first time.

Family photo shoot!

On November 4, we got our family pictures taken for our Christmas cards. They turned out nice--but not as good as Michelle does! There were 112 pictures on the CD. Now the hardest part is trying to figure out which pictures I want to print and frame. There are more pictures I uploaded on facebook. Here is one picture I didn't add on facebook that I just absolutely love. Greg with Savvy:)

I don't know which family picture to use for our Christmas card. Help me.. which one?

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Maybe for the next couple of weeks I will keep adding pictures on the blog, there are just too many:)