Hawaii - The Big Island

Ben & I were lucky enough to spend a week in Hawaii together.  We flew my awesome sister-in-law, Liz, out from California so she could watch our boys for us.  The boys had SO much fun with Liz & their cousin, Kenly.  

Ben was working in Hawaii for a week before I was able to meet him. So here I am (above) flying to meet Ben.  My first time in first class. I tried really hard not to think flying that way was normal. I felt so spoiled!

It was fun to get to Hawaii and see Ben after not seeing him for a week!

 Above & Below is the view from our room.  Despite the clouds, it was a perfect, warm day!

My Favorite, laying out by the pool.

The first day we got there, Ben and his boss, Mike, went surfing and snorkeling, and Mike's wife, Jerilyn & I layed out at the beach, then had a spa day...massage, facial, pedicure!  Then we went to dinner with the guys at a cool restaurant by the beach in Kona.  It was a perfect day!

Our helicopter ride around The Big Island.  It was SO great!  I am so happy we were able to see the island this way. Beautiful!

After the helicopter ride, we went to Ruth's Chris for dinner. YUM!

The lava.

It's weird to think we were on a LIVE volcano!

The lava would spill right into the ocean like waterfalls...lavafalls!

Beautiful, right?

The largest waterfall in the U.S.  So awesome! (and scary, flying that close to mountains)

 Our resort from the air.

At my very first Luau. 

What a fun/perfect day.  Look at that rainbow behind us? So amazing!

Preschool & Soccer

 I know I've said this before, but Ethan has the BEST preschool teacher.

Here is his class going on a field trip to the new AWESOME fire station in Herriman.

The tour was so great, and the firemen were so amazing with the kids.

Ethan's cute indoor soccer team! 

Ethan loves soccer!

My Sister's Wedding

 My Sister's Wedding was also in December. 

Here are a few pictures to prove we were there.

Congrats to Summer & Adam!

 My new niece Eilee

 My Papa.

 I think he does like me, even though he looks thrilled in this photo.

My Momma

Siblings (the last one is still single ladies!)

p.s. I set up my final appointment for my braces today.  T minus 8 weeks!  Wahoo!

Christmas before Easter

The Magic of Christmas Morning...

 Go Packers!

 My Mom made us an awesome Packers blanket, I was pretty excited about it.

So Ben said something super embarrassing in front of my parents - I totally blushed & Liz caught it.  So funny.

 Opening our present from Kit & Lynzie and talking to them on Skype (they had to stay home in California...we missed them!)

Christmas Dinner at the Cleggs

 

Mom Clegg was pretty excited about her cute dessert table!  

She knows I love Dessert!

Merry Super-Late Christmas everyone!!

Christmas in March

So I am a little behind in posting Christmas 2012.  I figured I better get it on here before Easter...at this rate, I should just wait until the 4th of July.

We spend Christmas Eve at home with the 4 of us.  It's not because we don't like our extended family...it's because it's way more intimate & relaxing & the kids can go to bed at a decent hour before Santa comes.

The boys & Mom had a good time frosting Christmas Trees & making cookies.

 

We are lucky to have so many good people in our lives! I love Christmas Cards!

Ethan wanted Santa to Deliver a picture to his friend Luke. I was grateful that Santa only had to go a couple of streets away, and not to a different state!

The boys loved the Lego advent Calendar this year.  So cute!

Christmas Eve Jammies.  Oh how I love PJ time!

 

I love Christmas time & am always so excited for December.

Now we got January and February out of the way, we can look forward to Springtime!

Harris Sibling Dinner

 We had our annual Harris Sibling dinner, minus Kit, Lynzie, Summer & Adam.

We went to Rodizios this year.  It was delicious.  I love me some grilled Pineapple!

I love my siblings, they're too much fun. 

Don't mind me, I just had to pick food out of my dang braces before a photo--But it got snapped anyway.  (Thanks Liz)

Love Braces! 

December Happenings

 Wow, has it really been over a month since I last blogged?  

What is wrong with me?

I will just add some cute pictures then before we have Christmas overload right?

Above is the Clegg sibling dinner at Cafe Trang. Yum!  I always look forward to this annual event.  Love the Clegg siblings!

 So I have this photo turned the right direction on my computer, I don't know why it is not working on the blog.  Sorry.  We also did our annual go to Gateway for dinner, ride trax to Temple Square to see the lights, grab hot chocolate on the way back.  I LOVE this!  I always feel like this comes and goes too quickly. We went with our good friends, the Shepherds.  Can't it be Christmas (or 4th of July) forever?

 Ethan had a very special visitor come to his preschool.  He is so lucky!

 Miss Linda is the best!

 Ethan's cute Christmas tree decorating skills.

 My cute little Elf!

 My handsome Ryan at his Polar Express Day at school.  I love going to school and seeing cute Ry in action.  They are building a candy train & wearing PJ's.  Fun!

 I've been a total stress ball this week helping plan & execute the Ward Christmas Breakfast.  

My dear friend Ashlii totally lit the table cloth on fire.  She's cool like that.  Good thing she's tough, and put it out with her hands.

 Ashlii's Mother-in-law is amazing and let us borrow all of her decorations.  It came together so cute!  (Although, that silver tree above its Ethan's tree, and he was so mad I took it from his room).

 Putting up 15 tables and 130 chairs by myself is SO not fun.  But at least I am super tough now...and I also know that next time...I should ask for help.  I'll admit...listing to Michael Jackson in the church, is pretty cool.

 Ashlii did an amazing job with the hot chocolate bar.

 I totally bought those cute green trees this year, they are adorbs.

My friend Diana made THE BEST homemade syrups for the pancakes. I wish I had a picture of them...and recipes.  Oh man they were good.

It was a lot of work, but it turned out so great. And I think people had a good time (hopefully).

Merry Christmas friends!

Here is a good quote I came upon, and thought I'd share:

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity. "

-Margaret D. Nadauld