Hawaii - Oahu

 When we landed in Oahu, we went straight to Pearl Harbor. What a cool, almost sacred place.  I had tears in my eyes many times.  I blame the dang movie with Ben Affleck & the attack of course.  :-)

 U.S.S. Arizona.

In a submarine.

 Those are cots above Ben's head, where men slept! 

Horrible.

In front of the anchor from Arizona.

 On the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial with the U.S.S. Missouri in the background.

 U.S.S. Missouri

 Ben's so strong.

This was the exact spot where the Japanese formally surrendered to the U.S.A., ending WWII 

 

 We stayed at a super cute bed & breakfast on Oahu.  The couple we stayed with was SO sweet.  And they made the BEST breakfast in the morning.  Here we are (above) enjoyed our breakfast watching the waves. We totally saw a whale!

A seal came up on the beach too! The owners said they had not seen a seal on their beach for the 18 years they lived there.  We were lucky, I guess.

Driving around the Island was gorgeous!

This was my favorite beach on Oahu, Lanikai Beach. 

Watching all the sea turtles at a beach by North Shore. Amazing!

 Eating my delicious Matsumoto shaved ice, watching the sea turtles.

After we got done snorkeling at Hanauma Bay.  We saw some crazy BIG fish!

 Polynesian cultural center.

We toured the center, watched a show on the river, had a luau, and watched the Breath Of Light show at night.

 Uncovering our Pig.  Yum.

We had such a fabulous time!  I am grateful we had the opportunity to go to Hawaii!

For any of you thinking about taking a couple's vacation though, having been to Cancun & to Hawaii.  I would choose to go back to Cancun.  :-)

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!