Our 3rd (and final) Christmas Parade

I know it's technically after Christmas, but I figured you were all very anxious to see the photos from our last Christmas parade of the season!  This parade was in Waimea, the second closest town to us (about 20 minutes away) and the closest town with a restaurant! Daddy was also in this parade, but luckily we had lots of friends to sit with.

Of the three parades, I think Lights on Rice was my favorite!  The Waimea Christmas parade was really nice but it was a lot shorter and they started before the sun went down so some of the effects of the Christmas lights were lost. But we still had a nice time and Noah loved it and loved seeing Daddy :)

Ella Kate & Noah waiting for the parade to start

They decided to switch chairs :)

The guys before the parade

 Coloring before the parade

Aloha Santa

Enjoying a sucker and watching for Daddy

Jimmy, Daddy, Paul and PMRF's goofy holiday costumes

Daddy!!!

Melts my heart every time  <3

Tractor in lights

The parade must have had some kind of theme (which we never figured out) but this group made an Angry Birds float!

Hula dancer

Snowman Birthday Party

Maisen, one of the neighbor girls, had a snowman party for her 5th birthday and Noah had a great time with all the cute activities :-)

Making a snowman

You can see who did the real work on the snowman and who enjoyed the snacks ;)

Snowball fight Kauai style (aka with marshmallows)

Check out that arm

Noah started picking up marshmallows and running across the field away from everyone else, and I finally figured out why...he was running far away (from me) so he could eat the marshmallows!

Trying to get Mommy

The kids all lined up by age waiting for their turn to hit the pinata

Taking a whack

Waiting for the candy to fall out 

Just strolling around looking cool

This is what happens when you go down the slide when it's still wet from morning dew...

I'm not the one who took his pants off or wanted to put his shoes on without his pants-that was all Noah! But I am the one who got to walk back to our house with this kid ;-)

End of the year catch up

I am a little behind on my blog posts from 2012, so I'm going to do my best to get caught up to 2013 and into current photos in my blog posts!

Here are a hodgepodge of photos I had on my phone from December:

Big shoes to fill:

One morning, Noah decided to put on a pair of Daddy's shoes and go to work!

This is how far he made it ;-)

Noah and I were walking around the neighborhood one afternoon when we saw Daddy driving home from work.  So Noah got to hop in the truck with Daddy and cruise home :)

There is a bus stop for the kids on base right around the corner from our house.  We have never been outside when the school kids were picked up or dropped off, but one day when we were walking past it, Noah decided he need to wait for the bus!

After our stop at the bus stop, we continued on our walk/concrete mowing adventure. Noah decided to stop again, but this time it was to pick up a souvenir, haha.

We have continued to be blessed with hand-me-down toys from friends! One of our friends' ten-year-old son was cleaning out his room and decided to he was ready to give away his entire dinosaur collection, and he wanted Noah to have it :)  So we now have an overabundance of dinosaurs at our house, but Noah loves them!  

Here's a picture of the structure that came with the dinosaurs!

But they haven't completely replaced his trains :)

Noah holding up Percy for the camera

 We are blessed with lots of rainbows in Hawaii, and the other day when Noah and I were driving to Lihue we saw a full one! Unfortunately, my camera phone quality isn't the best so one end of the rainbow is kind of lost in this photo.

Noah rocking Mickey and singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" :-D

I have no idea what inspired this! (I blame it on Daddy ;)

Noah & Maisen riding trikes around the neighborhood

Noah loves cleaning his lawn mower just like Daddy and Papa

Yes, our two-year-old is sitting at a bar...they have the best milk ;-) 

We may have him at the bar, but at least we are reading to him! haha

Happy 2013

Happy New Year to all our ohana!

We kicked off the first day of 2013 with a "Holiday Hangover Brunch" at our house.  In other words, we invited our friends over for breakfast/brunch and forced them to watch the Husker bowl game!  One of the "perks" of living in Hawaii, the game started 8am! The brunch was definitely a lot more successful than the Husker game...

Later that afternoon we went to our friends' house in Kalaheo for a BBQ and some pool time.  The temperature in Kalaheo was 73 degrees and very windy! If it were up to the adults, we would not have set foot in the chilly water but clearly the kids run the show ;)

Walking to the pool

It was just a little windy...

Noah is getting really comfortable in the water, and I'm thinking by next summer we might have a swimmer on our hands!

Noah was having a blast! Daddy...not so much

Noah trying to warm Daddy up ;-)

That cement divider right there is separating the pool from the hot tub...where Mommy was, haha!

Eli, Olivia, Noah & Ely

We wish you all a blessed 2013!  And if your New Year's resolution is to visit Hawaii, our house is always open ;-)