Family Album

11.19.2009

Our HAWAII Trip!!!!! Then Cali! Then Halloween!!!!!!!

Here we are at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Luau, what a fun night- Morgan won a pineapple at the pineapple toss and it was so good!!!

Surf's Up!!! Morgan was in heaven getting to surf as soon as the sun came up everyday!


I took a crack at it too, it's been a while, but the waves seemed tougher than last time or I guess I'm just getting older:):)


My favorite thing was to sit on our balcony outside and just look at the amazing view!

Another view from our balcony:):)

Here we are at our hotel lobby!!!

Here we are with Morgan's Dad, brother in-law, and cute nephews at Hanama Bay to go snorkeling!!!

Getting ready to snorkel, I know we look so goofy!!!

After snorkeling, oh it was so much fun, we got to swim with two sea turtles and so many beautiful tropical fish!!!

Here we are at the original Duke's restaurant celebrating my birthday, what a fun night I loved the shrimp pasta and especially the chocolate macadamia nut pie for desert, the food is fabulous and Morgan and his dad were so cute and bought me and his mom a plumeria flower lay that smelled so sweet and beautiful!!!!

We went to church at the same tabernacle building where Morgan's great grandpa was a mission president and where his Grandma and Grandpa were married! It was so neat his Grandpa was converted by his Grandma and so they were married there and later sealed in the temple!!!

Going to Pearl Harbor! Wow, what an experience, I'm so glad we did it! I sure gained such a deeprer appreciation for what happened in our history!!! Morgan's Great Grandpa was serving as a mission president in Hawaii right there when Pearl Harbor hit!

This is the Memorial for all the soldiers who were killed! It was so incredible also to see the ship under water!!

We took a tour on the U.S.S. Missouri, wow what an amazing ship!

Oh I just want to go back right now, this is right in front of our hotel!

They had penguins right on our hotel grounds and parrots too, it felt so tropical and jungle like, I loved it!

There were flamingo's right in front of the hotel lobby too!

Our last night! It was so nice, we ate at a restaurant on the beach and they had a firework show that night at our hotel with really good Hawaiian dancers!

Well after Hawaii I spent a week with Nixon in California, it was great! Here is
Molly and I basically in her back yard (the beach, she's so lucky) it was so nice and peaceful being there. Nixon had so much fun in the sand we couldn't get him to come take a picture with us!:):)

Cute Aunt Molly with Nixon looking through the telescope! There were the neatest big pelican's that would swoop down so low, I just loved watching them!

Our little beach baby enjoying the beach at Molly's!

We had so much fun at Molly's pool! Nixon loved playing with his Uncle Dre so much! He's always asking to go play at Molly and Dre's house!

Nixon and I just couldn't get enough of the beach, here we are at Laguna!

Nixon loves building sand castles!!!

Thanks Mom and Molly!! We sure had so much fun at both of your homes and thank you so much for your sweet and special care of Nixon while we were in Hawaii!!!

Trick Or Treat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Halloween Fun!

So it was fun being Daphne, Shaggie, and our cute little Scooby Doo!!!!

We had such a good time at the neighborhood Halloween party. Here we are with Lily, Nixon's cute little piglet friend! They had hay rides, pony rides, sugar cookies to decorate, and Nixon's favorite thing was the pumpkin painting! He did such a good job and painted such a cool pumpkin!

Here we are on a Halloween hay ride!


The Adult Haunted Halloween Costume Party by The Miller's and The Randall's! So fun! Thank you guys for such an awesome night!!!

9.15.2009

Our Trip to Vegas and then a day later off to Lake Powell!!!!!

Off to Las Vegas for a fun trip with Morgan's family!!! I got a shot of a bunch of the boys eating in the airport before we boarded the plane!

Nixon holding his cute cousin Marshall's hand, we did ring around the rosies and it was so adorable!

Our little family ready to fly.

Nixon's cousin's got to sit at the front of the plane and he got to hang out with them and play a little before we took off. We sat right behind them and Grandma and Grandpa Smith and all Nixon's Aunts and Uncles were sitting all around us too so it was really fun!

We stayed at Mandalay Bay and Morgan's dad got us a cabana at the pool, which was such a nice respite from the heat, and the pools were so much fun!!!

I thought it was cute to see Morgan just relaxing for a minute in the fun cabana! We also got to go to an awesome Circe de Soliel show, Ka that night, I just love those shows!!! It was so nice of Nixon's Grandma Bonnie to watch him so we could go!

Here we are by the wave pool with Nixon and his fun Grandpa Steve, he just loved being with his Grandpa!!! You can see Nixon's cousin Marshall and Uncle Ben on the right having fun!

We took Nixon over to the mini wave pool and he loved the little waves rolling over:)

Here I am with my cute sister-in-law Heather enjoying the lazy river!

Nixon just loved the lazy river and I forgot how fun it is too, it was so nice and relaxing to just float around it!!!

Most of the family in the lazy river, what a nice day!

We got to go see the Lance Burton magic show and we also went to Serendipity's and had a frozen hot chocolate,which was really delicous I want another one right now!

Here we all are at the Bellagio buffet before the magic show, one of our favorite places to eat dinner!!!

Nixon and his wonderful grandparents, Bonnie and Steve!!! They sure did plan a fun trip for us and we had such a good time with them!!!

Oh what an adorable site! Nixon and his cute cousins: Sterling, Marshall, and Linden! Nixon just loved playing with them so much!!!

The whole family at the end of our fun trip, what a great time to all be together, thank you Bonnie and Steve we loved it!!!

Well, then a day after we got back from Vegas we went to Lake Powell- crazy, but fun:) Here we are watching the kids cliff dive!!!

Mommy and Nixon! So much fun hanging out with Nixon on one of his favorite places,"the blue boat" in Lake Powell!!!!

Morgan quickly warming Nixon with his sweet cousin Marshall in the hot tub!

We all the loved the waverunner and Nixon especially!

Getting ready to run up the sandhill!

Morgan starting from the dock, I just love watching him wakeboard he makes it look so easy:)

Swimming with Nixon, so fun!
Morgan on the kiteboard doing an air railee ( I don't know how to spell that:) but it was so awesome although a little scary like he was going to just fly away!!!!

And the wakeboarding begins, me trying as always to jump the wake!

Morgan doing his thing:)

Me, trying to be like Morgan:)

Morgan doing what he loves!!!

I was loving it too!

Nixon and Daddy so cute at the sandhill! Nixon had a blast there, it was like a dreamland for him!!!

Morgan and I having fun boarding together!

Morgan and NIXON boarding together!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nixon was so excited when daddy finally convinced me he'd be ok:) Nixon had watched everybody else and wanted to go so bad so he finally got to go:):)
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Then we all boarded together!!!!!!!!! It was so cute and Nixon just love loved it!!!! He was so cute and kept saying, " I'm surfboarding, I'm surfboarding!!!" It was just adorable! And Morgan held him so strong and did a great job despite my worries:)
Nixon and Mommy enjoying the boat, Nixon is such a boater boy and just loves it, he was smiling ear to ear the whole trip!!!!

Oh, what a cute site!!!! Nixon and his sweet Grandpa Steve, they're just best buds and Steve is such a fun Grandpa to all his grandkids! Thanks again for the nice trip, we loved it!

OK, this was one of Nixon's favorite things to do, his cousin Sterling built sand pits and Nixon just loved playing in them and it was so cute to see his cute little head peaking out of the ditches!!!

Nixon, Morgan's brother Ryan, and his son Sterling! Building, building, catching frogs, playing in the sand, it was a boys paradise!!!

Oh soooooooo cute, Nixon and his sweet cousin Marshall, they played so cute together and kept filling buckets with water and building little castles!

Just adorable, such good little buddies!!!!