The NBA season is finally here

Things about me--Tag

TV Shows I Love to Watch
1. Price is Right
2. Wheel of Fortune
3. Jeopardy
4. Family Fued
5. Press Your Luck
6. Who Wants to be a Millionare
7. reality shows
8. Watching Disney TV with Ady

Things that Happened Today
1. Got Ready for Work
2. Worked on planning our Office Retreat(Office Fued-Thanks for the Idea Patrice!)
3. Ate Tortellini for Lunch
4. Made Appt for Ady's 18 month shots
5. Worked on BYU Hawaii's Inventory list that seems to be 50% unnaccounted for!
6. Found out Disney is building a Time Share Resort on Oahu
7. Put all of Ady's clothes that are too small in a box
8. Went to the Polynesian Culture Center's Haunted Lagoon(Halloween Canoe Ride)

Favorite Places to Eat
1. FireHouse
2. Costa Vida
3. Home
4. Korean
5. Italian
6. Anything available in Laie-McD's, Pizza Hut, L&L's, Taco Bell, Hukilau Cafe-and that's it.
7. Leatherbys
8. Mexican

Things I'm Looking Forward To
1. Adam Graduating
2. Living in Hawaii until he does
3. Going to the Temple on The Big Island while Laie's closes for 18 mos. renovation
4. Going to Utah for Christmas
5. Reading the Twilight Series
6. James Bond & Harry Potter Movies
7. Office Retreat
8. Moving Sales at the end of the semester

Things on My Wish List
1. Go to every theme park available
2. Nice big vehicle that doesn't guzzle gas
3. training for my job
4. be more selfless
5. be more creative
6. Microwave that's more than 700 watts
7. Win all the games I play
8. Longer Weekends

People I Tag
(If you've never been tagged before you just use the headings and answer them for yourself in a new posting - I'm looking forward to see what your answers are:)
1. Melanie
2. Jennifer
3. Mary Ann
4. Emma
5. Rachel
6. Natalie
7. Gaby
8. Maren

Fun times with Daniel and Whitney

Well it has been a bit since we had time to post anything so I thought since I don't have any homework this weekend I'd better take a moment and tell you what kind of trouble Adyson has found lately.  So today we spent all day(all day means that I was watching college football and every commercial and halftime break) cleaning the house.  We even took down the drapes and laundered them.  When we finally finished cleaning I went to Pizza Hut and got us a pizza.  I came in, set it on the table while I put the ice cream in the freezer and when I turned around this is what I saw.  If you didn't already know Adyson loves pizza.  Especially stuffed crust pineapple just like her dad.  If you look really close you will see that because Ady is so skinny and being stretched out her pants are sliding down.  The kid is already taking her first steps into turning into a hoodlum by sagging her pants.  Don't worry mom, as soon as I took the picture I pulled her pants back up.  

Uncle Daniel and Aunt Whitney came and visited us a couple of weeks ago and we had all sorts of fun playing with them.  This is us at Haunama Bay.  We went snorkeling there one morning.  Ady loved it.  She didn't get to go and swim with the turtles and fish but she loves running around on the sand and playing in the water.  She was so excited that she wouldn't even turn around for the picture.

Just because we haven't updated the blog for a couple of weeks doesn't mean that Ady gotten into anything in that time. While Daniel and Whitney were here I was doing the dishes and I realized that it had been a few minutes since I had seen or heard Ady. So I go looking for her and this is how I found her. Apparently Whitney has an addiction to chocolate and always keeps a candy bar in her suitcase for emergencies. You know, when I was in high school we had this dog who could smell chocolate really well. In fact once during Christmas time we left him inside for a little while and he found all the packages with chocolate in them and tore them open to get at that chocolate. Ady is kinda like this. I guess she went right for this stash of Whitney's and found a little treasure. Doesn't she look cute and pleased with herself.

Ady and I took Daniel and Whitney hiking one day while Kasey was at work. Ady and I like hiking, and usually I just pack her along in the baby bjorn but this time she didn't fit the carrier and was way too heavy to carry the whole way. So I put her down which made her really happy. She climbed, and hiked on her own for a good chunk of the way.

Doesn't she look proud of herself. And yes she was filthy dirty when we got done.

Whitney wore crocs to hike in and due to the rain the trail was really muddy, so she had to have a stick cause she kept stumbling and almost fell a dozen times or so. Ady wanted a stick too. This is her stick. No worries that it is bigger than her!

We had fun taking Daniel and Whitney to many places including Waikiki. Daniel and Whitney were nice enough to watch Ady for a bit while Kasey and I went surfing. Kasey spent about an hour being frustrated and then we finally got her up on a wave. We had a lot of fun. This is all of us in front of the Duke Kahanamoku statue.

"Working Hard for a Living"

So Adyson has decided to help out with making a living.  The other day Ady and Dad came to pick Mom up from work at the end of the day like they often do.  While waiting for Mom to finish her work, Ady was outside running around and found the vending machine that she likes to push all of the buttons on.  Well, she was pushing in the door the drinks come out of and Adam noticed she was looking in at something.  Pretty soon she had her little hand down in there reaching for something back in the back under the change slot area.   And then all of a sudden she takes her hand out and she was holding a quarter, smiling and showing Dad.  Then she walked over to him and handed it over with the cutest "look what I got" face.  I guess she earned her diaper's worth that day!

A really cool birthday present

Adam's birthday just passed and I got him a couple of great presents.  A couple of months ago I bought him a Jazz hat and told him that would be his present.  But I found another present and I think I did great.  When it comes to giving presents to Adam, it's very straight forward. He would be happy to receive Legos, an old American coin, or a book. When it comes to giving me gifts I want something new and different everytime!
When it comes to getting gifts for the other...it is the exact opposite. I want to give Adam something surprising and different each time, and he would rather give me another board game everytime. This makes a bittersweet shopping experience for us. If I get what Adam wants...its not the new and different and thoughtful present from me. (but only to me...to him it is the best new lego set ever!!) Does anyone else have this dilemma, or something like it?
Even though this is just a minor dilemma for us...I think this time I found a great birthday gift this time that was new and different and it was something that Adam loves.

This is a book that I had made for Adam.  It is a collection of pictures he has taken.  For those of you who don't know, one of Adam's hobbies is photography.  These are just a couple of the pages out of the book.  There is a page for waterfalls, one for sunsets/sunrises, one for Southern Utah, a page with underwater pictures and so forth.  It is really cool.  He thought it was a great gift.  The only problem is now he shows off his pictures even more than he did before!