Finding Krissi

Next time I am complaining and a griping and basically having a temper tantrum about the weather I want you to understand why. This is a picture of my parents soon to be old house. Taken this past week.  Notice the flowers, notice the green, notice the blooms, and look of spring. It don't look like that in Utah. Just so you understand. Twelve years of California living ruined me for Utah winters.

Well if any of you have already been to Sharonda and Zaron's blog you know that we spent the last few days camping at the KOA at Bear Lake Utah.  I love Bear Lake and spent most of my childhood summers at this lake.  That is why when we thought about going camping together I worked really hard to get everybody up to Bear Lake.  We had a really good time and everyone is looking forward to doing it again next year.  We think we may have even convinced Brent to let us rent wave runners next year.  Every body say, "We love you Dad/Uncle Brent/ Sweetheart."  Well we had such a great time I thought I would give everyone out there some tips that they could use when planning their family camping trips.  #1 Choose a great location Make sure it has awesome views Day and Night #2 No matter how cute and wonderful one pre-teen girl is, put her in the same tent with a second cute and wonderful pre-teen girl and you will find your self yelling.  "GO TO BED, QUIT GIGGLING!!!" ...

On Sunday we went to Pearl Harbor.  It was one of the most moving experiences of my life.  I don't think I have ever been somewhere that you could feel the history of the place all around you.  As we stood on the U.S.S. Arizona memorial my heart was full for the men you lied beneath us.  I don't think I have felt so strongly about being American since 9 11.  I felt sad about how passive I have been about being an American and the rights we have.  I came home with whole new perspective on the election and my beliefs on who I feel should run this country. How could I look at the names of all these men almost 2000 of them without my heart feeling grateful for all that they did and the service they gave to America.   After we returned to our hotel room Brent and Sam had cooked up this little surprise for my birthday.  Our friends and Sam sang Happy Birthday to me.  It was cute for Brent to put this together and I appreciated the thought. Later that night we hit the beach of Waikiki...

A little hard to see in the small pic but if you click on it you will see that as the girls played there was a beautiful rainbow in the sky above them. There were times that while we were there that you would suddenly look up and be amazed at how beautiful Hawaii was. This picture was taken above Hanauma bay. After the girls finished playing soccer Saturday morning we headed over to this bay to try snorkeling. We were all a little skeptical and not sure if we would really enjoy it but EVERYBODY said we had to do it. I have to say it was one of the coolest things I have ever done. While you are swimming the sea life completely ignores you and just goes about doing their own thing. We saw some of the coolest fish we have ever seen. It was amazing.

Pictured above is Sam with her friend Racail.  We were outside the Bishop museum in Waikiki.  I'm not sure exactly what this guy is but they are every where you go.  I probably should find out who he is and what he stands for.  The next picture was the girls picking his nose.  Not posted because... um... gross!! One other funny fact about this picture is you will notice that the girls are wearing their soccer shorts, socks, shoes but not there shirts.  This is because the night before her coach bravely offered to wash all of the uniforms at his beach house.  Later he told the girls he didn't sign up for that kind of stink and dirty.  He told the girls he better not catch them in their shirts outside the soccer field.  Girls can be gross!!

Can you believe how blue the water is.  This is a picture of Sam with some of her team mates and a few family members.  Thursday after the soccer games were over we had the chance to go to her coaches beach house.  On the way we stopped at a famous bay where local kids jump from rocks ranging from 3-18 feet.  We considered for about 5 seconds trying it before common sense won out.  We then spent the rest of the evening enjoying, team mates, family, beach, water, and dinner.  This is the first time we saw a sea turtle who came with in 5 feet of the beach before he decided squeally girls were not his scene.  One of the moms was also brave enough to let the girls bury her in sand.  She said it was the best spa treatment she had ever had.  It was a great day with lots of laughter and great company.  Yes, we lost both soccer games but do these girls look sad.

Tuesday we left home and headed to the airport.  Much stress and anxiety went in to preparing for the airport.  New regulations on luggage left us scrabbling to find the right size of suitcase to check.  Additionally much stress was spent making sure that our suitcases were well under the 50lb limit.  Then there was the whole ordeal of going through security removing your shoes and making sure you had no more then 3oz of liquid.  Oh my gosh! Who made all these rules?  When we checked our bags I was furious that they didn't even bother weighing our bags.  I spent hours making sure it was right I wanted them to tell me it was.  I'm a little strange. After a six hour flight we arrived in Honolulu 2 hours after we left home.  Strange how the time changes work isn't?  However, this left us only 1 hour to get our rental car and make it to the stadium the girls were going to be playing at.  This was an adventure that I will spare you the details of.  Just let me tell you that a ph...

Hello Blog World.  We are back from Hawaii and we had a wonderful time.  It is one of the prettiest places I have ever been.  I did not want to come home I could have spent the entire summer being a beach bum on the beautiful island of Oahu.   Soccer news first, the games did not go as well as I would like to report a number of things contributed to the girls not doing as well as they we would have liked.  Including the heat and humidity.  Holy Cow it was humid I told Brent the driest I was for a week was when I was taking a shower.  I think it pretty much kicked the girls buts. There were other things that took place but over all the girls played hard, they played good, they supported each other, but it just didn't happen.  However, what it ultimately meant is we all had more beach time.  It was very sad and I can feel your sorrow for us. (*Note, I did not bribe Sam to loose, just in case you were thinking it.*) We had all kinds of adventures including, circling the island no less...

I am so excited for the kids to start summer vacation. Nine more days and it will finally be summer. Utah's winter seemed to never end it has really only been the last couple of days that it finally started to get warm. I swear I feel like I am frozen right to the middle. Nine more school days and it will be summer vacation. Which means warm, warm, warm summer sun. Oh and I guess it also means Sam and I will be heading to Hawaii. I guess I can endure that torture. We are excited for everything that we have planned for the summer. Right now life is busy, busy. Tomorow is the last games of AYSO soccer I am so excited, making sure four kids get to four games every Saturday has been hard. They love it and Brent and I spend Saturday trying to figure out how the heck to do it. And enjoying watching them play of course! H. and Al are also playing t-ball, and softball they are both loving it. This is H.'s first year and I just love wa...