Christmas is almost here!!!

And half of us are sick. I hate being sick. I hope we all feel better when family is in town next week. It should be exciting to have Ben and his girlfriend Sarah along with my parents. We'll have a big family meal with Becky and Dan with their kids. It should be great.

Odd story from our drive home...

So we decided to miss the large pass going out of Seattle due to it raining pretty hard on Saturday night. So we stop in a rest stop on the way down to Portland. We are stopped and the kids had gone out to use the restroom. I had just gone out to throw out something when some lady going in the car next to us said something...I caught something about you better not be...I got back out and said, "I excuse me?" She then proceeded to tell me that we better not be driving with our child on the front seat lap...to which I responded, in the meanest thing I could say, "mind your own business." Basically Anna was trying to change an exhausted Baby's diaper in the front seat...but Bekah didn't want it done. So she was screaming in the car and Anna had pulled her up to the front while we were sitting in the rest stop. I wanted to tell the lady to shove it...

Anyway, the ride home was terrible. We ended up stopping for the night...which was a good thing as it was apparently snowing through the passes during the night.

Thanksgiving was good...driving was terrible.

We probably won't be driving up to Washington any time soon. Holy cow that was terrible. We drove 20 plus hours going there and then again coming back. And a lot of it through snow. My body is still in tense mode while trying not to slide off the road.

Happy Birthday Rebekah!!!! We love you.

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My baby sister is old...

She turned 25 today!!! It seems like yesterday I came home from my mission to this little girl who grew like 10 inches while I was gone who was into cheerleading. Happy Birthday Julia.

go Conservatives!!!!

Great start to cutting back spending and obamacare. Please remember this day when you are voting and being pushed to be democrat lites....

So we went to two of those presentations while in Hawaii....

Given that we had six days in Hawaii, we felt we could give a few minutes of our time for a few hundred bucks. So the first one was a vacation discount club. It was kind of expensive considering you had limited discounts. Basically they bought from hotels/airlines in their less busier times in bulk, and sold them for cheap to their vacation club people. But we only considered it if it gave us good discounts to place we were already going like Canada, Montana, Washington and California. Of course it wasn't a huge discount at those places and we said no. So we paid $25 for a night cruise along the coast of Oahu. It is usually around $180 for two. Then we did the Wyndham resort timeshare presentation. This was only for $100. But it was interesting. Really expensive but interesting. Paid for some things and I still have some of the gift card...maybe $5 of it.

Anyway, that took about 4 hours of our time, but it seemed worth it. We were already going to do the cruise anyway, so it saved us $150 for the buffet cruise. It was decent food, nothing too exciting. Great view from the water and nice fireworks from one of the hotels at the end. We met a nice couple from Chicago. Both had immigrated from South Korea. Nice people. Said they were advised to stay away from the Polynesian cultural center because there was no drinking there...pretty funny as they planned away from it because they couldn't drink that day.

Haven't downloaded pictures...we have a ton from our hikes and adventures. Had some fun parasailing...it was much easier than expected and not too rocky of a ride.