New BBQ

I got Elbert a Weber charcoal grill for Christmas. It's pretty awesome.

Early Birthday Present

Elbert got this picture for me for my birthday. It is of the Los Angeles Temple where we were sealed last May. It says "Hughes Family sealed 2011". I love it so much. It fit perfect right above our TV. Thanks honey. You're the best!

The Zoo with the Caudillo's

 We met our swimming friends at the zoo. The girls had fun checking out the gorillas.

Having a snack.  Thanks Yvette for the invite.

Disneyland with the Beesley's

Our friends the Beesley's moved to London last summer. We miss them so much. They were at Disneyland over Christmas break and we decided to go meet up with them at Disneyland. 

 Kaitlyn and Cami. 

 The girls

Kaitlyn and Daddy. We had so much fun.

Time with Cousins

 Kaitlyn got to spend lots of time with her cousins Josh and Jasmine. She loved it!

 They had a sleepover with us too. Kaitlyn's first one. She had so much fun.

She also got to see her other cousins Carter and Austin for a night. They had lots of fun.

Tonsils and Adenoids

 Kaitlyn had her tonsils and adenoids out Dec. 13. She loved the happy medicine.

 There are the tonsils.

 So happy!

Sleeping on the way home. Loved her chipmunk animals Daddy bought.

Christmas 2011

 Loving her new pj's.

 So exited on Christmas morning!

 Santa with the cousins. This one she said "Mom, why does his face look like Dave?" It was Dave, she's just too smart. We told her maybe Santa was Dave's cousin. She sort of bought it.

 The Air Force Santa...She said "mom, why does he have air force boots on?"

Waiting for Santa on the couch.

Picnic in the rain

It was pouring. The most rain I've ever seen in Kona in one storm. I loved it. We sat on the lanai and watched it.

Kaitlyn brought the table out and set up some cupcakes for us. It was a picnic in the rain.

Unpacking in Hawaii

Kaitlyn made sure to unpack all of the important things first.

New Blog!

Hey everyone. I have started a new blog for Kaitlyn. The address is kaitlynandjen.blogspot.com. This blog is going to be private, but if you would like to be added to the list so you can take a look send me an email at jenandkaitlyn@gmail.com and I'll send you an invite. Thanks.

Farmer's Market on Ali'i Drive

All of the fruits are grown locally. They were all so fresh. We have gone to this market almost every day that we have been here. They have these special bananas called "apple bananas". They are flatter and shorter, but they are soooo sweet. So Yummy!

Kaitlyn "helped" me pick out some little oranges for her. She dropped a peach and it went under the box behind us. Whoops.

They have oranges, mandarins, mangos, bananas, avocados, papayas, and strawberry papayas.

These are kind of like leechee nuts. They had them all hanging on the sticks still.

Harold H. Higashihara Park

For those of you that come to Park Day with the ward...I wish so bad that we had this park in La Crescenta. It was so fun and all of the equipment worked! Amazing.

Kaitlyn was so excited to find a park in hawaii. She loved it.

This was the cutest park. It had a big tree for shade and lots of different stuff to play on.

She got to swing...

And climb on this big boat. Super fun!
Anyone that goes to Kona, go to this park. It was a good one.

The plane ride to HAWAII!

For those of you that spoke with me prior to our trip, you knew that I was super nervous about Kaitlyn and the five and half hour flight to Hawaii. The good news is that she only slept for about 4 hours the night before we left. I guess that she was excited too! So, she was sooooo tired that she slept for 3 hours and some of the plane ride. This picture made me happy. On our short inter island flight Kaitlyn made a friend. His name was Eli. He was super cute and he liked to borrow Kaitlyn's books. The funny thing is that we saw him again at this really cool park that we found about 10 minutes from our hotel. That will be in my next post. Aloha from Kona.

Station Fire Updates

So, sorry, no new pics, but I'm sure you've all seen them on the news. It's so smokey that it's hard to see anything but smoke. So, we are fine. My parents were evacuated yesterday, but have been able to go back today. Everything is fine for now. Thank goodness to all of those firefighters and police who have helped to keep us safe.

New Station Fire Pics!

This is the foothill off ramp of the 2 freeway.

This is right before that offramp.

These are from my parents house.

Guacamole...mmmmmm

So Kaitlyn loves guacamole. She calls it monkey-monkey. She said last night at dinner that she wanted some. So, today we went to Chipotle to get some monkey monkey. These pics are what happens when you give an almost 3 year old a little cup of guacamole.

It was in between her eyes.

She licked it clean. We were laughing so hard.

More Fire Pics

These pics are from my parents balcony. Pretty cool!

Kaitlyn's Third Birthday Pics...a little bit early

Seriously, I have the cutest kid ever!

Kailtyn and Mommy Pictures!

Since I'm usually the one taking the pictures, I thought it would be good to get some pics of Kaitlyn and I together. And I'm tan right now, so it looks prettier. Yeah.

They turned out pretty cute.

The Station Fire...Day Two

It's getting worse, this is the hill above La Canada. This is from our front door.

One of the helicopters.

One of the airplanes.

SMOKE...

And More SMOKE!