While Grandma Kendra plays with Joshua, I am stealing some of the pictures loaded on her computer to make a quick post. The pictures begin with Thanksgiving at our home in Anchorage and end with our trip to Hawaii with Brad's parents. You can see how much Bethany has changed over the course of 1 month.
The kids and I traveled to SD for Christmas and the New Year. We are really enjoying our time at home with family to celebrate the holidays.
Bethany with her Great Great Aunt Lorraine.
Brad's cousin Derek made a really awesome hay bale castle for the kids... and some adults to play. We discovered some really neat tunnels and rooms in the structure. I am still picking hay out of my jacket pockets and wool hat. We all had fun!
Bethany with her present from Uncle Buddy and Aunt Julie. She loves this toy and happily plays here for a while grabbing at all the toys.
In Hawaii.
Watching for Humpback Whales
The swimming pool at the hotel. Joshua had so much fun!
Mark and Leslie helped him develop his swimming skills. He had so much fun in the pools but really preferred the hot tubs.
Grandma and Bethany, poolside.
We had to choose chairs in the shade for Bethany's sake but even so, the warm weather felt nice.
This little guy turned three! What?! I know, the time went WAY TOO FAST! We celebrated with birthday cake, a few small presents, and a video chat with daddy. Daddy got to sing Happy Birthday with us and see Joshua blow out the candles. I am so thankful for technology that allows us to share these moments over great distances.
Showing off his Humu sticker. The fish on the sticker is the state fish of HI, the Humuhumunukunukuuapuaa. Broken down, say, Humu humu nuku nuku ua pu a a. Now three times fast.
On a boat ride to see some whales. We did see some nearby the boat and even saw a baby humpback whale calf jump out of the water. It was so tiny and floppy!
Bethany watches for whales a little less actively than Joshua.
