Thank You!!

This is the view from the top of the USS Arizona Memorial. Being here really makes you so GRATEFULL for those who sacrifice their time and even their lives to defend us so that we may live in this free country.

Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween. We had two families, The Alexanders and The Guthries, over to have a spooky dinner and pumpkin carving. I really wanted to make homemade rootbeer, but they don't carry the rootbeer flavoring or dry ice in the grocery stores. I guess that you have to go to some speciality store to get the dry ice and no one that I asked had ever heard of the rootbeer flavoring. We had a good time. The pumpkin contest wasn't quite as loud as the competition that we have with the Staheli's but it was fun to bring that tradition over here with us. For Halloween night our ward had a ward party. They went all out and had a spook alley and games to play and sloppy joes. Then people decorated rooms in the church for the kids to come to and trick-or-treat. They don't just give out a couple pieces of candy almost everyone had made little treat bags with 5 or 6 pieces of candy in them to had out. It was really fun!!
Brock left on his flag football uniform. Austin was Derek Jeter, we have some big time Yankee's fans in our ward and they have adopted Austin. They gave him an extra Derek Jeter christmas ornament that they had and even ordered him a championship t-shirt. McKenna was Hannah Montana. And Alyssa wore the Belle dress. They all looked so cute!

The final product!

Everyone busy carving.

Visitors

-We were lucky enough to have Mary Esther and Howard come over and visit. We had the got to show them around the island a little and here are just a few of the pictures from our adventures. We went to the Temple Visitor Center and the new director is Mark Eubank and his wife. We felt like we knew him personally since we were able to watch him on TV giving the weather reports. We did put his weather knowledge to good use asking him what the difference in rain fall is here. St. George averages 8-9 " of rain a year and Kaneohe averages 75" of rain.

Enjoying the view from the Pali Lookout. This is our side of the Island.

Picture before the show at the PCC.
At the monument for the USS Arizona. A Battleship that was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor it still lies on the floor of the ocean. It still is the final resting place for most of the men that went down with it.

Surfing

We finally figured out how to upload this video. Brock wanted something fun so he created this video. Great video, enjoy.

Day at Bellows

This movie is about our day at Bellows (airforce base). Mckenna and Brock wanted something fun to do so they made this. Enjoy