The Rose Family: December 2008

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmas Morning!

Can I just say, "I. LOVE. CHRISTMAS!" We had a "low key" Christmas for our family. Most of my siblings were with in-laws, so it was just my parents and me and Lindy here. And none of Jacob's siblings came either, so for his family it was just him and his parents. So we just all hung out together at our house for the most part. Ky was the first one up, about 6:30, I thought I heard him. I came out and he wasn't there so I figured I must have been hearing things. I didn't notice that his "Santa" present was missing. He had taken it and ran back upstairs to play... He was so excited for it! Soon after Landon and Kennedy were up. They saw their Santa presents and played for about 45 minutes while we waited for my parents to come over and open presents. (My dad informs me that its just wrong to make them wait to open presents):) But they didn't mind. They got new Leapster games in their stockings and played those for quite a while.
When I came out Ky was so excited to show me this... Santa left a bootprint by our fireplace, which is gas.... I wonder how long till they get that there's no chimney... It was pretty cute. They were so excited by this....

Here are our stockings, which Jacob's mom has made for all of us. (And all of his siblings, spouses and grandkids!) These are one of my favorite parts of Christmas. I love these stockings so much and am so glad she, and John, have taken the time to make them.

Here is what the kids came down. Santa doesn't wrap presents at our house, so they get to come down and see them immediately and can play with them.

Kennedy's loot....

Ky got this school set (with like 100 small pieaces, ugh!) But he loves it. He has been teaching Landon all week, I've gotten many report cards. Luckily Landon is a good sport and just goes along with all of it.

Landon got a Batcave thing and then my mom got them this other castle thing. I didn't really know what they were. But they love them. We barely saw them all day, they just played and played.

Landon had gotten one of these guns for his bday from Aunt Tiff, and they both love it. So we got Ky one so they can shoot at each other. A little more fair I think!

I got this frame for my parents and put pictures in it. I thought it was so cute.

My friend did these calendars for me, for Jacob and the grandparents. I think they turned out so cute.

We had a super great day! We are so blessed and I feel so spoiled. I am so proud of my kids. We talked a few weeks before about giving up a present each and getting presents for someone else who wasn't going to get much. They did have to think about it, but they both decided that they would do that. So we went shopping and they helped pick things out. They each got only 2 presents, one from Santa and one from us. Which still seemed like a ton on Christmas morning, by the time you do grandparents and family and stuff.... but they were so excited about what they got. Its so fun to watch them.
Next is Kennedy's birthday... on the 29th! I can't believe this year is almost at an end. Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Thanks for the cards and pictures. Its so fun to see everyone's families.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

PRICELESS!!!!

Tonight we had some friends over for dinner.... It was super fun! This was a priceless moment in the kitchen after we were done eating...

No worries, we were sitting down eating dessert while they were cleaning.:) Jacob is always so good about helping out and I appreciate him so much. (He's vaccumming our room as I write this...)I don't know what I've done to deserve such a wonderful husband, but I am thankful for him every day. Love you, Babe!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Hawaii Part 2!

Here are a few more pictures of our trip. So I mentioned the flooding, right? Well, here is a picture from our condo of the neighborhood below. Can you see all of the mud and stuff? Gross huh? Actually, if you look at the picture you can see a swingset in a backyard and the slide goes right into a foot of mud. I thought it was pretty funny. My kids would've had a hay day sliding into that.... YUCK!

I also forgot to mention, I think, that somehow we lucked out and got 1st class seats on the way from Seattle to Hawaii. It was so fun. They treat you so good up there. Here are pictures of the meals they serve you. Real. Meals. With real silverware and glasses. We got a kick out of it.

I mentioned Waikiki... how different it was from our beach. Here is a picture of it, and then of us at Waikiki...

Friday, December 19, 2008

Hawaii!

We got back from Hawaii today! It was another super fun trip that we did not want to end. We are trying to figure out a way to take the kids and live there for the winter next year! I love the weather there! Even though the first part of our vacation it rained so bad! The worst rain they said they've had in over 30 years. The whole area we were in was flooded. It was crazy! Although the parking lot of our condo was fine and our beach area and stuff. So besides pouring rain the first few days and dumping a bunch of waste into the ocean so we couldn't go in the water because of sharks, it was tons of fun!
We started out on Saturday heading to the North Shore to catch the big surfing competion that was going on, which when we got there we found out had been post poned, I think because of the rain. But we had fun hanging out on the beach watching not professional surfers. On our way back we had lunch at the Grass Skirt, good recommendation Despains, thanks. We all really liked it.
This is the view from our balcony. We had this whole beach pretty much to ourselves. There were never more than a few people out there. It was awesome!

This one we were watching a whale right from our balcony. I couldn't get the picture at the right time, but he was out there, blowing water, jumping and swimming along the top of the water. SO COOL!

On Sunday, we went to church, the people were all so nice, and when we got out, the sun was out! Woo hoo! So we spent the rest of the day on the beach soaking up the rays.
On Monday, we headed back to the Northshore so Jacob could go skydiving. I think they gave him the shortest instructor possible. Check out how much taller he is. It was pretty funny. He loved it. He's done upwards of 75 jumps on his own, but he said it was so "relaxing" doing it with the tandem guy. He was just along for the ride and had no responsibility. I don't know anyone else who calls jumping out of an airplane "relaxing", but that is Jacob for you!

While Jacob was waiting for his turn to jump we headed up a few miles to where they film Lost. Ok, so this is totally cool to me. I know I'm a dork. I guess when George and Wendy drove up there a few days before, they were actually filming and had crews everywhere and they saw tons of people around. However, they had no idea what Lost was or anything so didn't know what they were looking at. When we went back, there was no one there, but we walked along the beach and stuff checking it out anywhere. So look at the pictures, all of you Lost fans, and tell me if you recognize any of it. I'm pretty sure when it rained for 3 days, they picked up camp for a while...
Here is the beach...

Now these are part of a YMCA camp thing, but don't they look like The "Others" Houses. I thought they looked awfully familiar. They are right there off the road. I don't know, was I getting too excited or do they look familiar to you?

Here are the mountains... I totally wanna go back and watch episodes and see what looks familiar...

After that and Jacob's jump we drove around the island. We stopped off at the Temple, drove by BYU Hawaii and the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Here we are at the Temple...

I thought these flowers were so pretty...

We ended the day in Honolulu. We walked around, this is City Hall, it was all decked out, and check out the Santa and Mrs. Clause. I thought they were hilarious! They were huge!

While downtown, we saw this Cinderella Carriage, so hopped in a rode around downtown. It was fun!

The next two days, Jacob and I stayed at the condo mostly. I was sick of driving around. We hung out on the beach, we scuba dived a shipwreck, which was super cool. We saw tons of whales on our scuba trip. They were so awesome! Some of them were so close. I guess the day before one jumped straight out of the water just about 20 feet in front of the boat. How cool would that have been?
We did Waikiki on Thursday before we left at 10 pm. That is a world of difference from the part of the island we were on. We went to the beach there and there were hundreds of people. On the beach, in the water, walking around. It was CRAZY! Tons of shopping, miles of every store you can think of. Little did we know parking was $4./half hour. So $40.00 later.... oops...
I'll have to get more pictures off Jacob's IPhone and from our friends. But there is our week in a nutshell. It was super fun and I can't wait to go back! Maybe Kaui next time. Or Kona, a few people have said they like that one best! Whats your favorite island?
PS-Thanks so much to my sister Lindy, for watching the kids all week! They had a ton of fun!

Friday, December 5, 2008

Flirty Skirty!

So last month our "BUNKO" group decided to make these super cute aprons. (I use "'s because we haven't actually played bunko in months, but don't tell our husbands:)) I saw this apron a few months ago on a friends blog and just thought it was so cute.But I don't sew... at least not well. It was super fun though and as long as you don't look too close they don't look too bad. I was so proud of myself. I figured if I was going to make one, why not make two? They are so fun. I think my favorite part of Thanksgiving was getting to wear them all day long! They are called the "flirty skirty" and you can get the pattern online from www.theapronlady.com, I think. Anyway, I love them. Thanks Amanda for modeling them with me!