Best New Years Ever

 We had a really awesome New Years Party - Fondue! We invited around 15-20 people over and had 2 actual fondue pots and then a pot of oil on the stove going. It was great fun! I think the best part of the evening was singing in the New Year with praises to the Lord! Amazing. So blessed to have the friends and family that we do Happy *belated* New year!

Hawaii Baby!!

 We just got back from Hawaii and WOW what an awesome trip - I can't believe the things we saw while we were there, it was awesome. It was lots of fun with family and we really spent most of our time on the beach...but I am ok with that! We saw a lot of stuff from the beach. It is Whale season in Maui right now, so there are tons of humpback whales in the area so you can sit on the beach and watch them jump and slap the water - it's pretty amazing!

Our view from the plane coming in for landing

We had a "rough" landing so the panel fell - only one though! Everyone laughed

The view from our balcony - bliss

One of the restaurant's we ate at just down the beach

 All of our bags - and Logan photo bomb

Cutie Tyler

Our room (living room area) we shared with Kyle and Leah

Fun on the beach

All 10 of us sun bathing

Evan being Evan

And our sunburns to finish

This trip was really awesome - We really love our animals and we sure got to see our fair share of them! of course it's whale season so we saw tons of whales. One of our beach days there were 2 sea turtles swimming pretty much right close to shore - they were about 4 feet away. amazing to watch! Then we went on a snorkel trip and saw a dolphin, again within 4 feet - it swam right up to our boat and was playing with it! Amazing to watch. Then Logan and I went for a walk along the beach and we came across a beached seal!! It was a hawaiin monk seal which is apparently one of the rarest seals ever. It comes to shore to rest every once in a while and can stay for up to 3 days! This one stayed for 2 and it was amazing to see. The last thing we saw which i was surprised i wasn't freaked out by - we went snorkelling on our last day and saw a shark within about 20 feet of us! It was just a reef shark so it wasn't dangerous, but it was HUGE. I would say close to 6 or 7 feet long, but it was incredible to watch.

All in all a great time! My parents are still there and they have a bunch of pictures and videos of the animals and whatnot. Once i get my hands on those, be sure that I will post them on here! :)