Hawaii : Thanksgiving 2011

For Thanksgiving this last year the Taylor family was blessed enough, thanks to our wonderful parents, to spend it together (all 19 of us). It was the best trip in the world. So fun and relaxing. I am truly so so so thankful for my family...and Hawaii. Here's documentation of every step....literally, lots of pics, beware. Like it should be broken up into 3-8 posts kinda pictures, but whatever, it's all in ONE. Enjoy.

                       We found Zach and Jana                                                      Matching Buds

                                                                         Best Friends

 Feeding the "Fisshhiees"

 Two purposes Logan believes for sand: eating and putting it in your diaper

 Sweet Dean

 Emma

 The girls find a monk seal

 Hip mothers

 My guy's got a nice fanny

"Will you bury us?"

                             

 Mother's following orders

Buried

 Sand bum wedgie

  "Girlfriend"

 Talineenee

 Aunt Jana

 Adorable

 The set up

Grandpa boogie boarding with Ryls

Coley boy

                                       Jackers                                                                Zachy

 Cousins

 Mother and daughter

 Uncle Zach

 Rylee Roo...Sass

Dinner at Bubba's Burgers

 Cousin HUGS

  Deany Baby

 Dessert at Lapparts....EVERYDAY

 Logan's daily playtime photo shoots...she's a natural

 Screaming with excitement

 These two love each other. Best friend handshake in the backround of the left pic...love

 Zach and Jana

 The Taylor Boys

 My little Emma Lou...Sunglasses and a Coke Zero by the pool- Classic

 The Leavitt Family

 Thanksgiving dinner

 Thanksgiving performance by the kids (They sang us their Thanksgiving songs from school, and the songs that Jana always sings from when she was a kid/still is one :))

 The program coordinator and her biggest star

 We did a couple adventures while in Hawaii. Our favorite is/was the canal tubing adventure. You ride through the old irrigation canals and tunnels. The best. 

Crazy truck ride up to the canals

Morgan and Kaylee

 Zach and Jana

 Our part of the tubing crew

 We do what we want...when we want...where we want

Our other outing was a kayack/hike. Lil Jack and Cole joined us on this one, creating some interesting times and big muscles. It was also a bit windy, but it was so gorgeous and fun to all do it together.

 The only rest Brett would get the rest of kayacking

 I collected leaves along the way...It became a competition among a few of us, naturally, and they began to be worth money. I was rich.

 Our guide did the whole thing barefoot...of course. Curry and him were buds.

 Walking sticks necessary

 Giant vine castle in the jungle.

 "Walking trees." They just keep growing roots and moving along. Nomads, Gyspys, like us. 

Snake tree 

  Lindsey is thrilled with her husband...aka David Hasslehoff. Hey, if you bust those things out at the family waterfall hike, Imma put that crap on the internet. Your welcome. 

 "OUCH!!!"

 This waterfall was pounding at like 100 miles per hour. Painful. This seems peaceful and cool, but we were all screaming and yelling and grunting...laughing our faces off. Prob one of my fav trip moments. 

 Brett, Kelly and their boys Jack and Cole

 Lindsey and Curry

Thanks again mom and dad. We miss it! Happy Thanksgiving...I mean...

ALOHA - The Orrs

November 2011

Yeah that's right November 2011...get over it.
In November we were still getting used to Vegas and we were wrapping our head around a family wedding, parties, trips. In the begging of the month my mom and I threw the lovely Kelsey Groom Webster a shower.

Later I threw my lovely Kimbo slice a bachelorette party. Sweet little thing just doesn't love opening hose things in public so it made for a fun evening. We had a slumber party in Midway, just the few of us and I can't ever get enough of slumber parties. 

 My favorite Marissa Hick Bajingo Love

 She's embarrassed :) Love her

For our activity we made homemade ornaments for the new Orr family-to-be's Christmas tree since they'd be getting married in december. Kim's friends are all so creative so they were all adorable.

The same weekend we had our Utah family shower for Kimi. Of course I was late and forgot something and was stressed, but it wouldn't be a party with both Kim and I there if one of us didn't feel that way. It was fun for us to be together at a family party for the first time. Weird, but so fun to be there for each other, so I could be around to ease Kimi into getting to the family even better as we got to know her even better through various games and interactions. I did a newlywed type game and had Nate show up to surprise Kimi and play the game live with us. 

Grandma Wittwer and Grandma Orr

One time when Kimi was staying at my house we stayed up REAL late watching informercials (well we always watched informercials, we love 'em). Well this was when the magic bullet was first out. NO JOKE we watched the informercial for 2-3 hours one night in AWE and Wonderment, commenting and laughing about every little thing. We could act it out for you now. Well- her dream came true like mine did at my shower when I recieved it. Don't even use it really, but that's not the point of having it, or the story.

Her cute cousins and bedding.

Gorgeous couple

While playing the newlywed game Kimi would sometimes hold her face in embarrassment while Nate told stories of them. :)

Kim's family

Cross stitching from Grandma Orr (she's super talented. We have ours of the Vegas temple)

Nate's family

 

Kim's aunts and sis

The Orr women and Nater

The W.O.W cookbook is a blessing that comes into your life upon marrying into the Wittwer clan. "Words. of. Wittwer." It's really the only thing you need in the kitchen.

The Rooney girls

Aunt Vickie

Nate's mothers

And next post....the best part of November always- Thanksgiving. Which was spent in Hawaii with my family!