Thanksgiving

Our thanksgiving celebrations started early this year. The Saturday before thanksgiving we flew to the Big Island and met up with Ashley and my parents. We loooved the resort and spent most of our time poolside. (it was huge, youd take a boat to your room!) We also went to south point, black sand beach, the volcano national park, went star gazing, watched hula and Polynesian dancers, hammock time and played lots of hearts.

 

turtle watching

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving day we spent in California! It was fun hanging out with the Sasines and the Hobbins and relaxing all day. I loved hanging out with my buddy Noah. 

Thanksgiving is Keith's very favorite day of the year. We truly have so very much to be grateful for. I am most especially grateful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ that binds me with family forever. I am grateful for the abundance of His love that He blesses me with daily. I love, love, love this Mormon message. I've watched it more times than I can remember. Its one of my very favorites.

"Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most."

 

 We were anxious to be back on Oahu with Lexi, Max and Jackson  again and love having family on island!!! They have been so fun. Maxs family came out for a week and they were so gracious in letting us tag along in their family funtivites. We spent a lot of time playing in the big waves and playing mafia  :)



2 years

We're sitting in the Phoenix airport lounge so I thought I'd update my blog. We are coming from Utah and headed toward Kona! This morning as we were flying out of Salt Lake, we flew into the most beautiful sunrise. Even after hundreds of flights, I'm still in awe of flying. Both of the opportunity and the reality that I'm actually on the air. I love flying!

Keith and I flew into Utah to see Kent play the 5a football state championship. We (Bingham) won! Kent and everyone played great and it was fun to bundle up and watch them play. They've officially accepted the invite to play in the first high school bowl game in Florida! So after Christmas we'll head to Florida! It'll be a blast. Even though we were only in Utah for 20 hours, it was so fun to see the family and get together with Keith's friends.

 As fun as Utah always is, we hated leaving Hawaii because the Jolleys came! Max, Alexis and Jackson came out Sunday night and we have had so much fun everyday. I have loved spending time with Jackson. He just cracks me up and is so social to everyone. When you are with Jackson you make friends everywhere you go. He loves making sand balls on the beach and giving the fist pump to anyone and everyone. It's very cute. I wish they would just move to Hawaii.

 My sweet mom came to Hawaii for a couple days! We cooked a lot and she hooked us up with so much food! Keith unfortunately had school but mom and I took daily long walks on the beach and talked all day long. We had picnics at sunset and watched the fireworks in town. We are sooo grateful for her coming out!

 Last week I also went home to Colorado for work. It was bitter cold. (Literally one degree) But it was all worth it because I got to spend time with my fam. I was able to celebrate Veterans Day with Michael and Bobby

Such handsome military men in my life.

See Kylees handbell concert

Hang out with Troy, who is getting SO big. He makes me very baby huuuungry.

 We celebrated Abs first birthday and Alexas birthday! We had a little weekend getaway in Waikiki. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory, spent the night at the Hilton Double Tree and had Malasadas for breakfast. I love celebrating.

 We went to the Kahuku state football game. They lost :( but it was still so fun to go down to the aloha stadium and watch a great game.

 We're still busy figuring out plans for dental school next year. Keith is really busy with that and work and school.  I'm so impressed with how he still figures out how to do everything. It's so fun to be his wife. Two years ago exactly- November 22,2012 in the movie theater- we decided to start dating "officially" ..like exclusively. Like, change our Facebook status from "single" to "in a relationship" haha, and that's when you know it's serious. As I think back on how I felt two years ago, that excitement and thrill of falling in love, I seriously still feel like that. And Ill tell ya, I'd fall for him over and over and over again...