This is what I am most thankful for:

My dear sweet husband, who still makes me giggle.

My sweet family

My lovely home and neighborhood.

My dear friends (I don't have a pic of them all together so D and F will represent you all)

Our Beautiful Country

My Parents
The Big family that I have on both mine and G's side
(although this isn't all of them- just the most recent )

Halloween

This was the BEST Halloween ever!!!
Our night started at our Church's trunk-or-treat where we met up with my sister and Gordon's Aunt Carol (who just moved into our area) It's been so fun having her here! Josh and Scott are becoming quite inseparable and it's sooo lovely having Carol and K.C willing to lend a hand where ever they can...but I digress. We then headed home to catch up with the neighborhood kids for some good ol' trick-or-treating. We had about 15 kids running up and down the streets laughing & being silly all while collecting a obscene amount of candy!
After the kid's buckets were full we headed to MFF's home (my friend Farrah) for our annual Halloween party full of friends, laughs, Beatles rock band, food and a scary movie.

Like I said, the best Halloween ever!!!

Josh & Scott

Carol & Tori

Ella & V

Ian & Ryan

Oscar in action!

State Fair

Since I've blogged about my love for the State Fair before, I'll just show pic's of our adventure!

What a nice evening! Thanks to D, K and BH for coming with us!

Aloha!!!

Down town Waikiki Gordons shoes and the poolMy first time at the beach.My quesadillas were purple-the dough was made from some kind of root.This was a prince of Hawaii who was a remarkable likeness of Higgins from Magnum P.I

Me at china mans hat.
You can swim out to the island and climb/hike to the top.

This was the beach that 10 cow women was filmed at a.k.a pounders. Gordon and our friend/tour guide did go and get pounded....

I don't remember the name of this place but
I love that you can see the lava flow before it cooled.

My sweet and I on our way up to hike Mona falls.
We loved all the hiking and wished we had time for more!

Gordon and I in front of China mans hat.

Sunset beach on the North Shore (my favorite place on the island)

The top of our hike.

I don't remember the name of this place either
but the water was especially beautiful.

Chillin' at sunset beach.

The most breath taking place!
We hiked up to the East most point on the island
(it's where people whale watch in the winter).

Gordon and I had always planed to go to Hawaii for our 10 year anniversary which was this last March, but because we moved into our new home we decided not to go. Then 4 weeks ago Gordon had the opportunity to go on business and I jumped on the chance to go too...it's still our 10th year of marriage so it counts!
Gordon did have to work 1 full day and then 2 2hour days so we got a lot of holiday in!
It's still all a blur right now, maybe I should have Gordon write about it...Babe, what do you say?

A special thanks to my Mom for coming in and staying with our kids while we were gone.
We really, really appreciate it!!!!

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

Goodbye summer. Goodbye swimming all day. Goodbye pool parties. Goodbye 100 degree weather. Goodbye sun tan. Goodbye blond hair.
auf Wiedersehen, goodbye!

Back to life, back to reality

School started this week and I now have a 4th grader, 2nd grader and a kindergartner...yes 3 out of 4 kids go to school(the joy that fills my heart is indescribable)! The kid's had a fabulous 1st day. All like their teachers and all have made new friends very quickly!
This is going to be a great year, I feel it in my bones:)

My camera was acting funky for some reason...