Halloween

This year Bentley was Bam-Bam. My friend has a little girl around his age so we made their costumes out of the same "dress." The only fabric store I could find here is Fabric Mart and all they had was aloha print stuff.. not even ONE animal print! So we ended up finding a dress that worked to cut out. Aren't they adorable! We went to our ward halloween party on friday which was a lot of fun and on saturday to Ala Moana mall for trick or treating. We gave him a lolipop and he was going off the wall running around! It was hilarious! I think his favorite part was getting the helium balloon!

KONA VACATION!!!

So we took a family vacation to the Big Island this weekend and it was so amazing. One of our good friends installs home theater systems at Four Seasons resort in Kona. He had some work to finish up and invited us and some other couples we are friends with to stay the weekend and this UNREAL house. We went to Four Seasons last year with the same friends, so we were so excited to go back. It was so beautiful! We had a very relaxing weekend. We are so blessed to have made such amazing friend here in Hawaii. Michael and I also went kayaking at Captian Cook. The snorkeling was amazing, so many cool fish and we also saw a monk seal while we were in the water! I was kinda freaked out but thank goodness I was with Michael and not alone. It was hard to come back to our SMALL one bedroom apartment afterwards...


Sunset at Four Seasons

Benny Burrito

Front Door courtyard

Olya and I at the Lava fields

Family Picture (Bentley is really good at saying cheeeeze...can you tell by his smile?)

Michael and I at the Kona Temple

Bentley at the Kona temple

Captian Cook bay

Dining and Kitchen area

Pretty Sunset.. i loved the outdoor furniture too!

Family picture by infinity pool

My favorite chair.. sorry excuse me and my bathing suit

Bentley having fun at the pool

SLC

Here are some pictures of our trip to SLC. We really loved the city and were sad our time there was so short!

The Marathon...

Hello Everyone,

Here are some picture of the marathon! I'm so glad I actually did it! There were several times I was considering backing out but Mike convinced me to I should do it! It went pretty good considering I really didn't train as much as I could have.

So at 5 in the morning everyone took a bus up the canyon to the start line. I was pretty scared because I didn't know anyone at all. I ended up sitting by these 3 ladies that had run about 20 marathons! craziness. The first 14 miles were in a beautiful canyon with a river and big tree's and the last bit was down and around Logan residential areas which wasn't as interesting. The last 6 miles were very hard.

So a couple miles into the marathon I kinda had a mini freak out. # 1- I realized I forgot my running belt/pack which held my energy gel packs at the start line! #2- Also I realized that my nike plus chip which keeps track of my miles was off! So during my training I though my longest run was 18 miles but really it was probably 15 or so! #3- At about mile 8 I was trying to change my music on my iPod and I accidently shut off my workout history (not really a huge deal more annoying than anything) #4 I really wanted to see Mike along the way because I was running alone and needed some support. I guess he had stopped and waited a couple places but didn't want to miss me at the finish line so left early.

I realized a couple things from this experience relating to life.

1) When you make good goals, there will always be things that try to stand in your way of doing things.
2) When things go wrong or not exactly as you plan (which they always will) you just have to keep the end in mind and go forward!
3) Sometimes we hope for someone to aid us along our journey but some things we have to do on our own....
4) but after all you've done all you can, we can always rely on the Lord to help us.

The last 2 conference talks I listen to at the end of the race was about the atonement and about the mother who was digging in the frozen ground with a spoon to bury her child. I think by President Monson. How could I think I was in pain listening to that! Needless to say it was an overwhleming expereince to see Mike and Bentley at the finish line!

Well Hello! Hmm. I'm kind of ashamed it's been, what like 5 months since I posted last! Yikes. We are all alive and well. We really enjoyed our summer here in Canada and loved spending time with family. Wednesday we head our to Utah where I'll be attempted to run my 1st marathon on sat! Then back to Hawaii! We've missed it there so much! I'm sad, my sister Sarah was training with me but developed a bad cramp that lasted ALL the time... so instead she'll be getting an ultrasound on sat.

Just a quick update of when we've been doing, Mike's was working at his brothers landscaping company, I've been working part time at the Grey Nuns Hospital-and loved it there, and Bentley is growing up fast. He's attempting to talk with not much success.. basically he just says ..uhhh. uhhh and points to what he wants. He can say bubble, bath, ball... etc.. but not on demand. We'll work on it. He LOVES being outside and is obsessed with cars and keys! I'm looking forward to being home with him in Hawaii. Not much time right now for a detailed update but thanks to Kat for giving me a kick in the pants to finally post something! Hope all your summers went well. Wish me luck on saturday.. I'll need it!

Here are a few pictures of the last few months.... more to come next week!

Excited.

Family picture at Punchbowl

Curly haired Bentley

Visiting Daddy at school

Blowing Bubbles on the deck

Just being cool

Mike builds a huge pit for Bentley when we go to the beach.. it's great!

Bentley LOVES steering wheels.. can't you tell by his face!!

Just woke up

Playing at his friend Krew's 1st Birthday!

Taking a walk across the street

Well, I woke up at 5:30 this morning and decided I should finally do a post already! We fly out of Honolulu tonight and arrive in Canada tommorow! I'm so excited to see family and also for them to see Bentley! Plus he can play with his cousins and he is turning one soon. Just so much to be excited about. Just a quick update on the family, Mike is done school for the summer and we are moving to edmonton till the end of September (that's when fall semester starts up again) He only has 2 more semesters left! yippy! I finished working in March because my visa expired, so for a month I just go to play with Bentley at home. Bentley is growing up so fast. He is 21 pounds now, starting to walk and starting to talk just a bit. Apparently he can only say things that start with "B".. like bath, bubbles, ball, beach, etc... He is just too cute. The last couple months is has gotten the CURLIEST hair! I'm curious if it will stay like that is canada because it is so dry there. Anyways, I better go finish packing! Snow...here we come!

Bentley surfing the sand