Thursday, December 15, 2011

Mele Kalikimaka!

I am coming home the day after tomorrow and I couldn't be more excited!! If I can make it through tomrorow, a half day on Friday and a first grade Christmas party, I will be on a flight leaving Hawaii at 4:00 pm Friday afternoon! I can't wait to see everyone!

This week has been more than crazy and my kids have been extra extra hyper with Christmas coming but I just wanted to share a quick couple of pictures and videos from our Christmas concert we had Tuesday night. It was so much fun to see the kids all dressed in their Christmas best and singing! I absolutely love my job and the kids and families that I get to work with everyday!

Me and my kids! From left to right: Dane, Connor, Jake,Gabe, Patrick, Lucie, Eden, Brianna (front) Faith (back), Callahan, Mie, Teah.

Very hyper and excited to be at school at night!

My crazy boys!

Me and Miss Megan (their music teacher)
A little fuzzy and dakr but that's me and my festive leis. One I got from Po'okela and the other from Miss Megan. I love getting leis.


It's Christmas Time
Go Tell it on the Mountain!

Well I have to get back to packing, cleaning, planning and sleeping :) See you all soon! :)

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

St. Nicholas Day!

Well, I just finished having a little St. Nicholas Day celebration with the roomies! It was absolutely wonderful! It is feeling much more like Christmas than I expected it to being here in Hawaii. This is probably the most excited I have been for Christmas in a long time! I feel like a five year old kid again who can't wait for Christmas to get here!

I think much of that has to be with moving an ocean away from all my family! I can't wait to be home in less than two weeks and be able to see all my family and my adorable nephews who I am missing terribly! I am hoping that they love me best and only want me to play with them while I am home, otherwise my feelings will probably be terribly hurt ;)

Laura, Laurie and I all decided to jump into the holiday spirit and go all out decorating our place! Which I must say looks quite Christmassy :)We even bought a Christmas tree and put it up! But I must admit to much of my dismay it is a fake tree! (Gasp!) I feel very strongly against fake trees but since we are in Hawaii and everything dies really fast here and all three of us will be leaving in the middle of December we decided it would be smarter to get a fake tree! Of course once we had it all decorated and beautiful I immediately wanted to take pictures so I could show you all and my camera (that I bought about 4 months ago) decides to be broken! And then the camera that I brought just in case something like that were to happen ends up being broken also! It has not been a good couple of weeks for me and technology! So sorry you don't all get to enjoy how wonderful our place looks. I ended up finally borrowing a camera from someone so I could take a couple of pictures to share with you all.

Since all of us will be going back home to our families during the holidays we decided that we needed to celebrate a  roomies Christmas together before we left. So tonight we celebrated St. Nicholas Day by drawing names and getting stocking stuffers  for that person! It was a fabulous idea and we had so much fun going shopping for each other. I had Laurie's name, Laurie had Laura, and Laura had me :) We even got cute little stockings to hang on or bookshelf since no one has a fire place in Hawaii! 

As we gathered around our (fake) tree it was feeling quite cozy and Christmassy. We had our hot coco (thanks to Amy for sending it to me), and we were ready to open our stockings! Laura being the history nerd that she is, read to us the history of St. Nicholas (Love you Laura!). We then got to open all our wonderful little gifts from each other. I got some amazing things! Laura has come to know me so well :) I got THEE BEST giraffe ornament! And I even got a giraffe whisk! Try not to be jealous. It was such a fun night and I am so thankful that God has given me two amazing roommates that I get to share my time in Hawaii with!

Not the best pictures... but here is our tree and stockings!

That one is mine :)

All three ready to be opened

Yay! For presents!
Excited to open mine!
THE BEST ORNAMENT! Thanks Laura!
So cute!
Can't believe she found this!
My goodies
My pretty new nail polish I got in my stocking :)

Now that we have had a little taste of Christmas we are all now very ready and excited to come home for Christmas! Here are some things that I can't wait for:
  • Getting to hug and kiss and snuggle and play with and see my adorable nephews (can you tell I am excited to see them????)
  • Talks in person with Amy!
  • Seeing my parents!
  • Christmas morning
  • Slumber party with Sarah Ives!
  • Going to Mother's
  • Bundling up and being cozy inside while it is actually cold outside
  • Getting to meet Lily and Autumn
  • Seeing all my friends and family
  • And much much much more!
Love and miss you all! See you in 12 days!