Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Gaming, vacay plans & more...

My bro, Orson, little sis Penny stayed at our house last night after a long drive from Seattle. Orson is on his way to law school in Houston and Penny is along for the ride and to visit Annaliese and Addie in New Orleans. They taught me and Ryan Canasta. Ryan and Orson don’t look terribly happy in this picture seeing as how me and penny totally beat them.

We have also after months, many months actually, of researching a bunch of different places, (mostly in the carribean) and trying to decide where to go and when, we have finally planned (and bought our airfare- so its official) our vacation. Ryan’s cousin who(m?) he roomed with for a couple of years in college is moving with his wife and newborn baby to Hawaii to teach for a semester at BYU Hawaii in September. They invited us to come visit them and so we are. October 30th- Nov 6th. This is the beach house we will be staying at. Its right on the beach on the North Shore of Hawaii right by the Polynesian cultural center, 10 min from where they filmed Jurassic Park and the tv show Lost. Yea!! Its so nice to have a vacation to look forward to, I had forgotten, the last real vacation we went on was our honeymoon. I may be jumping the gun a little bit but I am already starting to shop for our trip and bought a cute dress for Hawaii.

http://www.vrbo.com/194918 - This is the link to the cool place we are staying...


Also, my sister Annaliese and Spencer and Addie were here for a couple of weeks and I thought i'd post a few pics that she didn't....





Addie has the cutest frowns.... I swear I think she likes me although this pic would suggest otherwise.


Here are Annaliese and Addie looking a little TC (too cool:))

8 comments:

Annaliese said...

Success, Diane! You finally captured that perfect frown picture. I love it! What I don't love is that bottom picture. I think I could pull off TC if I didn't look totally pregnant in that picture. I need to work out more.

Dave, Arielle, Grayson and Ashlynn said...

Oh man I am soo excited for you guys to go to Hawaii- I want to go with you:) That Beach house looks gorgeous!!! Love the Addie pics:)

Knapp Time said...

So jelous about Hawaii!!! But happy for you. You need to teach us Canasta (or however you spell it) Clint's relatives were talking about in in Canada and they love it. I am always for a game that I can beat Clint at.

Unknown said...

Looks like you guys have been busy with family. Just like those who posted before me, I am severly envious of your Hawaii trip. I want to go again! Your place there looks awesome. Can't wait to see all of your pictures and then photoshop me on your body:) j/k i'm not that talented, but if I was it would be on!

CoplanRanch said...

Did you like Canasta? I do. thanks for the pictures. I wish I could go to hawaii too.

richardbell1121 said...

well done diane and penny. although, i would have bet on orson and ryan. hawaii sounds fun

nicole said...

Ok, Addie has gotten soooo big. She looks totally different. And I'm also jealous of your Hawaii trip. Let's plan another girl's trip ASAP

Jess said...

Hey! It's fun seeing pics of you with Aimee. I can't believe how grown up we all are!! Rachele and I are trying to get together for lunch sometime soon we need to get together with you and Aimee too. Would you be interested?