Ward camp out and 4th of July.

Caylee was so done with pictures.

Our ward had a camp out Friday night before the 4th. The camping was so pretty and it was fun. That night we had dinner and a camp fire and all that. The next day we eat and packed up tints and things and then went fishing in a little lake, they had poles for us to use from the camping office. It was fun I don't like to fish but I had a good time, didn't get a fish. The fish knew how to eat around the hook. Gabe got one, they were all little fish. Adeleah had fun eating the bread that we used for the fish. We finished it off with lunch. It was a good ward camp out. I love this ward!

For the 4th of July we didn't really do much. Most of the day we worked on things that needed done at home. That afternoon we took the girls to see Kung Fu Panda 2, pretty funny. Then we come home and watched to fireworks from on top of the house, then we were bad and let Adeleah play with the few sparklers that we had left from something else. It was a fun 4th of July weekend together as a family.

Caylee 7 months...

Aunt Courtney and Caylee

Sisters

Caylee is such a wonderful baby and I still can't believe she is getting so close to being one already, where is the time going? She is still a little baby and so it is hard to think she is 7 months but if you see her move around you would think she is older. Caylee is still a mommas girl but I think it is getting better, she will go to people now without crying right away. She cut her two top teeth right at 7 months and she likes to use those 4 teeth. Sometimes I feel like we have a little puppy with all the biting, and don't let her get paper of any kind she will eat it faster then you can get to it. She started saying dada just in time for Fathers Day, which was a nice gift for daddy. And oh the smiles she gives, I love her smile and she loves to give them (well to daddy, mommy, and sissy), anyone else has to work a little for them. She loves bath time and likes to take them with her sister because they love to splash together. I am so thankful for my two wonderful girls and love them so much, but man are they growing up too fast.

Courtneys visit

Gabe's sister Courtney and her family come for a week visit. It was so nice having them out and we had a lot of fun with them and I know they had a ton of fun.
One night we had a babysitter and the four of us went on a dinner cruise.

Played on the beach, always a good time. They stayed at one of the military beach cottages all but two nights. It was so nice because the beach was right outside the door.

Courtney and I their last night.

All of us together, love you guys!

Fathers Day!!!

These are the only pictures I have from fathers day, sorry I know but I think my head was somewhere else that day.

For Fathers Day this year I wanted to do something really nice for Gabe. He has lots of things he wants to learn or do here in hawaii and I wanted one of them to actually happen but I didn't know what he wanted more. So I finally picked one and got it all set up and actually didn't tell him:) (I am really bad with keeping things from him) So Fathers Day morning I got the card all ready and waited for him to get up (I was very excited)/I woke him up. I gave him the card and waited..... big smile! I got him a private surf lesson! He had to wait a few weeks to do it because of things going on and so I had it for July 9th. (this last sat he had it, no I have no pictures from it because the girls and I were at home for nap time. But he had a great time and I already told him we will get him a surf board for his birthday next month.) Well to go on with our day, we went to church and it was just like any other sunday or so we thought. I was in feeding the baby when Gabe come and got me because someone from the stake pres needed to meet with both of us:/ We both don't know what for and were trying to think what it could be about. We get in to the room and he starts talking to us about family and how important family is and putting them first and so on, this went on for like 10 mins, we still don't know why he needed to talk with us yet. Believe me when I say, I was about to go crazy! Finally he gets to the point of all this.....Gabe was asked to be 2nd counselor in the bishopric! We both said yes and for the rest of church we couldn't stop thinking of it and just everything that it would mean for us. Well anyway, the rest of Fathers Day went good, we called and talked to our families and told them about it, had a nice dinner and day together as a family.

And to my wonderful husband:

I love you so very much and are so thankful to have you in my life. You are a wonderful dad and a great husband. Thank you for all the hard work you do for us and for being who you are. And you are doing great in the bishopric:) I love you Gabe!!!

Something funny about when Gabe was set apart, the stake president was talking about Gabe (he wasn't the one that called him, it was one of the counselors) and how he didn't really know him but lookforward to it and all that. Well then he was talking about what the counselor told him about meeting with us. He said, "You should have seen his face!" Talking about Gabes face when he was actually asked. It was so funny and you really had to be there.