Video of my skydiving in HI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi3lHAZh92Y

Thanksgiving Hawaii 2008

We came, we sunned, we jumped (Alexa at Waeima Bay), we subbed (Submarine Atlantis), and WE JUMPED!!  Yes my mid-life crises having husband jumped out of an airplane!!  Well, actually Greg was having the mid-life crisis and just talked todd into jumping too!!  They loved it!  Aloha

PS We also had fun with Sissy and Dave, but I didnt take any pictures of them.  Hopefully Sue did!!

Thanksgiving at the Crofts

Here are some random pics from Thanksgiving at Brian and Candy's. our girls danced around with marley, while grandpa beat the drum and tim played the mandolin. grandma kay came and looked wonderful, shea did a great job carving the turkey, and afterwards candy busted out the old photo albums and everyone had a few laughs. it was a ton of fun. love, al

HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY BOY!!

Thanks Allison for getting this done on his birthday!! Thanks to everyone who called him too. We all got up on Wednesday and forgot it was Todds birthday till like NOON!! You kinda lose track of things here!! Haha happens to the best of us!! He was kinda bugged. After that we kissed his butt all day. !! He did all the things he loved!! He Golfed with his Son in the balmy Hawaiin sun, he ate all the foods he loved, and hung out with fam. He is golfing again today, so overall a good birthday!! Duh how can it not be in Hawaii!! We are having a great time! Sue and Dave made it safe and Sophie and Colin are snorkling to their hearts content. We are picking up turkey dinner at 2, so YUMMMM!! Hope everyone has a good thanksgiving. Missing you all!!

Love Mern!!

PS Mom, I forgot about the Sundance Film Festival!! I have a pass this year and it ends on Jan 15. That means I wont come to Hawaii till like the 16 or 17th. Then stay 4 weeks. I still want you to come with me if you can!! of course you can!!

PPS HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL YOU!! If Sue and I dont get the phone call in later!! Hope you all had a great thanksgiving!! I texted Brett earlier, and am missing Mom's good cooking!! Have a great day!! We have lots to be thankful for!! Love all!!

PPSS Leesy is SOOOO cute!! She looks exactly like Sue!! I know Sue says not but she does!! except she smiles ALL THE TIME!! not like Sue!! she is a very cute baby!! mmmmm makes me want one.......just kidding!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODD!!

i had to search pretty hard to find pics of todd and in the end my selection is pretty poor, but we still wish you a very happy birthday. spending your birthday in Hawaii sounds dang good right now, so we hope you are having a beautiful day. todd, we love you and appreciate everything you have done for us, especially after having you on our roof for an entire saturday. we hope you have a great vacation and a happy thanksgiving. happy birthday, t-al-tessa-claire

Lysee's New Pictures

We took some photos of Lysee for Dave's mom's birthday and thought they would be fun to post. She is growing up these days, almost crawling and sitting, and starting to eat cereal. She is the "apple of my eye." We are excited to go to Hawaii on Tuesday. Happy Thanksgiving-

SUe

This was the cutest one, but I could only do 5 pictures in the last post.  Sorry, overdose of Rawle children!!

Photos

My neighbor, Ashlee Raubach took some pictures of my kids.  They turned out really cute, she is really good.  They were way better behaved for her than they ever would have been for me.  It was a freezing cold day and they didnt even complain.  Sue, next time you are in town, we should have her do your kids.  She is really good, and cheap!!  Her blog is ashleeraubachphotography.blogspot.com if anyone is interested in seeing the rest of them.  There are some really cute shots.

Crazy Halloween

Whewww!!  What a crazy hectic week.  Between school parties, ward parties, birthday parties, and football games I am seriously partied out, plus I was a bit sick all weekend.  To top it all off I had to do a sharing time today that took all day saturday to plan and was kinda lame.  I have seen grandma C. a few times and she seems to be improving!!  Out of my four kids, only two would hold still for 30 secs for me to take their picture.  Jackson was out the door at 5:30 and we didnt see him till like 10.  Alexa has a new boyfriend that is occupying her and I hate the cold rain.  Time for bed.  Love you all

Marnie

ps.  Alexa was a cute witch and Jack was the King from Burger King.  Todd was a mullet wearing, tatoo sporting mechanic (no explanation)!!  Maybe I will make them all put their costumes back on so I can photo!!

pps.  Spiderman and Bobba Fett!!  Yeah I wouldnt know either, he is some dude from Star Wars that Colin loves.  (thanks Dave!!)  just in case you were wondering!!