Goal for the New Year - Stick this just like Danny

This is me learning a back flip over summer. I had some awesome crashes.

Jake told me I looked like a picnic blanket this day

And I like to make Baby Molly look like a Whoo from Whooville.

Most Likely To Be A Dancing Elf With Me

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

The Sandman

I had one goal in Hawaii besides get tan and it was to build a snowman out of sand, preferably with Jake inside with just his arms and face sticking out. Lets just say it ended up looking like Jabba The Hutt. So we ended up just making one down in the sand. If you didn't send us your address you missed out on the sandman, so here are some pics.

Our first attempt at a snowman.

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The Sandman

Back To The Rain

My brother Mike, spread eagle, jumping off.



Me being a wimp and jumping instead of diving like Mike

Jake

Hawaii was amazing. We all had a great time, except for everybody getting sick. I was sick on day 6. It was horrible. Day 5, 6, 7 & 8 were spent enjoying the beach, pool and sunshine.

Christmas Greetings

I need addresses so we can send you a Christmas card. Please leave your address and if you are worried about leaving it on our public blog you can send it to my email. It is rcooners@hotmail.com. And if you don't wish to get our Christmas card we don't need your address, but we will be sad.

P.S. Pics from days 5, 6,7, & 8 will have to wait until we get home.

Sicky And Sandy - Day 4

Jake cought the flu and was throwing up all night. Luckily it only last 12 hours. So far 3 down and 6 of us left to catch it. The rest of us had a great day at the beach. My dad, Case and I went body surfing as the waves were big enough. Jake took it easy today and stayed in the shade and read. Poor guy. Hopefully the wave will still be big for him tomorrow. Here are a whole bunch of pictures.


We tried to recreate a cover a surfing magazine we saw.



Jake recovering.

Case ready go.


Me ready to go.

Dad, Case and I going out to catch our waves.

Trying, but I think we missed this one.

Baby Molly

Boo For Rain - Day 3

It totally rained today. Totally sucky. But we still had a fun an relaxing day in Hawaii. I even read a whole book in one day. We went to a Flee Market and then to the town of Lahaina. It is an old historic town. We took this pictures in front of the cool banyan tree.

Here is a picture of the beach (my brothers and Baby Molly pictured) in front of our resort. Jealous yet?


P.S. Haven't got my sunglasses back yet, and Baby Molly and my brother got the 24 hour flu (violent puking) here in Hawaii.

Black Friday At The Pool - Day 2

P.S. A girl at the pool stole my sunglasses today.

A Hawaii Thanksgiving - Day 1

In honor of Danny and John


My impressive action picture I took.

My cute family and our resort in the background

One of my new goals in life is to be as cool as this mom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2mp4FZgmGM

I Hate Moving

So I was able to get out of moving most of our stuff. As long as I kept hiding in different spots and yelling "hold on a sec" I was good. Jake finally caught up to me and this is what happened.....

He put me in the truck and I was forced to go with them to unload the truck at the new place. But I was quite happy because I was more successful then I thought I was going to be.

Patience Is A Virture

We made it through our talks on the topic of patience at church today.

The Countdown Has Begun

50 days until Hawaii.

Goodbye Dear Friend

We sold the Pathfinder. I am very sad. I will miss you and good luck in your new life little Pathfinder.

I Am Obsessed.........

with these and it really is taking every bit of self-control I have not to go buy these $200 dollar boots. They are all I can think about at the moment. Maybe I should try and step outside myself and stop thinking all about me, but I can't when there are boots at Nordstroms like this. Ahhhh.

Do You Like Jake's New Truck?

Last weekend we took our bikes and drove north to Oak Harbor, which is right on the coast. Jake found a private Motocross track for us to go riding.

After riding I made Jake stop along the coast and walked down to this cool little beach. Here are lots of pictures Jenni.

Here are some videos for you too, Jenni!

Once Upon a Forest's Twisted Tales

My very talented cousin Caitlin and I ran a singing, dancing, and acting camp this summer. It was 4 weeks, three days aweek, and we had 30 kids ages 4 to 10, but most of them were 4 and 5 year olds. Caitlin wrote a cute little musical titled "Once Upon a Forest's Twisted Tales." Pretty much Little Red Riding Hood meets Mr. Mick (the big bad wolf but she doesn't know it) on her way to grandma's house. Along the way they meet all these different fairytale characters; Three Little Pigs, The Ugly Duckling, The White Rabbit, Little Bo Peep, a King, Thumblelina, Teddy Bears, and some Glowworms. In the end we all find out that The Big Bad Wolf isn't really that bad. It was a crazy four weeks and a ton of work. More work then teaching a classroom of first graders. But in the end it was all worth it, as the show was a hit. It was so stinking cute it made me want to cry. The kids were hilarious. The little boys I nanny for were actually the hit of the show. Mason (5) was the White Rabbit and had a solo, and Rowan (2) was Joe Worm and stole the show. I am a proud Nanny! A big shout out goes to my Aunt Cheryl who did all the costumes (2 for every child) and my other Aunt Shauna who did all the set design and to my husband Jake, who built the bleachers the kids sat on from free wood off craigslist