Mele Kalikimaka!

Hello! There's nothing new to report, but I finally got some pictures I've been meaning to take for a while. This is at a shopping plaza in Haleiwa, just a few minutes from our house.

(Sorry it's blurry. It's hard to get sharp pictures at night.)

(That's a close-up of the lights on one of the trees.)



Hope you all have wonderful decorations to enjoy, wherever you are! Aloha!

December Update

Sorry -- we didn't take any pictures over Thanksgiving! We were invited to spend the day with a family in our ward, along with several other "orphan island" couples. We really enjoyed spending the day with a big group of people. It felt like a family! (And "Charades" rocked!)

After our trips to the mainland -- of which we also did not take any pictures -- we came back to the island, just in time to celebrate our two-year anniversary! How did we celebrate? By buying this:

Yup! Our very first car! It's a 2007 Toyota Camry LE. We LOVE it! ...Well, maybe we just love that it starts every time we go to turn it on... or that it doesn't get two flat tires in one mile... or that the engine doesn't threaten to explode every time we attempt a hill. Either way, we love it. We're so glad to have a car that we can rely on. We feel so very blessed, and are very thankful for our car.

We also went to check out Triple Crown, the World Series of surfing here on the island... but we were too late. :( It was still fun to watch people surfing. lol, Plus, Dave was able to get a T-shirt for half off, since the competition was already over. :)

This was just a pretty view we stopped to take a picture of before we left. I accidentally got a truck in one of the shots. I thought it would make an awesome ad for the car company though, lol. Dave thinks I should sell them the picture. What do you think?