Yesterday Ben had the day off so we went to the Pali Highway Lookout. When my parents were here they kept telling us we needed to go because it was so beautiful. I took a picture of the historical description because I thought it was cool...especially the last paragraph!

The lookout point was definitely beautiful!!!

GARAGE SALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last weekend was "baby day" in our neighborhood and everyone was selling their old baby stuff. The neighborhood didn't plan it that way but somehow it turned out to be the best garage sale day ever! My neighbor came knocking on my door Saturday morning and told me I needed to get my booty out of bed and get shopping. I begged and begged Ben to get in the car with me and drive around the neighborhood. After much resistance he agreed to drive me around and listen to me freak out at each garage sale we came to. Here is all the stuff we scored!!!

Baby swing
Ben practing fatherhood in our new umbrella stoller.
My FAVORITE purchase! This bassinet is like 5 things in one! It's a bassinet, changing table, rocker, it plays music, and vibrates. The lady who owned it still had all the new stickers on it along with the instruction manual and all!
Barely used car seat for Ben's car
Stroller / Carseat combo
Butterfly play mat....I bought this with Carrie in mind! Maybe I'll sacrifice this one and mail it to her!

As you can tell...I am a true Bell at heart. I just kept thinking how proud Aunt Barb would be of me and all my good deals! When we got back home Ben said to me, "I'm sure glad your not one of those girls that has to have brand new everything!" I'm all about a good deal! I also scored a highchair and a playpen. Here is the real kicker...I got all of this for about $100!!!

Merry Christmas Dad and Mom! This year Ben and I surprised my mom and dad with matching baby bibs to let them know that a new member to our family is on it's way! I am 3 months along and we are expecting a new baby around the 7th of July! Yea!!! The secret is finally out!!!

WARD CHRISTMAS PARTY IN HAWAII

Our ward Christmas party had a talent show and these are pics from the show.

BEN & LANDON

Everyone took a turn trying to get Landon to sleep. Ben had him for 5 seconds and he passed out. A dad in the making.

Last weekend my friend Amanda and I participated in a local craft fair. This is us in our booth modeling and showing off some of the stuff we were selling.
I made a bunch of receiving blankets bundled with matching burp clothes.
I also made some funky half aprons for cooking or crafting.
This is one of the wreaths that my friend Amanda made.
It was kind of a weird craft fair so we didn't sell very many items but we still had fun doing it. At least my mom took pitty on me and bought a bunch of the blankets off me to give away as baby presents.

I have had these window panes sitting in my parents garage and my apartment for the past 4 years or so. When our stuff arrived in Hawaii Ben took one look at those windows and said, "You seriously moved those windows here!" I responded, "YES, I seriously did!" They came out of Grandpa and Grandma Bell's house when they replaced them all and I thought they were way cool! So I finally hung them on the wall in our new place and I LOVE them!

Koa and Landon are new BFFs! Landon tugs and pulls on Koa, and Koa fights back by licking Landon to death! It's pretty entertaining to watch! Landon belongs to Karl and Amanda that we met when we first got to Hawaii. We now live right down the street from each other and do everything together. We even trade of making dinner every other night! It's awesome not to have to make dinner every night!
We are trying to make Landon learn how to crawl. Amanda and I make him practice everyday! He's getting close but he still hasn't figured out the whole coordination thing!

Here are three very good reasons why I have not updated my blog lately...

Reason Number 1:

We moved into our new place and boxes are everywhere! Take note of the snowboard...who goes snowboarding in Hawaii???

Reason Number 2:

This is our very hyper new addition to the family! He is a 4 month old Chihuahua / Fox Terrier mix will all the energy in the world!

Reason Number 3:

Our new cat that thinks he rules the house! Who are we trying to fool...he does rule the house! If he does get what he wants he bawls like a baby until he does!
So I know by know you all think we are crazy for getting a dog and a cat but I had to promise Ben he could get a cat if he would let me have a dog! It's all about compromise!!!

Saturday night we went Cosmic Bowling with some friend that are staying in the same hotel as us. There is a big bowling alley on base and our friends love to bowl so we have taken up a new hobby! BOWLING!!!

Here's Ben's showing us his awesome moves!
My new BFF Amanda and her cutie Landon!
I had a hard time focusing on the game for some strange reason? Landon is soooooo distracting!

Landon and his daddy...Karl.
Here we have a lovely picture of Ben rolling his eyes at me while I attempt to take the 50millionth picture of him!

Ben and I went to the North Shore the other day and I took some fun pictures of our adventures.




We also saw our first gecko ourside our hotel room! How fun and nasty all at the same time!

I saw these two little kids on the beach and it reminded me of something that Cody and I would have done to each other!

We finally made it to Hawaii and life is good. Our first day in Hawaii we rented a convertible and drove half way around the island. It was BEAUTIFUL. We reached the Hawaii temple just as the sun was about to set so we took a few daytime and nighttime pictures. On our drive there Ben saw a sign that said BYU Hawaii, he looked at me and said, "There is a BYU Hawaii." I just about died. How can you not know there is a BYU Hawaii. We had a good laugh.

This last picture is one of my favorites because it is the view you see when you are standing right in front of the temple. The palmtrees are all in perfect rows and the grounds are amazing. Can someone please remind me why I didn't get married here? Cody...can you please marry someone who would be okay with getting married here.

This past week I decided it was time to get a tan! Nalani, Maile, Quinn, Cannon, and I all headed to Seven Peaks for a fun filled day in the water! Maile soaked Quinn and Cannon in sunscreen and I decided it would be great fun to not put any one at all! Bad mistake!!! As you can tell I got burnt to a crisp! The best part of my burn is that you can tell I picked up Quinn towards the beginning of the day. He left a killer hand and arm print on me where the sunscreen rubbed off as I carried him across the hot cement from one pool to the next!



This is definitely the first and last time you will see me in a swimsuit on my blog! Oh wait...Hawaii is coming...nevermind! Just so you all know...my burn really is worse than it looks in these pictures! I am now covered in major blisters that are just waiting to pop!
Bye the way...we fly out Saturday to move to Hawaii!!! Life is great!

Ben and I had one last "Hoorah" in California before he had to ship out.

We went to SeaWorld in San Diego and it rocked!

The Shamu show was my favorite! I was ticked that it was so short!

Here's Shamu gearing up for a big splash to the audience!

Awww...cute little sealions!

She seriously stood on top of the whale and rode around the tank on it's head!
No one is allowed to leave Disneyland or Sea World without eating at least one churro!