Santa Came!!!!

Santa was definatley very good to us...we were a little sad to spend Christmas all alone...6000 miles away from family...but it turned out to be a really good Christmas. It was so much fun watching the boys...Sam really got into the whole Christmas thing this year which made it so much fun! Thanks to everyone for all the presents..we appreciated it soooooo much! It always makes you feel better to get presents in the mail:)

Ride a horsey:) Silly little boys....one for each of them:)

Jack posing with all his new toys:)

Jack loved eating all the wrapping paper!

Sam justhad to have a guitar for Christmas...the only two things he asked for were a choo-choo and a guitar...

A choo-choo train for Sam and a farm for Jack...boy these two must have been good little boys this year!!! Santa sure has gotten his money's worth from these two toys...Sam is obsessed with his train...the only thing is mommy spends at least 2 hours of her day putting the train back together because Jack loves to come up to the train and "wing" it on the floor...ahhhhhh! I think at this point I could probably put it together with my eyes closed!!

Sam was so excited to leave cookies for Santa and of course carrots for the reindeer...he really wanted to leave Santa a Diet Coke but I convinced him Santa would much rather have some milk:) These two sure look like trouble in this picture???

We decided to carry on the Kline tradition of Prime Rib on Christmas Eve...daddy did a wonderful job cooking it...it was sooooo good...maybe next year Jack will get to enjoy it, he gobbled down some home-made mac and cheese for his Christmas Eve meal:)

Yay!!....Our stuff is here..FINALLY!!!

After 2 long months of living with nothing our stuff finally arrived!! I was sooooo glad to see that moving truck pull up!! Sam had lots of fun helping the movers...he loved jumping in all the packing paper..look closely..he is buried in the paper:) Mommy got a little overwhelmed when the boxes kept coming and coming and the house seemed to get smaller and smaller...there was barely any path to walk through by the time they brought everything in!! At this point I don't know if it was better having an empty house or a house so full of stuff you could hardly walk through????

This room is our kitchen...I couldn't open the fridge for 2 days because there were so many boxes stacked in front...thankfully we have gotten through all the boxes since then and are now living very happily in our little "historic" home....I will post pictures soon..almost got everything in place:)

We Climbed a Mountain!!

We were very brave souls last weekend....we decided to climb a mountain with both boys!! It was actually a really great time and we had a ton of fun. The mountain is Diamond Head..it is an old volcanic crater (you can see the crater in the picture below...that is where we are parked...quite a hike to the top!) I carried Jack in the Baby Bjorn and Sam hiked all the way to the top...he made it all the way except for the last 99 stairs to the top. He was quite pooped so daddy had to carry him all the way down. We were so proud of the little guy..it was quite a hike for us let alone for his lil legs:) This is definately a must for anyone visiting!

Stairs..stairs...stairs and more stairs! Mommy and daddy were a little sore the next day after the climb!

Views from the top! (Downtown Honolulu and Waikiki Beach are in the background)

More views from the top!

99 STAIRS...these were a killer!! We definatley felt the burn on these!! Daddy wasn't smiling this big at the top:)

The Climb....there were a couple tunnels we had to go through...they were pretty dark and Sambo got a little scared so daddy had to carry him..

Jack loved the hike...he didn't make a peep the whole hike...(gotta love the finger in the nose...he discovered his nose holes this week!)

Christmas Cuties

Wishing everyone a Happy Holidays...we sure wish we could have made it home to spend the holidays with our families..it sure won't be the same without all of you:( We are looking forward to Santa visiting and seeing the boys rip into their presents...MELE KALIKIMAKA!!!

City Lights and Elmo

We took a trolley ride to downtown Honolulu to see the city lights...nothing like looking at Christmas lights when it is 80 degrees outside!! It was pretty cool to see all the lights - they go all out..we had a really great time and everyone even behaved themselves (even mommy)!!

SESAME STREET

The USO provided a free Sesame Street show on base to all military families last weekend...The boys LOVED it!! Their eyes were glued to the stage the entire show!!

Early Christmas

Sorry G-ma Vickie and G-Pa Lynn but we just couldn't resist...we HAD to open the presents!! Sam loves his Santa Buddies movie...I think we have watched it at least 10 times since we got it...Jack is even getting into it now:) They are sooooo cute in their new Christmas PJ's...Sam gets mad if he doesn't get to wear his monkey-candycane PJ's! Thanks so much for all the gifts we really appreciated it a ton!!

Thank you G-ma Janice for the cinnamon rolls!! We were so excited to get them...it sure makes it a lot easier getting up in the morning knowing there is a yummy cinnamon roll waiting for me in the kitchen!! It is pretty sad we went through all 16 of them in less than 5 days:) Jack was even able to enjoy them this time!!

Mommy loves her new jammies/comfy clothes too!!

By the way all the ugly wicker furniture is not ours...thank goodness...it is our loaner "ALOHA" furniture the base gives us to use until our stuff gets here:) Only two more days til we get our stuff..YIPEE!!! It has been a very long 2 months and we are going to be sooooo happy once we get all our stuff and are finally able to get settled again!!