Wednesday, January 7, 2009

My 2 Part blog of over the holidays



This was the first year that we had a real tree. We always put up our, as Sione likes to call it "Charlie Brown" tree, but this year we invested in a real fake tree and finally after years of collecting ornaments I was able to display them.




Christmas was a lot of fun and most of that has to do with having LaRee in our life. Her excitement grew during the day as you will see in the pictures. It was the first day that she felt good in over a week. Bless her nose running heart!!
Here LaRee and Elmo are watching T.V. on one of the days that she didn't feel so good. Elmo gives LaRee much comfort in her times of need.





Not a real fancy fairy princess look but this is the best picture to show the whole shoe/wand package.

Our family friend Todd ( we know him from San Diego and he now lives in Dallas too) his sisters came in from Arizona for Christmas so we took the opportunity to all get together and play tourist with a trip out to The South Fork Ranch where parts of the television show "Dallas" was filmed. Our little island boy is even a fan. Sione watched the show for the year and a half that he lived in Hawaii with his Grandparents. It's hard to even slip in the word Dallas without Sione jumping in with the theme song from the show.


Let me tell you, LaRee seemed to enjoy this 2 hour adventure 100 times more then our 2 day trip to Disneyland. It was too funny to watch. She loved it. She really likes spending time with her Uncle Todd and its a ranch so she had wide open spaces to be and do as she pleased.

2 comments:

HaroldandLoretta said...

Melissa, Sione and LaRee, We love keeping in touch with what you are doing through your blog. The pictures of LaRee are soooo precious. I wish I had one to hang on my refrigerator. hint hint We are doing fine. We are so thankful for our mission and the wonderful experiences we are having. Hugs to all of you. Sister and Elder Hinton

Becca said...

Oh my gosh I miss you guys like crazy. I gotta stop looking at your blog cause it just makes me lonely. Can't wait til April.