mele kalikimaka 2012!

 We had a good Christmas in the islands, but we missed our families like crazy!  We were wishing we they were all here with us.  We woke up bright and early (not much of the sleeping-in, type, Troy), ate a yummy breakfast

(This picture was actually taken a few days ago, but it just fit so well.  Such a cute little helper!)

Opened presents, (thank you!!  All you generous people, we love you!)

Got to hang out with auntie Felicia!  

And hang out at the beach

Last night we drove up to Mauna Kea to watch the sun set and see some stars -it was cold!  And I loved it :)

We probably won't be driving our car up to that altitude again (almost 14000 ft above sea level!) or taking our baby without an oxygen tank...so it was a memory!  We definitely want to go back to the visitors center (at 9000ft), they had telescopes set up you can look through, but it was a pretty cloudy night and we couldn't see anything but the moon, which was cool anyways.

Merry Christmas!  Oh yeah, and we saw sharks, too-

We went to a Heau where they use to do human sacrifices and feed them to the sharks, whom they believed were their reincarnated ancestors.  200 years later, sharks still regularly hang out in this bay.  This guy was about 20 yards off shore!  There were four of them swimming around.  Don't worry, we did not swim here (no one does, it was considered sacred ground and is part of the national park now).  

And I have to out these videos up, for your entertainment, of course.  (Mostly I want to show off this cute kid.  He is so stinkin cute!). Troy has officially starting walking!  He took his first real steps a couple weeks ago, on my moms birthday, and today he started taking more and more.  It's a Christmas miracle!