Beach Day

We decided that our first day in Hawaii was going to be a beach day.  We all needed a day to just..relax.  What a glorious day it was.  Mid 80's when at home it was 40's.  

 Look at that beautiful water

 Stu is just like a little kid..playing in the sand

 Such a beautiful day

Whoops...I was in charge of the back.  We forgot to reapply after Stu had been snorkeling.  We used the spray sunscreen.  It looks like tiger claws got him.

Hawaii...here we come

Way back in July we agreed to go with some of Stu's friends to Maui Hawaii for a week.  It seemed so far away, but boy it came up fast.  My mom was kind enough to come to our house for the week and watch Hannah so Stu and I could go by ourselves.  It was hard leaving Hannah for a week, but it was a much needed break for Stu and I and we enjoyed every minute.

As we fly into Hawaii we arrived just at sunset.  Here are some pictures I took from the plane.

Driving in Snow

I grew up in Utah and I learned how to drive in Utah, so you would think that when it snows in Reno Nevada, I would know how to drive in the snow here.  I found out later...Reno doesn't really plow the roads.  Not like Utah.  They will do the MAIN roads, but side streets-nope. You are on your own.

It snowed and I had to teach at the gym.  I figured I am out I will kill two birds with one stone.  I needed to get my labs drawn so I was just going to hit up the lab place and go home.  I was no prepared with how far away the lab place was, and on top of that when I got there...THEY WERE CLOSED.  As in permanently!!   I was sooo frustrated.  I figured there was another lab place close by so I would go there.  But as I got out onto the road, I realized I didn't and couldn't get much traction. I had to go up a small hill so I was trying to gun it so I would not start sliding backwards into the postal man (or women I found out later).  As I got to the top of the hill I was going to fast down the other side and could not slow down.  What an awful feeling knowing that your daughter is in the car and you are going to crash.  I guess the one bright side is I crashed into a pole instead of a car so the damage done was only to our car.  Hannah was so scared by this and started to cry.  The post lady stopped to make sure we were okay and we were, just spooked.  I realized that although I was out of the way of the cars, I was still in the middle of the road, and I could not back up.  I kept sliding.  I called Stu to tell him we were stuck and he came to the rescue.  A nice man that was walking by offered to help.  I asked him if he could get my car off the road.  He got in the car and Hannah started to scream bloody murder.  Not only was she in an accident and scared from that, but her mom let some stranger into the car and she was having nothing of it.  Finally this nice man did get the car un-stuck and we pulled to a side street.  I thanked him and he went on his way.  Stu finally arrived and drove the Corolla home while Hannah and I got into the SUV.
Seriously...I can't believe this happened to me.  I guess Reno welcomed me this winter by this crazy accident.  

Can you see the damage the stupid pole did.  I was only probably going 7 MPH.  Thank goodness it wasn't faster.

The lights

Hannah has become very interested in the holiday lights.  She calls them "light-zees".  So we thought it would be fun take her to see the lights at temple square.  We invited one of my BFF's and her honey and after some grub we headed to see the lights.  Now mind you they were on display the day after Thanksgiving and we went the day after that...so it was BUSY.  I think the amount of people was to much for Hannah.  We thought she would enjoy the lights, but she was mostly cranky through out the walk.  She also wanted to get her hands in the water fountains that are through out temple square.  She saw some kids put their hands in and she thought that was good enough for her. That is probably why she was cranky..cuz mom and dad would not let her play in the water.
The night was fun and it was such a delight to see Liz and Mike.

 Reeder's all bundled up

 Such a cute picture

 We got a smile from our girl

 Liz and Mike

Lights and the temple

Thanksgiving

Since it was hard for us to bring any food item to Thanksgiving dinner, we were given the 'table setting' assignment.  This was perfect because we were going to annouce our pregnency on Thanksgiving.  In keeping with our M & M tradition (we used personalized M & M's at our wedding and to announce Hannah's gender) we had M & M's made that said " #2  June 2014" that I was going to put in my turkey place card.

 Personalized M & M's

Turkey centerpieces with the M & M's inside

We found out a few days before Thanksgiving that Stu's sister was expecting her 1st baby a week after us.  We were excited to here this news and even more excited they decided to tell us a few days before Thanksgiving (they were going to do it on Thanksgiving).  That gave them their time to shine instead of sharing it with us.  

The Reeder family was excited.  Everyone seemed to know I was pregnant.  Guess when you try to hide something, someone always know.  We decided to wait till the next day to tell my family at a family dinner we had planned.  Hannah wore her new shirt we had made.

This is the shirt Hannah wore at dinner.  This is the picture we sent out to our friends after the family heard the news.

We are excited for baby #2 set to arrive the middle of June.  We have a feeling its a boy, but would be happy with a healthy baby!

Appointments Galore

With us coming home we hit up all our appointments.  We decided to keep our dentist in SLC (since you only go every 6 months) and our dermatologist (since you go once a year).  On top of that we/I had: laser appointments, hair appointment and eye lash appointment.  (No wonder we ran out of time to visit friends)

 The family at the dermatology appointment

Movies

I always associate Thanksgiving with going to the movies.  We saw 2 (yes 2!!) While we were in SLC.  Stu, myself and our moms hit up Hunger Games Catching Fire.  Awesome.  And then on Thanksgiving Day everyone (minus Mom and Dad Reeder) saw Frozen.  This was Hannah's first movie in the theater and she did awesome.  I was quite impressed!  She has since found the Frozen trailer on IMDB on the iPad and watches it over and over again.  We have already pre-ordered our copy of the movie for her when it comes out.

 Hunger Games 

Frozen