Aloha! Hawaii Vacation

We were able to spend a week in Hawaii and leave Grady with Amma & Papa up in Washington. We had some fun, definitely got some sun, and tried to make the most out of our time there. Here's some pictures.

Waikiki Beach was the first beach that we went to.
The next day we visited Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial. That was a neat experience. They showed us a pretty touching video before we went out to the memorial.


That same day we were able to hit up a couple of beaches on the North Shore as well as visit the Dole Plantation.







The next couple of days we did a mixture of beaches and hikes. The Beach pictures are at Kailua Beach Park. The water is nice and blue there and pretty calm. We ended that day by going to the night show at the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was cool. Worth the $10 we were able to get in for, but probably not the $50 it usually costs.






Our favorite hike was to Manoa Falls. The falls weren't all that spectacular, but the hike was beautiful. It was like walking through the jungle. We tried to get some good pictures, I'm not sure they do it justice though.




We took a lot of pictures. Here's just a few more. Thanks Amma and Papa for watching Grady. As you can see, we were pretty tired after the busy week of vacationing.

Josh's, Tash's and Heath's Oh My....

How lucky are we you ask, VERY lucky! We got to have Josh, Tash and Heath
visit us, and what is a visit without Temple Square? We had so much fun with them
and can't wait for them to move here really soon, so we can watch ANTM and The Office together! Thanks for coming guys, we love ya.

Grady's Numero Uno

We had a BASKETBALL and BASEBALL party
with YUM cake and cookies.

Thank you everyone who could come and those also
who showed there love in other ways.

He got lots of fun gifts, and only fitting for his
baseball and basketball party was his High School Musical Game.....
Just kidding, his hoop, although he does love the game too!
Can you tell he LOVES basketball?

I even got a kiss, so it must have been an ok birthday, right?

Grady's #1

Due to some complicating factors a.k.a loosing my phone!!! I wanted to let anyone who I didn't get a hold of know that we are have a birthday party/get together for Grady on Sat. the 9th. It is at my mom's house: 11030 N 5650 W in Highland from
4-6. No gifts are needed, we would just love for you to come and eat some treats and celebrate the wonderful one year mark! Love you all!

SPRINGTIME

We love springtime at our house for a couple reason, warmer weather, and a visit from Eli's family! This year we got to see Papa, Amma and Tait for a whole week and loved every second of it. We also met up with Jenny, Will, Tommy, and Connie and Frank who were visiting and went to yummy Paridise Bakery.
Along with the warmer weather, Grady finally gets to get out of the house and play, and LOVES it. He is such an outside person. He loves to play on the playground by our house. He also loves taking walks, and basketball hoops. We took a walk on Sunday and every time we passed a basketball hoop he would point at it and try to climb out of his stroller, a couple of times, if the hoop was low enough, Eli would take him over to it and let him hang on it for a couple of seconds. It made his day! Here are some pictures from the WONDERFUL spring we have had already...

I love this picture, Grady has the best Amma in the WHOLE world!

TEETH

This one's for you Amma, we finally got a picture of teeth. Only the bottom two, he now has 4 on the top, and does not like to show them off, or have us put our fingers in his mouth, imagine that. We wish they would all come in in one day. Grady is miserable when they are breaking through. Poor guy, we are almost there though.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!

No, it's not Christmas, it's MARCH MADNESS! We LOVE college basketball at our house, so we decided to share our love with our family and invite them over for a PARTY. We even dressed Max and Grady for the occasion. Grady is sporting my team and Max is sporting Eli's. We are so sad that it has to end, but are happy that Papa, Amma and Tait can share the end with us!

Brady waiting for his UCLA Bruins to play, another Pac 10 lover, YEAH!!!

Jesse eating some nummy pizza, (BYU had already played and lost, that's why no love is shown by the Y tee he usually wears)

Nikki and I


Leli and Tyson, they both look thrilled, eh??

Max and Graders.

Well, from the Slesk family HAPPY HOOPS!