BUBBLE BATH!

Bethany loves bubble baths! Most days she has two, one in the late morning, and one before bed. It's a nice break for mommy because she will play in the bath while I can sit in the bathroom and read /relax.

BYU and Monkey Bag

Awwww.... Bethany loves auntie Cortny so much. Here she is wearing Scott's BYU hoodie. SO CUTE! We spent the day in Springville since Ben is gone. We had a really nice time going to church with Cortny/Dave, Sheri/David/Scott. We are really looking forward to December when Bethany can go to nursery! She is so ready. I know she will love it. And I will love being able to sit peacefully through sunday school and RS!

I bought Bethany this cute monkey backpack.... it also has a harness attached so when we are out in crowds I will be able to keep ahold of her easier. She has so much energy and loves to run away so she will get chased. Its her recent favorite game. She squeels with delight when I run after her. Its fun in a park, but not exactly the game I want to be playing in downtown SLC.

The monkey was a big hit, since she LOVES Curious George. She calls him "love u george" and carried him around the house all morning.

Bethany 16 months

This is Bethany's Frog Potty! She LOVES it! Everytime mom or dad is on the toilet, Bethany comes along and sits on her frog. She even puts her bears and dolls on the potty too. She has actually gone in there herself 4 times!

Here is Ben eating breakfast before his first day of work at KPMG! woo hooo! So proud of him. Its brilliant that he can be done work and get home in less than 5 minutes. I love being so close to his office. He is in Atlanta this week for training, so Bethany and I have missed him a lot. By the way, if you didn't hear, he passed all three CPA exams he took this summer. Now he just has one to go.

HAWAII

We've just spent the last week in Maui. It has been so wonderful. HUGE THANK YOU to mom for watching Bethany for us. You are SO AMAZING and SWEET to do that. Thanks to Sheri for helping out so much too, and giving up your house for a week. Thanks to everyone else who has helped (Cortny, Dave, Scott, David, KatiAnne). Bethany loves you all so much. It has meant the world to us to be able to go on this vacation together. It has been an INCREDIBLE trip. We've had very action-packed days. We snorkeled, boogie boarded, scuba dived, and swam. Luckily we are only minimally sunburned. Last night we ate at a delicious Chinese restaurant in south Maui and then walked along the beach at sunset. Maui is beautiful.

MAUI ADVENTURES

This is exactly what we saw when we snorkeled. These turtles are AMAZING! They come really close to you as well. A few times we got scared because they swim right for you like they are going to attack! They are harmless, but because they're so big you just feel a little vulnerable. They're so beautiful! This was my favorite part of the trip.
We saw a lot of these bright yellow reef fishies. They are so bright, they really stand out even if the water is a bit murky.
This is a crater called Molokini. We took a boat out to here and snorkeled by the rock. There were a lot of tropical fishies out here and the visibility was at least 20ft in whatever direction you looked. Amazing snorkeling here.

We saw a lot of school of bright tropical fish. When we went diving we saw an octopus, shrimp, frog fish, baby shark, and turtles. It was incredible.

I thought this little guy was THE COOLEST fish ever. I saw him at the Ulua beach dive.

Magic Show

On the "Four Winds II"

This was a delicious raspberry cheesecake we had just before the magic show.

Here is the magician from the show "Warren and Anabelles" in Lahaina. The show was marvelous. He made a bowling ball appear out of nowhere. Twice. A must-see if you visit Maui.

More Maui

After the magic show, outside.

Chilling out at the beach.

Fun in Maui

Taking a break after a snorkeling hunt for turtles in the ferocious waves.

On the "Four Winds II" --a boat that took us to Molokini Crater to snorkel.

At the Nakalele Blowhole. Its more impressive in real life, the picture just doesn't capture it.

This was a path we had to walk through to get to Honolua Bay.

Maui

This was today at Po'olenalena beach in south Maui.

The black rock in West Maui. This is the first place we snorkeled, and one of the neatest. We saw all kinds of fabulous looking fish here, as well as 4 or 5 turtles.

This was at Honolua Bay. We also snorkeled here. We had to swim out to the boat you can see in the background. We also saw a sea turtle here. It was a little bit exhausting swimming all that way, it helped that we had a couple of floaty noodles.

I took this picture wednesday morning at 5.30AM from our balcony.

Getting ready for scuba lessons :) Doesn't he look adorable in his wetsuit.