James' Birthday

Audra surprised James with a big party.  Russ and Emily came from Yakima and Russ took him out to lunch while we all converged on the house.

Jeffrey and Jennifer's Wedding

Jeffrey and Jennifer's Wedding

December 28, 2012

 Jim took pictures at the temple after the ceremony.  While we were waiting for the prints to be developed at Costco we meet Laura's family and Dustin at a Chinese buffet.  Kendra is enjoying an orange slice and Carter is enjoying a cream puff.

Kendra found Laura's big pooh bear later that week.  Laura's family left early New Years day and Dustin left later that afternoon for Kuna, Idaho.  Lexie's birthday is January 2nd.  Dustin surprised her by showing up on her birthday.  He is spending the weekend with her and will head for school at BYU-I on Sunday.

Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012

 James Micheal and Makayla come to visit Grandma early.  They arrived Wednesday afternoon and James Micheal insisted on going sledding and making a candy train.  If you look closely you will see a big scrap on his face from his sledding experience on great grandma's hill.

 The rest of the crew arrived Friday and John came Saturday.  The boys helped Jim get the railing up and went sledding up on the mountain.  Sunday they all made candy trains.

 Christmas eve Dustin put on Laura's footy pajamas and modeled them for the family.  Audra also wore some footy pajamas.  The whole Divis clan came over for dinner on Christmas eve, there were 59 of us.  Then we all went to Grandma and Grandpa's for the Christmas story and presents.  We returned home later that night and exchanged gifts with all the siblings. Trissa, John and Gavin left for Spokane after that so they could make their flight home early Christmas morning.

 Christmas morning we opened gifts and enjoyed being together.

 Jim and I received Macadamia Nuts from my parents.

 Jim and I received a blog book from Craig and Laura

 Jim and I received a blanket from James and Audra

 Laura made me this plaque

Laura made this sign for Dad.

The Railing

James' Family came for the weekend

Jordan brought James Micheal, Makayla and Evan to Colville Friday afternoon.  We all went to our ward Harvest dinner.  They had Halloween games for the children.  When we returned home James and the rest of the family were there waiting for us.  Saturday Jordan, James and James Micheal helped Jim with the banisters.  James Micheal enjoyed being out with the big guys.  They returned home Saturday evening in time for their ward Halloween party.

 James Micheal by the plainer

James Micheal in the panorama view

Jordan's Family came for the weekend

Jordan, Mariah and Della came up this weekend.  Jordan dug out a spigot and put in a new one for dad.  We picked apples on Saturday too.  Dad got hit right in the nose with an apple when he was putting the ladder up. We are making apple cider this afternoon.  Life is busy with school work and lesson preparations.  Dad took the week off work and is making the banister for the great room.  The weather has gotten cold.  It has frozen the last couple of nights.

 Mariah posing for the camera. Jordan trying out his new iphone camera feature.

 Jordan made pizza for dinner.

Picking Apples

Family Trip to Hawaii

We planned on flying to Hawaii on Tuesday morning but we received a phone call Saturday morning from Trissa informing us there were only 2 seats available that day and there were 36 seats available Sunday.  So were hurried and packed and left for Seattle Saturday afternoon.  We took both of our cars, James, Jordan, Mariah and Dustin went in one car and Jim and I in the other.  We spent the night at Dave's in Puyallup and then went to the airport Sunday morning.  Dave and Annette came with us and had 2 of their children drive the cars home.  All 8 of us got on the flight to Kauai and some of us got to sit together. Flying standby is always an adventure.  We arrived in Kauai and rented a car.  We all could not fit in it so they took 5 and then came back for the other 3.  We rented a house in Poipu and were very lucky it was available 2 days early.

Monday morning we went to the beach to watch the sunrise and most went out in the ocean. We came home and changed and then headed for Lihue to go shopping and get Dave's rental car. That afternoon we headed to the beach again to go snorkeling.  I rented some that had magnification in the mask so I could see without my glasses.  

Monday morning at the beach

Tuesday morning we went on a Kayak trip. Our appointment was at 8:00am.  We kayaked for 2 miles and then hiked for 1 mile to a waterfall and then hiked back to the water and kayaked backed.  It was great fun. After returning we headed to the airport to pick up Laura and Carter and turn in our rental car and rent the other two we had originally scheduled.  Everyone went to the beach when we returned home and I stayed and took care of Carter.  Jim went and picked up Trissa and Gavin from the airport and they stayed with us that night.

Jim and I on the Kayak

Walking  

 Walking

 At the Waterfall

The women spent Wednesday making decorations for the wedding and I took care of Gavin.  Some played at the beach in the afternoon.  The boys took the convertible out and drove to the North Shore.

 Thursday we went to Shipwreck beach.  The boys went into the ocean and got slammed around and the rest of us went for a hike.

Shipwreck beach in background

 We walked along the cliffs

Friday was the wedding, some of us went to see a waterfall and hoped to find a way to hike down to it but with no success.  We did see pigs

After Trissa's wedding

Saturday we drove to the North shore, we stopped at this beach where there was a sand castle contest going on.  We decided not to stay and went on to Tunnels beach.

This is in the dry caves at Tunnels.  Some went to the wet caves and we all went snorkeling.  Jim got some good video.  It was the best snorkeling of the vacation.

Sunday we went to church in the morning.  Jim put the top down on the convertible on the way home from church.  

Jim driving

Carter loved it.

We drove to the West side of the Island in the afternoon. 

 We found these waterfalls on the way to the top of mountain.

Jim and I at the top.  

These are the Hawaiian grand canyons.

We stopped at a beach to watch the sunset.

Monday the Seattle crew, minus Jim and I headed to the airport.  James made it on the flight to Seattle but the rest had to fly to Oakland, California.  They spent the night at the airport and flew to Seattle at 6:30 in the morning.  Jordan and Mariah flew on to Spokane and Dustin stayed in Seattle to spend a few days with his cousins.  Laura ,Carter, Jim and I after getting the others off went to the beach for the last time.  I snorkeled with Laura and Trissa.  It was hilarious.  We then came home and Laura got packed up.  We took her to the airport for her Red-eye flight home.

Tuesday Jim and I headed to the airport in the morning and made our flight to Seattle. Jim sat in the front of the plane and I sat in the back but we were on the same plane and that is what matters most.  We arrived in  Seattle at 7:30 and Dustin and Jennifer came and picked us up.  We spent the night at Dave's and then drove home Wednesday.

Family Reunion

All of Jim's brother and his sister and their families were able to come and celebrate Dustin's return.  We had a great time together.  We played frisbee golf, miniture golf, ultimate frisbee and other games.  Most went down the Kettle river one day. 

Just before dinner Wednesday evening