The Wright Family visit 2011, Day 1

After a day of acclimating to Hawaii, the next day we went to the Kaneohe side of the island to check out a temple and eat at a fantastic Chinese food restaurant. I love that we have been here 3 years and we are still finding lots of new things to do.

The view out here was spectacular
Driving up to the temple

I love this one. Holding hands.

beautiful flowers in Kylee's hair, and she actually kept them in

little matchers!

ha ha Kylee running to get the birds

boy she looks happy here

the temple from the back

feeding the birds

Still holding hands after 20 years together!

A cool bell you could ring to bring happiness and blessings

Josh and Kylee feeding the Koi

Group pic, minus Grandma

In the temple

Papa, Alex and Kylee

Josh helping Kylee ring the bell

I love this picture!This is the plaque and name of the temple we went toFlags flown in remembrance of Soldiers

love Hawaii's flowers

After a long day of exploring, it was time to go home and relax.

Papa tickles

Quality Grandma time

Relaxin Lexi Lou

Hanging out with her buddy

Lexi loves that little shark. Thats my shark from when we were kids! Well...our (the family's) shark. I stole it from my mom.

Went in to check on the girls and this is how I found them. Awww :)

Alex wanted to feed Lexi. I love the look on his face!

Grandma taught Lexi how to get into the water table.

Playing with Grandma in the playhouse

I'm no longer a stay at home mom and will be traveling for work next week, so I"m really hoping I can get all of the pictures from their trip posted in the next few days. Maybe I'll have to show Josh how to do the blog :)

Lexi's 1st Birthday

Our baby Alexis Grace Engstrom turned 1 year old this past saturday. We originally planned to have a pool party, but there was a mixup at the place and we didnt have the pool reserved. So...with the help of Josh's parents we were able to shuffle everything to our house and go to a neighborhood community pool afterwards.

Josh grilling our food
My two besties at the party, Michelle and Romell. Dont worry Christy, your still my bestest Besty :)

Singing happy birthday to the birthday girl

mmm...cake. She dove right in.

picking up the whole piece

haha I love this one. Rylee loves cake so much she's using two forks!

wow that cake was good! and gone fast!

its bathtime!

time for presents! Lexi looks super interested, huh?

taking a milk break!

Daddy reading Lexi a cardthis is what you do with presents, right?

One of our friends made Lexi this, it's a strawberry shortcake headband piece. Love it!

She's so cute!

She found Papa and Grandma's gift!

boy she loved this gift!

After lunch, cake and presents a bunch of us went to a nearby pool. Here's my friend Romell and Josh roughhousing with Nico.

Me telling the boys "come get me." that was a mistake. I got double dunked!

I love this one. Their cousin Nico spitting water out perfectly.

Daddy showing Lexi how to float

Grandma and Papa. So glad they were able to come for her birthday!

Papa and Kylee playing. Papa got Kylee to jump off in the deep end and she did great!

Our friend Heather swimming with Lexi. Lexi was kicking her feet the whole time, like a little swimmer.

After dinner we had cake again. why not feed Nash, mom? he likes cake, too!

mmm...cake! Looks like she had enough, right? She's signing "more" to me.

Kylee was sleeping during cake time at Lexi's party, so later that night she had some. And had to wear her sunglasses her grandparents had just got her.

Nico asked to help give her a bath. He pretty much did all the work.

Strawberry shortcake themed party.