Geocaching in the jungle

We decided to go geocaching on the last day of the year.  We drove up to Moanalua and then went on a hike in a lot of mud.  There were some ruins up by the second cache we found that were pretty cool.  When we got to the park we realized that our GPS was out of batteries and we didn't have any in the car.  Luckily we were able to find two caches using Darwin's iPhone with the geocaching app!!  very cool stuff!

The cache

At the cache location with the iPhone.

Here are some of the ruins...and Brooklin up in a tree.

This was an oven right in the middle of the "jungle"

A little stream

When you look at this it doesn't seem very impressive, until you see the family in the bottom right corner!!

A couple shots of the muddy shoes...

Merry Christmas 2010

Pictures from Santa Day!  This year for our secret service, we took the kids to the church at 10am on Christmas Eve and we cleaned it for two hours.  While we were gone, Santa stopped by and dropped off some presents!  (If you don't know about our Christmas Tradition of secret service, you can visit this post... and scroll down to where it talks about Christmas).  Darwin had to work all day on Christmas (from 6am to 9pm) so we did our service a little earlier in the day on Christmas eve.


Santa left presents all over the living room, since this year we put the trees up on the plant shelf.  (our living room is kind of tiny).  It was like a little treasure hunt to find them all.

We had two tiny trees this year and we put them up on the plant shelf along with all the snowmen.

Here is a present to London from "a barrel of monkeys"!

More loot

Caleb and his present from "dasher"

Isaiah got his very own Lego set!  He was super excited and spent the bulk of the evening putting it together all by himself! 

This is the only present I asked for... It is a wireless remote for my camera and it is awesome!

He really does enjoy posing for pictures. =)

London got her very own Lego set too.

Brooklin got a necklace from the r house couture.  It says "FAIL" on it and has a little whale charm.  She saw it and fell in love with it!  It is about Jonah and the whale...and listening to God when he tells you to do something.  If you don't want to fail...don't run away like Jonah did!

I surprised Darwin this year.  I'm not sure I've ever done that before!  (Well...except for the first year we were married.  We went to the mall and he tried on a bunch of suits, found one that fit and we bought it for him for Christmas.  On Christmas morning, he opened all his presents and the suit wasn't one of the presents.  I felt like we spent too much money, and I had taken the suit back to the store and didn't tell him...mostly because I didn't know how...but I didn't want to be in debt and we bought the suit with a credit card, so I just took it back.  I felt really bad, but I think he forgave me pretty quickly).  Anyway...I got him an iPhone 4 and was able to keep it a secret from him!  I always get so excited that I tell him what I got him...and it was so hard not to tell him, but so fun to see his face when he opened it!

This is Isaiah's face when he realized that Santa brought our family a red Wii!  He couldn't believe it!

...neither could Brooklin.  She is the one who got to open it!

and London started doing a happy dance right on the couch!

Caleb was super excited too!  He has wanted a Wii forever!

Traditional Christmas morning breakfast of strawberry waffles with whipped cream and strawberry syrup.

Caleb stuck his elbow in his whip cream...  hahaha!

mmm, mmm, mmm!

Kids Christmas Wishlists 2010

These are always kind of funny! =) ...and as always, i type what they wrote, so if something is misspelled that is just how they wrote it.

Brooklin:

1. BIG sketch pad
2. pastels
3. drawing tablet (for computer)
4. ipod (mine doesn't turnoff, pauses randomly & frequently, and have to charge it everytime I listen to it) **hmm...i wonder if that could be because it went through the washing machine....
5. good book
6. big eraser
7. ****little wooden man drawing figure****
8. inking pen (4going or drawings) **i'm not sure what this means...it was kind of hard to read, so that may not be what it said.

Caleb:

1. DS games
2. Maximum Ride #2 "Shools out forever."
3. Maximum Ride #4 "The final warning."
4. Galatic Heros
5. New ipod
6. Legos
7. Creationary
8. Candy
9. A portable CD player
10. A Wii, (preforably Red)
11. Super smash Bros. Brawl for Wii  **wouldn't it be funny if he got this, but not #10?!  hehe!
12. New shoes
13. pants
14. shirts
15. Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder
16. Mini Air Hog R/C Helicopter
17. Lego games
18. My own towl
19. My own Personuble cordloss mini alarm clock
20. An animal pillow (Penguin)
21. Mario Kart Wii
22. New Belt
23. Metal Detector
24. Book light
25. Pocket Knife

London:

1. a DS game (picross or cake mainia)
2. Ipod nano (new or old nano)
3. I touch
4. a phone
5. a book (Hunger games #3)
6. a ticket to a real football game (Boise VS Hawaii)
7. lot's of candy
8. Galactic heros
9. a new piano book
10. my own legos (I don't really care what lego set you get me)
11. a movie ticket (any apropreat movie)
12. a keyboard
13. new shoes
14. a quilt (from/made by grandma Jensen)
15. cookies
16. laptop
17. an adopted baby sister
18. a visit from cousins

Isaiah:  (London wrote his list for him and from looking at it...he was trying to get 100 things on his list and just started looking around the house and writing down things he saw.  I will mark the things from our living room in blue).

1. a DS game (my sims or sonic)
2. a nano touch
3. a Ipod touch
4. DS light
5. DS I exell
6. a phone
7. a flat screen TV
8. lego slave 1
9. Alpha and Omega **i think this is a cartoon/movie...but who knows...lol!!
10. a big bag of hershys
11. galactic heros
12. a CD player
13. a 4 wheeler
14. a motorcycle
15. a monster truck
16. a gift from blitzen
17. a pic. frame
18. head phones
19. a bluetooth
20. a shark tooth
21. bucky balls
22. a stufft animal
23. a good book
24. marbles + mashein.
25. a action figer
26. a needle sowing set
27. fabric
28. a motle boat
29. a motle plane
30. a movie ticket
31. 3 football tickets
32. Boise State helmet
33. a "we mess with texis" shirt
34. a blue, soft pillow
35. a playhouse
36. a Pic. of Santa
37. a piano book
38. a clay pumpkin
39. rex costume
40. a stack of paper
41. a gift from all the reindeer
42. origami set
43. a desk
44. laptop
45. crab shell
46. a snitch
47. a catic **from the two other times he tried to spell this one and crossed it out, i think he meant cactus.
48. Dongeballs
49. a football
50. blue turf
51. 3-D book
52. spray Paint
53. a Boise State hat
54. spy gear
55. a tent
56. a wooden bowl
57. tennis racet
58. big bag of mints
59. A big bag of candy!
60. a dimond
61. speacker
62. a Jack in the box
63. picture of things that spell my name
64. 3-D glasses
65. a digetal clock
66. a glass jellyfish
67. a shirt from orgen
68. a tree
69. a chinchila
70. a bowl of fish
71. a monkey bank
72. a lamp
73. a lamp shade
74. a blue ray
75. colorful lightbulbs
76. thumb drive
77. electric pic. frame
78. sand
79. an orange thingy
80. Dragonolegy
81. something squishy
82. egyptiaonoligy 
83. a book of mormon
84. sea monsterolegy
85. remote
86. stainglass
87. hawaii name book
88. blankey
89. wooden sea turtle
90. quilt 
91. statue (minie)
92. Tivo
93. curten
94. eyetoy
95. window
96. ps2 game
97. movie
98. xbox 360
99. speackers
100. a wii
101. pringles
102. new clognes
103. pjs

London's Christmas Concert

London was part of a children's choir this fall.  The kids all had to try out and they have been practicing since August for this performance.  They sang nine or ten songs at the Pearlridge Mall on Dec. 4th and then did the same performance at their school the next week.  London did a good job and had lots of fun.  Isaiah wanted to be in it too...but by the time they got to the third grade, they had enough kids so his class didn't even get to try out. =(  They are doing the choir thing again in the spring, so maybe he will be able to be in it this next time.