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Saturdays in Hawaii

So Saturdays have turned into our adventure days. Its been so fun to explore the island and see all the amazing stuff you can find when you take a minute to look (especially on an island :)This last Saturday we headed up north shore to see what we could find. We got to sharks cove and it looked so beautiful but the waves in the cove part were way to big to snorkel SO we decided to explore the tide pool area instead. I was so excited because when I lived in California we used to go explore tide pools ALL the time! As you can see above it really just looks like shallow water with a bunch of random rocks spread all over, but we found the coolest stuff!

Heres Alex right as the exploring began.

This is the sweetest picture EVER! We were walking through the tide pools and there was a little underwater tornado thingy (not sure what they're called??) The water is too shallow to snorkel, so in order to get a picture I just took the camera, stuck it under the water and snapped some pictures. This first one is awesome because I caught the little funnel, plus the state fish of hawaii (the yellow fish on the left) PLUS there is a whole school of silver fish in the very background if you look close! It turned out awesome, its so cool to see what different things look like from an underwater view!

The very start of the funnel

So we climbed up these rocks to check out the ocean on the other side and discovered a bunch more unexplored little tide pools. This one was so cool, there were all sorts of different colored corals with poka dots and strips and all sorts of things! This video is a product of just discovering that our underwater camera takes videos and the fact that pictures didn't do it any justice! (sorry if it makes you dizzy, still gettin the hang of the video thing :)

Bowling with The THOMPSONS!

Here is my Mom and Dad and my little sister Abby at the bowling alley! Dont let these pictures fool you, my family is ALWAYS in sweats and t-shirts but we had just taken family pictures so we're all extremely "dressed up" as far as Thompson standards go :)

This is my niece Avery. Can you guess what shes doing??? Cheering for her Daddy of course!

This is my 15 year old sister Sexy Lexi. Yes boys, she'll be 16 soon so get on the waiting list!

Oh ya, Daddy-O in action

My oldest sister Andi with Avery. Avery bowled "ALL BY HERSELF" in case you were wondering haha, and dont you forget it!

My amazing family, well at least part of them. There's my Mom, my brother Barrett, then Lexi and Abby and Madison yelling something in the back, shes very competitive...

Here's Alex giving me my congrats hug because I BEAT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I scored a 145 baby!

She stayed by the desserts until they were gone, she DEF has Thompson blood in her

Alex showing us his form...looks good from where I'm sittin' ;)

Alex and my Mom, they pick on eachother like they're brother and sister, haha its so funny I love it!

Needless to say we had an AMAZING time with my family. We bowled, we played lasertag, we paintballed, we ate and ate and ate and ate some more, we played Wii and mostly just loved being with the most amazing family in the world!

I promise we're not dead!

Ok, I swear we're still alive over here in hawaii! We (meaning Emily, because Alex never blogs anyways) have slacked off but I promise we're coming back soon! We both just started school and jobs and things have been crazy, but mark my words friends this blog is BACK IN BUSINESS!

The Inactive Sister...

Ok just some background info on this story, I am working at a place called the Bobby Benson Center, its a rehab facility for teen addicts, and because of the nature of the job I've had to work a couple sundays in a row. We have been joking with our friends (meaning alex has been making fun of me with our friends) about how I'm inactive. Everytime he see's a relief society sister hes been saying something like "hey my wife is having a hard time going to church so if you see her invite her to come with you on sunday..." And I just smile and let it known that I'm just waiting for a nice casserole to be left at my front door to make me feel welcome...
SO a couple weeks ago we were playing games with some couples from our ward on sunday night when somebody knocked on the door. Alex got up and answered it but there was nobody there, just a thing of cookies with a note taped to the top of it. The note below reads....
"Emily-
The relief society has really missed you the last couple of sundays. We thought we'd let you know we'd really like to see you. If you would like to talk to any of us (RS presidency) about anything we are always happy to chat!! I understand we have church very early in the morning, but it really is such a blessing for you when you come EVERY sunday. Maybe a friendly Sunday morning wake-up call would help. We are always willing to help in whatever way we can. Please call us and we hope to see you soon.
Love always, the RS presidency!"

We were blown away, everyone was dying laughing because we thought, holy crap I really am the "inactive sister" in the ward. I was just happy to have cookies and we all thought that the note was hilarious. When everyone was leaving at the end of the night one of the couples, kate and tyler (who came to play games "late") let us know that it was actually them who left the cookies haha, it was pretty much the best joke ever because lets be honest, we wouldn't put it past any relief society to write that note!!!!

PS I am happy to report to all that I am now back in action and officially ACTIVE!!!
(but cookies are still welcome at my front door...)

Thanksgiving (a little late I know I know)

SO yes this post is a little late but better late then never!!
For thanksgiving this year we were obviously in hawaii and without our families. We were pretty sad at first considering its one of our favorite holidays (we both have a rather unhealthy relationship with food, hence our love of thanksgiving...) BUT thankfully we DO have family here. We discovered freshmen year four years ago that Alex's 3rd cousin Keith Pierce is a stake president here. He lives right here in Laie with his wife Deb, his daughter Hannah and her husband Dara, and Keiths dad Jack. And then his son John lives behind them with his wife Lindsey and there three BEAUTIFUL little boys. Keith and Deb are the most giving amazing people we've ever met and they invited us and three of our friends (Lauren, Steven and Clint) over for thanksgiving!!! So while the girls worked in the kitchen the boys did what? PLAY WII OF COURSE!!! :) (thats steven and dara playing wii in the picture, with Lauren laughing at them on the couch)

Who's this handsome man you ask??? Oh thats Keiths dad Jack (the one in the wheelchair) :)

Keith and Deb slaving away in there beautiful BIG kitchen. They have an amazing house (Keith designed and built it) that makes you feel like your back on the mainland, SO NICE!

And here's Hannah. This is Keiths youngest daughter who we love. She made a beautiful center piece complete with a pumpkin candle, it was awesome!!
Anyways, all in all it was an amazing thanksgiving. The food was delish, the decor was beautiful but mostly the company was amazing. We ate and talked for like 3 hours, it was so nice to just sit back and talk with family and friends that we are so thankful for. :)

what do YOU do when your bored?

Welllll I dye my hair from very blonde to very brown and scare my husband to death :)

Here are the products of our photo shoot, the only two semi serious ones of the bunch...