Today my sweet little Halle Pal turns 2, can you beleive it? Halle is my little sweetheart, she almost always obeys, not all the time, she is only 2. She loves to help her mom clean, has good manners, run "fass" and has a great reportoire of "tricks" aka jumping up and down and halfway doing a somersault. She loves to give her sisters hugs everyone morning and say "good morning Dee, good morning Bubba!" (dee is McKin and Bubba is Quincy, how she got that, no one knows) Halle just goes with the flow and is happy and kind along the way and we love her to pieces. Today also marks the end of a 3 day birthday marathon.
I thought that for this birthday I would finally attempt to make a cake. That's right, I have 3 kids and this is the first birthday cake I haven't ordered from Wal-Mart. It turned out ok, although a little cheesy, but I don't know if was worth the stress. I was really freaking out about it for a few days before, we'll see how I feel come July.
We had a party with my family at my parents house on Sunday after conference, everyone was already together and my Grandpa Kimball isn't doing well and my mom needs to be with him so we brought the party to them. Halle loved her gifts, almost as much as McKinley did. Here she is blowing out her candles with a little help from McKin.
Continuing the birthday festivities, Monday night we took the girls to Monsters vs. Aliens, which they loved and Halle actually sat and watched. Today Halle got a couple more presents and was ready to party.
Grandma and Grandpa Daw and the Dunns came over for pizza, cake, and ice cream. Here's Hall and Macki having a good time on the swing.
McKin and Camdyn thought they were pretty hot stuff in the Barbie Jeep!
It was a great couple of days. We love you Halle, don't ever change!
Waiting for the rental car Shuttle.
We stayed at the Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore in Oahu and it was amazing! It was a 4 bedroom villa with everything you could think of and best of all, here was the view from our balcony!
Me performing my Tour Director duties!
Monday we headed to Haleiwa and thanks to Misti ate at the world's best burger place Kua'Aina
We got some famous Matsumoto's Shaved ice which totally lived up to it's reputation.
We went and visited the Dole Plantation and took a train ride which was really interesting, and we had some great pineapple!
The next morning we went to Waimea Bay and did some boogie boarding, here's Chan and Marc.
so we took the sand Garrett dumped out of his pockets and buried Marc. Ha!
Chan and I on the canoe tour
Hailey, Garrett, Shannon, my Dad, and I got tricked into going on Stage and doing a polynesian dance. It was a little weird but I don't think we did too bad.
Wednesday the boys and Jill went golfing and my Mom, Whitney, Hailey and I watched the surfers at Sunset Beach, did some shopping, got more Matsumoto's and met the boys to eat once again at Misti's burger place, yes.....it was that good.
Friday morning Chan, Marc, Garrett, and Jill went on the Hawaiian Shark Encounter where the take you out 3 miles in a boat and put you in a cage in the ocean while sharks swim around you which Chan thought was awesome, but the water was so rough that he was the only one out of the 13 people on the boat that didn't throw up. I felt so bad because they all looked horrible when they got back, but they still found it in themselves to take surf lessons that afternoon. Here's Chan getting ready to surf and that's as far as I got before a wave came unexpectedly high on shore and soaked my camera but he did awesome! He stood up and rode his very first wave the whole way in. 
Saturday we packed up and went to the swap meet at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu and got a lot of great crap! Then we went and visited Pearl Harbor and the Battleship Missouri Memorial which was really cool and moving to see. The rest of the trip was great, we played a ton of games, laughed so much it hurt, and ate REALLY well. 
They were announced when they walked in as princesses and they got to design their very own crowns. Here's Baylee and McKinley working on theirs.
Saddie and Marin being creative,
and Halle needed a little assistance but loved putting her hands in the glitter glue and spreading it all around.
McKinley's finished product
Halle's finished look
Halle sat on the other side by some random, but very nice little girl who kept providing Halle with pretzels and keep her sprite "tea" refilled.
The whole time we were there, Halle kept pointing to the "Genie" who was walking around on stilts. She was fascinated by him the whole time but when I tried to get her picture with him and a "princess" helper she didn't look too happy about it.
Thanks to Jennie for keeping us filled in on the community happenings, and thanks to my wonderful friends for bringing their girls. Halle and McKin loved it! 
Dad's been giving rides, we love him! The good news is that this didn't even result in more chiropractic visits!
and since she has a summer birthday, she had her "preschool" birthday on Thursday. She was pretty pumped to bring her pink cupcakes that she helped make and decorate. She also informed me that since it was her birthday she got to pass out her treats and be the calendar girl and do the weather board, life doesn't get much better than that!
