World Moguls Championship

About a month ago.. or more... well lets just say in January. I think... Okay one evening we went to Park City area and saw the World Moguls Championship with our friends Alex and Logan and her family. It was insane. if you don't know what I am talking about or anything go look it up on youtube. It is like flying down a mountain with a lot of bumps on skis and then doing a trick at the end and hoping not to fall. It was so cool to watch!! They were all so fast and did it so smoothly and made it look so easy, even though I know it is not! And then their tricks were cccrazy cool. flipping and twisting and turning and such. 

This is the course they come down on. 

Watching the crazies 

There were over 50,000 people there watching! Can you blame them? it was a great show. And then afterwords there were fireworks! Ah I love fireworks. so pretty and fun and such.

THEN as the 50,000 people were leaving we decided it would be best to stay and sled down the hill a few times. That was probably my favorite part. We were flying down the hill and then trying to climb back up it a bunch of times. You would go really far and fast too. How wonderful. 

If you can see it, we saw this helicopter take off from like 100 feet away. how cooool. 

This is what we were sledding down. And those lights are all of the traffic we were waiting for to leave. 

It was a great show to watch and so much fun afterwords too. Then we ended up going to Betos, aka the best mexican food ever. Honestly, it was cold but we were having so much fun I didn't even notice it after a while. Although we all got lots of snow either down the pants or in the face or somewhere where it does not belong! ha this is the part of winter that I enjoy. the fun things that you can do or that occur outside with the snow. now just walking class to class and freezing. 

What fun things have you found to do this winter??? 

Have a great week! 

love,alex&andrew 

Banzai Pipeline

 Hawaii is beautiful, if you didn't know. Everywhere you look there is beauty. You can say that about everywhere in the world but it really just jumps out at you in Hawaii. There are so many things that just take your breath away. I loved that there were flowers and greenery EVERYWHERE. I hate when its the dead of winter and nothing is alive, but in Hawaii that doesn't happen! Its green all of the time. It is wonderful and simply.. breathtaking, like I said before :)

On Sunday we went to church over by the Laie Temple so before it started we went over to the visitors center and walked around. What a beautiful temple. I have probably said it before and I will say it again, I love that the church is the same no matter where we go. I can go to the other side of the world and know that the church service will be the same as it is here in Utah. The one thing that was different was that when ever someone says Aloha the whole congregation says it back and I love it! it made it so warm and inviting. I really enjoyed church and hearing the testimonies of the members.

At the temple sunday morning 

Father & Son 

Sunday afternoon there was a huge swell coming in and so of course we had to go watch. Andrew was scouting it out all week and knew that it was going to be some of the best surfing they had seen in months if not years. He even found out that a few pros would be there. We saw a few on the beach and figured there were some far our in the water that we couldn't recognize. The waves were HUGE though. I could not believe it. It was incredible. As the sun went down we saw an amazing sunset!

At Pipeline. Can you see the surfer? 

Watching Pipeline 

Pipeline Sunset! 

I couldn't help taking so many pictures while there. It was wonderful. so dreamy and beautiful and WARM. that is something we sure are missing right about now! 

Hope you are staying warm. 

love,alex&andrew