Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving this year with our friends the Silberman's.  Andrya is a fantastic cook, so everything was yummy.  We had a good time watching football and watching the snow fall outside.  I made a bunch of stuff for the first time, here is how it went.

made these for the first time, they turned out yummy

Robert watching the game

The view outside

Tom and Andrya

The Thanksgiving spread

made this for the first time too, turned out yummy, but not as pretty as the picture!

This is Ambrosia or 5 cup salad, the thing I wanted to make that my Mom normally does. Made it for the first time this year, it's easy.  And one of my favorites.

Ring Bearer

Eli was the ring bearer in my cousin's wedding this past weekend!  Here are a few pics!  He was super cute and did a great job ;).

Eli the ring bearer, Kimberly the flower girl and bride and groom

Mom, my shoe!

snack time

Eli and Grammy, or Nameen as he likes to say

Me and my Mom

Dancing!

Sushi Night with Friends

A few Saturdays ago, we spent the day making sushi with some friends of ours.  Well, Laura and I did.  The men were on kid duty.  It was fun to learn from Laura since she had done this before, so that I can do it sometime soon.  We made waaaaay to much for us to eat, but it was fun and yummy!  We did Vegetable Tempura too which I love, especially sweet potatoes and carrots ;).

Eel

California Rolls, Spicy Tuna Rolls, Philadelphia Rolls plus Albacore sushi and shrimp

Rainbow Rolls

Playing in the snow

We have been trying to take advantage of the snow while we are here, so Robert has taken Eli outside a few times when he's home from work.  Here's a few pics of them playing outside. 

 

 

Moving to Hawaii!

Well, most of our peeps know that we are moving to Hawaii soon, but I thought I would announce it on the blog.  We are packing up our stuff in Alaska in December, spending Christmas with family in California and then on to Oahu the second week of January.  Needless to say we are very excited!  We are warm weather people and are very excited about the new climate as opposed to Alaska where it rained for 30 straight days over the summer and got up to 80 degrees like once. 

We are however, very sad to leave the friends we have made here and the life we've known for the past 2.5 years.  The unknown is a little scary, but it's Hawaii right?!  We are looking forward to easy access to L.A. where family is and Robert is excited about this new job.  I can't wait to see Eli's glee running through sprinklers in the yard and playing at the beach.

We will be enjoying the next month with our friends here, appreciating the cold and snow and getting prepared to go... on to the next chapter.

Halloween Fun!

Yesterday we got together with our group of friends and we attempted to get a photo of all the kids dressed up.  Here is the pic!

 

busy busy busy!

There has been a lot going on at the Melanie Ham Designs Blog, here are a few things I've been up to!

 

Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!

 Eli is really into Toy Story, especially Buzz and Woody.  Grandma Avah sent this costume with her last box and at first he didn't want to have anything to do with it.  The other day we out the wings on him and he looked in the mirror and got really excited so we put the rest of the costume on.  He has been wearing it almost non-stop since! 

Moose!

 This past weekend we had some Moose visitors eating our trees right outside our house!  Eli was up watching Saturday morning cartoons and we saw them.  He kept saying, "moose eat tree!"  It was fun to see them so up close and not be afraid they were going to charge ;).  Life in Alaska, its crazy!

 

 

The Other Eli

Eli's Nana sent me this email she put together ... so funny.

Hey, Listen Up.

I don't usually tell people this but...

I'll tell you. Just keep it on the DL.

While my parents are sleeping, I write financial analysis & forecasts for Fortune 500 companies for a very handsome fee. You should see my college fund.

Psyche! Just Kidding!

I know, That was *so* funny.

I really crack myself up.