After Christmas, Tom and I took a vacation to Kauai with some friends!
the whole crew
the girls
whale watching at sunset...
Tom and I at the Kipu Falls rope swing... it was so fun!
View from the helicopter ride... soooo beautiful!
Scuba diving...yes I actually did a 40 foot dive despite my paranoid fear of sharks!
the condoa few Christmas time pictures...
Kate and her favorite boots!

Kate wasn't so keen on Santa Claus at our family party, she obviously couldn't see her daddy beneath the beard!


We went to the Live Nativity held annually in our neighborhood. It was actually really neat! It was a huge production though the pictures don't do it justice. They recreated the whole city of Bethlehem along a path of 3,000 luminaries! They had a whole cast of townspeople, a choir and at the end of the path you came to the stable with Mary and Joseph. There were even shepards and wisemen up on a nearby hill! Kate loved the huge camel and all the farm animals there!


