***~PaRtY TiMe~***

This holiday season has been filled with more parties and get togethers than I have ever attended in my life! Over a course of 2 1/2 weeks I went to the V.I.P. (am I allowed to disclose that?) Rehab Christmas luncheon at Leigh Ann's, Ash and Brady's fabulous ugly sweater Christmas party, the ACTUAL Neuro Trauma Rehab Christmas party for the entire unit- at Lisa Wilson's BEAUTIFUL home (ok lets be real its mansion), our annual Christmas dinner/gift exchange with my girlies at Happy Sumo, Christmas Bunco at Candice's with my Louisiana Ladies, the yearly Christmas Vacation night at our house with Jord's friends, and the Van Ausdal white elephant/ugly sweater family party-just to name a few (for real..) Ugly sweaters seemed to be quite the trend this year...nothing new i guess! Anyway, all of these parties were an absolute riot and I just wanted to give a big THANK you to all of you wonderful hosts for having us in your homes! We are lucky to have such great friends and family! Here's a few pics from all our rendezvous!

Me and the girls at happy sumo- just found out that Croz and Heather are both engaged, and Steph is PREGNANT! Can't wait...


Cando's Bunco party...it's been to long since I've seen these girls!
This is why I love them LOL.
Rehab Unit Party with some of the girls from work
Our Cheesy pose- gotta love the holding hands.
Real men wear awesome Christmas vests...and win PRIZES for doing so.
Ash and Brady's super fun party, (never got a pic with the whole group) But there were some saaaaaweeeeeeeeeeeet sweaters here.
We played Christmas Song Charades- Ash was acting out "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas" OMG it was hilarious.
The V.I.P. Rehab lunch at Leigh Ann's- Love these people like family!

SLC with the fam-Christmas Kickoff!

This Christmas season has been amazing! There has been so much going on I feel like I have barely had time to breathe! But now that it's all said and done I can finally sit back and take it all in. {Forgive me if blogging about Christmas takes more than one post} Two weekends before Christmas we took a little overnighter up to Salt Lake with the fam to see the lights, do a little shopping, and spend some time together! That Friday night we ate at P.F. (of course mom's choice,) then went and grabbed some peppermint hot chocolate to sip on while we walked around temple square and looked at the lights. Addison was so cute, she loved the lights...oh and she also loved her new hat-pic below (but probably not as much as I LOVED it on her.) She was adorable that night. Saturday morning we woke up and grabbed some breakfast, Denny's of course- we are high class like that....lol. Then off to gateway for some shopping! That weekend was a great kickoff to all of the other festivities of the season!

Temple SquareMy cute fam
Favorite girl in the world!
The hat's adorable...Riiight?
Pretty tree at the downtown Mariott

Hawaii: Take TWO!

First of all- I want to tell you that I am listening to J.B.'s and Micheal Buble's Christmas C.D.'s while blogging....if you haven't bought these yet you seriously need to- I can't get enough! Anyway- on to the subject of this blog post! As if we didn't have enough fun in Hawaii during our September trip, we just HAD to go back again in November with the fam! It was an absolute riot, I have the BEST parents for giving our family such fun opportunities to travel so much and enjoy our vacations with the whole family :) Here are some highlights from the trip- some are repeats from the last trip-we just love them that much......

-Our AMAZING resort in Waikaloa Village on the Big Island
-Lots of snorkeling and big sea turtles in Kona
-Jord and Cami's first experience at the PCC on Oahu
-Playing in the waves with Addison, and loving her itsy bitsy bikinis-cutest thing ever.
- Waimea bay is the favorite North Shore beach by far!
-Boogie boarding on Hukilau Beach
-Mexican Train with Gary and Janice at the Hukilau House
-Banana Pancakes at Hukilau Cafe
-The breathtaking view off the back deck of our beach house in Laie
-Spending time with my AMAZING FAM!

Cant wait to go back to Hawaii for TAKE THREE on MARCH 12TH!



The Fam(minus dad) at the little snorkeling beach over by Hapuna

Pretty beach at Turtle BayMe and Nic messing around in HaleiwaLaie Temple

The boys having WAY too much fun at Waimea Bay

Our amazing little private bay at our resort in Waikaloa Village

Love this pic of Addison with grandma and grandpa-even if my dads mouth is wide open!

Love this pic of my brother Zac and baby girl!

At the PCC Luau

PCC with the hubs

Lovin the new hat

Sharks Cove with the Boys

All the kiddo's at the Dole Plantation gettin our fill of Dole Whips

Enjoying some sunshine in Kona

Waikoloa Village resort with the hubs

ALOHA!

A little late:HALLOWEEN :)

So...I know I'm a bit late on this, but Halloween this year was a BLAST! We had the annual Frischknecht Family Halloween party the Saturday before Halloween, then we had a party at our house on Halloween night with lots of fun friends! Me and Jord dressed up as Tarzan and Jane! Both of the parties were so much fun, here were a few of the highlights:
FRISCHKNECHT PARTY
-Eating lots of yummy soups
-Seeing my adorable little Addison in her watermelon costume
-Seeing my amazing 87 year old grandma dressed up
-Winning best costume
-Dressing Nic's girlfriend up for the paper ghost contest
OUR PARTY
-Taking Jersey trick or treating with Kim and Amy and their pooches (all of our neighbors got a kick out of the doggie costumes)
-Watching Jord prance around in a loincloth for three hours
-Delish Food
-Our great company and seeing all of our cute friends in their costumes!

BuSy BuSy LIFE!

So for the last few weeks I have had the thought every few days - oh my gosh I have got to get caught up on some blog posts! I almost feel guilty when I don't blog about all the fun events in my life...but then I got to thinking- The fact that I don't have time to blog just means that I must be out enjoying my life instead! So right now I am officially grateful that I have been so busy having fun that I haven't had time to blog about it! Don't worry though....I will be trying to update soon...if not this week, next week life should slow down a little! Hope everyone is enjoying the start of the holiday season as much as me! :)

FALL??????

As I got into my car to drive home from work last week (at 6 a.m.) first thing I did was blast my heat! HEAT? Yes. Heat. The morning air outside is starting to get that crispy fall feel. I can't decide if I am happy for fall to be here, or sad that summer is ending! It seems like I haven't even been home all summer. Oh. Because I haven't. Somewhere between St. George, California, Louisiana, Louisiana AGAIN, and then Hawaii....I've managed to NOT be home all summer. Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining one bit about all my summer adventures, I just simply can't believe fall is approaching so fast. BUT...I decided that I'm excited. Actually....I can't wait.


BRING. IT. ON.

Hawaii!!

So a few weeks ago, right before Jord got back from Louisiana, I was with my fam up at our cabin and my parents sat us down and told us that they were planning a family trip to Hawaii in November. They wanted to take a fun family vaca before Nic leaves on his mission. So naturally I freaked out and got so excited (there is nothing that I love more than a BEACH, especially a HAWAIIAN beach!) I called Jord right away and told him all about it. Well, three days later I got a call from Jordan, "Hey babe....so....I just got and interesting call" He proceded to tell me that one of my parents friends (a contractor that Jord has done work for in the past) needed a bunch of tile work done in the beach house that he owns part of on the North Shore of Hawaii. He told Jord that he'd fly both of us out there for 10 days if Jord (along with two other guys) would do the tile work needed to be done, which would take about 4 days of work. So of course we agreed to it... and a week later we were in paradise! Hawaii was such a blast! Jord and the other two guys that came out to help with the tile job worked super hard for 4 days, did an AMAZING job on the house, then for the next 5 days we played and played and played! The other two guys wives flew out for the last five days, and they were all such a blast to hang out with. Here are some of our FAVORITE things we did and places we ate on the north shore:

~Matsumoto's shaved ice~
~Dole Whips~
~Rock jumping/Wave playing at Waimea Bay~
~Watching Surfers at Sunset Beach~
~Eating in Haleiwa (especially Haleiwa Joes!)~
~Pearl Harbor~
~Discovering Kahuku Grill (DELISH)~
~Stopping at yummy fruit stands for fresh pineapple and coconut~
~Boogy Boarding on Hukilau Beach~
~Checking out the big sea turtles on Turtle Beach~
~Getting trinkets at the Swap Meet (not on the north shore)~
~Banana Pancakes at Hukilau Cafe~
~Snorkeling at Sharks Cove~

Wow....I could go on forever, but I won't bore you! Needless to say, we worked hard, played hard, and ate well!! CANNOT WAIT to go back in November!!

The view of Hukilau beach off our back deck

Walking from Sharks Cove to Waimea

A big sea turtle at Turtle Beach

A cool overlook of Waimea Bay

Gotta love Matsumoto's

Sharks Cove

Laie Temple

My new found friends Shan and Kirby on Sunset Beach!

Me and Kirby playin in the waves on Sunset

Pretty gardens at Haleiwa Joes

Hands down best restaurant in Hawaii

The crew at Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

Dole Whips= Heaven...Seriously.

Me and Jord playing in the trees

Jord and Brennen boogie boardin out back of the Hukilau House