From the daily archives:

Monday, December 28, 2015

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday. We have been having a lot of fun here on Hawaii.

On Christmas Eve we had a visit from the big guy himself!

Lauren is definitely in full on “scared of Santa” mode, but with her big sister’s help, she did okay. She absolutely LOVED what Santa gave her though. Awhile back she said she wanted a Totoro doll from Santa. Uncle Steve came through big time with three Totoro dolls straight from Japan and Lauren absolutely loves them. The look on her face when she opened the present I’ll never forget. Sorry no picture, but this is from right after…

Santa brought Lauren Totoro dolls - she was so excited!

Santa brought Lauren Totoro dolls - she was so excited!

Incredibly, the girls actually slept until 6 AM on Christmas morning and they patiently waited until 7 AM for their cousins to wake up before seeing what was up under the Christmas tree.

Emily, Katie, Lauren and Maile on Christmas morning

Emily, Katie, Lauren and Maile on Christmas morning

Maile graciously pauses before diving in to her presents :)

Maile graciously pauses before diving in to her presents 🙂

We had a wonderful Christmas celebration. Speaking of wonderful, this is by far my favorite video from Christmas:

We got Maile this really cool step tracker from Unicef called Unicef Kid Power (see here: http://unicefkidpower.org/about). Basically, every step you take helps you complete missions that ultimately end up sending food to help end global malnutrition. As you can see, Maile is very serious about completely her missions 🙂

(Click here for the first video.)
(Click here for the second video.)

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