I won!!!

I won a trip for 2 to Las Vegas!!

Not the most exciting location to be, in my opinion, nonetheless, I won!

I had entered a contest in a local magazine (Hawaii Parent Magazine) a few weeks ago in the hopes that I would find a cheap way to get to the reunion last August. Well, that plan didn't work out, however, they called at the beginning of September and I still won! Ha!

It made me realize that entering contests with a small readership will greatly increase your odds at getting picked; maybe I'll do so more often!

The package includes round trip airfare, 6 days/ 5 nights at the California Hotel, and meal vouchers for 3 meals a day for all 6 days. Wow. Nate and I have dreamt of going on a cruise so we don't have to worry about anything. This would be like a land cruise, and since we aren't big Vegas fans, we won't even feel pressure to even leave the hotel. Wahoo!

Now we are just trying to figure out when to go. Coordinating babysitting for 6 days is a bit trickier.

Anyone want to come stay in Hawaii for a few days? Round trip from LA right now is $344 on Hawaiian Airlines ;) Not free, but cheaper than usual!

Kezia's 7th Birthday Party!!

Kezia celebrated her 7th birthday August 21st while we were in Colorado with her cousins (Brent and Janae's families) and Ryan and Honey Hunt's family (Ryan and I were friends growing up). She is such a good girl, and I can't believe she is 7!! Older parents have 7 year olds, not young punks like us, so how did that happen?

Kezia wanted a unicorn party, and directed the decorating of the cake. Didn't she do a good job?

We first decorated unicorn horns, then played "Pin the Horn on the Unicorn". Then a witch came and turned everyone into unicorns, so they had to put their horns on their heads. We had an oat eating contest, but as everyone knows, unicorns don't eat just regular oats; they eat sugar coated oat cereal with marshmallow gems!

The kids had a contest, then the adults. I couldn't stop laughing as I watched the men snarfing down the cereal bits on either side of me, so I came in dead last. ;)

The witch had also hid the unicorn's jewels, but the unicorn had left hints all over the backyard on horseshoes. The kids scrambled to go find them then we put them all in order to find out where the treasure was.

It turned out they were water balloons! A whole cooler of water balloons was left empty in about 3 minutes.

Afterward, Kezia opened her generous gifts.

It was so nice for everyone to come join us, and for the help my sister and brother in law gave in putting it all on. I know Kezia felt really special, and that's what mattered.