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Daddy's Valentines


Last month, we went to a deployed spouses retreat. The kids and I spent Valentine's weekend at the Marriott at Ko'Olina. It was absolutely beautiful! While I sat in a room learning the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, the kids had a blast with the childcare that was provided.

Our room


The view from our room


Getting ready to watch a movie



Elijah's Birthday



Elijah turned TWO on the 8th of this month. Nana & Dewpop flew out for the big day. The day before Nana & Dewpop got here, Elijah fell in Makayla's room and hit his head on part of her ottoman. So, off we went to the ER. We decided not to do stitches they glued his wound.

Here he is a couple of days after the fall.


We had his Mickey Mouse themed party on the 6th. We had lots of friends and Daddy even made a cameo appearance.




"Reading" and listening to his special card from Daddy


Running to tell Daddy that he likes it.




Makayla & Dewpop


Elijah & Nana








Last month, I submitted applications and pictures for the kids to get quilts from Operation Kid Comfort. It is a great organization that takes pictures of your service member and the child(ren) and they make quilts for kids 6 and under and pillows for kids 7 and up. This is a service they offer while the service member is deployed. The ladies that make these quilts are all volunteers and work with donations of fabrics. We went last week to pick up Makayla's & Elijah's quilts.




Blain is doing well. Time is ticking away. R&R is coming up soon and we are going to be taking a short trip to Kauai. We are super excited!

We home you all are doing well!

With love,
The Fuller Ohana

Christmas

Hawaiian Santa at Makayla's preschool Christmas party


We had the McIntosh family over for dinner one night before they moved off the island.
Makayla & Will

Elijah & Drew


On Christmas Eve we spent a little time at our neighbors' house before church


After church, the kids opened their new Christmas jammies




Christmas morning







Daddy sent some gifts. Mak asked where they came from and I told her that Daddy sent them from Toys R Us. Her repsonse was "Daddy has a Toys R Us in Iraq?!"



As you can see, Elijah put on the helmet and left it on for most of his gifts. :)

We definitely missed Blain at Christmas time. We were blessed to be able to get on Skype with him and he was able to watch the kids open their gifts.





Later that afternoon we went to my cousin's house for dinner.

My cousin's niece, my cousin's daughter, Makayla & Elijah


This is what happens when poor Elijah is surrounded by girls


My cool man


Makayla Picasso (She said this is a photo she drew of herself. She even drew curls.)


The boy tried to close himself in the refrigerator


Miss Mak loves to take pictures! Especially of herself :)


We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and we hope you are enjoying the new year. We are are excited about Nana & Dewpop coming out to visit for Elijah's birthday early next month! We are also excited about Blain's R&R in about 2 months!! We can't wait to see him!

Overdue pictures from Thanksgiving and Christmas

ALOHA!!

For Thanksgiving, we spent the day with the McIntosh family, along with three other families. We had a wonderful time!




All the kids








Normally, we don't decorate for Christmas until the first weekend in December but this time I pulled everything out the day after Thanksgiving.

Mak putting one last ornament on the tree (and Elijah saying "ooohhh")



The first part of December I had a friend try to get a good picture of us for our Christmas card photo. I say try because Elijah Barron was a difficult little man that day. Here are some of the bloopers.






The better pics we got