Rain and Flooding or Freezing and Snow???

Well, we made it out of the floods of Hawaii only to come to freezing Washington where it started to snow this afternoon.

Thursday, the day before we were to leave, the rains just came down... All night and almost all day. Laie flooded completely and many of the apartment buildings at TVA also flooded. It was pretty bad. We were one of the lucky ones on the bottom floor that didn't have any problems. The only problem that I did have was with all the gross bugs that were crawling on the walls outside our door. It was the most disgusting thing EVER! This is the play ground outside our

door. It doesn't really do any justice as to what actually happend at BYUH or around Laie. And here are those gross bugs that were trying to get into my house.

Before we left Terina and I went to the Visitors Center at the Temple to look at the Christmas trees. Each stake on Oahu had a tree at the visitors center and decorated it. It was a lot of fun to go and look at them. There were some really beautiful trees. Terina had a lot of fun looking at them and asked every day that week to go back to see the Christmas trees, the donkey and the sheep.

Well... off to Washington! Terina did really well on the plane. We sat all the way in the back... and I mean all the way in the back. There was no one around us at all. Terina had a little snack before the plane took off, colored a little and then fell asleep! She slept most of the way so Kasala and I watched a movie and just made sure she was comforable. When she woke up she watched a movie, ate some dinner and got some snacks brought to her from 1st class. She ate better than we did! Anyways, we made it to Washington and it was cold. Mom and Dad brought us coats which was nice. Now we're just relaxing and spending time with Mom, Dad, Jared, Ashlee and Jake. Anthony and Phebe and the girls will be getting here next week and Mike right before Christmas. Oh! Mom redecorated our room for us and it is amazing! She even put a tree up there so on Christmas morning we can do a little something for Terina... just the three of us. I love it! Terina has her own little space, which of course she doesn't stay in, and we have a new area too! I just love it!

Terina does miss her friends in Hawaii though. I really didn't think she would say anything about them but so far she's been asking for Taniya, Kien, Aneia, Waipapa and Pacesen. She kept calling this little boy in Primary Pacesen and she got mad when I said he was still in Hawaii. Kind of cute!