Christmas in April!

I am so excited for the next two weeks that I feel like it is Christmas! I may just have a hard time sleeping tomorrow night! And why do I have the butterfly's in my stomach? Because its vacation time peeps! That is right ladies and genetelmen, Travis and I are headed to the windy city! My brother lives in Chicago and we love it there! It's a great place- but the 3 times I have been there were not during the winter!

We leave on Tuesday and we are BEYOND excited to......
see my mom and celebrate her 60th birthday
have fun with my siblings and their spouses
hang out with my two beautiful nieces that live there
see the Broadway show Wicked
have a private cooking clase (I could use this more than Trav)
eat tasty food
play some crazy game called Whirlyball
go on a city boat tour
watch my two brothers and sister in law run their booties off in a 10K
and go to the OPRAH SHOW!!!!!!!

Now that you read my list you realize why we are BEYOND excited!!!


Next Sunday Trav returns to the rock and I go to the great state of Texas for a week! We don't always do so well apart, so this is the only not so fun part of the trip. But somebody's got to pay the bills! Thanks Babe!

We NEED this vacation and we can't wait! There is always a good time when the Ginns are together! Maybe I will get a chance to post while we are gone. If not, I'm sure you will get more details then you want when I get back! Hope everyone has 2 amazing weeks!

Happy Birthday Tracie!

I am so thankful to call you my friend!

It's a tough job- but somebody's got to do it!

Lately I have had several of you ask what it is that I actually do. Well, I am lucky enough to be a designer for the local scrapbook company Creative Native Crafts. This is by far the best job that I have ever had-and is literally an answer to Trav and I's prayers! It's even better than when I worked for my dad the summer before my senior year in high school and took naps in his office! And even better than being a head server at Tucanos in Provo and being able to give Travis and all my friends free food!

Not only do I have amazing bosses and co-workers (Bella Finau-Faumuina, Delia Parker-Ulima, Jared Inouye, and Candice Hironaka for those of you who may know them) but people, I get to SCRAPBOOK most days! I work 3 and a half days a week and teach classes, do demonstrations, make our marketing materials, do product development, and on Thursdays I go to the Outrigger Waikiki and scrapbook with their guest for 2 hours. Oh and did I mention SCRAPBOOK! I am actually not that great, I'm just an average scrapbooker, but I feel SO blessed to do something that I LOVE!

We also do custom wedding invitations so we recently had a wedding event that you may have seen on several news stations if you are here in Hawaii. We partnered with Hawaiian Moon Clothing and turned their designs into invitations and paper! It is a very cool idea since many brides and grooms pick Hawaiian Moon clothing for their big day! I was in charge of taking the Hawaiian Moon Advertising photos and scrapping them with our new paper. The designs were supposed to be very simple and clean-more simple then I usually do. It was a really fun project and even more fun that they were on the news! Here's some samples...sorry some are scanned a little bit crooked:





This was half of the class that I taught last month. It's my "Its all about Time" clock. It was a blast! What a job!

My Siblings Blogs

Since I joined the blogging world I have been crazy irritatingly insistent that all of my siblings join me. Well unfortunately for Travis, I now have proof that my nagging actually works!

My brother Kirk and his adorable wife Kari have a blog- and that's the first step. But they haven't really gotten the whole regularly posting thing down yet. But for those of you who know my amazingly entertaining brother, I promise you that I won't give up my efforts to get him addicted to this lovely world! Not only is he smart, strongly opinionated and hilarious but their three kids are unbelievably adorable so there blog would be good stuff!

And then there is my sisters blog. It is my gift to the blogging world! My sister is a mother of my three beautiful nieces who always have something going on- and that something is always entertaining. Lets just say she calls her family the Foster Circus for a reason! My sister definitely got our father and grandfathers gift for story telling!!! Her blog is unbelievably hilarious! It is a must read for all- especially if you are a mom! I talk to her almost daily and I hear her stories all of the time, but in written form they are even 10 times more funny. Since she jumped on the blog band wagon she has gathered many fans and I tell her she needs to write a book! You can check out her blog here:

Now I just have to hook my other brother Tyler! This may be a tough one since he is extremely resistant to nagging and any pulling of the heart strings. But his beautiful wife Vicki may be a good target!


My brother Kirk, his wife Kari, Bubba, Kennedy, and Cambell

My brother Tyler, his wife Vicki, Maya, and Kate

My sister Lisa, her husband Todd, Samantha, Makell, and Addison

Now who wouldn't want to know all of the deep interesting details of these three famalies-weekly? They all sure know I do!

Kickin it Scottish Style

So it is cool yet random that there is a Scottish Festival in Honolulu. I am not Scottish but Welsch (mostly) which is close enough. And Trav loves the Scotts because they invented golf! So today after confrence Trav and I went and walked around to check it out. It is definitely interesting to see a local guy wearing an Aloha shirt with a Kilt eating Haggis! I love it!


I have a strict rule about doing anything with my hair or putting make up on the Sunday of General Confrence. You are actually also supposed to stay in your pajamas all day too. So at least I am wearing clothes in this picture with the hard core Scottish man while watching the Irish dancers in their little competition.


This was the best part! These men were actually VERY serious about their little battle! Now I am down with the celtic jewlrey, the adorable little dancing, the shepards pie, the fish and chips (which we almost broke the sabbath for) and the bag pipes- but this I am not too sure about!

Another Shout Out to Uncle Travis

We babysat Tyson for the day yesterday and his mom dressed him in his Uncle Travis's favorite shirt.

Travis is Tyson's only uncle and of course gave him this! If you can't see it clearly, it reads: "If you think I'm cute you should see my uncle"