Hawaii!!..warning lots of pictures!

Okay since I have lots of pictures I won't say much besides we had an amazing time! The weather was wonderful, sunny and warm, the food was so good (I now am in love with mango), and it was just so nice to get away!! Here is proof of our fun trip!

On the plane, ready to go!

The living and dining room where we stayed.

The kitchen. It was so nice to have our own place to come back to, instead of a hotel. We were able to buy groceries and make breakfast and lunches instead of always eating out!

The backyard! We really were out in the jungle!

Here is the first beach we stopped at after leaving the airport. It is Kailua beach on the East side of the island.

These are such cool trees. This is an area to a beach that was in the movie Blue Crush, if you have ever seen it!

Turtle Beach

These Turtles were so cool to see. They all had names and all of them were around 30 years old.

Coy fish at the Dole Plantation. They were begging for us to feed them. Very spoiled fish!

Waikiki! This is a statue of Duke, who was a famous Hawaiian surfer.

Lanikai...our favorite beach! the sand was amazing, the water perfect and we loved it!!

My new favorite food! O so good!

These 2 pictures are of Sharks Cove where we went snorkeling. We were able to see lots of fish and Chris was able to see a sea turtle as well.

Laie Point

A nice little hut we found on a beach in Laie...right down from Hukilau beach.

Turtle Bay

We went on a hike to Maunawili Falls. The day before we went rained a bit, so it was pretty muddy and the trail was completely covered with tree roots. It was such a pretty hike and nice to be out in the jungle!

Chris did go and jump off the waterfall, but since we didn't take swimsuits I did not want to hike back to the car completely soaked through!

A block away from where we stayed there was this house blocked off from the street by hedges and trees. It had nice columns and a locked gate to get in. From what we could see it looked amazingly nice and we really wanted to see if we could see the house. So Chris decided to climb a tree and see if he could see anything. Of course he couldn't, there was some building in the way. I think I am going to go and google map it and see what we can find! We loved the neighborhood we stayed in! So nice to be out of the city and in a quiet country area!

Yummy Yummy Matsumoto Shave Ice!! I loved Haleiwa. It was my favorite town to go to!

Here we are at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

So So funny!

Trying to make fire! He did get smoke, but no flame!

I was called up on stage since I had an April birthday and they made us all dance...video to come soon!

Chris in Tonga!

The beautiful temple.

Waimea Bay.

Here is the sand crab I stalked to get video of him!

Pearl Harbor. We didn't pay to go on any of the ships, but we still walked around and saw lots of cool stuff.

This is so creepy. This is a suicide torpedo from Japan. One person would be inside to direct it where it needed to go...ughhh so creepy.

Hanauma Bay...i can't spell! This place cost 13 per person to go so we just took pictures. Beautiful, but we didn't want to pay to go to the beach!

A cool blow hole! I don't remember the name.

This Buddhist temple was amazing.

I loved how Chickens were everywhere!

Ehow and Weight loss

Thanks to my sister Heather I finally found a job working from home that I feel actually contributes to out finances! It is working for Ehow writing articles. If you have never been to ehow it is a website that tells you how to do different things! Nice huh! I really like it. I feel cool since I can say that I am a freelance writer and have had work published! woowoo! What is also nice is that there are no set hours, so I can work as much or as little as I want and whenever I want! Big plus!! So anyone out there that would like a job go check it out. It was pretty easy to apply and your first 3 articles are your trial period to see if you will do okay. I am just so happy to help make money!

My other exciting news...no not prego.... is that I have been loosing weight! Finally!! I am down 17 pounds since October and am still working hard! It is so nice to see the scale going the other way! I have started doing a modified version of the Atkins diet and since it is actually working I am sticking with it. I cook a lot now, but it feels good to be eating healthy and I feel like I have so much more energy! I still have a ways to go, but loosing has given me the motivation I need to work hard and succeed!

one more piece of good news... Chris and I are going to Hawaii in 15 days!!! Wooowoooowooowoo! i am so excited since I have never been. Hannah will be staying with Heather (thank you, thank you, thank you) so will get to spend 8 days on Oahu by ourselves! We cannot wait! i am also excited to get to fly on a plane again. This will be my second time, the first time Hannah was only 4 months old, so it was a bit stressful. I am glad I will just get to enjoy this flight without worrying about a crying baby! Hawaii here we come!!

7 inches and counting!

Well we woke up this morning to about 7 inches of snow and it is still coming down! Our power even went our last night! It is really pretty and I thought I would be sick of it, but I am actually excited to go out and play in it with Hannah today!

I looked at the weather for the nest couple days and it isn't supposed to stop! They say there will be a little rain in there somewhere, but it will always go back to snowing! So.... I will let you know if we get snowed in and you all can come and save us!!

A friend and an Enemy!

The pacifier, or Binky as we call it, is wonderful and awful all at the same time! A few weeks ago we had Hannah down to only using her binky at nap time and bed time and it was so nice. Then of course life happened, she got sick, we went on vacation and we got back into the habit of just letting her have it because it was easier!

So now we are attempting to take it away again, but this time she knows it and asks for it all day long. Which leads to whining and then I just wish I could give it to her so she would stop whining! Haha I know it will be a slow process and right now we are just taking it away throughout the day again, so she still sleeps with it. I don't know what we will do when we try and do that! Anyone have any good ideas for breaking them of the binky? Any ideas would be helpful!

Cheese!

Just some cute pictures of my baby girl!! The first one was for a birthday poster for Kevin!

She just has the cutest smile!

New years Resolution!

Well I have finally figured out what I want to work on this year and it is something I know I can accomplish and feel good about!

I am going to work on blogging, journaling and scrap booking. Basically documenting my life. I used to be awesome at writing in a journal, but of course after getting married and having a kid I have pretty much stopped which is sad because these are the best moments of my life. I am glad I started blogging because it is a form of journaling and I was really good about it when Hannah was first born. i want to print it out as well, so I can keep it forever.

So to start off today I have a few random pictures just for fun. (sorry about the quality of the pictures, they were from my phone)

Today Hannah decided her feet were a better place to put stickers! She was so proud of herself, and trying to show me how funny she is! She knows how to make us laugh!

Here is another activity we do pretty much every day. Hannah loves my phone, and knows how to use it! Sometimes better than me! Well she knows where the camera is and how to take pictures, so we have funny photo shoots of ourselves! Here is her kissy face!

Hannah is obsessed with shoes right now! If she sees a pair she has to put them on! Here is one of her cute outfits. No pants and boots!

This is just a flash from the past! I found this when Chris and I were going through boxes and was so excited! I loved my time with these girls! We had an amazing apartment and an amazing time together! I love that we still all keep in touch!! Miss all of you girls! We need a game night!

Family prayer

Hannah said her first prayer tonight for family prayer. It was so cute and of course we are so proud! Here is how it went.

Kim: "Say Dear."

Hannah: "Dear." (sounded more like De-o)

K: "Heavenly"

H: "Hey"

K: " Father"

H: "Fa"

K: "Thank You"

H: " Your Well" (If we ask Hannah to say thank you, she instead says "Your well", for your welcome!)

K: "I love you"

H: (here hannah decided to make a kissy face and the kiss sound since that her her new thing for I love you!)

K: "Amen."

H: "Amen."

So all together it was " De-o Hey Fa. Your well. (smooch). Amen."

We love our little girl and our so proud she is learning to say her prayers. It made our whole evening to hear that little prayer and I can't wait for many more to come!