Aloha!

Ok, so it has been a while since my last post, but I am really still mentally in Maui! We loved it! It was the best! (Thanks to all those at home that made it possible!) Here are some highlights! You may be able to tell who is the better photographer between Jeremy and I, you can actually see me, and Jeremy is usually a dot in the water. I was having a hard time not getting knocked down in the water, so I will point him out....first though, this is me "Catching a Wave"! I really was trying to smile for the camera, but as you can tell I was slightly panicked! so fun though, and of course my althletic husband picked it right up and was awesome. I did it and enjoyed it, but I would turn in before him and lay on the beach and watch him wait for the best waves! When we weren't "Spongeing" we were snorkling.... ahhhh Napili beach! Amazing! We took our little book everywhere with us and found the beaches they recomended for snorkling and such and we were not let down... Such an amazing time...
I know it is hilarious, but you got to admit it looks fun!
I said I would point Jeremy out and so here he is... boogie boarding!

Here he is again.... still boogie boarding....
So, this was a monumetous trip, not only because we celebrated our 10 years together, but I crossed off one of my 50 things to do before I die list.... Swim with the sea turtles! Yes I really do have a list ( thanks to Engilsh 101 in college)! And this is me and the sea turtle that I swam with..... it seriously was only 1 yard away!
I am still in awe, here is another picture of the turtle... There were 8 we saw and swam with!


I love my Jeremy and we had an amazing trip!

ahhh. sums it up pretty well, but it doesn't really give anyone much to read

We did bike down a volcano! We got up at 2:30 am and watched the sun rise 9,800 ft up, then got on a bike and downhilled 26 miles going 15-20 miles an hour! I know Spencer and Steph, this is no tour de France, but considering I am usually riding around with a 5 year old and a bike trailer on my bike, it was quite the adventure! It started raining the last 10 miles or so, and we had already taken off our rain gear and didn't stop to put it back on and it was like I was a little girl riding through mud puddles! It was a blast!
We stopped part way and posed for a picture!
All wet and tired! But we just went back to the hotel and took a nap, then spent the rest of the day laying on the beach.... rough, now you know why I said that I was still in Maui... mentally.

Mary's hair!

Mary chopped her hair and gave me permission to post the darling new style.... and take feed back, because I think her "full fringe" is soooo cute! but she disagrees.... not that it really matters, but I just thought I would see what others thought.... She does like the bangs...she just prefers to sweep it off to the side, but I couldn't resist just trying to see what it would look like down, Joey I know your opinion already, but for the rest of you... let us know what you think! the haircut is super darling on her if I do say so myself... hmmm I wonder who did it :)

Kelsi's first day of Tiny Tots...

Ok. It is finally Kelsi's turn to start something....Her first day of Tiny Tots! It is a gymnastics, and preschool like program. She missed the preschool deadline by 3 weeks, but she was ready for a little something, so she gets to go to this a couple times a week and hopefully it will help her coordination too! She was so excited to see us come get her after school!

Look what I did!

Life around here...

Some fun pics that make me smile... Kelsi and her sweet smile at the park...
Boston is so pleased that I let him crawl in the tube...
Yes, here is my little crawler, he learned how to crawl the stairs one day in an hour, I let him do one stair, leaving him alone thinking to my self, "I will let him fall and he will learn to leave the stairs alone" well he did and was so sad, and I thought that should keep him away..... an hour later as I was in the kitchen, I looked and he was up the 4 stairs at the top, and that was it. I can't stop him now.
Jayden's really excited for the new star wars movie and gave me a pose with her "Darth Vader" light saber. Yes she is wearing a star wars shirt with the female jedi and thinks it is really cool.
Once again, Kelsi and her comical ways, by the way this picture was taken by Jayden, while I was upstairs bathing Boston, not to bad for a 5 year old! (you can imagine how many bizzare ones were downloaded to the computer that she also took, but this was a good one if I may say so..)

Family Fun

We went for a little hike the other day, and the girls loved it! Here are some pics, the lighting was off, but you get the idea...
Jayden and Kelsi are pointing to the water that you can't see..
This is what Boston thought of it...
Me and My girls...
oh yea, some people that were just riding on the trail too, asked if the girls wanted a ride on their horse, (yes complete strangers) and Kelsi who is terrified of most animals was the most excited to hop up, and Jayden was ok to ride with the girl, but they did get a little horse ride. Fun memories...

Jayden's First Day of Kindergarten!

Here we go! Jayden's first day of Kindergarten! She was sooo excited to get up at 7:30 and get dressed in her "Hannah Montanah" shirt, plaid shorts and then had to wait till 12:30 to go, but the time finally came and she got her Hannah Montana back pack on, and was ready to go... Once we got there, she went up by the teacher in the front of the line, the teacher was counting to see if she had them all, and she said, " I think that we are missing a couple." and Jayden was quick to inform her, "Kaden, (her friend from the neighborhood)" But she was happy and excited when the teacher was ready to go into the classroom, so mom was the only one that was crying ... But it didn't last too long, when I got home, Kelsi and Boston crashed and I was left with 1 hour and 45 of precious time and I got soooo much done! I picked Jayden up and she was so full of information and the fun that she had and she is ready to go tomarrow! Ready to go...
Jayden with Kaden (in the blue shirt) in line waiting...
In their classroom...
And this is my Happy Kindergartener after her first day!

American Idol...and Tagged Again

Ok... So I watched American Idol from the beggining of the season this year, a first for me, and Adrienne and Marty are American Idol fans too, so while Jeremy was gone on a work trip (I wasn't able to contact him at the time of purchase) Adri and I decided to join the crazed fans of David Archuletta and get tickets to American Idol when it came to "town". Jeremy was my cute husband to support his wife in this adventure and sit two rows down from the suites that were filled with crazed tweens screeming for David Archuletta, but we had a BLAST! It was my first big concert in an arena.... so I had to get my self a piece of memoriblia (aka adri and I in matching shirts)....I loved it. The music was awsome and you could not hear yourself scream when David Archuletta came out! Adri and I as the concert is starting...
I know you can't see him, but this is my favorite one, DAVID COOK! He was great and I obviously was more than excited to get a picture with him!
Ok, I know it is kinda funny, but "ROCK ON" Jer and Marty in their button up shirts!
Yes, I know the picture is blurry, but I couldn't not post a picture of home town hero, David Archuletta singing "Apologize" YEAAAA!

So that was my American Idol adventure! I would do it again in a heartbeat, it was great.... here is the rest of the story, which needs to be told, because I have to give credit where credit and thanks it due....
Meawhile back at home, Grandma and Grandpa were at home with the kids, I couldn't resist "checking in" during intermission..... Jeremy went out in the hall to call and check on the kids, when he came back, he handed me the phone and said, "Kelsi has thrown up 6 times in the last hour." So of course we call and check and for whatever reason, Kelsi gets the flu at the most inopportune time. Bless G & G is all I can say, they of course encourage us to stay and finish the concert while they deal with the throw up... It truely was a night off for me. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!

Better late than never Amy...

3 Joys:

My Children (most days)

Jeremy (10 years of marriage later!)

Bike riding (I love it!)

3 Fears:

Loosing a family member

Airplane trips with the kids

SPIDERS/SNAKES/REPTILES IN GENERAL (we try to skip this exhibit at the zoo)

3 Goals:

Be happy

Create more fun memeories with the kids

Ride my bike more

3 Current Obessions/Collections:

Twilight

New Moon

Eclipse

(ha ha for those that know and understand, and for those that don't- you are really missing out!)

3 Random Surprising Facts About Me:

I have dreams/epifanies about how to fix someones hair that I am going to do.( Really I think I just over think it and it won't leave me even in my sleep)

I really like spinich in my pancakes....Lepricon pancakes anyone?

I am a huge David Cook fan....

Now it's your turn: I am tagging my Mom (even thought shelley updates the blog, shel- tell mom.) Anne- I am giving you a deadline of one week (pretend I am your boss and your job depends on playing blog tag!) and Chrissy- (I miss you and you really need to update your blog :) ) I will be checking!!!