Saturday, November 27, 2010

So Thanksgiving was a SUCCESS!!!  Our great friends Jenna, Jeremy and Courtney come to visit for a Hawaiian Thanksgiving.  And we had so much fun!  So needless to say this section will be a little picture heavy.


           Christopher showing everyone our awesome view!
           BEACH TIME!
           Daddy burying Christopher in the sand,
           Jenna soaking up the sun
           I guess snorkeling really took it out of them.
           Waiting for the luau to start.
           The biggest pancakes I have ever seen... I barely made a dent.

 Not only is his face COVERED in PB&J, but check out the kid behind him trying to swipe his Christopher's beloved school bus.  When Christopher realized, the look on his face roughly translated to "PUNK you better drop it!"
            I think everyone enjoyed the show!

           I think Christopher enjoyed the fire dancer the best!

           But who doesn't like a little hop shaking? 
            And what holiday wouldn't be complete without dancing in the kitchen?

          Little Cutie!

All in all it was a great visit!  We hung out, went sight seeing, acted like tourists, ate and laughed A LOT!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

It's begining to feel a little like Christmas!

I got a new camera this weekend! It replaced my old one that got smashed in the move this past month. So I have kind of been putting off on picture taking opportunities are relying on friends with cameras to help document a few of the past months events. The past few weeks have really brought out a craftiness in me that I am even surprised by. So I figure I might as well why not roll with it. I will not have any free time once Henry gets here.

Because of dietary concerns with Christopher, he hasn't had a lot of whole milk in his life. That being said, he has never had milk in his cereal. That is, until this week! I think he reallly like it at first because it was something completely new. But once those Cheerios got soggy... FORGET IT.



I made salt dough ornaments for Christopher to decorate. I figure they will go nicely on the Aunts and Uncles Christmas trees. And honestly who doesn't love home made gifts from kids?! He had so much fun painting them at first, but about half way through he got very serious in his holiday task. I love watching the sheer concentration on his face.


We have also been enjoying the slightly cooler weather with longer play times out back.  Christopher loves to play in the "flowers" weeds that have tiny white blossoms.  He also loves standing high on the wall and running as fast as he can across the yard. 


                                                 And of course being a HAM!

While we were playing out back it occurred to me that I haven't been able to show my friends and family back home the infamous "paint tree" in our back yard.  We call it the paint tree because it looks like it is oozing paint.  I noticed it the while stuck in traffic the last time we lived in Hawaii.  And as it turns out, it is in the back yard of our new house!  So ladies and gentlemen, I present the paint tree!



Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Baby update!

And let me start off by saying... YES I am aware that my blog is already decorated for the holidays. But lets be honest, with two sets of visitors, a dog and a baby coming within the next month when am I going to be able to update this thing? So this is fair warning that if you check back in March and there are still Christmas trees up, politely ignore them! So with that lets get to the good stuff!

This last doctors appointment went very well! Henry is measuring right on track as is his mama! The Dr. has been really fun in joining in on all of the fun little things we have been doing as far as guesses. Originally she guessed girl, WRONG. Now she has joined in our little poll! As with Christopher, we sent out an email asking for guesses on birth date, time, weight and length. It has been very interesting seeing what everyone thinks! It is also really fun to add to the baby book afterward! As promised, here is the latest picture! 33 weeks and counting!





Henry's nursery is almost finished. We just have a few pictures to hang and little things to clear out that have been stored there since we moved in last month. But I thought I would give a little sneak peak!!

How is this for a post card?!

Just the other day I was cleaning Christopher up from breakfast and happened to look out the front window and spotted an amazing site! I had to share!



So my next question is... When are you coming to visit?

Some days you gotta dance... even if you are a skeleton.

This post is a little late, but well worth it I can assure you! This was officialy our second Halloween together as a family. It is hard to believe that last year Christopher and I were dressed up as the Tortoise and the Hare and excited beyond believe that Matt would be home in a few short days! So we had to make it special! Our new friends here in Hawaii had a little Halloween bash and we all had so much fun! Our costume idea came from my being pregnant really... I had gotten my shirt early so it was decided that we would all be a skeleton family! And I do have to say, we turned out really cute! Take a look!












The skeleton family















The Dancing Family! Minus Ella... she was dancing!















The Super Hero Family!















And they Danced!




















And danced...


















He was rather sad every time the song ended, but bounced back quickly!


















Allison, I mean Marilyn was a huge hit!












Lisa was a hit too! At least the carrots on her plate were. I love both of their expressions!























He even helped with the decorations!
















David and Anna being, well, David and Anna!























Me and Henry!
















One of the few pictures of Matt and I together!























The HAM!
























The boy!
























Doritos were discovered right away!


My favorite pictures of the entire night! He kept saying very slowly.."Peek..A..Boo"






























Needless to say we had a wonderful time! We really are so lucky to have great friends here!