Hawaii

About 9 months ago Mike won a trip to Hawaii from his work. We went last week to Maui for 6 days and it was great!!! The weather pretty much sucked the whole time. It was really rainy, but we still had fun. We went to the Maui Ocean Center, went to a Luau, played at the pool and the beach, drove up the coast and shopped in the towns. But the best part was the sunset dinner cruise we went on for my birthday. It was so fun (and a little scary)! We actually got to see some whales while we were on it. We had a blast, and I didn't want to come home, but I missed my kids soooooooooooo much it was crazy. Here are some pics. I know it seems like alot, but it's only like 1/6 of the ones I have!

Our one sunny day to play at the beach and at the pool.

Don't even worry Mike got FRIED. His shoulders are peeling so bad!

We went on a walk on the beach at sunset and got poured on! It was still romantic though :)

Whales!

They are all over the place. It is their migrating season.

On our dinner cruise.

Happy Birthday to me!

See his burnt shoulders? Hahahaha!

Could that be any prettier?

A rainbow after one of the many rainfalls.

Our luau.

F-ing disgusting kahulua (sp?) pig at the luau.

I was looking for shells. No luck, everything is rock.

Carter's Birthday

For Carter's birthday (and mine) this year we went to Chuck E Cheese. He has been begging to go for sooo long! We went with most of our family. Carter had a Spiderman party, and got sooooo much stuff. My trunk and back seat were literally full. He had so much fun playing around and seeing all his cool new toys. He was sick and lost his voice. So sad! Thanks everyone for coming to our party!

Job?

So as many of you know I've been at my job for almost 5 years. It seems like it is getting worse by the day with laying people off, making it impossible to bonus, and now, not letting me work! I have not been able to work at all this week! It is so frustrating. So I need a new job. Anyone have any ideas?

Going going going!

Eating some applesauce. She hates it!

Crawling!!!

Best buds

Kendall just turned five months old, and is crawling! She is so freaking determined to go get whatever she wants, it didn't surprise me to see her do it yesterday. She is a smart baby. Just like Carter! I am sad that she is growing up so fast though! What a stinker butt! We've also started giving her some baby food and those dissolvable cereal things. She loves the cereal, but looks at me like she wants me to die when I feed her baby food.

Carter has become obsessed with Legos. It is all he talks about or plays with. When I ask him what he wants for his birthday, he spits off a list of all these different Legos. Maybe he'll get some more for his birthday. :) He hates getting his picture taken right now, so I don't really have any new pics of him.

Mike and I have started going to the gym. I have a lot of work to do to get rid of my baby weight and poochy. Mike pretty much lives at the gym. I think he wants to get in shape for Hawaii. Which is two weeks away....ah I am stoked!

Pierced ears for my princess!!!

I have been wanting to get Kendall's ears pierced for a couple of weeks now. Mike said that it was okay to do it, but that he did not want to be there when I did. So on Saturday I went to the mall with my mom and sister, and we did it! I didn't tell Mike that we were doing it, so we surprised him. Kendall was surprisingly good. She seriously only cried for one minute, then was back to her normal self. Carter however, was a different story. He started crying that he didn't want us to hurt his baby sister and was distraught. After it was done, I went to go give him a hug. He wouldn't even look at me! He is slowly getting over the trauma. Mike was surprised, but didn't really care that we did it. So here are some before and after pictures, as well as some fun pics of Carter.

Carter's sleepover

As many of you know Carter's Uncle Tyler (who is 4) is Carter's best friend. On Saturday night he got to come sleep over. Poor Tyler had fallen on ice before he came over and got pretty banged up, but they still had a blast. They had pizza and popcorn, watched Wall-e and Kung Fu Panda, colored, and played all night! They decided that they needed to sleep in Carter's Cars tent in the family room. I think they felt pretty cool. They didn't want to go to sleep, they were wired. Carter is already asking when he can have another sleepover!

Rolling

On Saturday night Kendall finally decided to get her hands out of her mouth long enough to roll over! I am so proud of her, she has been trying to do it for a couple weeks, but her hands always get in the way. After she did it Carter told her that she was a very big boy. (He gets the whole boy/girl thing confused sometimes. Poor kid!) So all night all she did was roll over onto her stomach and then try to skooch (sp?) around. She'll be crawling in no time!

Also, the last few nights we've noticed deer tracks in the snow in our backyard. We have an apple tree in our backyard and the apples that fell have been dug up and eaten. Deer are pretty smart! Anyway, last night Carter walked past the window and said look mom a deer! (I had no clue he knew what deer were) There was a HUGE 8 point buck sitting in the backyard eating grass and apples. It was pretty crazy to actually see it. We didn't get any good pictures of it though. As soon as we opened the back door it bolted.

On another note, my favorite tv show Nip/Tuck starts up again tonight. We'll have to see how it is. The last season wasn't my favorite, so cross your fingers. Enjoy the snow and stay safe!