Mmmmmm... sweet potatoes

Today was another mellow day. I was sooooo sick and stayed in bed all morning with a horrible head cold.  Hayli did have her first veggies today... sweet potatoes! She was not too sure at first, but did take to them quickly. That was our big event for the day!

Holly worked half of the day and then we were off to the Yard House for cheap happy hour food in Waikiki. I finally got good drugs that cleared up my head cold.

Down in Waikiki they have completely redone Lewers street. The street where most of our guests stayed on for our wedding. It was a really run down street that has been totally redone with cute shops and fun restaurants. Cooper slept through dinner, I think he had a little of my head cold. But the kids did well. Cooper did wake up and started flirting with all the waitresses, like always.

We walked around Waikiki. A nice ending to our day!

Morning at the Kaneohe Bay Yacht Club

A little tired this morning. Places don't close around here until 4 in the morning.We got home shortly after 3 this morning... 

Today we are meeting our great friends the Nash family. Nate's God parents. They sponsored us for our post wedding brunch at the Kaneohe Bay Yacht club 5 years ago. So, this morning we got to have brunch with them over at the yacht club which is right across the street from Holly's house. It was great to see them as always. We did not do anything else but sleep the rest of the day. Then it was off for our weekly trip to the laundry mat! Just a lazy Sunday...

$100 baby sitter, yikes!

This morning I got up and was not feeling well. We were going to the beach to try Holly's new stand up paddle board. We were also supposed to be going out later tonight as we found a babysitter. Yeah, going out with no kids! So, I decided to stay home all morning with the kids and try to feel better before this evening. Holly and Nate went to the beach to go paddle and the kids and I just hung out and played. Once they got back we did go to the pool. Holly also pulled a Jessica Simpson to wash her fun BMW she gets to drive! 

Later that night we went out to dinner with the kids, we could not afford to pay the sitter to come too early as we knew it was going to be a late night...so we met up with some of Holly's friends and had dinner. We took the kids back home put them to bed and then the sitter came. She cost $15.00 an hour! Again the kids are already in bed (the sitter was not going to have to do a thing)! We took a cab into town and went to Nashville Waikiki and went line dancing all night. We had fun. Holly is from the midwest and loves country so she took us there. It was a very fun night out...Then we got home...yeah, the sitter was $100.00 for watching T.V. We just kept reminding ourselves that we had a fun night out with no kids!!

A Day in the Car....uggghhhhh

Nate got a call last night that Gary was feeling better and ready to golf. So, Nate was golfing today. That meant getting him to the other side of the island by 10 am to meet up with Gary. But, the pictures we had taken last night were not going to be ready until after 12. I also broke my cell phone a couple of days ago and needed to go to T Mobile to buy another one... It was going to be a day in the car, poor kids! We got Nate to Gary's on time and I then took off to Waikiki, which was on the way back to the hotel, to go buy a new phone. Fine I will tell you what I did to my phone. Nate is not letting me live it down. I left my phone on the roof of the car and slipped down a little bit falling into the way of the hatch back of the station wagon we are driving. So, I went to slam the back hatch to close it and I heard crunch. I crushed the screen. Yeah, no chance of recovery for that phone. Of course, I had no insurance, and of course it was a blackberry, not a cheap phone my husband keeps reminding me. But, I can not go without a phone. How did we do it back in the day without cell phones and being able to check your email every second of the day? Sheesh!

Got the new phone, went to feed the kids and then went back to the hotel to pick up the pictures. Then back to Michelle and Gary's house for dinner on the other side of the island. So after 5 hours of driving we made it to their house for dinner. Cooper came down with a fever at some point in there and was not feeling well. Thank goodness for children's Tylenol. One dose, he was back. Good thing, dinner would not have been fun. 

We spent the evening at Gary and Michelle's awesome place with a great ocean view from their lanai. Gary made us great fish tacos and him and Nate played the Wii all night while us girls hung out and talked shop!! Nice relaxing evening. At one point Gary got a hold of Hayli and was pretending to be a therapist and teach her how to walk. He also thought he would teach her a few wrestling moves. It was very comical! Gary passed Hayli onto Michelle and said see Michelle, you need a baby (they don't have children and do no plan on having them). Her response (the pediatric physical therapist that she is) was I would not know what to do with a normal one! They have fun lives. They like to live in different places and are always doing fun things. They say they never live in the same place more than 3 years... very fun!

So, back to Holly's we went. A nice ending to a not so fun day!

Happy Anniversary Part II...

Today we got up and had a nice breakfast. We checked out the sharks and the sting rays and back to the pool we went. Cooper again loved the pool and continued to get better in the water. Hayli loves the water. She hung out in her little floating boat without a peep. Nothing seems to faze that child (we are very blessed!). So we did the pool all morning and had lunch up in the room and took naps. While Nate and Cooper napped Hayli and I went on a hunt to the local stores to find Cooper and Hayli a red or green Hawaiian outfit to take pictures for our Christmas card. Could not find anyone with both red or both green, so I ended up getting Cooper red and Hayli green. It was going to be good enough, cuz I was over shopping! We went back to the hotel and got ready for pictures at sunset.

The kids cooperated fairly well. Some random lady was helping to get the kids to look and smile, she was very sweet. I hope they turn out OK!

After pictures we had dinner at the beach front restaurant at the hotel finished watching the sunset and listened to the live music. After dinner the hotel put on a movie on the beach on a big inflatable screen. Cooper walked right over and sat on the grass and said "wanna watch movie". He sat for maybe a minute and would run around and then sit again. He had fun. Hayli just sat in her carrier all night chewing on her toes. She was very content. It was a perfect evening. Happy Anniversary honey, thank you for giving me two amazing children. They could not have a better daddy! I love you tons and tons!!

Happy Anniversary Part I...

Today we get to go to the Ihilani JW Marriott Resort and Spa for a couple days! This is where we did our wedding pictures and stayed the night before our wedding 5 years ago as well as a few nights after our wedding. I stayed with all my girls the night before the wedding and then it was Nate and I for the 3 nights after. Very nice memories and I just can not believe that time flies and we are here 5 years later. So, we were off to the resort. We got the Kama aina rate (the local Hawaiian rate). Holly booked the resort for us and we got half off the ocean view penthouse. Amazing what they can charge and get from the poor tourists! It was just as beautiful as it was 5 years ago. They have expanded and have 4 huge resorts all down the beach. We stayed in the beach resort which was very kid friendly and had great pools for the kids. They were very shallow with a sand entry and a ton of sand for Cooper to play. It was very nice. We immediately went to the pool to start our relaxation! We ordered a couple of BBC's and chilled in the pool. This pool was perfect for Cooper it really boosted his confidence in the water. We heard no whining and there was no saying "all done". He could of stayed in the pool all day I think. It was very nice. We walked down to the Ihilani for dinner. Happy Anniversay honey, I love you! 

Yeah My Gym!

Nate was supposed to golf today with our friend Gary, but Gary strained his neck wrestling yesterday (he helps coach wrestling at the local high school in Hawaii Kai where he lives). He then had hockey practice as well last night and really hurt it. So, golf was out. We are supposed to go to their house for dinner tonight as well.

We spent the morning a little mellow. I was then on line and found Cooper his favorite thing. A My Gym in Hawaii! When I asked Cooper if he wanted to go to My Gym all he said over and over was "Yeah My Gym". He loves that place. It is an indoor play area for kids in which they have 1 hour classes that are semi structured. We like it as there are other kids his age to socialize with and attempt to learn that hard lesson of sharing! So I enrolled him in a 4 week class. I guess it is a brand new facility so it was very nice and very clean. Cooper loved it! After that we went to Hawaii Kai to have lunch with Gary and swim in his pool. We picked Gary up and went to Kona Brewing Co. for lunch and back to his place to swim. A fairly mellow day. Holly called and was not feeling well and had to cancel out of dinner for the night. So, after swimming we decided to go back home and let the kids nap and just stay home for the rest of the night. It was nice and mellow. We rescheduled dinner at Michelle and Gary's for Friday night. A nice easy day!!