30.4.10

don't wig out



my baby is 6 month old!
i cant believe my baby is a half a year old. the time has gone by so fast and i have truly loved every second. every day gets more and more fun. she is such a sweet happy baby. i didn't know they came THIS good. id like to think its just because im such a good mom, but don't worry, i know better than that. shes doing so many fun and funny new tricks. she had turned into a little spinning top. she rolls, and rolls all over the place. most of the time she finds her self stuck under the furniture,oops
shes now eating all kinds of food. rice cereal or oatmeal in the morning and some kind of fruit or veggie at night. she seems to love it all. she's quite the little chow hound. she's gotten really good eating off the spoon im sure it won't be long before shes begging for whats on our plate

she laughs and smiles alot. babbles and says mamamamamama all day long. cries hardly ever. has figured out how to sniff/snort and thinks its funny. hates when i pick her nose. loves when i clean her ears. can pretty much sit on her own. sleeps in her own crib all night long. can sometimes put her own binky back in, well ok shes not that good at that one. loves to play and chew on EVERYTHING. likes music and when i sing to her, and i swear sometimes she tries to hum along. loves books. loves baby einstein(and any tv). does not like the car or having the sun in her eyes. and most of all she LOVES attention, and lets me smother her with kisses all day long
Don't grow up too fast baby girl!

20.4.10

yay for hawaii

im just finally getting around to blogging our hawaii trip. it couldn't have come at a better time. i was so ready to leave the snow. we had so much fun. taking niya made it especially fun. shes such a good sweet baby, it made travel a breeze. i was worried about flying, but she was a little angel on all the flights. we first flew to oahu with the security national board. we stayed at the jw marriot. it was beautiful.
i especially loved being able to dress niya in summer clothes. im so sick of the cold and snow
it was her first time really wearing a bathing suit.
it was fun to be there with drews family. grandma lisa, and amanda are so much help
we spent lots of time just hangin out by the pool. it was so nice and relaxing
our second night there we had dinner with the whole board but really it just felt like a family dinner cause we had our own table. notice niya has pig tails.
we went to the north shore and ate shaved ice at matsumotos. its supposed to be the best but to be honest i liked our shave ice at jo jos in kauai way better.
we went to sharks cove and niya had her first little dip in the ocean.
it was really cute. she liked it.
i was happy her first time was a good experience because the second time i was holding her not realizing that i had her face in the water. who knows how much sea water she drank. oops
we stopped by giovannis shrimp truck on the way back
sooooo delish. but i think i was sweating garlic for days
on our last night on oahu. the whole fam went out to dinner. we tried to go to the fishermans warf where the quists always used to go but when we pulled up the it was out of business and the building was deserted.
so we took the time to take a few pics while we figured out where we were going to go

all the girls. we had so much fun on oahu. the next day just drew and i and niya were off to kauai. i was excited to go. i'd never been to that island
heres drew and niya going through security
us waiting in the terminal. it was freezing in there
niyas a natural flyer. i love this pic.
in kauai we stayed at the st regis princeville. it was AMAZING
this is the view out of our hotel room window
we spent one of the days on our own private beach. it was kind of a treck to get to it but once we were there it was perfect.
i even got a minute to read
i put this picture here for drew. he loves sunsets. and this was his favorite. we just sat out on the hotel lounge chairs and watched the sun go down.
here we are
this day we hiked the napali coast. unfortunately i didn't bring my camera. it was pouring rain that day and it was just one more thing to carry. drew was so pumped to do this and i was really glad we did. it was soooo beautiful. we hiked 2 miles in to this little beach and the 2 miles back. drew carried niya in the baby bjorn. she did great. people along the trail were always surprised to see a baby. well worth it
that night we wanted to go out for a nice dinner but didn't know what to do with baby. it worked out perfect because we made a late reservation and just put niya to sleep in her car seat. she slept under the table and we had an amazing dinner (one of the best i've had) at the kauai grill.
we had such a good trip. yay hawaii!!!

8.4.10

happy anniversary to us

better late than never. im a month late on our anniversary post but last month we celebrated our 2nd one! we had a really fun night out. thanks adam and amanda for babysitting. we went to dinner at spruce. it was soooo good. then we went and saw a movie. so fun
i decorated all anniversaryish
we ate our wedding cake. i know youre supposed to do that at one year but since we were in tahiti last year we saved it. dont worry it was not good
the decorations looked so cute i had to get a pic in the day time and include the flowers drew gave me
im so lucky to have such an amazing husband. happy anniversary!!

Easter

im getting pretty behind on my blogging and it starts to stress me out! i still need to do hawaii but i thought it would be appropriate to do easter first
we had a really good time in st george with drews family, the motzkus', patsy, and troy and amy.
we had fun doing baby photo shoots
dying easter eggs. we used the rubber cement idea and they turned out pretty cute

niya loved her easter basket. bunny brought her some cute books, a cuddly easter frog, and some burts bees baby shampoo. aunt sunny will be happy cause its parabin free. of course we hunted for eggs too. me and amanda tied for first. sorry drew and adam, looks like im good at looking for eggs now. it took me a couple years to re get the hang of it, considering i hadn't hunted for eggs in like 20 years. after me and amanda dominated we went for breakfast at the egg and i. after we spent the rest of the day just hangin out. it was nice and relaxing. it was a fun easter weekend.