Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Will wonders never cease?
There are three - count them - three new posts below this. Amazing, I know.
Reader's Digest Version
Dear Sorry, Neglected, Pathetically and embarrassingly lame blog,
I apologize for forgetting about you. I promise to {TRY} to be better about updating you. I hope that we can still be friends.
Here's what you missed in the long four months you've spent pining away for me:
Nicholas turned four.
Nicholas got potty trained (after a year and a half of trying!)
Benjamin turned eight.
Benjamin got baptized.
We went to the Great Wolf Lodge to celebrate.
Sam turned 10. YIKES!
Eliana grew slightly more hair. Still rocking the mullet, though.
Kenai . . . who knew a dog could be so much trouble.
Broke his elbow. Had to have surgery to have pins put in. Pins fell out. Had to have pins re-inserted, and a cast put on. While in the cast, re-broke his elbow. Vet got very, VERY angry about that. Spent 10 days at the kennel so the vet could be in charge. Came home good as new - although slightly more of an investment.
Everyone did the annual bluebonnet pictures.
Josh and Rachel spent a week in Hawaii.
Whew! Just the dog alone is reason enough to keep me from blogging.
Pictures may or may not follow. You can't expect things to change all at once. I'm just saying.
I apologize for forgetting about you. I promise to {TRY} to be better about updating you. I hope that we can still be friends.
Here's what you missed in the long four months you've spent pining away for me:
Nicholas turned four.
Nicholas got potty trained (after a year and a half of trying!)
Benjamin turned eight.
Benjamin got baptized.
We went to the Great Wolf Lodge to celebrate.
Sam turned 10. YIKES!
Eliana grew slightly more hair. Still rocking the mullet, though.
Kenai . . . who knew a dog could be so much trouble.
Broke his elbow. Had to have surgery to have pins put in. Pins fell out. Had to have pins re-inserted, and a cast put on. While in the cast, re-broke his elbow. Vet got very, VERY angry about that. Spent 10 days at the kennel so the vet could be in charge. Came home good as new - although slightly more of an investment.
Everyone did the annual bluebonnet pictures.
Josh and Rachel spent a week in Hawaii.
Whew! Just the dog alone is reason enough to keep me from blogging.
Pictures may or may not follow. You can't expect things to change all at once. I'm just saying.
Hawaii
For Valentine's day, Josh surprised me with a trip to Hawaii. We had to wait for his schedule to clear, so we didn't go until last week. It was fabulous! We spent five days on the island of Molokai. It's a smaller island - no stop lights, no chain restaurants, one grocery store - island living at it's best. We had a condo right on the beach - it was perfect!
We had fresh mangos and pineapple. We had macadamia nuts right from the tree. We walked the beach for hours every morning. We drove through a rainforest (and I freaked out when the one lane road dirt road high on the mountain had no guard rails to protect us from the bazillion mile drop). We saw whales as we sat on the beach. We saw a Hawaiian Monk Seal (not as well groomed as they are in a zoo). We collected hundreds of shells an coral. It was the most amazingly perfect week ever!
There is nothing better than a vacation to Hawaii! I'm still trying to convince Josh we need to move there. Keep your fingers crossed!
Please forgive the picture overload, but you have to see it all. Besides, I only pick a few from the 500+ pictures we took. Consider yourselves lucky.
The view from our Lanai.
Papohaku Beach. I think it's three miles long. And we only ever saw one other person on it.
Hawaiian Monk Seal.
The grocery store in Maunaloa Town. So cute!
The view down to Kalaupapa - the Leper colony.
Josh exploring the tide pools at the Moomomi Preserve.
The island of Maui in the background.
The scary price of gas. And only two gas stations on the island. But have no fear - you can also buy diapers, ice coolers, big screen TVs and fresh fruit while you fill up.
Surfers.
The royal coconut grove, planted by King Kamehameha V in 1860.
The view from the back of the condos.
One of the whales we saw from the beach.
We had fresh mangos and pineapple. We had macadamia nuts right from the tree. We walked the beach for hours every morning. We drove through a rainforest (and I freaked out when the one lane road dirt road high on the mountain had no guard rails to protect us from the bazillion mile drop). We saw whales as we sat on the beach. We saw a Hawaiian Monk Seal (not as well groomed as they are in a zoo). We collected hundreds of shells an coral. It was the most amazingly perfect week ever!
There is nothing better than a vacation to Hawaii! I'm still trying to convince Josh we need to move there. Keep your fingers crossed!
Please forgive the picture overload, but you have to see it all. Besides, I only pick a few from the 500+ pictures we took. Consider yourselves lucky.
The view from our Lanai.
Papohaku Beach. I think it's three miles long. And we only ever saw one other person on it.
Hawaiian Monk Seal.
The grocery store in Maunaloa Town. So cute!
The view down to Kalaupapa - the Leper colony.
Josh exploring the tide pools at the Moomomi Preserve.
The island of Maui in the background.
The scary price of gas. And only two gas stations on the island. But have no fear - you can also buy diapers, ice coolers, big screen TVs and fresh fruit while you fill up.
Surfers.
The royal coconut grove, planted by King Kamehameha V in 1860.
The view from the back of the condos.
One of the whales we saw from the beach.Bluebonnets 2010
How could we call ourselves Texans without bluebonnet pictures? {Not that we call ourselves Texans. I'm not quite sure what we are. Except Texas trend followers}.
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