My Mom..

My Mom and Dad came home for a week because my brother and his wife had their beautiful new baby girl. It was so wonderful to see them and have them around again! I really miss being able to see them every day (whether they like it or not!). Now, I LOVE my Daddy more than anything, but I really want to talk about my Mom. She is an amazing woman. I would honestly be lost without her. When I was in the hospital, she stayed with me EVERY day for a month! She slept on a tiny (I'm sure very uncomfortable) cot right next to me. She watched Days of Our Lives with me. She helped me put together puzzles, thought of crafts that I could do in bed and went and got me non-hospital food. I'm sure it was the most boring month of her life, but she never complained. Not once did she ever make me feel like she wanted to be anywhere else then right there with me. When they told me I had to have an emergency C-Section and I had about 6 seconds to prepare myself, I was more scared then I have ever been in my entire life. Chris was 3 hours away and wasn't going to be able to be there with me but I looked over and there was my Mom. I knew everything would be o.k. She held my hand the entire time. When Zaiah was in the hospital, I had to stay out at the Ronald McDonald House for 6 months. She came and stayed with me as much as she could. She is always willing to watch my kids when I need help. I know that they are sometimes wild and crazy and a pain in the butt, but even knowing this, she has them all over for sleepovers and little play dates. She is the best Grandmother in the world! She always has new crafts and activities for them to do. They LOVE her so much! She has this crazy ability to know when I am having a horrible day and feeling like the worst mother and wife that has ever existed, and sends me texts saying that she is proud of me and how wonderful she thinks I am. She is a fantastic wife. She takes such great care of my Dad. I could go on and on and on about how amazing my Mom is, but to make this simple and short...

When I think of the woman that I want to become and that I hope someday I will be, I always picture my Mothers face. I love you Mom. More then you will ever know.

My other beautiful babies!

I decided that Kenna's pictures turned out so cute that I should take some up to date ones of my other two rugrats. Zai was actually quite the little poser where as Averie was her usual busy body self and wouldn't sit still for more then 12 seconds!

My little supermodel..

Kennedie is turning 5 in a few weeks, so I decided to take a few pictures of her to put on her birthday invitations. She was such a great model! Seeing them just made me realize that she is definitely not my baby anymore! She looks SOO big! I aways new she was an adorable girl, but man.. she is GORGEOUS! I'm a little worried for when she turns 16!! Anyways, here is my little supermodel!

Maui!!

We went to Oahu, Hawaii a couple of years ago and I wasn't very impressed. I had this entirely different image of Hawaii in my mind. Although we had fun, I didn't really want to go back. When we decided to plan our vacation this time, Christopher said he wanted to go to Maui. I was a little hesitant, but of course...gave in! Let me tell you that I am SOO glad I did! It was BEAUTIFUL!!! It is completely different than Oahu! I had so much fun on this trip! We asked my parents to come with us and it was so much fun hanging out with them! The first day we were there we hung out at the beach mostly. The next day we did the infamous drive to Hana. It was way pretty, but really, REALLY long and the roads were really twisty. It was worth it though. We went to the seven sacred pools, the red sand beach (which we almost died trying to hike to!) and saw a lot of whales along the way! The next day we walked along the shops and hit the beach again. We were planning on going whale watching the next day, but low and behold...Christopher got food poisoning! He was so sick all day! My parents decided to fly to Oahu for the night so they could spend valentines Day over there and visit my Great, Great Grandpas grave and so I was left with sicky! On valentines Day, Chris was feeling much better which was a good thing because we had already made arrangements to go on a helicopter tour of the island! We originally were going to go on a 30 min. tour but the company needed two thinner people for a 1 hour flight and we were the big winners! It was one of the coolest things I have done! Maui is AMAZING! Afterwards we went snorkeling and body surfing and then cleaned up and went to a luau. The food there was so yummy! I had such a great time and the weather was so perfect that I didn't want to leave! It was nice coming home and seeing my babies though! Here are some of many pictures that we took.

This is part of the seven sacred pools. It was so pretty!

I LOVE this picture of my parents!

This is part of the crazy cliff we had to hike to get to..

The red sand beach

VIEWS FROM THE SKY!!

I DO!!!

After 8 years, we FINALY took wedding photos!! Ash was nice enough to shoot a few pics of us in our wedding attire and I think they turned out great! As I was editing some of them, I noticed something... We look EXACTLY the same!! I thought that we would actually look like adults at this point in our lives, but I guess in another 8 years we might stop getting i.d. for rated R movies!! I guess I'll soak it up while I can!!

This is one of my favorites!

I absolutely LOVE this photo! It reminds me of an old school movie!