Apple Picking

We went up to Julian in the mountains to go apple picking. The girls had a great time.

Everyone got a bag to fill. We ended up with ALOT of apples!

Three little monkeys.

MOPS Pumpkin patch trip

The girls helped to decorate the cupcakes for our MOPS playgroup trip to the pumpkin patch. It was very strange, not bringing Sarah with us....

Mollys pumpkin

Heather picked her special pumpkin too after careful consideration.

This is perfect. Molly loves "Meow Meows"

Our MOPS group. We had a great turnout.

Sarahs Special Dress pictures

A picture of the girls in their polka-dot dresses. I think they will wear all of their summer dresses all winter, I just love them so much!

My little Molly-Cakers.

Sarahs Special Dress pictures. I still haven't taken her portraits yet, she cut her bangs so I am waiting for them to grow out. Another few weeks and we will be able to take them.

The Zoo

One day after we got Sarah from school, we went to the zoo. The girls each picked an animal, and we ended up going all over the place.

We found this beautiful Hibiscus bush and I had to take a picture. This flower was about 8" across. I wish I could grow them like this at home! Mine only get about 3-4".

One of the girls had picked the Pandas.

Hawaii

Nathan and I were able to go to Hawaii for our 10 year anniversary a few weeks ago. We had a great time! We got in on a Sunday night, and it gets dark around 6 there, so we didn't get to see anything that night. When we woke up in the morning, it was so peaceful and calm.... not things we are used to with 3 small children.

We rented a little house on the beach, it was small, but perfect for the two of us.

All we did the first day was to buy some groceries and we spent the rest of the day back at the house on the beach, snorkeling, and resting.

The second day we went to Pearl Harbor and Waikiki beach. This is the ship under the water.

Here is the wall with all of the names of the men and women who died that day.

Here is a beautiful picture of me at Waikiki beach.

Looking down the beach.


The sunrise the next morning. The mornings are some of our best memories. We woke up early every day, mostly because of the time change.

Our breakfast of fresh pineapple and an omlet, with kona coffee. Yum......

We happened upon a beach called "Lani Beach" by the locals, and it is a major spot for turtles to come to eat the seaweed. We came here twice because it was so much fun.

The turtles come right up to you, and dont mind it you pet them. The girls would have had a blast here!

This is a great picture of this beach. It is one of my favorite memories!

A nice lady took our picture for us.

This sums up our trip... totally relaxed.

We got in a few walks at night on the beach, it was really calm, since it is a semi private beach, there are a few homes on the beach around us, but we didn't really see any of them on the beach.

Another great sunrise greeting us as we woke up.

Hawaii update 2

The second half of the trip we spent alot of time hiking up to waterfalls. This hike was quite the adventure, we got lost, and it was way longer and steeper than we had expected.

Wandering around in a huge opening in the rain forest.

I set the camera to timer and got an ok picture on the second try. This valley behind us was really amazing. You cant really see from the picture, but it was huge, and so beautiful!

We finally made it to the falls, it was gorgeous! We climbed up and there were two more falls with pools above it.

This shows the scale of it better, I am up at the top. Some locals came and they jumped from some ledges twice as high as I am in this picture. It was very deep in some spots.

A picture of me in my bikini.

We went out to dinner only twice during the 8 days. Most days we stayed at the house and barbequed on the beach. Nathan took more pictures of me on this trip than the whole last year! I guess thats what happens when there are not kiddos everywhere to take pictures of!!!

A small falls and pool on the way to the next falls. I didn't get any pictures of the big falls with this camera, only the underwater camera, and I am still waiting to get the pictures transfered to digital. It was alot of fun though. I will put them up when I get that done.

Walking through the rainforest again to the 3rd falls.

This was so tall, I couldn't get it all in the picture, this is probably about half of it. it was beautiful! It was illegal to swim in this one though. Bummer!

My mom came to watch the girls while we were away, they had such a great time they didn't even miss us!!!

THANKS GRANDMA RITA!!!!