Daughter or Dog?

We finally had some beautiful weather yesterday so we decided to have a family play day. We took advantage of the weather and played a game of croquet. It was fun. At one point during the game, Mark was trying to explain something to Leilani and raised his voice a little to speak over the wind. To which, Mia's response to me was, "Dad's talking to Leilani like she's the dog". Mark rarely raises his voice and when he does it is mostly to discipline Reshenka the dog so I guess I can see where Mia is coming from...she's a little confused, is Leilani a daughter or a dog?!? Okay, I don't get it...but it made me laugh!

Still Rockin'

Leilani and I had an opportunity to go on a Mother-Daughter cruise with our friends from San Antonio. Despite the rocking boat and vomiting, we had a great time. The food was plentiful, the friends were wonderful, and spending time with Leilani was just the best. It was nice to get some one on one time with her...she's so grown up! Here are some pictures of our trip... Happy Valentine's Day...Leilani is making sure that her carnation survives by putting it in water.

Playing some mini-golf on the top deck of the ship...

Sporting her favorite purchase while in Cozumel...the blue fan...

Making Carnival's version of Build-A-Bear. Losing her ring and bracelet in the process, and unstuffing the animal to find that in the process of stuffing her lion, the bracelet and ring got stuffed too!

No, we are not in Madagascar or NYC Zoo...it's Cozumel...

Freezing our tooshies off at a beach in Cozumel...

Leilani screaming, "I LOVE MEXICO!!!"

Dancing girls...

Our formal dining night...more food...

Going down the waterslide in the freezing weather with the wind wisping our breath away on the boat...

Enjoying a pina colada by the pool...

Swimming...

Eating ice-cream and bacon for breakfast...

The trip was great, Leilani felt like royalty and I felt like a roly poly. Thanks for the fun time Cari and Becky!

An Evening in Paradise

It's that time of year again when love is in the air with the anticipation of Valentine's Day. Some people think it's a time of romance but as I am the least romantic person ever I push aside romance and think party instead. We held our 3rd Annual Newlywed Game with our friends. This year our theme was "An Evening in Paradise". We decided to have our own little Luau, minus the fire dancers.

The decor-paper lanterns, fishnet tablecloths with shells, and of course, all of us dressed up in our aloha hats, hula skirts, coconut bras, and lei's.

The menu this year included...egg rolls and teriyaki chicken,Chicken heck...

Pani Popo...Fruit kabobs and veggies for color...and Guava cake for dessert...YUM! Oh, and we can't forget the pina coladas and strawberry daquiri's!Here are the Ladies...Jeri, Dustie, Cheryl, Sabs, me, and Steph.

And the gents... Eric, Jeremy, Brian, Mark, Daniel, and Cory.

Thanks for hanging out with us...we had a great time!

The 100th Day of School!

It's the day Aidyn has been waiting for...the 100th day of school! My baby has officially been a kindergartner for 100 days now. During that time we have received 6 (I've lost count) phone calls from the school nurse...falling flat on her face, blisters, bloody nose, scraped up back, hitting her head and more. She has gone from being so excited to attend school like her sisters, to dreading school and wanting to stay home with mom, and then back to loving school. She has a great teacher and has made such good friends. She's reading and writing and talking like a big girl. Here she is in her 100th day shirt that we made-100 googly eyes in honor of the big day! Happy 100th day of school!