Friday, February 28, 2014

Maui, Hawaii

Since the hubs ranked in as #1 for his company this year (shameless brag!!), we had the opportunity to go to Maui for a week at the beginning of February.  Here's a little highlight reel from our trip.

 Jumping in the falls on the Road to Hana (which BTW was the single longest road ever -- worth it -- but make sure you get home before it gets dark!).  Ash ended up getting SO car sick on those terrible curves on the way back!



 Black Sand Beach
 Swimming with the sea turtles
 It was Whale mating season while we were there, so we were lucky enough to get to watch them surface from our balcony.  You could hear them so plain under water!


 our balcony view



 Ran into Dave Chappell during dinner one night

 Rainbow Eucalyptus trees

 One of my very favorite parts of the trip - the Luau and Firedancers!!

 The other Medtronic reps that were there for "president's club"
 We also ran into Newt Gingrich outside the hotel -- I don't think he was overly excited that Ash stopped him for a picture.  Lol!

 Carving our Souvenir

And our favorite meal of the whole trip (and that's really saying something, because we had some ridiculously fantastic food) was at Mama's Fish House on our way to the airport.
Fantastic, memorable trip -- so blessed to get to go!!

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Christmas 2013

Our Christmas Season in the order in which they appeared... Lol!  
 Our first stop was MimMim and Paps, and Good Lord at the presents.  Can't wait to see what it looks like next year with two more babies!  They sure get spoiled here (in more ways than gifts, mind you)





 Possibly my favorite gift ever received -- Mom MADE this quilt herself out of my old Chi Omega t-shirts.  I know it had to take her forever to make it.  Super love it.
 Next stop Nanny and Papoo Vincent's house.  The kids enjoyed hanging with Cousin Quinn today!


 Then onto Nanny and Papoo Douglas' house.
 Of course, Liam LOVED baby Isaac.  He is a baby nut!


 We returned to our house late Christmas Eve night, and thank goodness we did so that we didn't miss Santa!
 The kids were pretty pumped!




 Last, but not least, spending Christmas Day with the Jonas'

We are so very blessed to have so much family to visit on Christmas.  I love them all.  Hope everyone had a great one!

Friday, December 20, 2013

Snow Day!

 We had our first "really good" snow the first week of december this year.  This is the first snow that's really been deep enough to do some serious sledding -- and the golf course made for the perfect sledding hills!  The front yard was actually the perfect "warm up" sledding spot.  :)
 The boys were really excited!

 How stinkin sweet are they?

 See?  The front yard made for a perfect short sled!

 Snowball fights all around!  This was the first day of the snow.  We ended up with 7-8 inches by the time all was said and done.  Made for nearly a week of good sledding!


 We had to try out a new snowflake craft since there were so many outside!  I made snowcream, too, but we ate it too quickly to take pics!