Utter Cuteness!

Life is sweet!

Life is especially sweet when you have a little princess to add that extra special touch of sugar to your life!

Never a dull moment that's for sure.

She pretty much keeps us in stitches with her cute and whimsical comments, such as the recent "I can't do that cause I'm not 10" Not really sure where she got that one. Oh and while feeding the dog, she replies, "not too much, never more than a spot or something may happen and we know what!" Can you guess which book that comes from.

We've learned that she's an auditory learner as she can recite books read to her once back to her dolls/stuffed animals. Not always word for word, but close. Not saying she learns everything by that method as selective hearing/obedience rears its ugly head from time to time. Then again she is 3 you know!

Potty training is going great! In fact last night...no pull-ups...YEAH!!! Hard to believe I am FINALLY out of diapers...well...until...lets not talk about it okay?!

She's super quick to let you know when you say a word that is naughty/bad (s-t-u-p-i-d, d-u-m-b, etc.). Though the other day, Tanner was relaying a conversation and said, "I could use a dewsky" (been informed that that is code for Mountain Dew), upon which Abigail turned to him with all seriousness and said, "You can't say 'douchie' cause that's a bad word"! There are seriously times when I am stunned by her use (and even understanding of) of the english language. Ahhh, 'tweener' parenting (for those of you who don't know what that is...it's raising a toddler in a house full of teens).

"Look...I got gum!!!"
She has recently experienced the world of gum (potty training technique ~ ok, alright...you call it bribe, I call it technique :0))

Can you tell who I LOVE???

Abigail loves to have her picture taken! And since I LOVE Abigail, it seemed only fitting to have my picture taken with her.

Cheezy grin!

Can you say a picture of utter cuteness.
Impossible not to fall in love with this face.

Wishing for MAUI time!

Ahhhh, MAUI...Ka'anapali Beach to be exact!!!

It was time for us (hubby and I) to spend TIME alone together celebrating 21 years of marital bliss.

Okay, alright, so we've not necessarily had marital bliss ALL 21 years, after all marriage is hard! BUT the fact is we both have made the choice to LOVE one another no matter if we feel like it or not. And trust me, there have truly been times where the 'not' has come into play. Yet, having this time together we both are reminded how much LOVE we have for one another, how each one of us is the others' best friend and frankly...I DON'T want to do life without Brian. He's fun, funny, thoughtful, sensitive, loving, adoring, serious, silly...and so much more!

Not sure why, but time was slower in Maui. No, seriously, Brian would say that to me every day as we'd check our watches expecting it to be hours later than it was and the conclusion we came to was...time is slower in Maui!

(a view of Black Rock - a very popular snorkeling site)

Now, could it be the fact that we had no kids to take care of?
OR
That we'd be in bed by 8:30p and up in the morning by 5:30-6:00am because our bodies were used to WA time (3 hours ahead of Maui) and thus by the time you'd wake up and have breakfast on the lanai listening to the waves crash onto the sand it would only be 8:30am and feel like half the day was already gone?
OR
That we had no responsibilities (except for keeping ourselves sunned and fed)?!
How about all of the above!!!

Nonetheless, looking at how long its been since blog posting I realized that I "need" time to be Maui time...much, much slower. As I sit and type this I am suffering from 'lightheaded-ness/dizziness", a residual I am thinking from the trip! I'm sure some of you are saying, "serves you right for gallivanting off to the tropics ~ I don't feel sorry for you a bit :0)".

Not sure if its from travel or I picked up a bug. Re-entry is difficult considering the demands at hand. I will say how incredibly PROUD I am of our boys who so sacrificially agreed to stay home alone AND take care of baby-cakes too! Many of you are shouting, "ARE YOU CRAZY??? Leaving 3 teen-age boys and a 3 year old home alone for 6 days ~ whatever are you thinking???" Fact is...I trust them. And more importantly, Abigail trusts them and enjoyed her time alone with them. Grandma W. did join the boys and Princess the last couple of days since both of the older two had overlapping work schedules. All I can say is the exhaustion is clearly exhausting! I will however prevail.

And of course it wouldn't be a complete post without photos now would it!

Yes, Maui 'required' Brian to double fist the coffee on his first morning ~ I had him hold mine for photo visual aids.

Historic Banyan tree in the town of Lahaina. Truly remarkable how all of these limbs find their way to grow into another trunk.

Does it get any better than this?

Okay, maybe I spoke too soon. This was a beautiful sunset we experienced while enjoying an evening at Merriman's. Should you ever get the chance to go to Maui - having drinks and appetizer's on the deck at Merriman's is a MUST!!!



Our friendly (I think) lunch visitors. I literally noticed these two lizards and thus quickly moved my legs up the lunch table to avoid them thinking my leg was a pole to climb. You know those lizards..."Look a new pole to try out our dance moves!"

A very popular location for us...sunning on the beach!



This was our view from our lanai...enjoyed breakfast here every morning. Yes, I could do this the rest of my life...truly peaceful!!!