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So, yes, it's been a long time since I've written, and hence have forgotten most of the details about the things that I need to write about. But hopefully somebody will be reading this years down the line (maybe some great-great-granddaughter or something) and will be thankful that I kept this chronology of our lives at least. . .
The last week of July I was finally able to go to Hawaii with Jared. The other 'wives' came too, Allison and Michelle - not Jared's other wives, but the wives of David and Ross. . .ha. The boys had to work most of the time that we were there, so us girls just hung out on the beach, and by the pool, and in our rooms, and in the pool, and at Matsumoto's, and well, wherever we felt like it. People keep asking "What did you do in Hawaii?" and my best answer is, "Nothing." Honestly, it was everything an actual vacation is supposed to be. No children, no commitments, a good book, the beach, great breezy weather, good friends, GREAT food, and my great husband. We just took it easy and RELAXED!!! Wow, I don't know that I'll ever be lucky enough to have such a great trip ever again in my life, but I loved it!!!
This is Jared and I eating at the Luau at the PCC.
Besides just sitting around basking in the sun, we did do a few touristy things. We hiked up through the botanical gardens to Waimea Falls, but tragically there were no falls. Apparently it's just the end of the dry season, so the falls were just trickling down the mountain, but it was beautiful anyways. All of the flowers and trees over there are so amazing. I just loved seeing each new thing!! On Saturday Jared and I went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay. AMAZING!!! This is the thing to do if you go to Oahu. It is a fish sanctuary, and there are so many amazing kinds of fish. After we had been in the water a while, we got to where we felt like we were just seeing the same fish over and over again, and then some crazy new type would swim in front of us!! We were inches away from these huge turtles, and countless types of tropical fish. Pictures couldn't do it justice. Honestly, if I ever go to Hawaii again, I would love to do this again.
OK, this is a hideous picture of the both of us, but the only one we took at Hanauma Bay. If you look close, you can see the snorkel mask indentation on my forehead!!
We stopped by Pearl Harbor, but it was about to close so nothing was really open. You can just walk out onto this submarine, and I guess during regular hours you can go down inside of it as well. There was a sign on the building next to it that said 'closed', but there was nothing in front of the ramp up the sub, so we just walked on up!! We were there long enough for one other family to follow us up there and take our picture before a little Japanese worker lady came and yelled at us to get down because it was closed!! What rebels, hu?!This is Jared and I eating at the Luau at the PCC.
Besides just sitting around basking in the sun, we did do a few touristy things. We hiked up through the botanical gardens to Waimea Falls, but tragically there were no falls. Apparently it's just the end of the dry season, so the falls were just trickling down the mountain, but it was beautiful anyways. All of the flowers and trees over there are so amazing. I just loved seeing each new thing!! On Saturday Jared and I went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay. AMAZING!!! This is the thing to do if you go to Oahu. It is a fish sanctuary, and there are so many amazing kinds of fish. After we had been in the water a while, we got to where we felt like we were just seeing the same fish over and over again, and then some crazy new type would swim in front of us!! We were inches away from these huge turtles, and countless types of tropical fish. Pictures couldn't do it justice. Honestly, if I ever go to Hawaii again, I would love to do this again.
OK, this is a hideous picture of the both of us, but the only one we took at Hanauma Bay. If you look close, you can see the snorkel mask indentation on my forehead!!
Evan turned 1!! We made it!! I always said that if I could just make it through this first year, we'd be set, and here we are! I almost can't believe it, honestly it's gone by so fast. We didn't have much of a party for him, but Chantelle was in town and so were Alan and Camille and we were all going up to Ray and Bev's for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, so I decided to at least make a cake. What to make for a 1 year old? Well, there were lots of great ideas, and Chan told me about a train cake that she had made with Twinkies as the train cars. . .sounds easy enough, right? Well, I baked myself a cake, and bought myself a box of Twinkies and lots of candy to decorate with and just started. Now, I'm not usually a great creative thinker, or very artistic or crafty, so it was truely inspiration that I made such an amazing cake. . .honestly one of the coolest cakes in the history of amature-mommy-cake-decorators. Somehow I thought of doing a tunnel. . .and the rest just came out of me. . .5 hours and lots of sugary frosting later the masterpiece was done. . .I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
Here's Evan with my brother Alan. Can you see how amazed Alan is? And how jealous he is that he didn't ever make his kid such an awesome cake? Can you also see how the train track comes around and UNDER the tunnel?!! Green coconut grass. . .brown coconut dirt. . .chocolate licorice train tracks. . .quartered chocolate wafer cookie rail-road-ties. . .and the engine even has a cow-pusher thingy. . .I'm a great mom, I know.
Here's a better view of the tunnel.
I couldn't resist these pictures of Evan enjoying his
birthday cake!!!
birthday cake!!!
We finally went on our vacation to San Diego with Jareds family. It was so great!! We were so close to the beach, and spent a lot of time there boogy boarding and making sand castles and stuff. Jared got a rediculous sunburn at the beginning of the trip and spent the rest of the week in lots of pain. We went to Sea World, which Cohen loved of course, he just loves animals. He was totally enthralled by Shamu and the dolphins, and all of the animals. It was great.
Cohen and Sophie enthralled with the Shamu
Show. . .and Justin too!!!
Show. . .and Justin too!!!
Here we are having fun on the Merry-Go-Round at
this little carnival place just down the street from our
beach house.
this little carnival place just down the street from our
beach house.
Doesn't jared look excited?!!! He's going to be so happythat I posted this picture!!
Here's the family photo on the beach. Jared is such a great photographer, right?!
This picture basically sums up how we all felt by the end of this picture-taking adventure. . .Poor Sophie
Our cute little family walking down the beach. . .so picturesque, eh?!
Cohen is talking a ton, which is so cute. He's starting to use his imagination so much, I love to just sit and watch him play with his little horseys and dinosaurs. Their conversation goes something like this. "What are you doing?" "I don't know" "Whats your name?" "Dinosaur" "Hey!! Don't do that!!" "Don't hit me!" and stuff like that. Its funny. I find myself just watching him, hoping he won't notice that I'm watching so he'll keep on playing in his little imaginary world. I love it!
Evan has started walking for real, thank goodness!! Because he's HEAVY!!! He has been taking a few steps for a while, but just over the last few days has been walking across the whole room. He loves to just practice walking, its so funny!! He'll just walk in between the couch and the windowsill over and over and over. It's cute.
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