Then and Now

So Makaela found some of her old baby items in the garage (thanks to the mess we created pulling out the Christmas decorations). It was so funny to see Makaela climb into her exersaucer and proceed to get stuck in it...it really brought back memories.
November 2009

December 2007

7 years and counting

Yesterday Matt and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary. It's been so long, yet it feels like only yesterday we were married in Ko'olina. To celebrate, we headed downtown for dinner with friends, saw Dane Cook give his stand up comedy show and then headed out to dance. We had a great time (perhaps too good of a time that it hurt the next morning, but oh well...) and are looking forward to the next 7 years.Dane Cook

Getting down at Rumors

Sleepover at Hailey and Kailee's

Tonight Makaela had her first big girl sleepover. She got to sleep in Hailey's big girl bed and it was quite an adventure for both Makaela and Auntie Claudia. She went to bed with every stuffed animal she could find on top of her and proceeded to fall out of the bed twice, even though she sleeping against the wall. Apparently she is as energetic when she sleeps as she is when she is awake.

Happy Thanksgiving

After splitting my time between my proposal and roasting the bird, we headed over to Jaimi's house to celebrate Thanksgiving. It was a very low key night and we got to catch up on conversation, football and of course, eating. Makaela and Brooke discovered they are muscial prodigies and between the piano interludes, the dance recitals and the drag races down the hallways, the kids were exhausted (so were the parents :-)
Kaela, Abby and Brooke

Brooke and Kaela's recital

Tis the season

Today, I plugged away at my proposal revisions and when Matt headed to work, Makaela and I went to work on decorating the house for Christmas. We didn't set up a big tree this year since we will be on the East Coast for Christmas, but Kaela had a great time decorating our little one. Luckily I had nonbreakable ornaments, because at first she couldn't understand why the "balls" wouldn't bounce. We also set up her Little People Nativity set, so she is going around with the baby Jesus telling me that "Jesus, night night". I can already tell that this season will be a fun one.

New Moon night

The anticipation has been building for the New Moon premiere. Our friends got tickets to the midnight showing of New Moon. We met up for drinks at Mel's before the show and hung out with Jon Gosselin a bit more. The movie was great- overall I think they did a great job of condensing 400 pages into a 2 hour movie, but I would have loved the movie to have been longer.

The Ilima Ladies

Kiddie Christmas picture

Today we got all the kids together in attempts to get a keiki Christmas picture. There were lots of little sandy bottoms and wandering toddlers. After the craziness, we headed to breakfast and then Makaela and I went exploring the tide pools. When we returned to the beach, we found Matt hand feeding a turtle. Kaela had a great time splashing around with the Stampfer kids. Then we came home and had family nap time.