Balloona Palooza

I blew up some balloons the other day and this kid thought it was the most fun.
Enjoy some shots of my blue eyed sugar pie.

(fuzzy shot, but pretty funny)

Forgotten Photo

Somehow I just realized that I didn't include my favorite Hawaii picture in my Maui post.

This is on our hike, he looks like a little jungle monkey boy. I love that silly kid.

Maui!!!

I know, I know...we were in Maui a month ago. When I take a million pictures I usually stop blogging because the thought of sorting through them all and finding just the best ones to post is overwhelming. I'm giving in though and just posting...you might not get a carefully chosen selection but "I just can't take it anymore." (Cue me ripping off my glasses to fake drown.)

Maui was, oh what's the word...AMAZING! So good. Everything I ever dreamed it would be. It was warm, it was sunny, it was salty, it was sandy, it was America, it was expensive. Oh, maybe that should be on the con list?

Berkley was a trooper. I really mean it. He was great on the flights both coming and going, he was an angel on the beach and in the car and sleeping wherever we were whenever he got tired. I really can't say enough how great he was. He did suffer a little jet lag so we took EARLY family walks on the beach, but it was also kind of great to be by ourselves on the beach like that.

We swam, we snorkeled, we ate, we played, we hiked. On my first snorkel experience, I'm not going to lie I was nervous. I don't know why but it kind of freaked me out, but once we got started it wasn't so bad. We saw lots of fish and 3 sea turtles. The second time, at a different location I saw another sea turtle and 3 SHARKS! For real. 63 and Larry were beckoning April and Marisha and I to come look at something and there they were, 3 sharks in an underwater cave. I didn't get too close so I was telling people they were 3-4 feet and 63 and Larry who were practically making out with the beasts were like, no Whitney, those were bigger than you, they were easily 6 feet. YIKES. Glad I didn't realize that until I was out of the water.

We took a ferry over to Lanai one of the days and that was awesome. Clear blue water, dolphins jumping out of the water, schools of brightly colored fish underneath us as we snorkeled. We walked around the 4 Seasons resort there. Amazing, the gardens there were beautiful and their Koi made the ones at my work look like tadpoles. And that's saying something.

We drove to Hana and hiked through a bamboo forest too. It was beautiful! Well those are the highlights and in an effort to keep this somewhat brief I'll leave it at that. Mission Maui was definitely a success.

The Cutest 7 Month Old You Ever Did See

A special thanks to Baby Gap for, the cutest cowboy hat you ever did see.

Goodness, Gracious, Great Blocks of Blue

Some of the girls that I used to work with and I get together officially once a month (unofficially, more like once a week) to do something. This month that something was crafting some blocks. Chynna found them on a craft blog, its a certain combination of 4 letters per block on ten blocks and you can make tons of words out of them. It's actually a really fun game to try and make words, a little puzzle every time.

So whether you're feeling festive:


older:


or motherly:


You can change your blocks accordingly.

I still need to get a list of all of our word options but so far, just from playing around I know you can do:

Shawn
Whitney
Berkley
Christmas
America
American
Lucky
Funky
Easter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
and other randoms...but I know there is supposed to be a word for every holiday...

The Easter Bunny Cameth

And his visit was a success.

There was even a little candy in there for mom and dad.

And that silly rabbit surprised me with some Easter Lilies!

I hope your Easter was great, too.

(The entire cast of Glee is going to be on Oprah tomorrow, set your DVR's!!!)

Blend It Up, Smoosh It Up, Way Up

Cool title, eh? hahaha

So my friend Chynna and I decided it would be a great idea to make some baby food (and our friend Tiffany came and wrangled the babies) for my Berky and her Crew. Now that I'm on the other side of it, I'm not sure it was...but it was a fun day nevertheless.

It just took a lot of time, a lot of effort, and an amount of money that leaves you wondering...did I save anything at all??? I mean, some of the things were cheaper, but some seemed to be more expensive which makes me feel like I did nothing but break even. It is a good way to introduce new flavors that the baby food companies don't make though.

Bottomline: Sure, do it if you want to, if you feel like you've got time on your hands and nothing better to do sure. In my humble opinion your time would be better spent vacuuming or crafting.