Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Hawaiian Vacation part 1

We got back from Hawaii last night. It was such a blast! We officially went there for Greg's younger brother Mike's wedding, but it was also a great excuse for a family vacation. Thankfully for us my mom went with us as well. It takes 3 grown adults to watch one baby!

Here are a few of my favorite pictures:

Here we are at LAX at 6 in the morning. Notice Kayla's little juicy couture flying ensemble (thanks auntie Joy!) As you can see she likes to travel in style


When baby sleeps, mommy sleeps too (notice Kayla laying across mommy's lap). Luckily for us, there was only one minor tantrum involved the whole flight, before her nap. You can say we 'cheated' though (we gave her baby benadryl with the blessing of our doctor).


The beautiful view from our hotel room. we used Starwood points to stay at the Sheraton, and because we are members they upgraded us to an amazing oceanview room for free! lucky us!


A dip in the pool as soon as we got to the hotel. Kayla just loved the water! She wasn't afraid at all and didn't even mind the cold as much and me or Greg!


Just one of Kayla's many funny faces


Me and Kayla from our hotel balcony


We got a rollaway crib from the hotel, which Kayla took all her naps and night sleep in. As you can see we had to cover the side of the crib so she couldn't see out unless she stood up. It was hard to get her to sleep with us around! Most of the time Greg, grandma, and I were confined to the balcony until Kayla was sound asleep.




Here's Kayla in her floatie in the ocean. She liked tasting the salt water on her face by licking her lips.


She also loved playing in the sand. What a messy little thing!


Here's our little island girl with Grandma.


Kayla with daddy after a swim.


Here are some pictures of the wedding of Mike and Maghon on Saturday.

In the limo ride over -


The wedding was right on the beach!






Congrats to the happy couple!


Their first dance getting serenaded by the ukelele dude



Trying my hand at candid photography with Kayla...what do you think?!



We all got away from the kids with a booze cruise at sunset - it was me and Greg and his brother Jeff and his wife Becky. We had a great time!




I Loved the little tutu swimsuit that Grandma Martin got Kayla


My good girlfriend Kristin recently moved to Hawaii. We got to see her twice, once she met us on the beach and another night her and her fiance Bill had us over for dinner al fresco. It was so nice! (That's Kris in the background of this picture)

More images to come once we sort through the thousands we took!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Meet Lisa, the absentee blogger

I've run into some difficulties in blogging lately, namely 1) busy at work 2) busy planning for hawaii, and 3) busy planning kayla's 1st birthday party. Well, I started a new role at work recently which I hope will give me a better work/life balance, we leave for hawaii tomorrow, and Kayla's party happened last weekend and was a success!

So hopefully this means that I'll be posting more often. Here are a few of the pictures from her party....more to come!

Our house with the big jumper that the kids played in for hours


A few of my co-workers to able to come help celebrate!


The kids tore into the pinata and stuffed themselves with candy


Kayla enjoyed picking some up too! (but of course we didn't give her any!)


Here she is tasting her first bite of cake in life. YUM!