yummy

so who are the geniuses working at Old Navy?
Bringing super, yummy , chocolate covered goodies in this store for only 5 dollars. for real. so smart or i am just a sucker for anything sweet.

honestly.
i am eating this goodness ( the piece in the above picture) as i am typing and feeling a bit gulity at the same time.
yes.
it was a good deal.
yes.
it tastes awesome and is so festive.
but.
huge but.
this was suppose to be a stocking stuffer for someone else.
oops.
guess i need to go shopping again.

a maui good time

the boys enjoying the Maui Ocean Center's turtles.IRL...loved meeting up with Miss D bird herself. She is ultra cool. I have to say that i am a huge nerd and was so nervous. When we saw eachother we just hit it off though. Talking and laughing and just hanging out. Its probably a good thing we do not live on the same island because we could do some major shopping damage. and can you imagine combined shipping...oh yea! I hope we can for sure meet up again and do some scrappin. i had a blast, even though our visit was short. and thanks Anthony for taking the kids to Happy Feet, even though they were not so happy while watching it.Uncle guy checkin out the fish with the wee onesthis time last week we were packin up to island hop over to Maui for Thanksgiving with my brother, Sil and nephew Logan. We had such a fun time.
it started in the airport with miss Olivia, the flight attendant wanna be, trucking her toys. Loved seeing that.
Then we enjoyed a beachside, potluck style Thanksgiving. Yummy!!!
More time was spent shopping, eating, and enjoying the beach. It was so wonderful to see all the cousins playing together. There is nothing as special as time spent with family. It will be nice when we all live closer and can do it more often.

so now we are in full gear Christmas mode.
tree. check.
decorations. check.
music. check.
feeling of comfort and joy. check, check.
stockings hung. check x 4

I know its not even December yet, but man i love me some Christmas time joy!!

for real?

this is one of my most favoritest pictures ever!!

took it at the HNL airport and am so tickled that she is a ham for the camera and i could get a photo like this.

i used to be a flight attendant and there's my little girl being like one.

***aaahhhh dang...love this***

had a great weekend

have lots to share

be back soon.

got alot to do while the kiddos are nappin.

thankful am i

in no particular order really...just a few things i am thankful for this year.
my health
my precious babies
my loving husband.
our safe and happy home

this can of cranberry sauce...yummy
my family....every one of them.
that i still am my daddys little girl.

that i just killed a flying cockroach in our house. can't have those flying around when i fall asleep.my new nephew that should be born anyday.

the beautiful beach we call our backyard.
my mom's english boyfriend that is visiting her and keeping her so happy.
that i have almost lost all of my pregnancy weight...whew.
that i am learning to run. still hating it, but learning to accept it in my life.

Most of all....
the love and support of all my friends and family.
my life would be so empty without your relationships.

Happy turkey day to all.

its the most wonderful time of the year.

i know, i know.

its not even Thanksgiving and already I am Christmas bound and giddy. Hence the holiday colors on the blog even.

Just got back from my weekly Costco run and got this Martha Stewart Holiday gift mag and whoa!!

my poor husband sat with me watching football while I ewwwwed and ahhhhhed over this thing.

so many beyond great and simple ideas for holiday gifts and even recipes.

minty marshmellows?!? Who wouldn't love those in their hot cocoa?

mmmm. i can smell it already and feel the warmth in my hands.

not i like i need warmth here because it was in the 70's today, but i can blast the AC, bundle up and make me some right?

this mag is only 7 dollars ( 30% off that if you buy it at Costco) and is so well worth it.

i can post again.

dang...blogger was not wanting to work with me the past few days, but i am here now.

still working on the circle journal thing with the best group of girls out there.

just finished Michelle Guray's http://allanmichelle.typepad.com/ and dang that things a beauty! next i'm due to get Alex's and can hardly wait.

i love these things.

so anyway, we have this post going where we can say "hey" and i was curious as to what everyone's scrap area looked like and to hear where everyone scraps. we have a super long living room and we split it in half with the couch and so the backside of the room is our office/scrap area. i was ecstatic when a local restaurant went out of business and i got a huge metal rack for my organizer boxes and a gigantic table for workspace that i covered for super cheap. yipee. about 6 years ago when we lived in Virginia, i used our coffee table and would have to do the pack up..then bring out game. fun times. its funny how this hobby can take over some major space, but for good reason though. right?

don't i look like a little wimp gangster in the one photo? it made me laugh though so i thought i'd share it.

since taking those pics the other day, i cleaned up a little and found some projects that i have been wanted to do forever. So i stuck my heels in and made Kyan's name. Forgot how easy those things are and am so glad i finally finished it for his room. Poor boy. Its so much funner to decorate a girly girl room and so i have long had Olivia's done and now i have got to push to get his all fun like. one step down, many more to go.

also in crazy news here... we had a tsumami watch here again yesterday. eeekks. We got a call at 5 am but luckily it passed with minimal results. Below is an article that was in the paper and for sure got me a little rattled.

Story:Mini-tsunami has minimal effect on Kaua'i Surfers and fishermen noticed a tidal change that exposed reefs after yesterday's tsunami, but no damage, injuries or severe flooding werereported on island, officials said. The only reported flooding was a 21/2-foot swell that flooded a parkinglot at Nawiliwili Harbor, according to Mary Daubert, county spokeswoman. For more of this story, click on or type the URL below: http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2006/11/16/news/news02.txt

the key word in there in MINI. yikes. any at all is too much for me.

The whole warning got me thinking about how i need to be more prepared now. A little good comes out of everything right?

ideas are a flowin'

dang.

dang.

i got this http://www.anthropologie.com/jump.jsp?itemID=0&itemType=HOME_PAGE catalog in the mail yesterday and am in awe.

the christmas ornaments in here have my mind spinning.

gotta make something cool like that soon.

november 8th here

WIshing a huge, big, gigantic happy birthday to my mother in law Vera who is celebrating her 60th today. I hope you are truly enjoying your special day and we'll have to do a belated celebration when we come to Dallas for Thanksgiving.
Happy birthday to Jamie (kokopuffs) too. Made you this little goodie bling tin filled with some fun embellies. It will be coming your way soon. Happy day!!!fun news for me too. I was asked to be a guest designer at a challenge website called Beyond Appearances and this is my layout...you can check out the details here...
http://beyond-appearances.blogspot.com/ what a fun thing to join in with you girls....thanks!

just a another day here

not much is new really.

mom always says "no news is good news"

took the kids to gym playgroup this morning.

mailed off some goodies.

really want to ask for this http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/classesheidis.html for xmas

enjoying listening to tunes on my ipod.

hanging out in the sun and so glad its not cold here.

sending my warm juju your way if you are where its cold.

bummed that the Bachelor is not on tv tonight.

heading to craft night soon though and that'll be fun.

proud of my husband for finishing this 10 mile run 1st in his age group http://www.kauairun.com/2006.pdf ...go baby go!

thinking how fun it would be to make a mini book of all his race stuff...hmmm.

enabler alert (nsbr)

ok for real?
i got this email and thought my friend was joking.
checked it out... its for real!
makeup for one dollar.
yes you read it right, 1 dollar.
check it here...
http://www.eyeslipsface.com/elfshop/default.asp

it seems as though the company is just starting up and wants to get their name out there.
HELLO?
worked on me.

and a happy Halloween it was.

a chance run in with
Britney Spears, K-fed, and
baby sean. Can you believe
it?!?
gooey twix filled baby boy fingers.








Old school candy..Hello?? made my night for sure. Even my tongue was filled with colors from the Razzles!! loved it!

And then my little unicorn. So precious. Thank goodness that we have dress up costumes because after she changed her mind about being Dora, the Unicorn came in quite handy.
she looked so cute running around with her little pumpkin pail and saying Trick or Treat in her shy girl voice.
i loved every minute of it.
Even Anthony and i dressed up for the night. I tried to figure out how to be Fergie but couldn't think of a way to not look trampie. She can pull it off, but i sure don't have the body or the courage with two young kids to give it a whirl.
i did go as a skydiver though. So less cool but the look worked due to Anthony's gear .
Anthony at the last minute made himself into a rubics cube. i'll just not even go into detail, but it was a sight to see.

what a great way to end the month!!

almost

secretly, i was hoping kyan would start walking more on his own by today.

so close but not quite.

i can't wait to see my two little ones running about together.

he sure does love pushing around Olivia's shopping basket filled with girlie things though.

pink glitter purse and all.

secure in his boyhood i suppose.

pump it..

LOUDER.

pump it.

louder.

gotta love the black eyed peas.

We carried their fun spirit into Halloween this year at our house.

Anthony and Kyan dressed up as black eyed P's for the kids party the other night and looked awesome. Surprisingly Kyan did not mind the black around his eye either which was a huge plus.

The coolest part is that they won best family costume and a 20 gift cert. too.

Olivia dressed up as Dora but threw a huge fit on the way. Basically, she showed up in shorts and shirt because she had torn all the accessories off on the walk there. oh fun times of a two year old, i'll tell ya.

Tonight we put out some more decorations and are so ready for the actual Halloween on Tuesday. I think i may find a way to dress up as Fergie and really carry out the whole Black eyed peas motif.

isn't it crazy how Halloween goes on and on now. I don't know about you, but there have been tons of parties and garb for this holiday. I love it, but it feels like Halloween is a week long affair this year.

Before i know it all the fall stuff will be down and it will be full blown Christmas time. Wow, how time flies.

Hope everyone has a great Halloween.

aidaisms

"all these changes make me feel like i am going through puberty all over again"

from the mouth of my neighbor, aida, who scrapbooked for the first time this week and got her hair chopped off.
I wish i could be as witty as her sometimes. I've told her that she needs to journal on my pages the way she tells stories....always hilarious and clever.

I used to be the only one around where i lived that scrapbooked and now its spreading like wildfire. We even have a group that gets together every other monday night. Its always so fun to see the different things everyone comes up with.

thats the magic of scrapbooking ...i love it

Monday night bliss

we'll welcome to 2006 for us.

we are not the ones to run out and buy new things, especially big things, but with the opening of Costco and a coupon ANthony could not resist.

This mack daddy tv is quite the treat for him. Its been 12 years since he bought a new tv so he figured it was time to upgrade. Having HD (high definition) on a flat panel is beyond words.

especially for the kids while watching Dora the Explorer...dang.

I was never so spoiled as a kid. But i guess its a family spoil so we are all lucky.

WAtching football on it last night was crazy!!! you can see every detail, including sweat and other delightful things you'd rather not.

Maybe it was good tv juju i had, because i won again this week in Fantasy football.

I am the only girl in the league, so i really love when i win. and there is money at stake so thats a plus for my competitive spirit.

**not to mention I got my first Circle Journal in the mail from Heidi and WOW.

i had seen pics of it on your blog girl, but it blew me away in real life.

love it so and hope to work on my entry tonight. yipee!!!

seeing this...

...makes me so happy. Seriously.

like the warm and fuzzy, wanna grin ear to ear happy.

Those smiles are priceless and wow, isn't my step mom a bathing beauty.

she'll hate that i put this on here, but i love it.

I grew up never knowing my grandparents and am so thankful that my kids get to spend such quality time with their's.

We had such a wonderful visit with my parents while they were here. Nothing is like seeing my kids hug up to them.

warm fuzzies again....ahhh.

Sad to say, I have not had a chance to start my class at Shimilles yet, but i am thinking about moods and this feeling of happiness is for sure going on my happy page. Hopefully this weekend i'll be able to work on the booklet a little more.

fun times.

big day here...

HUGE!!

today was the grand opening of Costco here on Kauai.

It has taken forever, but it is here and it is grand.

so awesome to have some reasonable prices.

for real.

just a quick example.

gas price pre costco...$ 3.38

now...$2.79

are you kidding....such a change and now more money to spend on scrap goodies.

after shopping with tons of people with permagrins, I overfilled my cart with lots of fresh fruits, veggies, meats, kids food snacks and lots of other yummy things.

As i was drooling over the size of the fresh prawns ( banana size..no joke), a man passed by and said " wow, this Costco opening is bigger than Hurricane Inikiwas in 1991." Damn. I was not here for the Hurricane thanks goodness, but i for sure got what he was saying...too funny.

gotta love it!!!

we clean up ok

ahhh...what a breath of fresh air.

Anthony and I had a Navy Ball to go to at the Grand Hyatt and decided to stay the weekend. My parents were so sweet to fly out from Idaho to watch the kids while we had a weekend away. Mind you..this is our first time away from the kids for more than a few hours, for over 2 YEARS...LONG OVERDUE.

We had such a fun time and felt like young kids in love again. What a rejuvinating thing for us. We enjoyed the pool, drinks and relaxing more than words can say. Saturday night, we got all dressed up and danced the night away. Dang i love dancing with my man.

If you ever come and visit Kauai and are looking for somewhere heavenly to stay...check this place out.http://kauai.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/entertainment/index.jsp

Due to the late night and wonderful drinks, we slept through the quake that took place on Sunday morning. Thank goodness, because otherwise i would have run home crying for my kids. Pretty scary considering quakes are not a common thing here in Hawaii. I just thank my lucky stars that everything is ok. THanks to all of you that called or emailed concerned for us. So sweet.

sign me up

oh yea!
i signed up for an online class at Shimelle and am so excited.
the whole deal with the class is to really get to know yourself and things that make you tick.
also i am thrilled to know i will have a book for my kids to see when they get older of what i was like. so cool.
I am working on the notebook now and on the 15th....let the mini book begin. http://shimelle.com/classes/

on another way cool note:
i am doing a circle journal with some A*mazing girls over on two peas. Deanna, aka D-bird, asked me to join in and i can hardly wait to do this. It will be my first one so wish me luck that i do it all right. The theme of the book is life-isms and noting some of the quotes and life lessons that are most meaningful to you...yipee.

off i go to get started!!

Grace Kelly here..

I am not usually one to do these, but I had time to and thought what the heck.

Yea, sure, and she's exactly what I look like everyday too.

ha!

Which movie star are you?


This is fun!....Ladies only
Ever wonder which movie star you are most like?
Don't read ahead please!

Well, a team of researchers got together and analyzed the
personalities of movie stars.

That gathered info has been incorporated into this quiz.

There are only 10 questions so it doesn't take long.
Number your paper from 1 to 10, then answer each question with the choice that most describes you at this point in your life, and then add up the points that correspond with your answers.

Send this to all of your friends (including person who sent it to you) with your star's name in the subject line.

And don't be a butt and ruin the fun by not responding.
Don't look ahead or you will ruin the fun!

1. Which describes your perfect date?

a) Candlelight dinner for two
b) Amusement Park
c) Rollerblading in the park
d) Rock Concert
e) Have dinner & see a movie
f) Dinner at home with a loved one

2. What is your favorite type of music?
a) Rock and Roll
b) Alternative
c) Soft Rock
d) Classical
e) Christian
f) Jazz

3. What is your favorite type of movie?

a) Comedy
b) Horror
c) Musical
d) Romance
e) Documentary
f) Mystery

4. Which of the following jobs would you choose if you were given only these choices?

a) Waiter/Waitress
b) Sports Player
c) Teacher
d) Policeman
e) Bartender
f) Business person

5. Which would you rather do if you had an hour to waste?

a) Work out
b) Make out
c) Watch TV
d) Listen to the radio
e) Sleep
f) Read

6. Of the following colors, which do you like best?

a) Yellow
b) White
c) Sky blue
d) Teal
e) Gold
f) Red

7. Which one of the following would you like to eat right now?

a) Ice cream
b) Pizza
c) Sushi
d) Pasta
e) Salad
f) Lobster Tail

8. Which is your favorite holiday?

a) Halloween
b) Christmas
c) New Year's
d) Valentine's Day
e) Thanksgiving
f) Fourth of July

9. If you could go to any of the following places, which would it be?

a) Reno
b) Spain
c) Las Vegas
d) Hawaii
e) Hollywood
f) British Columbia

10. Of the following, who would you rather spend time with?

a) Someone who is smart
b) Someone with good looks
c) Someone who is a party animal
d) Someone who has fun all the time
e) Someone who is very emotional
f) Someone who is fun to be with

Now total up your points on each question:

1. a-4 b-2 c-5 d-1 e-3 f-6
2. a-2 b-1 c-4 d-5 e-3 f-6
3. a-2 b-1 c-3 d-4 e-5 f-6
4. a-4 b-5 c-3 d-2 e-1 f-6
5. a-5 b-4 c-2 d-1 e-3 f-6
6. a-1 b-5 c-3 d-2 e-4 f-6
7. a-3 b-2 c-1 d-4 e-5 f-6
8. a-1 b-3 c-2 d-4 e-5 f-6
9. a-4 b-5 c-1 d-4 e-3 f-6
10. a-5 b-2 c-1 d-3 e-4 f-6

NOW, take your total and find out which Movie Star you are:

(10-17 points) You are MADONNA: You are wild and crazy and you know it. You know how to have fun, but you may take it to extremes. You know what you are doing though, and are much in control of your own life. People don't always see things your way, but that doesn't mean that you should do away with your beliefs. Try to remember that your wild spirit can lead to hurting yourself and others.

18-26 points) You are DORIS DAY: You are fun, friendly, and popular! You are a real crowd pleaser. You have probably been out on the town your share of times, yet you come home with the values that your mother taught you. Marriage and children are very important to you, but only after you have fun. Don't let the people you please influence you to stray.

(27-34 points) You are DEBBIE REYNOLDS: You are cute, and everyone loves you. You are a best friend that no one takes the chance of losing. You never hurt feelings and seldom have your own feelings hurt. Life is a breeze. You are witty, and calm most of the time. Just keep clear of back stabbers, and you are worry-free.

(35-42 points) You are GRACE KELLY: You are a lover. Romance, flowers, and wine are all you need to enjoy yourself. You are serious about all commitments and are a family person. You call your Mom every Sunday, and never forget a Birthday. Don't let your passion for romance get confused with the real thing.

(43-50 points) You are KATHERINE HEPBURN: You are smart, a real thinker. Every situation is approached with a plan. You are very healthy in mind and body. You don't! take crap from anyone. You have only a couple of individuals that you consider "real friends". You teach strong family values, keep your feet planted in them, but don't overlook a bad situation when it does happen.

51-60 points) You are ELIZABETH TAYLOR: Everyone is in awe of you. You know what you want and how to get it. You have more friends than you know what to do with. Your word is your bond. Everyone knows when you say something it is money in the bank. You attract the opposite sex. Your intelligence overwhelms most. Your memory is the next thing to photographic. Everyone admires you because you are so considerate and lovable. You know how to enjoy life and treat people right.