Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!! We hope you all have tons to be thankful for, we feel blessed to have this little munchkin in our lives!!!

8 Months Old!!

Our little bug is 8 months old...I've always heard that time flies once you have kids and man does it ever...it's crazy!! We celebrated her 8 months of life with a trip to the zoo...she also cut her first tooth...I totally cried thinking that she's not my little baby anymore with smooth gums, but already a big girl...soon she will be asking for the keys to the car and be off on her own!! She is such a fun baby with tons of smiles for everyone...it takes us so long to go places cause people always want to talk to her, but I love every minute of it...she loves to give kisses and high fives, especially to the doggie, he loves the kisses too and yes he gives high fives as well!! The hubs said no decorating until Thanksgiving is over, but he caved and all our decorations are up except for the tree, which we will be getting this weekend!! I love having the house all warm and fuzzy with lights and stockings...we are really missing our old place lately cause it had a fireplace and our new place doesn't....we've even thought about moving just for one!!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and an awesome four day weekend....only three more hours until ours starts and we get our favorite man home with us for four whole days!!

Thoughts on my mind....

Nothing much has been going on in our house lately...my mind is in bullet form today and all over the place!!

*I'm so ready for the holidays and I want to decorate my house now for Christmas.

*I feel like time is flying by and I want it to stop for a bit so I can just cuddle my little girl!!

*Wishing I could win the lottery so I can continue to be a stay at home mommy and buy a house near our family and friends and not have to move away...

*Scared and excited to find out what next year will bring for us (we might have to move with Dana's job so I can continue being at home with Avery)

*Have another baby soon or wait? I think of this so often it's crazy...

*Loving that I went shopping the other day and put on jeans in a smaller size then before I got pregnant, who knew that having a baby would be my diet!!

*Friends are amazing...I'm so thankful for the great group we have and for the new friendships I've been forming since having a baby!! (especially you jessica)

*Realizing that as much as I love teaching, I don't want to go back to work until my babies are in school, but also scared that if I take too much time off then I won't get hired back!!

*Annoyed with student loans and a masters degree that I don't get to use!!

*Window shopping is so fun and so are pet stores with a baby...she gets so excited to see all the animals!!

*I'm going shopping on Black Friday this year cause we need to save money (I'm making lists and hoping to get all my shopping done that day)

*Thinking this should be done, cause I sound a little crazy!!

HAWAII

We went to Hawaii last week and had an awesome time. I'm so ready to go back, if I could take my bed and Avery's crib, I'd live there!! We were very lucky to stay in an amazing house with great friends and my mother in law came, a sitter in Hawaii is wonderful!! We were on the big island, Kona side, which has tons of volcanic rocks all over, it's a sight to see...in front of our house we had tide pools and little ponds...the ponds were perfect for Avery. No waves come in and it's like sitting in a bath tub with sand to play with and eat of course!! Speaking of baths, how cute is this little girl in the sink? She fit perfectly and had to have many baths to get the sand and sunscreen off!! She loved all the attention she got during the week, can you tell? When we got home I realized almost all of our pictures are of her...good think grandma took pictures of Hawaii for us!! The lovely couple we stayed with are our old neighbors and they bought her this little costume. And our little happy angel loved it and I think she's starting to know what the camera is and becoming a little ham with it...I love it!!

We were able to borrow a backpack from friends and it was perfect...we used it all the time. We took hikes and went to tide pools with her tagging along. She would hang out or fall asleep and it was wonderful!!

One day we drove around the island and checked out the volcanos and black sand beaches. There were 8 turtles just hanging out on the sand and more in the water...I love turtles and they remind me of our last trip to Hawaii where Dana proposed on Turtle Beach!!

The weather was strange, one minute sunny, the next cloudy, then rainy and oh so humid!! It wasn't until our last night there that we got a sunset. We went snokeling three days and it was amazing. I feel like I'm a fish when I snokel and in a whole new world...I love when turtles swim with you and fish come up to you and check you out. We saw a few eels too!! It was awesome!! I have a huge fear of drowning in the ocean so for me snokeling is defeating a fear and I leave on an emotional high that lasts forever...like I can do anything!!

The best part of our vacation was being together with my hubs and baby for an entire week...Avery did awesome on the plane and the time change and was her wonderful self for the whole week!! I can't wait to plan another vacation soon, if only I could win the lottery!!