Mamamamama Ma's Day!

That's what I woke up to 2 silly babies screaming this morning...well not the "day" part, but the loud repetitive "momma". Haha. Who knew it would take becoming a Mommy to learn to wake up happy (or at least relatively so..haha)

The weather today was pretty yucky, as is the norm lately and the babies have been under the weather this week, but we still managed to have a good/ lo-key day.

We went to church for a little while, but i didn't want to leave them in nursery so we didn't stay as long as usual. The babies did get a little play time outside at the playhouse as well as get to visit all the Aunties and Uncles. They love that!

Their outfits were super cute this morning...we were all coordinating in our polka dots...my dress, Nora's paci and Holden's bow tie (made by Nannie Katie!). Holden was super handsome in his suit...but a little slip up would be the shoes. Why would we own closed-toed dress shoes in HI? HRB's dress shoes are his fake birks! So we tried to improvise, they weren't quite the right style, but best we had. Well at least i thought it was okay...Holden didn't quite agree and kept taking them off and throwing them. I eventually gave up, so he spent the better part of the morning walking the hallways of church in his cute suit and bare feet saying "hey" to everyone. Nora was "All-Girl" carrying Momma's purse around

After church we celebrated Mother's Day with Taco Bell and a Giant Coke Icee--two of my most favorite things. I've been dieting for the past few months and although it is going well...it was nice to take a break and splurge on some of my most faves!
This year with the unfortunate weather, we opted for the Mother's Day photo shoot in the Nursery. It is I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E to get those kiddos to be still...so enjoy all the funny action shots...i don't think we got any frame-worth pics, but if i'm being honest i love this kind even more. Prepare for all the silly faces and laughter!

My First Mother's Day

For a 1st Mother's Day, i thought it was pretty awesome. Mike and the babies brought me this sweet card this morning. look how big Holden's feet are!

After church we tried to take some pictures-- it was nap time, so the babies didn't last very long! We did snag a family on the way to the pool to take a picture of all of us. They were also celebrating Mother's Day and the birthday of their son! Look at that pretty blue sky! It was a gorgeous day! and here's some pics before bedtime

What a great day!

It's MY weekend....

So i kinda designated this weekend as MY weekend...considering it's both my birthday and my first mother's day on the same day...you just can't fit all that excitement into one day, so it's a whole weekend of fun (and just FYI, this started on Friday!)

This morning, i woke up to presents and babies in my bed. It was super awesome. My husband is the best!

What's this on my head Mom?My birthday present this year is a Nikon D5000 DSLR...yeah, that's a lot of letters and numbers, but let me just say its a NICE camera. We needed a new camera anyway because the one Mike had taken on his deployments in the past is dead, so we decided to let him have my Sony camera and then get a super nice one for me to have. It seems like in the past 5 months or so i have really started taking a lot more pics...i wonder why?

Me with my new cameraReading my bday cards to HoldenMike, Nora and Oliver were watching us open presents...I call this the "before" pictureOliver what are you doing?and this is the "after" picture...Olie stealing Nora's ribbon...she's not quite ready to give it up though!Daddy and Nora...she's blowing bubbles/spitting, it's her new favorite thing to do

After presents, we moved downstairs to hang out for awhile before morning naps. I used this time to play with my new camera.

I love these faces..."what'd we do Mommy?"My excited boy!look at those baby blues!Holden in his jumparoo..very happy!

For lunch we met some friends, Jenn and Kevin, at my favorite Mexican restaurant, Los Garcias, in Kailua. Favorite is just a relative term though, it's the best i've had on the island, but still doesn't come close to San Felipe's....(Oh San Felipe how i love thee...we're counting down the days till we're in your comfy booths eating California burritos and San Felipe Cheese Chickens..mmmm). After Mexican, Mike and i decided to try a new crepe place that was recommended to us. Yeah, we had just stuffed ourselves with Mexican, but we hardly make it over to this side of the island anymore, so we just took advantage of it!

No Ka 'Oi, means "the best"...and they were pretty tasty...although, i may have had better on the streets of Greece...but i'm certainly not complaining!

Waiting on the deliciousness with my baby girlMike with his cinnamon and apple crepe...i got one with nutella, strawberries and bananas..mmm good!As we were leaving the parking lot, i spied this nugget of excitement...a great photographic opportunity!

What do you see?What about now?

The babies didn't get an afternoon nap today and therefore COMPLETELY CRASHED upon returning home...early bedtime at 5pm = nice relaxing night for Mommy and Daddy!

More to come tomorrow!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mother's out there...especially all my "new mommy" friends out there...and of course to my mom! LOVE YOU ALL!