Another Maui Post

OK So I am trying do the previous post to tell you all about my great trip when I have Maddy and Abbey in the background just laughing their heads off. I decide that i might just want to check out what is so funny right?? Well I go into the living room and this is what I find! They have taken all the movies out and the ones that are put back in the cabinet are all mixed and are put int he wrong cases! CRAZY! I guess this is why we go on these trips to get away from these kinda things. Well as I am cleaning up this mess, they come in here and hit POST. So the previous post is an unedited version of what I was trying to work on. I am actually enjoying my kids as they are all back now. We are definitely having more trouble with the little ones but the older ones are doing great.

HOME FROM MAUI :( !!

We are officially back to the real life. As you can see from the few pics we had a blast. I can not tell you in words just how many things we did and how awesome each one of them were. The two pictures of me and Steve were taken at the old Lahaina Luai which is supposed to be the most authentic one left in the island. It had great food and drinks as well as a great show.

The picture of the waterfall was one of a unlimited amount of waterfalls we stood by and drove by along the road to Hana. It is the most beautiful drive you will ever take along a 52 mile very windy raod in the rain forest.

The last pic here is of the sunset right out our balcony of the condo we stayed in!

I can not tell you how much I loved our trip and had a blast with my hubby. I can tell you though the best thing I have ever done in my life is swim with the TURTLES! As soon as I get my underwater camera pictures developed I will be posting them here. We found this spot off the beaten path and we swam off the rocks out to the ocean and there were about 12 different turtles that were about 200 to 300 lbs each! They do not swim away they just swim with you.

This is the great husband that I get the priviledge of spending the next week in Maui with. I am soooooo excited to actually get some time with him and no kids. He works very hard every day to make it possible to stay home with my kids. I love him more than words can explain and appreciate everything he does for our family. I just can not wait to get to spend this week with him.

MAUI BOUND!!! Tomorrow at 6:45 am my hubby and I are getting away for the week in luxurious MAUI. We have been together almost 15 years and we have never been on vacation together (with no kids). We all know how much I love my kiddos but it is definitely over due to get away. I am extremely EXCITED, nervous and just plan giddy. I have the serious anxiety today with the getting ready to leave, setting Grandma Swanson up to watch my 2 Little girls, and to get Hunter off to Grandma Santos! My kids will be fine but I am not sure how I will do ha ha! Although this am has been tough with Maddy spreading poop on her and blaming Abbey, cereal all over the floor and Hunter with chocolate on my couch. Kinda makes you a bit more ready than you thought! Here is a pic of the Swanson Grandparents who are taking care of the girls and really made this possible. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and will never forget this opportunity you have given us. Thanks.

When our house was remodeled this was the ohhhhh soooo AWESOME craft room addition. THE MOST ADORABLE WINDOW. I always had this little room that was adjacent to the laundry room and it is about 8 feet by 5 feet. Very small room. I rarely used it because it made me so claustrophobic in there! So when the remodel happened it just so happened to be Mothers Day week so I was able to squeeze a nice cute window and the counter you see out of my very cool husband. The window absolutely makes the room. It gives this space a very warm feeling. I had to completely get rid of all the clutter and excess scrap crap to really make the room perfect! However, now I have the most happening scrap room I could have ever asked for. These cute letters are my first creation for the room and I love love love them. Thanks to Ronny and Julie for the late night we had to finish these great projects. ( Julie's teacher gifts too.)

This is a great pic added by Wilma Otherwise Known as Grandma. This is one of the biggest reasons why I love that my kids get to go there! Look at all those kids. They are My three and then three out of the four cousins that live there in the bay area. Its just too bad we do not live closer so that we could have more times like these where they can all just hang together.

MADYSON'S FIRST DAY OF PRESCHOOL

I can't believe she is already old enough to go to preschool. Her teacher is Mrs. Christi. Hunter had changed to her preschool in January (after we had a hard time with his previous school) so she was a bit familiar with who she was. Last week I had enrolled her in dance and it just didn't work. She cried and said" you just left me there". We tried one more week and that ended with her stuck to my leg and not budging! I decided to quit dance until she was a bit older. So with that being said I was very apprehensive to take her to school and see what was going to happen.Her teacher was offering a art literature class over the summer that was a shorter amount of time and only 2 days a week rather than 3. We decided to try that as a transition to her going in the fall. The final result is she LOVED LOVED LOVED it! She can not wait to go back and is asking if it Thursday yet about 2o times in one day. I was having a bit of a hard time sending her but my mother in law put it a good way, I already trust this woman so its not quite as hard as I thought it was going to be but still hard for me. If you know me well you know I have a hard time with leaving my kids and having a small attachment to them hahaha. Another point my mother in law made "you have the problem not the kids". Ok so I admit it here for all to read but hey I can think of thousands of worse things for my kids!