A Little Bit Of Nothing. . .

There has been nothing exciting to blog about lately. . .
And so, I present you with life according to Miles.

Miles has changed his name to "Mile" because it is too hard to write the letter 's.' He even went so far as to inform his preschool teachers of this new fact.

The doorbell rang today and Miles and Lola ran to answer it. As I came around the corner Miles says, "Oh, don't worry mom, it's just that guy that always rings our doorbell and drives off." Apparently the UPS man has been coming quite often lately.

The most exciting thing for Miles this Thanksgiving weekend? Not the turkey dinner. . . not the lazy day filled with family and festivities. It's the fact that Chelsea and Marcus are coming up and going to "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" with us. Miles lives for a good flick.

Miles has been informing all his little friends that he is going to Hawaii for his birthday. He was kind enough to let them know that they can come if their moms will come with them.

How nice to have a little person around to give my world some spice!

Grateful

Today I am extra grateful for these 3 in my world.

TriCk oR tREaT

Dance Class

Lola started dance a couple weeks ago.
I was a bit hesitant to start her, but after seeing the absolute cuteness of all those little tiny girlie- girls I was completely on board! She loves, loves, loves going and always shows off her new dances for dad after. She's always on the look out for new 'dance clothes' whenever we're out shopping and tries to talk me into new tutu's by justifying that she absolutely needs them for dance.

I so love that little girl!

Pumpkin Picking

We love pickin' pumpkins in the fall.
The crisp air and crunchy leaves,
wandering around
to find just the right pumpkin.

Heading home
to homemade
caramel apples.


Just about perfect.

Hawaii

Last week Nate and I returned from 7 fabulous days in Hawaii. Hawaii was amazing. This was my first time visiting and it exceeded any expectation I had. Such an beautiful, magical place!


We spent a few days chillin' beach-side on Waikiki, books in hand, soaking up that hot Hawaiian sun. We had fun exploring the beaches on Oahu's North Side. I couldn't believe how differently beautiful each beach was.

We loved Pearl Harbor, spent a few hours at the Polynesian Cultural Center, walked around the beautiful Temple, did plenty of shopping, spent a couple days snorkling, spent an afternoon wandering through a beautiful botanical garden that led up to a waterfall that we swam underneath, and had a blast at the Dole Plantation eating delicious Dole Whips and seeing the cute little pineapple's growing. Who knew pineapple grew like that???


We ate delicious food and especially enjoyed mealtime with no little rugrats to cater to! We had the most yummy shrimp ever from the ghetto shrimp trucks in Haleiwa, loved our Matsumoto's shaved ice (complete with ice cream and Hawaiian red beans), watched Nate go to burger heaven eating a burger just about the size of his head, visited the Cheesecake Factory (twice I might add), and had plenty of other good stuff.

What an amazing trip! We had such a great time just being the two of us, feeling as if there wasn't a care in the world, relaxing together, feeling young again, being goofy and remember exactly why we fell in love so many years ago! How grateful we are to all those who made it possible for us to have this time by watching our cute little ones.

Monkey Miles

This is Miles being self-sufficient:

Apparently he was hungry and needed something from the top shelf of the pantry.
I find myself in awe every single day that we have yet to find ourselves in the ER with this one.

Note: Please ignore the messy pantry!!