Aruba

The island of Aruba is so

BEAUTIFUL

We had a great local tour guide

that drove us around and told us the history of

the island.

The weather was perfect and the people

were really nice.

The ocean was very clean and warm

The famous trees that grow in the sand, beach and shade...not bad huh?

They have vulcanos and a colorful downtown

Trying a soda from Aruba and visiting the Cathedral

Pretty cool little hike

Aruba is warm and very relaxing, great place for who wants to sit down in the beach and not do a lot...


Happy: I could understand "papiamento", the language they speak in Aruba. Papiamento is very close to Portuguese!
Sad: We didn't have time to sit down and relax on the beach.

My days are filled with...my kids!

Have you ever got in trouble for playing in the rain?
I did...all the time!
My mom would never let me play in the puddles or just feel the rain in my face, she would tell me that I would be cold and get sick.
I have always loved the rain.
Since it has been raining a lot here lately
today I invited the kids to play in it
with me.
PS: Mãe, ninguém ficou doente não! :)

I found out that Sam loves hats! He was having a lot fun trying it on some at Gymboree today. To bad the hats were for cold weather.


Daddy invited Hannah to go out with him tonight and this is what she put it on. He asked her if she was going out with a tutu and she answered: yep. Got love daddy for letting the kids have fun. Can you imagine David holding her hand while she wears that huge tutu all over Kapolei? Actually I can!
Isaac having fun with some of mom's necklaces.

10 years and I am in love...

David and I celebrate our
10th anniversary
today.

I came alive when I married David,
He completes me.
What I know for sure is that
10 years ago I married my best friend
the one I laugh with,
live for,
dream with
and...LOVE
forever.

We went out to dinner while Leah took care of the kids.
I had my favorite "chicken/shrimp scallopini"
in America at the Macaroni Grill.
David gave me a card with the best message he ever wrote me.
I know he loves me.
We are going to a cruise in January 9th to celebrate it and I can't wait to spend 10 days alone with him :)

Our big day on 12/15/2000.

Happy: to go to my first cruise ever! It will be awesome to relax, rest and see more countries!
Sad: today? nothing really...

At the Temple with my love

After almost two years closed for renovations
our Temple
is open again and one of my favorite things is that I can enjoy it
with Dave.
We had a reserved session so we could go with our ward ohana.
We also had members to watch all of the kids
including my little Sam.

Sam trying to hold his own spoon and my cute Hannah at the Temple grounds.

Thanksgiving Month!

I LOVE
November
because it makes me think about all of my
BLESSINGS

Today I am thankful for my David

without him I would not be happy and have the beautiful
kids that I have.
He is the best daddy I know
he has a beautiful testimony and lives it
he cleans, cooks, takes care of the kids, makes me smile,
always loves me and the most important thing:
to make a long story (we are married for almost 10 years) short
He always puts me first.

David is in everyone's home!?

I know I was supposed to show you this before but here it is...David is literally in everyone's home in Hawaii even if it is in the phone book! It is kind of funny to see a picture of your husband around the city :0) hahahahah

Dining with the governor!!

Thanks to two of my girlfriends (thanks Kaelene and Becky) me and David had a great weekend have not one but TWO nights for us! Friday night my friend Kaelene invited the girls for a slumber party at her place, the girls love her daughter Kiara and her son Maka. They loved spending the night there...

We had a great date Friday night, we went to a restaurant called "The Shack" in Hawaii Kai to try their famous burgers and fries!!



We sat at the lanai (outside deck) and it was so nice to sit in peace, listening to the ocean and talk with David...we really needed time just for us. I tried their "island burger" and it was so good! Have you ever had a hamburger with grilled pineapple and teriaki sauce? Yummy!
After dinner we got a 10pm cinema session, we saw the movie "Traitor", it was a PG13 but a lot of violence for sure...
Saturday, Becky watched all three of our kids because me and David had this fancy fundraiser dinner at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, David's boss is always inviting us for these parties (sounds like he has parties every weekend to go to) but just now I felt like leaving Isaac with a babysitter...next Friday we have the kids at our house, the girls will have so much fun! We trade babysitting with some friends, we watch all of the kids for a Friday and then we have three Fridays off while they watch our kids! :0)

Here is me at the Hilton, I confess that I get a little nervous going to these fancy dinners, I always think in my head what a girl like me is doing there? Anyway, it proved me wrong again...All of the people that I met were the nicest people ever, they made me feel welcomed and I had the best time! I met a lot of lawyers and judges (looked like every lawyer/judge of the city was there) that David works with and I also was glad that a lot them had wives of my age too. They were great and it was so fun to see them all relaxed and dancing through the night with us( David told me it was funny to see them happy and dancing because at work they always have their shark attitude on!:0)

Me and David at the Hilton , aren't we cute together? :0)


We got to meet the governor of Hawaii (Linda Lingle), she was very nice and friendly!


Here is Richard Turbin (Dave's boss) and his wife...They were so nice to me and I enjoyed meeting them...



The table was very pretty and the food was really good too...

IT WAS FOR SURE A GREAT WEEKEND!