While in Hawaii, Eric and I celebrated our 5th Wedding anniversary. I can't believe it has only been 5 years...it seems like I have been with Eric forever. I love him so much and love the family we have made.

Hawaii 2008

together again at last...

Neelah took to Eric like he was gone for a day, not a month and a half.

She was showing Dad how she does "peek-a-boo"

Here was our view from the Hale Koa hotel. It was a "partial" ocean view as you can see. The only problem is that when you stepped out on the balcony, all you could hear was the whirring of the hotels air conditioning unit. That is okay, we didn't pay for a view-we paid for beach front.

Too bad Finn wouldn't step foot on he beach. And I mean WOULDN'T STEP FOOT ON THE BEACH!! He threw the biggest fit whenever we went near the ocean. He was terrified of the ocean...I don't know why? It was a great trip and great to see Eric.

a big day for Neelah

Today has been a good day. Neelah sported her first pony tail today! How darling is she! When I am at work and miss my kids, I just have to look at pictures like this and I remember how blessed I am and that they will be there tomorrow when I wake up.

Yesterday Finn said the funniest and most precious thing. I was crocheting and he came up and asked me what I was doing.

Me: I am making a baby blanket for my friend who is going to have a baby.

Finn: What about our baby?

Me: Well, our baby is a girl and this blanket is for a boy.

Finn: But I want a baby boy, I want to be a BROTHER!

Me: Well, you are still a brother, but our baby is a girl.

Finn: (thinking) Well, maybe we could go to church and ask Jesus for a boy!

Me: (laughing to myself) Maybe next time...(if there is a next time!)

I LOVE MY KIDS!

Laziness!

I know, I am SO LAZY and haven't posted pics from Hawaii. I did however feel bad for not posting at all so I thought I would give you an eyefull of what WWF looks like in our front room. I promise I will update soon!

Sunshine in my day of storms...

So I know that some of you are anxiously awaiting Hawaii photos but I promise, they will come. For now I will write about my darling little Finn. I spent the last 2 days of our Hawaii va-cay sick as a dog and then on Wednesday morning when we got home I went straight to bed and didn't wake up till 10:30am Thursday morning. Seriously. The rest of the day was spent doing as little as possible and when Neelah went down for her nap, Finn got to watch a Thomas the Tank movie and I went back to bed. After Finn's movie was over, he came into my room and asked if he could cuddle with me. CUDDLE WITH ME PEOPLE!! He crawled into my bed and played with my hair until I fell back asleep. An hour later he tapped me on the shoulder and said, "I'm hungry Mommy" and so I took my angel of a son up to eat some ridiculously nutritious Ramen Noodles. It was all I could muster up folks!

I am the most blessed woman I know to have been blessed with these 2 choice spirits. I thank Heavenly Father each day for moments like this with my kids, after all, they make all the screaming and arguing well worth while!

Fun with the Pollocks!

So while here in Hawaii, we met up with some of our favorite friends, the Pollock family! They came down to our hotel in Waikiki and we spent the day at the pool and ate a picnic dinner. Finn and Kalai were born one week apart and Kerilyn and I enjoyed being prego together. Finn and Kalai had so much fun together this week. We are so thankful that she was around to teach Finn the scare-d-cat that the swimming pool was FUN! The day before we weren't able to get him into the pool. What a crazy kid. By the end of the afternoon with Kalai, they were jumping into the pool and splashing everyone within a 4 foot range.

So if you are reading this and there are no pictures...don't fret. I will get them up soon. I am having technical difficulties with the hotel internet service.

later... so I finally got some of the pictures to upload but they are mini-me's!! Deal with it until I can fix it. :)

The Verdict is IN!!

Howdy Folks! I wish I had some awesome pictures to show you of our baby GIRL, but I just realized that the cd that the tech gave me is READ ONLY!! Here I thought he was being so nice just because Eric is deployed yada yada yada. Whatever. I can't do anything about it now. We are hoping that Eric will get a day long layover here before going to the rest of his training so that we can march ourselves in to St Mark's Hospital (where Eric's mom Sharlene works in the L&D dept) and get us some REAL photos!! Ulgh!

Anyway, we have a healthy baby girl on the way and we are THRILLED!!

Out of the mouths of babe's

Mom was picking the kids up today at Grandma Watsons and Finn looked out the window at the moon. He told Ya-ya that he used to live in the moon. She asked what he meant and he repeated that he used to live there...yesterday. If I haven't explained, anything that isn't today, is yesterday to Finn. Last week, tomorrow, yesterday...all YESTERDAY. So when Finn was telling Mom that he lived in the moon yesterday, she was really confused as to what he was talking about. She told him that no, we live in a house. He replied, No, YESTERDAY I lived with Heavenly Father in the moon! Duh Ya-ya. Of course he did.

He obviously associated the moon with heaven. And he is learning that he used to live with Heavenly Father there.

All I have to say is HOW SWEET IS MY CHILD?!!!

Bribe the boy

So Finn sleeps in a full size bed with the gate things because he cannot stay in his bed when he sleeps. When we go to Hawaii however, he won't have gates so needless to say, he won't be sleeping in the bed. My son takes after me in his OCD. Every night he has to have the blankets "just so"....all straighened out with no wrinkles. His bedtime routine is exact and so the whole sleeping on the floor in the hotel thing concerned me. I have been talking to him about it...prepping him if you will. We talked about getting a sleeping bag and he said that he wanted a "Cars" one.

Last night I was in Wal-mart and found this sleeping bag. Do you think he is excited about it? He is laying in the front room playing with his Leapster...IN THE SLEEPING BAG. I think this was a good purchase on my part and hope that when it comes to actually sleeping in it, he likes it just as much!

Not again...

I have been tagged to tell you about my husband...so here we go!!
I normally wouldn't really be into doing this but I will for the 2 following reasons: 1-Eric is gone, I have nothing better to do and 2-I loved reading Jenny's (she was the one who "tagged" me.

1. What is his name? Eric C. Watson
   
2. How long have you been married? On March 14th, it will be 5 years
   
3. How long did you date? Well, if you include phone convo's, we dated for like 3 months (from Dec 28th until March 14th). Technically, we were only physically in the same state for 7 days before we got married in Tom Green County, Texas.
   
4. How old is he? 29
   
5. Who eats more? I am embarrassed to say that it probley is me, Hey, I am feeding 2 here!
   
6. Who said I love you first? I did
   
7. Who is smarter? I think he is
8. Whose temper is worse? Hmmmm....in the temper dept, that would have to be him. If we were talking mood swings, that would for sure be me.
   
9. Who does the laundry? Me
10. Who does the dishes? Mostly me
11. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me usually but not while he is gone and maybe never again...Ha Ha Ha!!!
    
12. Who pays the bills? What are bills? (just kidding...me)
    
13. Who cooks dinner? Both of us
    
14. Who drives when you are together? Its an even mixture
    
15. Who is more stubborn? me by far and away
    
16. Whose parents do you see the most? My mom since we are STILL mooching off her by living in her house! Sorry Mom!
17. Who proposed? Let me think, OH THAT'S RIGHT! I DIDN'T GET A PROPOSAL OR A HONEYMOON FOR THAT MATTER!!
    
18. Who has more friends? We have great friends together -- its equal I would say
19. Who has more siblings? Eric belongs to the Partridge Family compared to my one sister, he is the oldest of 7. Bless his mother Sharlene
    
20. Who wears the pants in the family? Doesn't the wife ALWAYS wear the so called "pants" in a relationship?!!

I wasn't going to "tag" anyone but I got to thinking, I would really like to hear answers from everyone. It only took me like 10 min to copy and paste, throw the bored military wife a bone!

Alas...the long awaited Peek-a-boo!!

Finally, I was able to catch Neelah playing peek-a-boo. She mostly just covers her cheeks or ears but really tries to get the eyes. I love it when kids learn new things!

Watson Look-alike Meter

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So I saw this on my friend Jenny's blog and thought I would give it a try. It is interesting enough! Although I don't know how accurate it is...4%, 7%, I mean COME ON! 4% is like nothing! Anyhow, it was fun and different. Enjoy!

Watson Look-alike Meter

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Tagged...

Finn has been tagged by his friend Grace to complete the Love/Hate list.

Finn Loves:

TRAINS
Peanut butter and Jelly
Leapster
Making Neelah laugh
Wrestling!
Painting
building train tracks with blocks
Saying "I love you!"
the song I am a Child of God
Making paths in the snow with his boots


Finn Hates:

Talking on the phone
Water--to drink
Haircuts
When no one is around to pay attention to him

Tax Collector took 2!

Eric went spear-fishing last night and caught 4 of these huge fish. They are called parrot Fish and in my opinon, are the best fish ever! They actually caught 4 but only came home with 2. After Eric speared the fish, they string them up and put them in this mesh bag (pictured below). Then they just drag the line with the bag at the end while they continue to snorkel.
Then comes the "TUG". That "TUG" would be a shark (yes people, I did say SHARK!) coming to take his share of their winnings. The SHARK bit a whole through the mesh bag and easily ate two of their four fish. Eric calls it the "tax collector" He says you have to give back to the ocean when you are blessed with fish.
AND I AM STILL SHOVELING SNOW!!

Computer wo's

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good place to take my laptop to have it tuned up? It is running SO SLOW and since I know nothing about computers, I have to take it to someone who knows more than just how to turn it on...

attempt at peek-a-boo

Of course when you want your kids to do something oh-so-cute on camera, they NEVER WILL! Neelah has learned to play peek-a-boo, yesterday in fact, and I wanted to get it on film so that Eric could see it too. This was the best I could do honey. You will just have to figure out how to get your web cam up and running!

Wow!

To anyone interested, my friend Amy posted a YouTube clip on President Hinkley that warmed my heart. Click HERE to go to her blog and see it too.

These are the Days...

Most of you think of Van Morrison when you hear the words, "These are the Days". He did make that phrase famous with his amazing voice (of which, I am listening to right now). But those are not they kind of days I am talking about in this post.

In the above picture, you would initially think that the camera is crap but no, it is a brand new digital camera that takes amazing pictures. What you see as blurry, is in fact the actual weather. This is what it looks like out our door. The wind is blowing the blizzardy snow at around 30 miles an hour. Yes folks, these are the days when I resent Eric for being in Hawaii. He tells me last night that he was cold because it was 67 degrees and windy. Suck it up man, I am the one who gets to shovel this off the driveway since you are busy applying sunscreen!

Oh, the independance...

When Finn was a little older than Neelah is now, he used to hide with Maile under this same table in the front room. Now he has another playmate who, according to the look in her eyes, ADORES him! Finn is such a good brother when it comes to making Neelah laugh and giggle. We are working on the sharing thing...that will take some time I think. I hope they are always best friends!

Since Neelah has recently learned to crawl, she has been so much happier. So far, I can put her in the front room and surround her with toys and she stays put in there. She hasn't mastered the crawl up the step to get out of the front room...YET.

From this picture, you would think that she mastered the step but alas, no. Not this time.