Pumpkin Patch

This weekend we took Sierra to the pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins. It was pretty fun, besides the fact that I had to use the port-a-potty and it was really hot, which I didn't realize until we were dressed and going out to the car. Basically we shoul'dve been wearing shorts.

Sierra loved the hayride. It was reallly slow.

29 weeks prego, and looking it.





I love the way she's leaning on Eric's leg in this picture. Too cute.

boiling hot in all her layers,

Rochester, New York

My little brother, Brandon, got back from his mission in Sacramento, CA right before we left for Hawaii. Which worked out fine, because we planned to get back 2 days before his homecoming talk, and drive down for it.
Too bad I managed to leave my permanent resident card (you know, the little thing that allows me to visit my family in Canada, takes at least 3 months to replace and costs about $400 to do so) in our hotel room.
Pretty sucky. So we missed it. I was heartbroken, and we felt terrible.
So to sort of make up for my hideous mistake and so that i wouldnt have to wait 5 months to see him, we drove up to Rochester and met my family there for a few days.
Mostly we ate, swam, shopped and went to the zoo.

Sierra loved hitting the buttons on the dvd player with her toes. (amusing? not so much)

Sierra loved the pool and especially the hot tub.

The carousel at the mall with Auntie Am

Before it started moving...

She was terrified

"Don't like it!"

Safe on the ground eating nuggets :)

At Red Robin after a loooong day at the mall. I could really use a milkshake right now.

Grandpa and Grandma with Sierra. A few minutes after this picture was taken Sierra dumped a pretty full milkshake all over the booth and my mom.

She was a little excited. Maybe it was all the sugary lip gloss she basically drank.

Zoo

so cute. love the height difference. uncle brandon is a little bit tall.

seeing the tiger, the main animal she was excited about.

sierra loved the sea lion room. not for the sea lions, for the running around without shoes on and pushing her stroller. i think this was her favorite part of the zoo. lol

a little pose. such a grown up girl!

wild

tired. we spent a lot of time in this room. haha

she also loved this elephant. a lot more than the real one which she had no interest in.

a couple monkeys. this was not an easy position to get into with a huge belly. haha

tuckered out.

See you all in December when baby #2 is here!

Love you guys!

So last night I went out to the car to get something and on my way back to the house, i ran up the stairs and tripped and banged my knee and hurt my wrist. as if that wasnt embarassing enough, my flip flop went flying off in the catastrophe and i had to stay out there looking for it! As the night went on my knee got more swollen and my wrist got more sore.

Then I couldn't fall asleep. I finally fell asleep at 8am. At 8:20 am i woke up to a drip on my pillow. Oh, did i forget to mention that it had been raining all night, and still is? sierra didn't get up until 10 so i at least got to lay in bed for a while listening to drops.

so now i have bowls all over my bed catching water, it's still raining, my knee is still swollen (my wrist doesnt feel too bad though haha) and i am up with a little munchkin on 20 minutes of sleep.

nap time cannot come fast enough today! (assuming the ceiling doesnt fall down on my bed before then)

Kauai, Hawaii

At the beginning of this month Eric had a business trip to the best place you could have a business trip, really: Hawaii! AND I got to go! It was so great, best vacation place ever. I've always wanted to go to Hawaii and it was everything i'd ever imagined. It's so relaxing and beautiful there. Eric was supposed to have 2 days of meetings but they ended up cutting it back to one so it was perfect. I could've stayed there for another few weeks (but i'd have to have shipped Sierra out. Eric's awesome parents watched her for us while we were there and we definitely missed her a lot by the time we got back.)
OK, now on to the pictures! (which i didn't take enough of because i'm pregnant and no one enjoys pictures of themselves while they look hideous)

At Duke's with their famous Hula pie

Eric enjoying lunch, poolside

At Eric's work reception dinner thing (looking rather whale-ish)

Dinner at Kintaro-a japanese steak and sushi place. We went with Eric's boss and another friend from work and their wives and basically ordered everything off the menu

This was hilarious because a guy offered to take our picture for us and told us he had the perfect spot because the lighting was really good. We thought the setting was kind of hideous.

We went on a catamaran ride/dinner cruise with Eric's work to the Na Pali coast. Eric felt sick the whole time (7 hours) The dolphins were so pretty swimming along with our boat and we were SO close to them, it was really cool.

It was a little windy haha

Eric lasted for about 5 minutes snorkeling because the waves were making him sick. Poor boy. So I snorkeled around like a loner for a while. haha

One of the Indiana Jones movies was filmed here.

Eric thought it would be attractive if I did the same thing as this guy for a picture. It was a little difficult to get my knee up so high.

The beautiful pool and resort

Eric loves his Jamba Juice

Our pretty room

On our last day we went on a kayak/hike adventure to a waterfall on the wailua river. (Thanks for the recommendation Michele!) It was so worth it, probably our favorite part of the trip.

Us with our sweet water shoes and hiking sticks.

Our crazy guide, she was SO out there, but fairly amusing. She told us that she planted all of her children's placentas under trees at her house so that when they eat the avacados or whatever kind of tree it is, it has their dna in it and keeps them healthy. she also has all of her kids umbilical cords in her freezer and told us to do the same with our next baby.

Someday we will definitely go back. The flight is torturous but it was well worth it. Sierra was so cute when we got back and still tells me a couple weeks later a few times a day "I missed you mommy!" So cute!