A day at the Pumpkin Patch

The Great Pumpkin Patch Day, 2011
Riding the hay ride

playing with lots of pumpkins

my little silly Kylee. Now where does she get this from?

Kylee was terrified of these guys

but she loved the big slides and the bouncy houses!

Lexi just loved walking around

Daddy even got in on the fun!

they kept pretending to be "Superman!" (Kylee's halloween costume)

Kylee's pumpkin

Lexi and the banana tree

a white pumpkin

and the coolest part, carving pumpkins :)

love Kylee's face here

Lexi got in on the fun...sort of

all done!

No more posts for me because I'm heading to WI for Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guam

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to go to another Tropical Island - Guam. My work sent me there. Love this beautiful flower.
This is what a lot of Guam looked like.

The hotel didnt have a beach, it was pretty rocky down to the water.

Our hotel pool, right on the edge of the ocean.

All over Guam, the water was crystal clear. I cant wait to snorkel there sometime!

A random park we stopped at. Notice the diving board to the left :)

Talofofo Falls in Guam. We had to ride a cable car to get there, that was pretty cool.

I wanted to jump in but they wouldnt let me :(

We got some time off to explore Guam. Just got in the car and drove.

Banana trees

Yup. Good hotel room.

So um...Guam has a bit of a snake problem. These buckets are all over the island, and supposedly filled with dead (or about to be dead) snakes. I couldnt summon the courage to look, but I promise I will on a future visit.

This was taken out at Two Lovers Point. In the early 1800's (long story short) two lovers whose families wouldnt allow them to be together jumped from Lovers Point together, into the ocean.

Yes, yours truly.

Views were stunning

There arent a lot of flowers there, but the ones they had were beautiful.

Driving around Guam

This is what I woke up to everyday

I had fun, and in my line of work I travel there every few months. If I could just get over the bad turbulence to/from Guam, I'd love it!

Race for the Cure & Hiking Koko Crater

3 weeks ago I ran the Hawaii "Race for the Cure," a 3.2 mile race in honor of my Grandma (a breast cancer survivor).
Yup, I did it with the double jogging stroller. I love to run with the girls, anyways, and we had a great time. This is around 0630 am before the race.

Just after the race. The girls did great!

We got in line to cheer on all the survivors as they finished the race. Look at Kylee clapping :)

Outside of the race tent

The week before that race, Josh and I climb Koko crater. Its over 1,000 steps to get to the top.

And were off!

still smiling

ha! not smiling anymore Josh!

a few minutes after we finished at the top. we did it as a workout so we hiked up very fast. the north east side of the islandthe southeast side

After you get to the top of the kokohead, there's other little trails to hike to continue further and boulders/buildings to climb on

A beautiful view of Hanuama Bay, where we love to snorkel and see turtles/fish

right when we got to the top.

it was cool, when we got to the top we ran into a friend of mine.

this is one of the crossings. the drop is like 50 feet (okay i'm exaggerating a little), it was really scary going across it.

1/2 of the way up

josh standing near the beginning, me finishing the run down

We had an awesome time hiking Kokohead and we hope to do it again soon. Thanks to Michelle for watching the girls at 6am so we could do it!