Snuggles

Last night we were watching a movie and Mike took some pics of Rhett and I snuggling :) Rarely am I in pictures with him.... I am usually taking them!!

Ukelele Boy

Playing it outside on the slide
Playing it in his play car... I promise he did this on his own.. doesn't it look like I posed him or something?!!
Carrying it around everywhere
STILL carrying it arounfd in the house!

Rhett stayed the night this week with my freind Beth and from the minute he arrived until the minute he left he carried around a Ukelele...... strumming it and bobbing his head to the tune! We got a kick out of the stories she told us about it and Mike surprised Rhett with his very own Ukelele yesterday morning. He was so excited and sure enough, he did carry it around all afternoon. I even had to bring it with him in the car!

Anniversary Dinner at Donatoni's

Cheers to three wonderful years!! Look at all the food... and that was just getting started!
what a sunset!

Yummy!
Compliments to Chef Sascia.... it was all delicious!!

Mike and I had a beautiful sunset dinner at an Italian restaurant called Donatoni's. Our friend Sascia Marchesi is the executive chef there and it was voted the best restaurant on the Kohala coast! We figured out why!!! ;) They treated us like royalty with a champagne welcome and very special appetizers that the chef did up just for us! They kept it coming with risotto and a special wine that Sascia chose for us... by the time our entree arrived we were stuffed! Imagine how we felt when our very own cake was brought out!!!! We left with bags full of leftovers ;) WOW! It was a very romantic and memorable evening!

Anniversary fun at the Waikoloa Hilton

Mike and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary by staying a night down at the Waikoloa Hilton. Rhett sated with my friend Beth (and he behaved very well for his first time away from us over night, I must add) If you have never seen the Waikoloa Hilton (it's in the same resort area as our restaurants) you have to know that it is Ginormous! There are atleast a dozen pools, many of which are connected by slides. There are waterfalls with grotos underneath, hidden hot tubs and even a big lagoon for snorkeling and paddleboats. If you prefer not to walk the nearly 1 mile hike from one end to the other, you can hop aboard the tram or even the boat! Our close friend Sascia is an executive chef there at the hotel and he hooked us up with a beautiful suite for the evening! The next day Beth brought Rhett and her son down to meet us so we could all play in the pools... it was a great 2 days!!! Mike and I even went down the big water slides over and over like kids... we saved the little ones for Rhett ;) We highly recommend this hotel to any family coming to visit. You could stay here for a week straight and never run out of things to do!
My SuperMan!! Mike going down one of the baby waterslides.
My little man is getting so independent! He LOVED going down the slides by himself :)
Again and again...he didn't want to give us a break!

We watched people swim with the dolphins. There was a baby dolphin in another pool that was just born 10 days ago! This picture has the dolphin upside down/belly up and if you just glanced it kinda looks like a shark!
There was a baby pool with a sand bottom...
Rhett went down on Mike's lap the first time, but that wasn't nearly as fun as by himself!

The view from our suite!
Ocean view from our suite.

New Play Slide!

Thanks to my girlfriend Nikki, Rhett now has a new hand-me-down play slide! He LOVES it and would play out there all day if I let him!!

I just love this picture of Rhett in the bushes.... he look slike he is on a safari ;)

MOPs day at the beach!

We spent last Wednesday at the beach with a bunch of my girlfriends and thier kids. The two other blondies in the picture with Rhett are Mahialani and Alika. They are twins that were born on the same day at Rhett.... several hours after the earthquake.