My new stroller-- I LOVE it

Ben and I have had our share of stroller problems. Partly because we bought a crappy stroller that was in our budget when P was born and it fell apart. Then I just used a small umbrella stroller for P after that (needless to say it worked better for her then the old one).. But we decided we needed a double stroller, mostly because my favorite thing to do is walk at the park every day. So Ben researched and found a double tandem stroller he loved and we found a good deal on Amazon for it-- with free shipping to Hawaii!!. The good thing about it is that is pops in any other infant car seat/carrier. So we could recycle our old one, but they didn't match and I didn't like the way they looked together. But thank goodness for E-bay!! 15$, free shipping and 3 days later we got in a perfectly matching car seat cover that looks great. (I had been searching online FOREVER to find a car seat cover to match-- they were all 50+$, then Ben said, check E-bay-- duhhh!!! )) Anyways, check out all the cool ways I can change up my new stroller. Can't wait to use it:) (My favorite thing about this stroller is that the seats lay all the way back if the kids fall asleep--so great).

They can face each other















They can face forward















With the new car-seat cover (the old one was navy blue checkered-gag!)

Another Post about Presley

We recently walked Presley down to the Merry Monarch Parade (it was literally 4 blocks from our house). She LOVED it, but got really tired on the way back as you can tell.

















This is a dancing video of Presley a few days after Easter. As you can tell she still likes playing with the plastic eggs.

Presley's 2nd Easter

This Easter was a little more fun for P. She is starting to understand how to hunt for eggs and she definitely knows what candy is now:) We had a fun day hunting for eggs, BBQ with friends, eating TONS of candy and relaxing as a family. Enjoy the pics.

Happy B day to my sister

Today is my sisters birthday.

These are a few of my favorite memories of her:


1) Twirling a fire baton in a red polka dot uniform at my 2nd grade Assembly (she had super long hair and I kept thinking it was going to catch on fire).
2) Playing barbies together for HOURS or until our legs fell asleep from sitting with our legs crossed.
3) Letting me go out on my friends graduation night even though I was supposed to be grounded (mom and dad left her in charge:) Don't worry-- your too old to get in trouble now-hahah;)
4) Going to movies with me when mom and dad moved us to Missouri the summer before my senior year in high school (I didn't know anyone yet so we hung out alot).
5)Taking a propane curling iron to girls camp so she could make sure she could curl her famous bangs under any circumstances (just in case a boy happened to sneak into camp--hahah just teasing Tiff).
6) Sitting in moms white Lincoln (in our drive way) listening to "Winds Beneath my Wings" by Bette Midler- she listened to it over and over until she had all of the words of the song written down so she could memorize it.
7)Singing "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme me What I Cry For..." solo as part of your 8th grade choir program.
8)Singing Reba Mcentir's song in your leather-fringe outfit at the local county scholarship pageant.. (for those of your who didn't grow up in Duncan-- this was actually normal-- but still super funny--hahahah)

Happy B day sis:)

Kaumana Caves

We ran across these really cool caves driving around. Of course I am too big to be climbing around in them, plus they aren't lighted and you need flashlights and tennis-shoes so we only looked around the entrance. They were formed a LONG time ago by lava. Pretty cool- enjoy.

Spring Break 09

P's new hat and spring break re-cap:

I am getting a little lazy with my blog lately. But here is a slide show of our spring break. We traveled to the other side of the island for 4 days. We rented a condo with our Kamaina rate that allowed us to cook in the condo and save $$$$. We relaxed, ate out 2 times, swam, went to the beach, looked at shops, bought P-lady Melvin the giraffe - took him everywhere with us and mostly slept!! It was great. Tooo bad I am way big prego and SLOW right now--hahahah:)

The craziest part of our trip was on the way home. We had just under a 1/2 tank of gas and decided to go on saddle rd (bad road through mountains- but cuts time by 30 min). Well, our gas light came on and we had almost 30 miles left. hhahah- scary, no gas stations-- nothing, middle of no where!!! But it was all down hill so we coasted the entire way and to our surprise made it easily to Hilo and a gas station. I LOVE our HONDA!!!

Crazzzy P-lady

Presley thought she would entertain her sister to be on Friday night-- enjoy:)

Sun, horses and prego belly

Here are a few clips from our weekend. Presley got to ride on a few horses at the mall and LOVED it, plus we took a drive to the other side of the island because Hilo wont stop raining. I even posted a few pics of my belly for those of you who have been asking!! And YES, that is snow on the mountain shots (this island has every type of weather:)

To potty, or Not to potty train???

At our last Dr's visit with Presley she told us we could start potty training @ 18 months. I've been reading online to see when kids are ready etc. Presley fits most of the signs (ie hiding when she has to potty, wanting it to be private, she understands commands like go sit in your chair, bring me this etc..). But I thought I would see what other moms out there thought about this. I decided to take a month and just introduce her to the idea of it. I got her a potty book and movie and have been keeping track of when she goes #2 etc. We also found a cheap kids potty at sears and picked it up. I let her sit on it but its pretty clear she is unsure of what it is. So please post your thoughts or your experiences and if you found a book useful for parents let me know.

Valentines Day 2009

Ben got to take the day off of studying, so we spent the whole day together-- :)
We went to Kens House of Pancakes for breakfast

Looked around at a few shops, came home and took a family nap, then made valentines for the grandparents with Presley (for the Nelson and Cloud Grandparents)

watched a few cartoon movies with P and then put her to bed early. Then Ben and I ate a really yummy dinner at Cafe Cloud:) It was really relaxing to have a dinner without P hanging on my leg. We listed to Sam Cooke and it really felt like we were dining out.

Menu
Grilled Strip Steak
Baked potato
Steamed asparagus
Sparkling grape juice

and

Earthquake cake and ice cream

Then we watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

(movie sucked! but the day was fun anyways:)