Aloha From Maui

Aloha, well we are on day 5 of our trip and it's going great. My biggest fear coming on vacation was that Ashlyn would be a terrible sleeper but she's done great. My in-laws made a little bed for her on their futon and put pillows all around under the sheet so she couldn't roll off. So I put her to bed at 9 pm and lay with her until she falls asleep, which only takes about 10 minutes and then I leave. She has slept every night until 7 am (around the time the birds are making lots of noise outside). So this vacation with her is much better then last time when she woke up every 2 hours. I am hoping though now that she's sleeping in a sorta a big girl bed she'll go back into the crib when we get home, if not we'll be buying new furniture earlier than we planned.

Our vacation also got extended by 2 days and now is costing us about $250 more. Aloha airlines, which we had tickets with, is no longer in business and stopped flights as of today. So yesterday we all panicked a little and searched for new flights home. If we flew home on Saturday, as we planned, it was going to cost us like $1000. So we decided we would stay until Monday since it was much cheaper. Luckily I don't work until Friday of next week and Jason can take an extra day off. But we do get two extra days in paradise.

Ashlyn is having so much fun here. She loves the water and playing in the sand. She is just full of smiles when we are at the beach, I think she would stay all day if she could. I will have many pictures and videos, so when we get home I will post them. Aloha everyone!!

Easter

Easter was just a wonderful day. It started out with Ashlyn getting up to find that the Easter bunny come and left a basket full of goodies. I think her favorites were the Dora video and the bubbles.

Then we went to church. I was a little worried since we haven't gone to church since Ashlyn was a little baby. But to my surprise she did great and we were able to sit through the whole mass without having to take her outside. I think she just enjoyed looking at everyone. We definetly need to try to go to mass more often.

We then went out to Santa Clarita for Easter at my Aunt Georgann's and Uncle Tom's. It was just a nice day with all of my cousins. We had a Easter egg hunt for Ashlyn, Lacey, and Kaley. Ashlyn had so much fun. She loves playing with her cousins. I can't wait until Nathan and Siena are big enough to play too. It's so nice for Ashlyn to have so many cousins to play with.

Baby's First Picture

Yesterday I went to my first of many prenatal appointments. Jason and Ashlyn came with me and we all were able to see the baby on ultrasound. We also were able to hear the heartbeat. It's crazy how something so small could have a heartbeat. Ashlyn could see the screen and was pointing saying "baby". My due date is October 30th, but since I will be having a c-section I will probably deliver the week before. It definitely becomes more real when you actually see the baby for the first time.

Ashlyn and Daddy being silly

I just thought they look so cute!! They were cheering on USC during the basketball game yesterday. But even with all the cheering USC couldn't win...maybe next year boys.

Disneyland, Dana Point, and Papa and Nona's house

I have been really bad about posting lately. I've been feeling very tired and my tummy's been feeling a little sick these last couple weeks. But Ashlyn and Jason are napping right now so I figured it would be the perfect time to update the blog. So this month we went to Disneyland (I know we go there all the time) with our cousins Tracy and Lacey and some of their friends. Ashlyn just loves being with girls. I think if she could trade this baby for a older sister, she would.

We also went to Dana Point about two weeks ago, they were having a festival for the whales. We didn't see any whales but it was nice to walk along the harbor and we went to the aquarium there. It was a small aquarium but Ashlyn enjoyed looked around at everything. Then before we left they had a duck race at in the harbor. Ashlyn had fun at the beach, I can't wait to see her in Maui next week.

Last weekend my Grandma came out to visit. So on Saturday we went to my parents house for dinner. After dinner Ashlyn went into the spa with her Daddy, Papa, and Uncle. She had a blast splashing around. It was a nice visit.