Viva Valdez

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Winter Recap

Gasp- I'm a horrible blogger. Here a quick recap of the Valdez winter:

In January my college roommates and I took our annual girls trip to Atlantic City, NJ. We celebrated Christine's birthday and laughed until it hurt.

Oh Behave....

To Celebrate Greg coming home, Justin, Jess, Greg and I took a once in a lifetime 9 day vacation to Hawaii. We went to Oahu and Maui. Greg and I took the gamble to beat the system and take Space A (space available Military flights) to Hawaii and failed miserably. We took the hit on our savings and bought tickets the day of to Hawaii. Well worth the money but we won't be gambling like that anymore! Here are some of our favorites:

Road to Hanna day trip

Luau Ladies

My first Luau!

Bucket List item- We all went swimming in the waterfall

A spot in Maui where Jurassic Park was filmed

Boo Ya

Justin was attacked by wild peacocks because he had Cheetos. They followed him all around the park!

Feeding Mutant Ducks

Happy New Year!

We shouldn't be allowed to have children but we do!

Amazing restaurant in Oahu

We were able to catch up and see Sami's family 2 days we were there

Twinsies

Vacation High!

We watched the sunrise on the beach two mornings in Oahu

Mutant Fish attacking at our resort in Maui

Jess and I loved using our new mack daddy cameras on the trip

that day we spent about 8 hours on the beach- GLORIOUS

Best of Christmas:

By far the best part of our Christmas was having Greg home from deployment. The Marusas came and stayed with Mom too during Christmas so it was a very joyous week!

Nanny and Ava going on a date to the movie Tangled

Ava so excited to get her Toy Story action figures

By the evening the girls were a bit overstimulated

Ava and GrandBob relaxing to the Max

Fun towels sent to the girls from the Georgia Warme Clan

Ava's #1 request for Christmas this year- a Guitar

Puppet Show!

Before Christmas Eve Church Service

My favorite present- Eric made his famous apple pie three times! YUM

Ellie does Headstands ANYTIME she gets excited. She also does them ANYWHERE including parking lots, grocery stores, etc. Never a dull moment.

2 peas in a pod

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

We are Alive!

I know I know. I haven't posted a blog update in 3 months- my longest lull in 3.5 years! During those 3 months the girls had their birthdays and turned 1 and 3, I ran a marathon, we drove to 4 houses in 48 hours during Thanksgiving, all the Valdez girls got bronchitis then the flu, our BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT (Greg!) came home, the girls were petrified of Santa, and Greg, Justin, Jessica, and I went to Hawaii. Whew! I'll post some of the highlights today and the next few days before I resume my prerequisites for Nursing this Friday. I am taking Anatomy and Physiology II this Spring. It works out perfectly because Greg does not have to work Fridays till this Summer so he is watching the girls while I am in class on Friday and Saturday mornings. The girls are excited for their Daddy Date days. Pictures are chronologically in reverse order.

Gypsy Chicks! This will be hung in the guys' ready room.

Girls so excited that their Daddy is back for night time routines.

Whole Valdez Family together again!

Hyper Elves with their Nanny

The Gang is back together. We get 6 months of all 4 of us living down the street from each other before the Browns move to Monterey California in June.