The Walk

(Say Cheese! Cheeeeeese…)

Today was the Walk With Angels. It is an event we participate in every year with the United Angels Foundation.  We had a great time.  Here's some pictures.

(lil miss so excited to be there…)

(Sister and The other half of Chrome Cousins….)

(Brother and one of his favorite people)

(its ME! (I know rare) working in the t-shirt booth)

(Leighton meeting some princesses….)

It was so fun. 

-JS

Maui 2014

(She's serious about tasting the sand…)

Well, Hubs won another incentive trip to Hawaii this year and I talked him into making it into a family vacation.  

(Dad and Leighton in Lahaina) 

All of our schedules aligned and it ended up being perfect timing.  It was so much fun taking all the kids to experience Maui. It was a vacation of many first for them.  

(visiting the Ocean)

We had a little hiccup with Leighton getting sick the second we stepped on the plane and the first two days were a bit of puke-fest, I ended up breaking my camera half way through, but I can say it was probably the best family vacation yet.

(We all voted and this was the best Shave Ice…a must )

(Brother, was a natural at boogie boarding, and fearless touching the sea creatures...he's holding a black starfish)

(Sister…Best quote…Says this is the best day of my life the second her feet touched the ocean)

(and Leighton…. seriously didn't even whine or cry the whole flight while she was 
sick…best child ever)

(everyday we hit the beach, and then went to the pool)

(we saw a lot of fun ocean life..Sea turtles were a big must for sister, to bad we never saw them on the beach, but we saw them swimming by our hotel everyday)

(some Maui sights)

(Seriously these two are the cutest together…)

(it was so fun having our whole family on this one…)

-JS

april showers...

We had a jam packed April. 

(some Instagrams)

It started with a baseball tournament and ended with Leighton starting preschool. 

Throw in a "work" trip 

and a birthday 

(Leighton turned 3)

mixed in with the normal things like school, dance, baseball, work, cleaning and it flew bye in a busy whirl. 

We counted and Leighton is up to 7 flights (not counting conections) in 3 years (also there has been drives to disneyland and other places)… she is a little traveler for sure.  

Some pictures of the latest work trip we took with Hubs.

This trip took us to the Florida Keys. Our hotel was on Key Largo at the Ocean Reef Club it was really nice.

Pool

Fishing Village

 One of the days we took the SLOW drive to 

Key West

 We visited the Lighthouse

we walked up Duval Street 

(which was a lot like the French Quarter in New Orleans, but it had Roosters and chickens Everywhere??!!??)

We ended the Day, by chance (I guess it's something your supposed to do there) with dinner at Mallory Square and we enjoyed the sunset.

it was a great trip 

(and in May we will be going to Maui again) 

-JS

NOLA

At the end of January Leighton, Hubs, and I took a trip to New Orleans. I am just barely blogging about it because I got sick right after and had a 12 day hospital stay, which I might write about later.

So back to NOLA. I've heard it's pretty dirty here and yes I would agree, but it was also a very fun trip. I would recommend a trip here if you get a chance. I have always wanted to visit the south. I love books based around the Civil War, plantations, and slavery. I like to understand peoples mind sets at that time, and find the History very interesting. Anyway I would have to say it was the most educational trip I have been on.  Hubs was in trainings all day so we took off and explored a little of the city.  It was unusauly cold there, especially the first day and I didn't take any pictures of the first day with my good camera because I forgot it in the hotel. We visited the Aquarium and it was really fun for Leighton and we stayed nice and warm. Here's my pictures from day 2 and 3 though.

On River Walk

The Mississippi River

 We took the ferry across and that was Leighton's favorite thing we did. 

Jackson Square

 We shopped the French Quarter and tried Beignets (a must do) from Cafe Du Monde

I dragged the Ladies on a Plantation Tour and I am SOO glad I did. It was amazing even if I earned the nickname "DORA" (dora the explorer) from them.  I was raised to travel this way and so I think I'm normal. 

Laura Plantation

A classic Creole Plantation with the colors and decor inside.

 You've heard of Uncle Remus, and Briar Rabbit. This is the plantation where He lived and the stories were told. It was my favorite of the two. I could have stayed and learned about it's history all day.

Orange Trees

(I've always wanted one)

Oak Alley Plantation

This Plantation was so Grand The trees were nothing I've seen before and everything you would picture a Plantation to be. 

Vacation Instagrams

-JS

our insta-life...

I decided to clean out my iPhone pictures and I realized how bad I have been at blogging so here's a partial catch up on what has happened in instagram pictures. 

Right before Thanksgiving we took a trip to Disneyland.  

Brother was playing in a baseball tournament so we figured we were half way there so why not?

It was so much fun. 

trip instagrams...

Here's some of Leighton's Christmas instagrams....

and here's some (fun, important, & my favorite) instagrams that's happened in December and January..

and that's a little of our life brought to you by instagram...

-JS

Little Red is a bit late.....

I just barely loaded my pictures from Halloween on my computer.  I know it's sad how long this took me, but there was some super cute ones of Leighton I still wanted to post because I just loved her Halloween costume. 

-JS