Mahalo!

Once again, it seems like time slips by way too quickly...so it's been almost two months since we left for our vacation in Hawaii.  It was beautiful, fun, crazy, relaxing, and SO nice to spend time with the ones we love!  Between Jon's two jobs, my one job, and all the other stuff we cram in between, we hardly see each other, so a week together was such a nice break from the craziness! The location was just beautiful: 

Sunset from the backyard:

 

The backyard in the day: 

  

We snorkeled, we relaxed, we went to the beach a few times:  

 

 

 

 

And Sofia LOVED the water!  Unfortunately our camera lens had water on it in this shot, but she was just always so happy in the water: 

  

And again: 

 

So, while the plane ride there was a little challenging with an almost-one-year-old, it was most definitely worth it!  We loved it, and we are so grateful to everyone that helped make it possible.  We definitely owe them a big MAHALO!

Umm...March?!?

It seems like we just had Christmas.  In fact, it seems like I just barely had a sleepy, cuddly newborn, yet here we are, half-way through March, and Sofia is already standing, talking (so far just Dada when she sees Jon...no Mama yet) and crawling around getting into EVERYTHING.  She also has started cruising along the furniture standing up.  Then, the other day the laundry basket was in the living room, and this started happening:

No prompting from me, and now whenever she sees it she does it again.  I'm betting she is walking by her first birthday, if not before. She is so fun, and learning so fast!  Before I know it she'll be running-even scarier (for me anyway).

Merry Christmas!

We had such a wonderful Christmas!  Sofia of course was very spoiled, as were we. We loved spending time with our families, and missed the ones we didn't see!

Loving the bows on the presents, so fun to pull off and put in the mouth!

 Crazy to think we are over half way to her first birthday, she is getting so big!  She amazes me every day at what she figures out and learns, before we know it she will be a year old already:

Happy 7 month birthday to our beautiful girl!!