Crazy Hawaiian Trees

I absolutely love the variety of tree's here in Hawaii. These are definitely my top 2 favorites. I've never seen a rainbow colored tree trunk, thought it was so awesome! It's actually called a Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree. The other one is a Ficus Banyan tree where the roots grow downward from the branches, pretty cool!

Beach Fun

26 weeks!! I might look small here, but don't let the laying down picture fool you, I'm probably twice as big when I'm standing!!! I don't see how it's possible to have 3 more months left, I'm trying to figure out how it's humanly possible for a stomach to stretch this much. Guess that's what happens when you have a big girl in your belly! Can't wait to meet my little chunkster :)

Having some fun at the beach. The boys spent the whole time fighting with the waves, while Micole & I just enjoyed the sunshine.

Derrick's working on his modeling poses, haha.

25 Weeks!

Ok now I realize how tiny I was before, no one can say I'm tiny now, haha. Our 24 week check up went great, I'm measuring normal and our baby girl is healthy. She's been so active lately, I feel like she's doing kickboxing or some gymnastics in there. Such an amazing feeling!

Happy 4th of July!!

My new friend Micole :) It's so nice to finally have a girlfriend to spend some time with, especially another military wife seeing as we'll be going through a lot of the same things.

Check out these stud muffins :) Derrick and his friend Jason (Micole's husband). They were actually stationed in Fairbanks together and worked in the same company. They just got stationed here about a week ago and actually found a place right next to our condo, super exciting having them as neighbors!!

We celebrated our 4th of July with our friends, Micole & Jason on the military base. They had a bunch of booths set up and Smash Mouth played live. Yes Smash Mouth from the 1990's.... but it was free so we can't complain too much. Plus the weather was beautiful, couldn't have asked for a nicer day! We finished the night off watching the firework show.

Pooped

Derrick's been working from 5 in the morning till around 11 at night for the last week!!!! I caught him sleeping while sitting up waiting for the blow up bed to inflate. Too funny. Poor boy has been so sleep deprived lately, but I thought this was priceless :)

Polynesian Cultural Center

Today we went to the Polynesian Cultural Center, spent about 8 hours there!! Started out with a tour of the different cultures, then watched a float parade on the water, followed by a beautiful Luau and finished with a performance called "Ha Breath of Life", Hawai‘i’s newest ancient story where we sat in the front row (VIP status) :) Besides being in the 90 degree heat all day, it was an amazing experience!

Waikiki Sunset

Evalin wanted to see the sunset before she left Hawaii so we headed down to Waikiki. It was so beautiful!! I've always wanted to go lay on the beach with Derrick and have a romantic date night but he thought I was corny :)

Hanauma Bay

Derrick's little sister Evalin is here for a couple weeks visiting so we've been trying to show her around the island. We went to Hanauma Bay today and she went snorkeling for the first time. Can't believe she's only 16 and I'm almost 10 years older than her!!!! Especially considering the fact that she's like 6 inches taller than me!! We're really glad she's able to spend these next couple weeks with us.

It's a GIRL!!!

20 weeks now!! I was always complaining about how small my belly was and then woke up the other day and this thing was there, haha. I'm starting to get big!

It's a little hard to see but this is our baby girl's butt :) Showing everyone we're having a girl!! I made sure the ultrasound tech checked a bunch of times to make sure there wasn't anything hiding...... But she said it's definitely a girl. YAY!!!

Well our little miss chunky pants is already 15 ounces, which measures her about 7 days bigger than she should be. Needless to say, we're having a HUGE baby. I'm going to have to blame that on my husband who weighed 11lbs when he was born! Getting pretty nervous already about giving birth, considering she's only getting bigger from here, eek! But on the plus side, the nurse said she is a very healthy baby, that's all I can ask for!

Baby Bump

Here I am at 17 weeks. I still feel pretty small but the pants aren't buttoning anymore, I'm using the sweet rubberband trick until I can find a bella band my size. Our last check up was about a week ago and the nurse said everything looks good. We scheduled our next appointment for June 3rd to find out the sex!!! We can't wait!



14 weeks.

Baby Fi

Here's my little baby pooch. I wish it would hurry up and get bigger, right now I feel like I'm in the akward chubby stage... We went to the doctor yesterday for our ultrasound to check to see what was going on, and I'm sad to say there are no twins, BUT we do have one very active healthy baby doing headspins in my tummy. I'm thinkin' he's going to have some of his daddy's sweet dance moves :) And hopefully my good looks, haha.

Birthday Boy

Yesterday was Derrick's 23rd birthday, so I decided to get him some balloons and a huge cake, haha. It was actually an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbin's, sooooooo good :) Then we just enjoyed a night in and watched Alvin and the Chipmunks, the squeakquel. Cute movie.

Movie Night!

Derrick and I had a date night and went to see Alice in Wonderland in 3D. It was sweet, almost as sweet as we look in our glasses :)

Putt-Putt

We went to Island Adventures Miniature Golf yesterday. It was fun until the mosquitos attacked us and the ginormous bees were chasing us. I thought we left the mosquitos in Alaska, apparently they can live in the heat too, dang it! Oh and for the record, the score was: Derrick - 64 / Ashley - 60. Boo-yaaa!

What a stud muffin.

Just stopping for a quick picture on the bridge.

The New Do

I'm always so scared to try new hair salons, but I went to this one on post and it didn't turn out too bad. I think this is the blondest I've ever gone, and it's not what I asked for but I think it looks ok. She also threw a few more layers in which I really like.