It's a BOY!!!

Well, we finally got a peek and found out it's a boy!!! We are excited and have a lot of shopping to do. Deven was more than thrilled as he was so worried about the girl to boy ratio getting out of control and really being out numbered. Gracie took it a little bit hard in the beginning (she really wanted a sister) but she is getting more excited as we talk about it. We are excited to have one of each.

Good Times

I haven't updated in a while and was down loading pictures and realized I was getting behind. Today Gracie and I went to the park with her friend Cordin. It had been raining all night and it didn't take them long to find the mud. They rolled around in it and put their faces in it. I almost forgot to take a picture before rinsing off outside. She was covered from head to toe, but she had fun and that was matters.

Deven had Sunday off and it was a rainy day. We decided to go for a drive to Pali Lookout and then see if we could find a Sunny part of the island and have a picnic dinner. This wasn't the nicest beach but there was no rain and the sun was going down so we decided it was perfect.

Gracie kept asking us if this was a volcano and I can see how she thought that. This is one of my favorite sights in Hawaii as you drive to the other side of the island the mountain peaks are so high the clouds just rest on them and it does look like a volcano.

Gracie and I at Pali lookout. I forgot how windy it is up there. It is up in the mountains and you can look out and see the Windward side of the Island. Legend has it they use to push people off these cliffs so hold on tight so you don't blow over.

Deven and Gracie at the lookout. It was actually a little bit chilly up there and Gracie and I thought it was so fun to put on jackets.

Here a sign that winter is coming is the size of the waves. This is our favorite beach in the summer months and during part of the winter it is closed. This was on a day of 12 foot advisory but it gets bigger and soon the surfing competitions start we are excited to go watch one.

I need to be more thankful

I have been feeling very ungrateful lately, and may be even a little bit sorry for myself. I miss my husband as he is working all the time which leaves me to put Gracie to bed by myself. He usually gets home just in time for a quick story and then lights out. Some days I feel completely exhausted and feel like a single mother. My Gracie has an abounding amount of energy and keeps me hopping all day long. And it is no secret I haven't felt the best this pregnancy. Things are getting better but still not perfect. I have found myself complaining all the time and not appreciating this exciting event in our life. I had a doctors appointment today and he was asking me how I was doing, my first thought was to go off on just how miserable I was, when he said, "after all this is definitely a miracle baby I still can't believe it. " I felt so small at that point. I have been so caught up on poor me that I haven't taken the time to appreciate how lucky and how grateful we are. Gracie and I spent the rest of the afternoon having some quality time together and I kept thinking how could I be complaining this is all so worth it. How could I not want another little baby in our life. Sure she wears me out, but she is so much of my life. She makes my life great. She wakes up laughing and usually goes to sleep laughing much of it because she finds great pleasure in torturing me. She likes to squeak a loud plastic chicken at me in the morning just to wake me up and she thinks she is so funny. (We can thank Nana for that one...but we will get you back ha ha) And we can't get into bed until she has shown me all of her new tricks and all of her stuffed animals and dolls are tucked in somewhere in the house. But life would be so boring without it. So since this month is a month of being grateful. I decided I needed look at the positive and not the negative. (Deven will be so excited).