Someone is ready for the sun!

Dreaming for Dax

The annual "Walk Now for Autism Speaks" was this last weekend. We put a team together and called it, "Dreaming for Dax". Which says it all, and is pretty much the driving reason for doing it. For those who don't know, our son Dax has autism. This walk was actually one year from when he was diagnosed. Due to extremely good resources and therapy, Dax is a different kid from a year ago! The support of organizations like Autism Speaks and so many others, give families like ours hope. We appreciate everyone who showed up, hey there's no better motivation than popsicles after a cold walk! We bundled up in as many layers as we could and walked in cold rain and snow. This is actually the only picture we had from the day. I'm sorry we didn't get my dad who was taking the picture, Cam, Tia, or Barb in. You can't even see Dax, just his hat sticking out of the stroller. Oops! Thank you so much to everyone who donated!!! With your help, we were able to raise a lot of money! Every bit of that money goes to Autism Speaks, who does SO MUCH for Autism and families effected by it. We love you all, and while I'm at it, thank you so much for your prayers, support, and love this last year especially! We would be in a completely different place if it wasn't for it.

FORT

I was in the other room when I was called to come see this: Brandon thought it would be fun to build a fort for the kids...

...but he had just as much fun as they did!

They love it, and I'm wondering how long this is planning on staying in my living room.

This and That

This little girl is a T.R.O.U.B.L.E maker! Good thing she is such a cutie and I want to eat her up. We have so much fun together! This is what I find if I happen to leave her alone. Shae is such a climber.

Notice the spilled water.

I can't leave the crayons out... because she will eat them!

More climbing, same table.

Shae loves to find all of our belly's, and shows us her own. She tries to give us "raspberries", it's so cute!

We got to take advantage of some nice weather and go to the park. The kids LOVE being outside and I love the sunshine, so we were in heaven. Bring on summer! NOW!

p.s. Dax is finally having days with NO accidents! YAY!

Happy Easter!

The Easter Bunny made it to our house!

You can tell Dax knew something wrong happened... They opened a box of nerds and they spread all over the floor. Lucky for them, it was Easter so they got to sit and eat them.

And soon destroy everything else too! It was a fun day! We decided that Shae might have a bigger sweet tooth than her mom.... trouble! We had brunch at Brandon's parents house, and had a fun Easter egg hunt. I guess the Easter bunny knew we would be there too, because he left us all a nice stash! Later we had even another hunt when we went to Grandma Mary's for her annual Easter egg hunt!

Maui 2010

In case you didn't already know, I love this place! We just got back and had, of course, such a great time! We did some of everything. We were a little adventurous this time around and decided that it was about time we learned to surf! Along with surfing, we went scuba diving (we found a geocache inside a wreck), snorkeling, boogie boarding, swimming, whale watching (like crazy, there were so many!), hiking, driving, napping, sat in the sun, sat in the shade, went to Warren and Annabelle's, and ATE A TON! We rented some boards and got some "totally killer" advice from some surf dude. We were pretty excited and made it to the place he told us to go, where we saw this... Little intimidating, but our friend Dave had no problems giving it a go, which helped us all realize that we could try it too!

I did get to ride a couple of waves in, only it was more like a crazy boogie board ride, laying down. The waves NEVER stopped and with our big ol' soft top long boards, we just got thrown around and ended up like this... So, we found ourselves some nice baby waves. They were a blast and we all surfed! hangin' out like pro's

We also explored some cliffs. The waves were going crazy and this blow hole was shooting pretty high!

We had to stop our car when we were driving around by the cliffs because this bright little guy was in the middle of the road. We pulled over to get a closer look, check him out!

Jeanne and Dave Raulston came with us and we had a blast together! (Love you guys!) Thanks to them, I have some pictures to share! The biggest thanks goes out to our parents for taking turns with our kids! We love our kids, but it would have been totally different with them there. THANK YOU, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!