Website

I just discovered a website named Lainey Gossip. I think the name is catching on!

http://www.laineygossip.com/

Surf's Up!

While I was posing on the beach for my mom in my hula outfit, my Daddy and Aunt Nan took a surfing lesson.

Favorite song of the moment

http://listen.grooveshark.com/song/Somewhere_Over_The_Rainbow_And_Am/1087584

Lainey on YouTube

Blogger won't let me post this so I had to resort to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4LIlEXnQA

Luau pics

Official Luau Picture Mmmmmm......pulled pork!
MEAT!! Everybody knows the salads are just filler!!

We ate pulled pork almost everyday for a week. How can I be craving it??!!

Family pic

Gotta love a girl in a coconut bra and grass skirt!Especially when there's a bare tush underneath!

Lainey and her rocks

Drive to Hana

How Laineybug rolls

Inside a lava tube that is now a cave on a black sand beach

The black sand beach

Sunset at the luau. The pork at a luau is reason enough to go to Hawaii.

Hula Girl

One of my favorite pictures from the trip.

Family Update

Well we made it to and from Maui safe and sound and had a great time. Beatutiful weather the entire time with only some haze called "VOG" which was smoke from the volcano on the Big Island. Robert and Deanna's favorite part was surfing while I think mine is a tie between the drive to Hana (twelve long hours but worth it in my opinion) and the banana bread we picked up along the drive. So yummy!! If Lainey cold talk, I'm sure her favorite part would be all the wonderful things she got to taste: sand, rocks, leaves, potato chips, pool water, etc....

I'll upload some pictures soon. I need to get old pictures off my computer before loading new ones as I'm afraid this thing will crash on me.

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

Nic, Robert & Laineybug

Bubbles in the Bathtub

She fills our lives with sunshine... And our hearts with love. --Author Unknown

I don't know what it is about this picture but I like it. Since she is always on the move it just seems fitting that the picture be a bit blurry. I'd like to see what it looks like in B&W but can't figure out how to do that in Elements right now. Maybe later.

4 Star Morning

I got my first real kiss from Bug this morning! What a great way to start the day!!

It's getting crowded in here

10-15 years from now....

Happy Mother's Day

As I sit here typing I can hear Robert reading and singing to Lainey as they go through their bedtime ritual. I can't help but think about how blessed I am. I have the life I always dreamed of but never really thought would get: a happy, healthy, beautiful child, a husband that loves me and wonderful friends that I don't know what I would do without. Just like everyone else, I have weathered my share of heartaches and it was not that long ago that Mother's Day was a holiday I really didn't look forward to for a number of reasons, but I believe in my heart that without those times, I would not appreciate the great times. I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day today.

Playing at the park

Little Climber

Mom and babies

It's not a very clear shot. I had to hide in the doorway and I was using my zoom lens AND she was moving. But I think it's still pretty cool. Now, I just have to think of names for these 4 little ones.

Baby Birds

Mama Robin has been seen carrying lots of worms back to her nest and stays in the nest for long periods of time. Yesterday we learned why. There are at least 4 little baby robins in it!

Playing in the yard

We had a beautiful day yesterday-sunny and about 67 degrees or so. Lainey had fun running all over the neighborhood picking up and tasting rocks, sticks, wood chips, anything she could get her hands on really. This looks like a nice, peaceful moment of downtime but in reality, she was trying to pry her hat off her head.

Sweet Face

Family Effort in the Kitchen

Reading with Grandma and Grandpa