Life and Other Stuff

Sobriety, parenting, life….and other stuff

Category: Photography

  • So after 7+ months of hard work losing weight – I have to share some of the pictures from our last photo shoot in Hawaii….. This was so much fun and I’m so glad we decided to do this one final time before we left the islands!!!

  • I realized two days ago that I better head out to the Ko’Olina lagoons if I wanted to make one last trip out there….time is running out! So my friend and her kiddos and me with Jake and Hannah all headed out for what will be our last trip the the lagoons. So beautiful, so…

  • It dawned on me today that I have become “one of ‘those’ people”. Six and a half months ago I began this bootcamp class.  When I first started, you could look out at the other wives and see that we all fell into 1 of 2 groups: those of us just starting, and those that…

  • So after hiking Diamondhead a couple of weeks ago, Katy and I decide that we are rockstars and we are gonna do Kokohead. It’s only 1,048 railroad ties or “steps” to the top – can’t be that bad! And we swam over a mile yesterday – lets climb a volcano today! Yippee!! My rockstar battle…

  • I don’t know why, but climbing Diamondhead seemed like such a daunting feat. We have lived here now for almost 3 years but with the excuse of the kids, being too busy, and just life in general it was something we never got around to checking off of the list… …..until today!!!!      …

  • Eric has attempted to get us all down to see the Christmas Lights display in Honolulu and we finally made it! They have huge scene displays, a Christmas train and more lights than we could count!  Jake and Daddy on the the ride!  Mele Kalikimaka!!! Merry Christmas!  Hannah was enthralled by the lights!!  Jacob, Hannah…

  • They finally made the professional photos available for download from the Honolulu Marathon!   Some of the pictures included in the package were various shots in and around Waikiki and the areas where we ran…… The early morning ceremonies were spectacular! This truly is a stunning place to live. There is much I am going…

  • When I was a kid, my mom had this fantastic cookbook – and by fantastic I mean very well loved and food-stained. It had this elaborate gingerbread house recipe on the inside cover. Every Christmas I would ask to make it until finally one year we did. It was so much fun and many of…