Hawaii 2013

Vacation carries a new meaning when traveling with a 14 month old. We had a blast in Hawaii with our wild man, Nana and Pops. The flight was extremely tiring, but Wyatt did relatively well. He did a great job of adjusting to the time change, although his wake up time was 5 AM for the first 7 days. We are so glad we were able to share the Big Island with him!

Nana's special Aloha breakfast on the Lanai

Day One at the Hilton

Not sure about the parrot

Beach at the Mauna Kea

My Birthday dinner at Brown's Beach House

Wyatt waiting for the Sunset

   After the first day at the Hilton Lagoon, Wyatt loved the beach and sand. We didn't have to lure him in the water--not at all--he would beat us into the water.

  Tour of the Cacao Farm

the Cacao beans drying in the sun

Cacao pod on the tree

The resident one-foot turkey

Open cacao pod

The finished product


The Hawaiian Botanical Gardens

.....More pictures of our Wild Man

And the rainbow on the last day of our trip

Christmas Cheer 2012

We discovered this year that Wyatt was not yet ready for Santa.  The picture is priceless and will come out during his Rehearsal dinner slideshow one day!

He did enjoy listening to the boys choir at Murphy's in Virginia Highlands. He and his  playgroup friends eagerly awaited the arrival of Santa. Only Wyatt survived till arrival. All the others were pooped.

     

During the week of Christmas, Wyatt got to spend a ton of time with his Cousins--constant entertainment!!

Playing in Aunt Merrie's cabinets with James is so much fun!!

Kacie taught Wyatt how to play with the real phone

Everyone in their Christmas PJ's

Wyatt loves his Christmas Wagon

Happy 1st Birthday Wyatt!!

 We had a blast celebrating Wyatt's first birthday on December 2nd. Steve smoked some pork butt and we had approximately 13 children and 20 adults. I couldn't settle on a theme, so we just had a good old fashion birthday party with a ton of balloons and confetti.

Wyatt's smash cake

Brooke made an amazing birthday cake with peach lavender filing

I strung up one picture for each month

 

Clara taking a late afternoon snooze

It is amazing that in 12 months our little boy has grown from a sleepy, sweet, butter bean...

to our energetic wild man ......

Happy first birthday sweetie!!

Halloween Chicken

  Shortly after we moved into our new house, we celebrated Halloween with our new Neighborhood! Everyone convened on Noble Park for a Halloween parade. We did two laps around the park led by the neighborhood bagpipe player.