Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Haircut and Locks of Love

So, for those of you who have seen Hannah's hair, it is actually pretty long. It is also pretty hard to do everyday, so we decided to cut it. And here is the journey to shorter hair...
We went to Laurie, because she is great at her job and we love her ;) Hannah did great and seemed to enjoy the experience.
Hannah loves looking at herself in the mirror...too cute.
And here we have shorter hair, and the ability to get ready quicker in the morning! Yay! Thank you Laurie! We both love our new hair-dos!
The best part is, Hannah had enough hair to donate to "Locks of Love" which takes real hair and makes them into beautiful childrens' wigs so kids with cancer can have natural looking hair. She actually had ten inches to cut off. So cool!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

School days


Hannah started preschool yesterday. I can't believe she is old enough to be in preschool. She loved it and had so much fun with her teacher, Miss Mandy, and her class. She is the only girl with five other boys. I love my Hannah so much and we are so proud of her. She is our first miracle baby and we are lucky to have her in our lives. I love you Hannah Banana!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Lagoon, Dino Park , and other fun Martins adventures

This is one of my favorite new things that Lia does...she really knows how to relax.
We went to the Dinosaur Museum with my Dad while he was here last...if you have never been, it is an awesome place for both adult and the kiddos.


Hannah has learned how to make her bed...not sure if I started too early or too late. But she sure is good at it!
Lagoon!
This was the first ride that we took Hannah on, it scared her a lot, but I think she got a lot of confidence after and rode as many rides as Lagoon would allow her. We had a great day!

We took Flavio's sister and her husband, as our girls love them and it was great to be able to ride some of the bigger rides with Flavio, we had a great time!

I love these two pictures because Hannah is riding these rides, you just can't see her...but she is there!
Cute Lia was so good all day. She loves to just watch people and see what is going on. She seemed to have fun...can't wait to take her on the rides some day.


I love spending time with family...we had a great time and hope to go more next year.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Four generations times four!

So, we were able to have all of my grandparents over to our new house! It was great to have them here and know that I am so blessed to have all of them still alive. I think this picture will be pretty special to my girls...to have all four of your great-grandparents...pretty awesome! I love them very much and hope to have them around for many more years to come!

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Finally...Hawaii...

So, here are our Hawaii pictures. We had a wonderful time and are so blessed to be able to go and visit family and friends over there. It really is an amazing place. This first picture is of the family (minus Felipe) after Lia's blessing. It was really important for me to include as much of our immediate family in Lia's adoption and process as possible and because Flavio's family was not able to attend the sealing, we had Lia blessed in Hawaii. Plus, I think Lia will think it is cool that she was blessed there as well. The blessing was beautiful.
These next two pictures are of my favorite beach in Hawaii, Waimea Beach. As you can see, even though there are other people there...you would never know it...the North Shore in Oahu are the best beaches in all of Hawaii and I have been to all the islands. The BEST!
This picture is of our amazing view from our hotel room. It was so beautiful there.

Our hotel had a great pool, and even though we love the beach...the pool is so much cleaner...no sand, salt...you know.


Taking a hit from Rockey.
We went to Planet Hollywood...
Only in Hawaii: A Gecko landed on our windshield while we were driving to the airport...he finally flew off...it was crazy.
Flavio and I were able to go to Maui for a couple of days by ourselves...thanks again Martins...we decided to do a few things and one of them was take a submarine tour. It was awesome! As you can see, we saw a shark, a sunken ship and tons of fish. We went almost 130 feet under the water! Way cool.







Here is my hot husband...I think he looks hot here :)
So, in Maui we decided to take Rachel Ray's advise on cheaper restaurants...it was awesome...all the places we went that she recommended tasted great and cost at least 50% less than the dumb hotel restaurants.
So, I am pretty proud of these two pictures. We took the road to Hana while we were in Maui and it was beautiful. The lower picture is the opening scene for Jurassic Park...Flavio loves that movie, so I tried to get a neat shot of it.

Here we are with some of the family. We had a really great time with Flavio's family and wished we could go visit more often. LOL

On our way back the girls were pretty silly. We had a red eye so we were hoping that they would both sleep. At first, no luck, but then Hannah fell asleep and slept like this the whole way back...pretty funny. I just wish Lia would have followed her big sister's example...let's just say I was really tired when we got back...and so was Lia.

We love Hawaii, it will always be our second home, as that is where we met. We had a lot of fun and like I said hope to be able to go back...when our girls can remember it. :)

Monday, August 3, 2009

Climbing Stairs and NASCAR

So, Lia climbed the stairs...all the way to the top before we even noticed. Thank goodness she didn't fall, but we bought a new gate the next day! I can't believe she is getting so big.

Okay, so DigiCert (Flavio's work) took us to the Miller Sports Park this last Saturday. I have to admit, NASCAR is not my thing...but now it could easily become one of my favorite sports. We had a lot of fun and the race was so exciting! We were able to sit in a suite, which gave us an amazing view of all the pits and pit crews. We saw them changing tires, filling the gas tanks and fixing engines. They were amazing! We also had our own little go kart race and Flavio's team won. We had a great day! Thank you DigiCert!

He has always wanted to be a Ninja...
I hate this picture because I look so much taller than Flavio...but I am sure the helmet isn't helping.
The cutest little race car driver...can't wait until we can get pictures like these of Lia :)