Congrats!!

Shawn finished his last day of law school yesterday!!! I'm so proud of him for how hard he's worked the past 3 years!! I love you babe!!
(this is a picture of him on the first day of law school... cute huh!! :)

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Happy Birthday to my mom, my advisor, my psychiatrist, my cheerleader, my organizer, my scrapbooker, my listener, my friend! Thanks mom for all the "roles" you play in my life! I feel so blessed to have a mother who has always put her children first. I love you!!

Hawaii

Finally our update on Hawaii... we loved it!! Everything was perfect. As soon as we got in the rental car, we turned on the radio to hear IZ singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"... I can't believe Ben and Lynn get to live like that daily!!! I think Shawn said it best, "we came, we saw, we ate everything" or something like that. Here are some highlights:
1. The food (especially the macadamia nut sauce pancakes... the review claims it so good you could like it off a homeless man... that's pretty much true!!)
2. The beaches... especially Lanikai- it's so amazing... fine white sand, clear water to snorkel!!!
3. The sights, I think Shawn liked seeing Pearl Harbor and I enjoyed my return to the PPC (Polynesian cultural center... and this time I wasn't there to seat and scrape plates:)
4. The stay... Ben and Lynn's place was great, they were amazing hosts and tour guides!
5. The beauty... what can I say it's paradise!!
I'm already dying to go back... thanks Ben and Lynn!! :)

finally...

So... we're back! It's been a while, but things have been crazy!! Orin seems to be a constant state of sickness (Mason's theory is he's Mr. Glass and I'm Unbreakable since I claim I have no idea where he gets it because I don't get sick!!) But things are starting to get better... he had the stomach flu while in Cincinnati, pink eye, then teething (his second top tooth broke through today!!), ear infection, then pink eye again, thrush again, then bad cough, back to lots to breathing treatments... Yeah, he's a little high maintenance. But, he's started to crawl around and climb... it's fun to watch him learn!!
Shawn's been really busy with school... and he's had these clinic hours at the family law clinic in Pomona. He missed us when we were gone in Cincy and Utah!! (more on that later). He graduates in MAY!!!! I can't wait for August when I get to see him each night at 5!!!
I've been busy trying teaching, and the usual... I loved having a break and seeing my family... we all wished Ory was not sick, but we'll be back in July! I got to visit my good friend Tiffany and her cute baby Izzy, and my cousin Em and her cute baby Molly (and Ethan too). Then we got to hang out with my sister Jenna on her 21st birthday... we got a little wild with the Martineliies. I'm loving my new camera Shawn got me!!! :) I tend to spend my "free time" taking/editing pictures... thus the reason my house looks like a war zone!!
(pictures to follow)