Heleakala National Park – Bamboo Forest - Waimoku Falls – Seven Sacred Pools

Swimming with Sharks!

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Bamboo Forest and Waimoku Falls!

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Hawaii Shark Encounters

Leilani’s On the Beach - Our delicious hotel side restaurant…

Matsumoto Shave Ice

Hanks Haute Dogs 

Crepes No Ka AOi’

Roy’s Restaurant – Our Birthday Dinner! (Lauren, Tim and I celebrated our birthdays together since they were all within a month of each other!)

Westin Hotel – Kaanapali, Maui

to CANADA!

Talk about savoring life!

On one hand I think this makes her crazy… but on the other hand this makes me incredibly proud… and glad that I am her daughter.  I hope when I’m her age I can call a friend for a week long road trip at the drop of a hat!

We ALL (Let me repeat that… ALL) get wrapped up in work, life, the mundane of the every day busy-ness that we, well… busy ourselves with.

When is the last time we dropped what we were doing… and did something we wanted to… for no other reason than we just want to SAVOR…

THIS moment.

THIS life.

Think about it… You have ONE life… what are you going to do with it?  If this makes it more personal… You only have ONE TODAY… What will you do with your “today?”  :)

…My mom is 70.

Be encouraged!

(A few pictures while traveling together in Europe earlier this year!)

In October, Kim Flowers passed away leaving a husband and 4 boys -  6, 9, 12, & 14 years old. This month their father passed away… Leaving these children without any parents… Their grandmother is going to be taking care of them and will be moving them to Colorado to live with her… If there is any way you can help this family financially… please consider doing that… ONE dollar would help… Just $1.

ANYTHING is better than NOTHING.

To help the Flowers family:

* Join the Facebook group CS Peeps 1 for more information

* Donate a meal to the children by contacting Staci Hazlett at shazlett@archmail.tamu.edu.

* Donate to a savings account set up for the children at Bank of America with the routing/account info below.

Make checks payable to Susan Solich at Bank of America, 111 University Drive E. College Station, TX 77840. Account No. 586023930684; Wire routing No. 026009593.

Also, Please click this link to see images and a slideshow of the family and what the community is doing to help hold this family together!

You can also click this link to watch the news story.

Thank you for helping and please don’t forget to re-post this in any way you can!

Thank you guys!!

When I was a child, it was our family tradition to take a road trip to Disney every 4th of July for a few years…  (The parades and fireworks were the best then!)    So there were several things that were my favorite 20 years ago that I had to see again…  Figment… The Parade of Lights… etc. Oh my gosh… I just dated myself… TWENTY YEARS AGO?! Where does the time go! Anyway… moving on before I feel too old…  

I want to have a contest… and a challenge! For all of us who work a little too hard and don’t take nearly enough time out for ourselves… Please tell me how you plan on laying work (any job- not just photography) aside…and doing something that you’ve been WANTING to do… that you haven’t made time for.  I challenge you to DO IT! And I want to HEAR about it in the comment section!   I’ll give a $10 iTunes gift card to a random winner!  Come on… I’m basically PAYING you to take some time to do what you LOVE!  YOU CAN DO IT and YOU DESERVE IT!!    

Thank you to all of you who came and for those who baked cookies for the swap! They were delicious! I still have bags full! ha! Here is a fun recipe for you to try!

Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Cut chicken breasts in cubes (bite-size) & wrap in a half-piece of bacon

Roll them in a mixture of  brown sugar & Chili Powder…

You be the judge of the measurement! How spicy/sweet do you want it?

Bake at 350º on a cookie rack for 30 minutes uncovered.. Cookie rack makes the bacon crispy!

Enjoy!