Mama Branco

First we fell in love with eachother..

Then we fell in love with our baby...

Now I've fallen in love with...

A RING!!!!!!!

Aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Is what I did about thirty times tonight after AC got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Is what I am doing right now while I write this post. I am so exhausted from the many glasses of wine and DELICIOUS champagne we drank tonight, but I am too excited to sleep... AC has found a way to get some shut eye during all of this excitement because he is snoring on the couch right now hahahaha

Last night AC asked me if I wanted to have a date night tonight. Of course I always want to have a date night, but because we are moving soon and will have more expenses I was going on and on about how we shouldn't spend money and we to save and blah blah blah. AC decided to call tonight our "last hoorah" (We have actually had many "last horrahs" There was the last hoorah of coffee drinks, the last hoorah at Ross, Home Goods, Rutherford Grill, Nike Outlet... the "last hoorah" never ends.. but I am serious this time!) and we decided to go out and try this new restaurant called Carpe Diem downtown... AMAZING by the way. Our favorite was the music.. Jack Johnson Bubbly Toes and Banana Pancakes both were played and it was just perfect. Carpe Diem is now our little spot.

We started talking about our wedding in Hawaii.. and I asked him when I could really officially start planning.. hint hint.. and he said he had "things he needed to take care of before a ring.." and thats when my face turned red and steam came shooting out my ears. But, I just let it go and enjoyed this delicious romantic night. We don't get too many date nights with a 4 month old and I need to enjoy them as much as possible.

So after some delicious appetizers and amazing wine we walked downtown to the HUGE Christmas tree by the Riverfront.

Now if you don't already know this about us, we LOVE Christmas. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Last year, we got our Christmas tree waaaaaay too early because we were so excited to have one decorated and lit up that it was literally brown, dead and almost needless by the time Christmas actually came. We've decided to wait at least until next week for our tree this year.

So back to the ring... we walked through the shivering cold (it's been getting pretty cold these last few nights) and stopped by the tree. It was beautiful and AC was telling me all the great and romantic things a girl loves to hear from her hubby. Like... how much he loves me ::kiss:: how much he loves me some more ::kiss kiss:: and then we both turned and looked at the tree and he was moving much more than I was and when I turned and said "what are you doing?" and there he was down on one knee...

With this BEAUTY in a box!!

He said, "Boo.. Will you marry me?" And I of course started crying and I was so happy and said YES!!! And I couldn't believe it was actually happening. I just told him how much I love him and how much I love our son and I feel so complete.

I honestly had NO CLUE. We went and looked at rings at a few different places throughout the my pregnancy and after Kekoa was born and I had no idea he had actually purchased one. AAAAAAAAhhhhhhh!!!!!

Yesterday morning I woke up and he was gone...for over an HOUR!! I called his cell phone six times and I texted him maybe three or four times. I couldn't believe that he woke up before me and left the house without telling me, that he wasn't answering my calls, and if he was going to ignore me.. he better not come home without bring me a coffee!!! hahaha Apparently he was at the jeweler picking up my ring. :) He even brought the ring to my parent's house at Thanksgiving to show my family without me knowing!

I am the luckiest girl in the world and I love my family. We might not being doing things the conventional way, but its the way we're doing it and everything is falling into place just as it should. I wouldn't change one thing about it.

Get ready for some wedding plans!

Hello Again.

Hello again! I now have time for a real post. :)
Kekoa is 3 months! OMG. I can't even believe it. He is growing so fast and I don't like it.
Milestones:

1. He laughs and smiles AAAALLLL DDDAAAAAYYYYY!
2. He gurgles all day long and spit bubbles.
3. He drools and drools and drools.. we think he might be teething and Sophie the Giraffe is he absolute favorite thing right now. We don't leave home without it.
4. He grabs onto almost anything you put in front of him. It takes him a few seconds, but once he gets it.. its his. You better hope he doesn't get a grip on your hair or it will be ripped from your head.
5. He is an amazing traveler! He slept the entire 5 hour flight to Hawaii only waking up to eat on the descend. The flight home was just as nice. He was awake for about 2 hours of the 2.5 hour flight, but was just cruising on mama and daddy's laps. :)
6. He is rooolllliiinnnnggggggg. I put him down for his afternoon nap on his back and when I went back in to check on him he had rolled onto his side. Sleeping soooo peacefully. SO CUTE.
7. He is rooolllliiinnnnggggggg ALL THE WAY OVER! Okay, maybe not all the time... well actually he's only done it once. haha When we were in Hawaii he rolled from his back to his belly. And of course he would do this when I am NOT THERE. Yeah, I wasn't even at the house. I went out to dinner and AC was home wiht Kekoa. I of course was so excited, but very sad that I didn't get to see it. I'm still waiting for the next big roll.
8. He loves to do a great hamstring stretch and he loves to grab his toes.
9. He laughs OUT LOUD everytime we lay him down on his playmat to play with all the hanging toys.
10. He pulls himself up when sitting on your lap and holding onto your hands. He goes from a flat back position to pulling hiself up to a sitting position. Again, so cute!

He is so flexible! He must have gotten this from his mama.

Doing his favorite hamstring stretch at the hotel at Mauna Kea.

Sleeping like a little child! I just love this picture. He is so adorabble.

Some other big news for us. I purchased some cloth diapers! Kellyscloset is a cloth diapering site that always has great coupons. Right now they are giving a free cloth diaper with a $29 purchase so I went to the site to order $29 worth of diapers, but once I got to the site I saw that if I would just spend $20 more I would get free shipping! Free shipping and a free cloth dipe!? Yes Sir! mainly because I hate spending $10 on just shipping.. like reeeaaallllyy ? So I bought three Perfect Fit Fuzzibunz (Which are on sale for 15.00) and a roll of Bummis Liners (which had great reviews!) and I get once cloth diaper free! That's 4 dipes and 100 sheets of flushable liners for $50. When we were in Hawaii we went to a cloth diaper store called Moon Sprout and they had 2 Bumgenius diaper for $15 USED.. which I was suckered into buying of course. I might as well try them out. Now I need to buy detergent that are cloth diaper safe so I can wash my new diapers. Any suggestions??

NEW DIYS! I am making so many holiday decorations this week. Stay tuned for some cheap DIYs! :)

ALOHA!

Hello! We're bbaaaacccckkkk! This post is a haphazard post. No real rhyme or reason. Random as random can be. But at least its a post! :)

I just love him. AC that is. Which is why I posted this picture. I love him. Smiling away as I type this caption.

This is Kekoa at 2.5 months in his Bumbo chair for the first time! And I just love him so much too. He loved it!!

We just got back from a two week vacation visiting family and AC's mom at her new job in Kona! We had the best time and were able to intr0duce Kekoa to his family in Hilo for the first time. The scenery was beautiful, the hotel his mom works at is beautiful and it was just beautiful all around! I can't wait to go back for another trip in March.. where we will be running our first half marathon! (that's another post to come soon)

This is happy Kekoa on the flight preparing to land.. he was so happy to be home!

Good bye Puna! See you in a couple months!

Our little family at the King Kamehameha statue in Hawi, Hi. This is the original statue that was found in the ocean. It sunk with the ship. But they found it. So there we are!

We have so many pictures from so many different adventures! I haven't even posted a photo of Koa in his tootsie roll costume from Halloween! I honestly just loaded 935 photos from my iPhone alone and still need to load AC's.

We are going to be moving in the next couple months, we have a half marathon in Hilo to train for, some pounds to shed, Thanksgiving, Christmas... aaahhhh so much to do. Now that I think of it.. how the heck are we going to train and be stict with our diets with Thanksgiving and Christmas.. omg. I will NOT pass up the green bean casserole my Noni makes. Or the gravy. omygooossshhhh. AC and I will be starting a new blog to keep us motivated for our Marathon. With weekly weigh ins, exercise tracker and food logs! He didn't know this until I started typing it in this post at this very moment, but he is just as excited as I am.. even though he doesn't show it and looks at me as if I'm crazy. But he is. He has no choice. :)

Blog ya later!