Wedding Pictures

My only brother got married this past weekend to a fabulous lady! Here are a few pics from the weekend. Sorry I'm a little behind on posting, but we are here and there visiting family. Enjoy!

Here is Addison in her pretty little black and white dress.Here is daddy and Addi waiting for the wedding to start. Addison fell sleep during pictures on her grandma!Group shot of the wedding party.
The adorable ring bearers.The beautiful bride with her girls!
The Turner FamilyMe and my girls!
The boys just chattin' it up walking down the isle.
Hoola Hoopin Fool (a.k.a Kim)
I haven't worked some of those muscles in a LONG TIME!

The wedding was gorgeous and we all had a great time.

I was a bridesmaid with my two sisters and the bride's college friend.

McKenzie was the Jr. Bridesmaid

Trevor was a ringbearer.

At Auction

We flew in on Thursday morning, and that evening it was auction time! Nick helped out up front and so did Trevor for a few minutes.

In the picture below, Trevor is helping Nick hold up someone's future treasure! Here are all the cousins sitting out on the loading dock during the auction after raiding grandma's "Bistro".
And this is Trevor sporting his new Wilson Auction cap after the sale....it was a LONG day!

Hawaiian Flowers at the Honolulu Zoo

Here are a few fabulous looking flowers I snapped some pics of at the Honolulu Zoo.

Don't ask me what they are because I don't know.

Weekend Warrior Update

Okay..so I'm a little delayed in updating over the weekend. It was a bit crazy busy! Nick ran to Lowe's and got pieces to complete our big empty closet! YAY! He had it all put together and installed in one day! It's nice to finally have a place to put everything....and not have to run downstairs to the old bedroom to get it!A place for everything and everything in it's place!

Nick even put the kids to work and had them using Q-Tips to clean the drywall dust and sawdust out of the new cabinet doors.... paid them with a bowl of chips! Ha Ha
And Mom W., today you will be glad to know that Nick installed 7, count them, 7 smoke alarms all over the house! I think we're covered! I had to mention that just for you! Now you may sleep easy! It's late, I'm tired......out.

Playgroup at the Beach!

Today we had playgroup at beautiful Kailua Beach!

The water was a beautiful blue...

the skies, however, a hazy VOG!

(that's volcanic fog)

Addison ~ Lil' Richie ~ Big John ~ Wyatt

Wyatt & Addison

We tried to take a cute pic with their heads together, but everyone was sleepy and all Wyatt wanted to do was rub Addison's head!

Big Island Pictures by McKenzie

Nick and McKenzie arrived back on Oahu safely tonight and are home and exhausted! McKenzie was very excited to show me her pictures! And I understand why... I was so amazed at some of the pictures she took, I just had to show you all her great skill! I think we might have a future photographer on our hands! What 10 year old takes pictures like this?!? Melissa...look out! You may have some competition some day!!!

The above picture is at Rainbow Falls.

Black Sand Beach above and below!

Hello! How awesome is this picture..but wait, my favorite one is yet to come!Below is the volcano...Group Picture

A flower that is supposed to look like the lava shooting out of the volcano.

I am having issues downloading my favorite picture of a heart shaped rock. For some reason it keeps rotating to the right, and it just won't behave. Once I get it figured out, I will post it!

I think she did a great job taking some of these pics!!!!!

Honolulu Zoo

A few of my friends and I went to the zoo with our kids this morning down in Honolulu. It was a hot and sunny day...but we all had a blast!

We started our day with the elephants! The trainers were working with them so we got to watch them do all their little tricks like skip on one foot, spin in circles, kneel, bow, wave to us with their trunks (so cute!)...

Then it was on to the alligators...and I was able to snap a shot of two very curious creatures behind some bamboo railings...

(Trevor & Hudson)

Addison was quite the trooper all morning, she did snooze from time to time...I guess the animals weren't all that interesting to her.

Around the corner were giraffes and rhinos...they weren't too social! Trevor just liked climbing the rocks around the look out and jumping off!

Then my little monkey got to mingle with a monkey. He followed him around the viewing area.

And of course, we had to climb on the giraffes back! That was a must! (don't worry, it was not real) It was hard to get a good picture as the boys were rarely still long enough to take one anyways...plus, you know how Trevor gets when I aim the camera anywhere near him! "NO PICTURES!!!"

The lions at this zoo are apparently getting old, as a sign on their cage read something along the lines of "lions are getting old, we are letting them live out their last days as happy as they can"...we decided it was the hospice area for lions. They just lay there. (sad)

The boys took a moment to press a penny with a design on it. Trevor chose the frog image, and cranked the bar and watched his shiny penny get smushed into a flat oval. Then he and Hudson posed with their pennies....but I think Trevor was more into Vogue-ing?!

KEIKI (Children's) ZOO

The kids got to go in the keiki petting zoo and as you can see, Addison was wide awake for this part! The boys went straight for the tunnel to the mini aquarium of Koi fish! There was an area in the middle where they could pop up and look out!

Even Addison watched the fish swim by...

Then it was on to the goats! Trevor followed them around a while, and then when it was time to come out, the goats tried to follow HIM out!

Then of course we had to sanitize!!!!!

I always thought it was funny to have a COW at a zoo...maybe that's just my Iowa farmgirl coming out! But I just had to take a picture anyways, like everyone else!!! ha ha

Trevor has decided he knows how to read, and there was this big plastic cow there that looked like it was used to demonstrate how to milk a cow...only this one was missing some important parts for that....anyways, here is a quick clip of Trevor telling me about the sign around the Cows neck:

Finally, we were back at the flamingos where we started our day. And it was time to head home!

This picture was taken only minutes after we arrived home.