Adventures and Relaxation in Maui

Adam and I left the boy, Cambell, with Grandma and Grandpa Baird and flew away. This was the view from our condo.

Thanks to a good guidebook, my parents and sisters, and seasoned-Maui-bum Nicole, we had enough advice for 6 trips! But every one's recommendations were appreciated.

Highlights: Feast by the Sea - we got these tickets for free somehow. Normally they are $60 a piece so that was great. It was similar to a luau - fire dancing, hula hips, etc.

How do dry LDS people seem to gravitate to each other anywhere you are?! We just happened to sit next to a BYU honeymooning couple. Here's a pic of us at sunset. This couple took a picture of us with their fancy camera. It's amazing how an expensive camera can make you look better. Hopefully they will remember to send us a copy. (PS this is from our unattractive camera).

We snorkeled several times and saw a turtle and big schools of fish. I find it so relaxing. Except the second time my mask was ill-fitted and was too tight yet leaked on one side. That sucked.

The Road to Hana was beautiful, just breath-taking. You see so many waterfalls, after the 12th one, "do we have to stop and see ANOTHER one?" Adam was way disappointed because after a 1/2 day drive suddenly the road was closed due to a bridge collapse. We were so close to the Seven Sacred Pools but there is basically that one way to get there, so out of luck, had to turn around and go home without the sacred pools healing our bodies.
We had fun in a lava tube on the way to Hana. Part of the stalactite ceiling looks like melted chocolate. This is what I learned. Maybe you remember this from 9th grade geology but I didn't. How to remember the difference: Stalagmite - "G" for ground. Stalactite - "C" for ceiling.I had fun in Lahaina shopping. Adam endured the tourist shops. We ate lots of good food. And had a great time with a magic show.

In the end, yes I was burned in various spots of my body. I tried to be good about sunscreen but I am just a white piece of cheap wonder bread that crisps in the sun.

He finished! How come this isn't the end, then?...

Adam's graduation ceremony was Saturday May 16th.

Graduation commencement exercises are probably not on any one's favorite "to do" list, but I was entertained and enlightened. Congratulations, husband.

We are moving!

Finally.... after many months of not knowing where we will be next year...We are moving to Seattle!

Adam will finish law school and applied to tax LLM (latin for masters of law) schools. He applied to U of Florida, Georgetown, and U of Washington. All of them had pros and cons. Well, maybe it's good the decision was kind of made for us by default, otherwise we would have had a hard time deciding. Anyway, he got accepted to the UW program and was wait-listed at the other two. Georgetown would be cool to be by my sister Stacie, but very very very very very expensive. As opposed to UW, which is just very very expensive. Student loans into eternity, (sigh.)

Adam's taking the Washington bar this summer and staying within the state has its advantages. So we are excited. I will miss my house here in Spokane and my job, but oh well. Big city and rain - here we come (in August)!

Drunk bar fight

Is it just me or does Cambell look a little "out of it" - and do you see his black eye?!!!

Love it or hate it?!

So I am torn about this whole blog thing. I am very infrequent because I don't have much to brag, whoops, I mean "blog" about. I do enjoy looking at a few other people's blogs, but I know mine is checked maybe once during a cycle of the earth around the sun by maybe, two people (shout out to Megan and Sarah).

Because I am an inactive blogger plus (and I'd like to not admit it) I don't have that many friends that blog, my blog link list looks like I am a sad, sad nobody. When I check other people's blogs, they have a list of 20-50 blog friends. To take a quote from a prolific movie, ahead of its time, Dumb and Dumber, "you are one pathetic loser!"

Anyway, (wipe away tears) now for something completely unrelated.... Here's my son with a mullet.

Merry Christmas

Christmas was great this year. Since my parents are in Malaysia we spent a few days at the Wagstaffs. Drew was so good with Cambell - he played with him and would grab a Kleenex to wipe his runny nose. Cambell was excited about the push mower they gave him.

Present at the Baird's this year were parents, Angela and Co.; Brandon and girlfriend?!

Here's Cambell with his new christmas jammies and his puppet alligator/crocodile/dragon that

was a favorite with the kids.

Too much snow!

Spokane has had WAY too much snow this December. Our original flight to Utah on December 18th was cancelled d/t snow. I have never been literally snowed in! We could not leave our neighborhood. Luckily we made it to Utah a few days later. We came back to Spokane on the 30th and it has snowed everyday since.