The Stickley family adventures started in Hawaii in 2005 when Cris and Emilie were married. The real excitement began in May 2008, when Nova was born. 2 short months later, our little June-Bug joined the family from all the way in Vietnam. The next few crazy years included Emilie being deployed to Afghanistan, while Cris and the girls moved back to Hawaii, then a long year of living apart (and a lot of trips across the Pacific Ocean), while Emilie remained in Colorado to complete her Army committment, and Cris had to stay in Hawaii for his job at the University.

In the summer of 2012, little Jude joined our family, and the whole gang reunited for good in Hawaii!

Follow our adventures, as we try to keep track of life with our 3 crazy kids, while keeping our friends and family updated on the happenings here in Hawaii!

Monday, May 2, 2011

Day 187 / 10 To Go: Aloha Grandma!!

Posted by: Cris

Today was the girls' final day with Grandma before she headed home "because Grandpa needed Grandma to come home and take care of him." It is unbelievable how fast the 2 weeks went by. Having Grandma here was beyond awesome and thanks to her, I got SOOOO much done that I might be ready to leave for the summer come next Friday.

The girls enjoyed one final cooking project with Grandma this morning...Chocolate brownies for daddy to have when he came home from work. Add this to the list of pictures where we catch Juneau making a hilariously goofy face without trying.





Adding the chocolate chips because the Giardelli brownie mix isn't rich enough on it's own.

Come down here and put your pants on!!

Before heading to the airport, we made one last trip with Grandma to shopping play.

















Finally it was time to go to the airport. The girls loved helping Grandma get her bags out and checked in...



Reassuring them that they would see Grandma in less than 2 weeks was about the only thing that convinced them to let Grandma go get on the airplane.

The reassurance that Aunt Coral would be here in a few days was also helpful...

At home tonight, I had 2 grouchy girls at bedtime without Grandma here to lay down with them and put them to bed. It will take several days to deprogram them then Aunt Coral will come and start spoiling them all over again.


In closing, 2 awesome videos:


1. A cute video of Nova and Daddy play "stack hands" at Moe's on Sunday.



2. In honor of my wife's imminent arrival home, this video that without a doubt could have just as easily been made with her as the star back in 1993. I love my wife more than anything but yes, by her own admission, she was this big of a dork.

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