Tooth #4!

Bottom right, gone last night July 26 :)

Of course I was out of town, this time NYC. I've only been home for ONE LOSS! Sigh...

Hawaii: the 18 hr journey!

If I did the math right with time changes it took 18hrs from the time we left the house to the time we got into bed here in Hawaii!

The trip here was as smooth as could be though at one point Paul had to actually separate me and Anna for all the bickering!!! Anna by a window and me in the middle seat: it's one constant "mama" after another!! In the tight seats, getting to her back or constantly needing to feed thus growing bottomless pit got the best of me right around 1 hr into the second flight to Kona! In the last 3 hrs of the flight she and I moved to a back row so she could spread out and sleep. Which was much needed for both of us!




Waiting for the first plane.





Flight out of IAH








Last 3hrs to Kona:




Aloha! I had arranged for a surprise lei greeting upon arrival. Wow these things smelled so amazing!!!










Exhausted and excited! We rented the convertible and got to our resort at Hilton Waikoloa Village. It was dark but this place looks amazing and the staff super friendly! Going to tour it this morning while no doubt Anna pushes to immediately get to the pools!

Hawaii, Baby!

All of the frequent flyer miles that I've racked up over the last four years of travel for work is about to pay off for us on a family vacation to Hawaii!!

We leave Sunday and are so excited! Volcanoes, beaches, rain forests, and our hotel looks like it kicks ASS.

Anna's a great traveler just like her parents!

Yay!

Take Me To Your Mother

We had the most fun time in March filming with Nickelodeon on site at NASA! They have a new show as part of a new nighttime adult programming line up on Nick Jr, called Take Me To Your Mother. It's a docu-comedy about Andrea Rosen (comedienne) who is a new mom and goes around asking moms how they do it. Some of the shows have been about Italian moms, nudist moms, spiritual moms, etc. They all have a light hearted comedic flavor and so I ended up being filmed in one of them for NASA moms along with Cady Coleman, Nicole Stott (astronauts), and Dana Weigel and Holly Riddings (flight directors). They filmed us for 2 days for a 20 minute show! Andrea was super fun in person, and witty, and her whole team was professional and respectful. We moms had a great time with it all and on July 1 we watched it on NickJr. Cady and Tami and Miranda came over so we all gathered around with snacks with Paul and Anna and had a super fun time watching how it all turned out as we Tweeted along with NickMom and Andrea. We hadn't even seen it so didn't know what to expect!!!



Anxiously awaiting the start of the program :)

Turns out they did a super great job with the show, and it was fun to watch my two favorite things right there on TV: my little family and my NASA family! 💜❤❤

Anna got a kick out of seeing her own pictures on TV too :) She has since watched it a few times.

What a great experience! I am so lucky!!!

Here's a link to the shows, and I'm sure they'll be posting this one online soon.

http://www.nickmom.com/tv/take-me-to-your-mother/

Thankful

Cuteness!!!