Hawaii

Palm trees and sunset = amazing

Just one palm tree

Pearl Harbor

The flag at Pearl Harbor

Some scenery

Things we did here:

• Pearl Harbor
• Beach time
• A Luau
• Beach time
• Firework show over the beach

Australia

A Humpback Whale's tail!

Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge in the background

Mark with a Wallaby

Feeding a Wallaby - some grain inside of an ice cream cone

A Koala bear - that we got to pet, his name is Charlie

Kangaroos that we got to pet while they were sunbathing

Sailboats in front of the Sydney Harbor Bridge (I climbed that bridge!)

A surfer at North Bondi Beach

Things that we did here:

• Did lots of photo taking by walking around, going to the tip of the Sydney Tower, Ferry ride
• Bondi Beach
  
• Sydney Eye Hospital (Yoh had to get her eye re-check - not the most fun 4 hour wait)
• Sydney Harbor Bridge Climb (a huge highlight of mine)
• Whale watching
  
• Went to a wildlife place where you could pet koalas, kangaroos, and wallaby
• We went to a war memorial it is a replica of Washington D.C.
  

New Zealand

Mt. Eden

The Gondola Ride.

Yoh and I at the top of a huge hill over looking the city.

This is inside a thermal village. The steam you see is coming off the geyser.

Seagulls on the bench. My brother likes to say I had them pose like that for the picture.

Just a landscape picture right outside the airport.

A very hairy sheep.

Things we did while in New Zealand:

• enjoyed a cultural dinner at the hotel
• a jade factory tour
• a duck tour around the city of Rotorua
• random souvenir shopping
• a sheep show
• a gondola ride
• Mt. Eden
• walked around by the harbor to take pictures

Fiji

This is a shot of our pool from a balcony. I like to call this shot my screen saver shot.

This is a little river that went around our resort.

Just an amazing sunset!

A place to sleep

A private island we went past before we went to our private island.

Lilly pad

Things I did while in Fiji:

• went to a farmers market area to see local produce
• swam in our amazing pool
• ate some traditional Fiji food
• tasted some Fiji beverages
• went to a private beach area for a whole day: snorkeled, swam, and worked on my tan

Harley (Hars)

December 20, 2000 - July 3, 2010

This is what i see sometimes when i go to bed. Yuma trying so hard to get as close to the downstairs as she can. Yes she is laying in a very very tight small area - the area after the last step and before the door. She doesn't sleep here all night, well at least I don't think she does. Silly Yuma!

magnetic

magnetic [mag-net-ik] adjective

- exerting a strong attractive power

or charm: a magnetic personality.

alright so as long as I can remember - way back to when I was 5 years old - I have had a strong pull towards kids, doesn't really matter what age they are, if they are kids I know or strangers, they like me and I like them. My family use to call me the kid magnet. I just naturally go to kids no matter where I am (church, parties, work, coffee shops, etc.). I have always enjoyed this part of my life that the L-rd has blessed me with. Until the last couple of weeks. I will be honest having the little Wy-Guy go to heaven is super hard on me. I mean I love him and looked forward to hearing him say my name when I walked in the door from work. Playing with kids and getting close to them is so fun because then they like you more and interact with you more. However if the L-rd chooses to take them away from us then it is way hard. So I know that me being a kid magnet is not going to go away but I will admit I don't like playing that role right now. However I know that the L-rd has me as a kid magnetic for a reason so I will continue to fill those shoes and continue to play with the kids that are here and around me. I am just expressing that being a kid magnet is sometimes hard too.

losing wyatt blake is really hard on my heart - words cannot even really express my feelings. To be honest I really don't even know what to say. I do know that I miss him telling me stories and playing in my closet. He use to get so excited when I would be wearing orange (our favorite color) or anything with jayhawks on it. I do like to think that I did help with his love for the jayhawks. :) I do know this I will always remember that one of the last super sweet things he said to me was this "maase, papa is my buddy best friend, but you are my buddy best friend that is a girl"

welp that is all i got for now on my Wy-Guy there could be more later - who knows. here is one of the only pictures that I have of me with Wyatt. Also thanks for everyone who has been praying for the TBlakes.