As most of you know I have recently started working for an AMAZING company called AdvoCare.

They are a health and wellness company. I started taking their product- lost weight and now have more energy than I have in my WHOLE LIFE. I LOVE How I feel now. ANd I LOVE, LOVE , LOVE helping people feel better and lose weight and have more energy. It is really a passion that I have.

The most amazing thing has happened.... AdvoCare is running this "Incentive Trip" to Atlantis in the Bahamas. To qualify, you have to sell $90,000 of volume from February 2011 to August 2011.

Well, I was the FIRST in the company to reach that GOAL!!! I have WON CHRIS AND I A FULLY EXPENSES PAID TRIP TO ATLANTIS IN THE BAHAMAS!!!!!



The trip is for October 9th-13th... Just a WEEK before our 10 year anniversary. My mother-in-law is already slated to fly out and watch the kids and I am already planning my wardrobe for this 2nd honeymoon of ours. Well, we NEVER had a 1st honeymoon so I guess this is IT!!!!

And also, my friend Alison who is on my AdvoCare team just won a $3,000.00 "rookie bonus"!!! This company has been so good to us! It is so much fun!

I received this nice email today from my upline sponsors....

Well, well... I day that I thought would never happen is here..... Chris is on LEAVE. As in Vacation. As in HERE, at HOME and not at work.

Yesterday was his first official day on leave and he cleaned all the bathrooms, did all the laundry, AND went grocery shopping.  I guess the fact that I have not cleaned the bathrooms or done a proper grocery shopping trip has not gone unnoticed. But that is what I love about him. The cleanliness was questionable, so he just went and cleaned everything himself. Yeah!!! 
 

Yesterday evening we also drove to the North Shore to get our family photos done!!  So it was a very accomplished day. We should get the photos from THAT on Monday- and I am very excited.
We haven't had our family pictures taken in ..... well, EVER!

Today is EASTER! We while we are celebrating Jesus rising from the dead the Easter Bunny also visited the Schmitt house last night. He left baskets full of goodies for the kids.








(THANK YOU Nana and Grandpa Hawley and Grandpa and Grandma Perkins!!! The boxes you sent to the kids were used in building their baskets and the eggs you sent were used in their egg hunt this morning!!!)

And so today is a day of relaxing as a family! A day we all need!  And my goal this week with Chris home is to try to keep his spending reigned in. Normally he works so much he does not have time to shop- which means, when he IS home, he LOVES to SPEND MONEY. And this makes me NERVOUS. He was gleefully excited to show me my horoscope this morning:

PISCES:  As careful as you might have been with your money recently, this week you are encouraged to open up your wallet and enjoy the finer things in life.  Pisces are sometimes overly concerned with imminent poverty, but now it may be possible to successfully invest your nest egg.

I think Chris neglected to read the last sentence about INVESTING. Vs. frivolous spending.

Last night was the 111th annual Submariners Ball. It was held at the Hilton down in Waikiki... and it was SO MUCH FUN!  It was SO nice to have Tuy here to watch the kids so Chris and I did not worry about them at all.  It was nice to get all dressed up-


Look how Handsome my husband is! Chris helped me to pick out my dress- I thought it was very "Hawaiian looking"!

Things have been very crazy here.  I am going to try to start posting more regular agian this week! I may have to get up at 5am to get it done though!

Today we celebrated Joey's Birthday... his birthday was actually on March 19th... but due to unfortunate circumstances we could not celebrate it back THEN.

We had cake! We went out to Lunch! We sang Happy Birthday and he opened his presents!!!







It was a good day!!! And also, Lucy is starting to pull herself up to a standing position. Her nickname is "Wheels" (because she is on the move!) My friend Kimberley got her this great toy to help her walk... here she is practicing with Grandma Tuy...

    

Lucy is now off to the races. She is crawling EVERYWHERE. The other day she discovered Stella's food and water bowl.... twice. It was fun to clean that mess up.



She liked messing with the dog food so much the first time,she came back for seconds later that day!



We are counting down the days to Chris's leave... which is in a couple weeks. He has been working 7 days a week, and most of the time until pretty late. Yesterday was like many days and we didn't see each other at all. He did leave me a nice note this morning though...



I guess it's time to Vacuum!