Sliding Into Home (28 page)

Club night with Hef and the girls back in 2005. The nights out and the Playboy parties were some of the best times I had while living at the Mansion.

Dinner night with Hef, Holly, and Bridget—a Tuesday night tradition—at Maestro’s in Beverly Hills. My favorite steakhouse!

Hef and I posing outside a stretch Hummer. When you roll with Hef, you always travel in style.

Hank and I at the Playboy Golf Classic, posing for a photo the moment we met for the first time. It already looks like we are married. Love at first sight?

My mom and I before throwing out the first pitch at a Padres game in 2008. It was my first date with Hank, and my mom was trying to hook me up with baseball players.

Hank proposing to me on top of the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 2008. I didn’t understand a word he said, but I definitely said, “yes”!

Hank and I share our first dance to “Cross My Heart” as husband and wife. It was the most special moment of our lives. It looks like we are gliding on ice.

Hank and I visiting Bedrock near the Grand Canyon on a 2009 road trip. We’re the modern day Fred and Wilma!

Me with the crew from
Kendra
at the Grand Canyon on our road trip from New Mexico to L.A. in April 2009. The crew is like family to me, and like any family, we love taking photos together.

Hef’s eighty-third birthday in Las Vegas. Hank and I wouldn’t miss it, although I had just found out I was pregnant.

Our first family Christmas in 2009. I did all the decorating after posing for this photo, although I was eight months pregnant at the time.

Seventeen long miserable hours later, Hank IV is finally in my arms. Love at first sight again.

I’m all smiles at the hospital in Indianapolis before giving birth to Hank IV because my grandmother, who usually doesn’t travel, was able to make it.