Outdoors

We visited one of our favorite places a few weeks ago. Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens.

Just a few pictures to share.


The oldest found something to sketch in his nature journal.

#3 was impressed with the size of this leaf.

#2 thought it made a great umbrella.


I have been missing lately as I can't decide whether to keep up with the blog or not. Things around the home are going a little crazy which has me undecided. But I was at a conference this weekend and one of the workshops I took was about blogging...which has me interested once again;) So time to reevaluate!

Air show out takes

A week or two ago we went to an airshow. The kids had a great time until I made them sit on the Hot, Sunny, Black top to watch my favorite part : The Blue Angels!





Our little pilots.....




If we don't fly this one we could ride in the back.

Going for a ride with Civil Air Patrol?


The first plane we took a picture of because #3 loved the little plane!


I guess the little one lucked out with not one picture of him.....we will have to remedy that soon!

Birthday girl at the beach

From Thursday:

Our lovely birthday girl at the end of the day! Like the sun kissed eyes?



Proof that I was actually there...and that I leave the house in things that don't match!


Love this!


It's crab hunting time!!

Just a link to share

Celebrating the man's birthday today. Working on a yummy dinner of Parmesan Chicken on a bed of noodles and green beans(decided it was too hot today to bake french bread to go with). The kids helped me make German Chocolate Cake last night and we have French Vanilla ice cream to go with. A good eating day here!

Now on to the post to share. A Marriage Post on Women Living Well Blog. All her points are excellent verses to live by. They have definitely been on my heart/mind often.

CPO in the house

Last week James stepped up the ladder a bit and got promoted. We are so happy for him!
We had our first Khaki Ball to go to over the weekend.

We had our pictures taken there. I think the cameraman actually got him to smile so can't wait to get those pictures and see! ;)

They had the newbies sing their favorite song Anchor's Aweigh.



You really felt a sense of kinship in the room as all stood and they sang with pride.

sick humor

or humor that only parents that have btdt can understand. You all know how kids will come to your room in the middle of the night and ask if they can go potty...even though the bathroom is right next to their door. Well for the first time last night I had a kid come to my room to tell me he had to barf. Sweet thing walked all the way around my room to my side of the bed and preceded to tell me by emptying the contents of his stomach. Of course he did manage to partially hit a barf bucket that one of the kids had brought to me a few days ago when I wasn't feeling well(they also made me the sweetest get well cards all on their own!) So maybe his thoughts were only on 'must get to the bucket'. Regardless of the fact that a toilet was much closer to his room. Ah, yes the joys of motherhood....really you can only laugh...

Making your own cold cereal

Thought of making your own cold cereal? here is part one and part two from the healthy home economist. Very interesting!

We've been playing pass around the sickness here-not as much fun as it sounds! Hoping the sick days will stay behind us for awhile:)

Learning how to use the pu'ili in my hula class. This will truly test my coordination abilities!! We are dancing with the pu'ili to this song.