Summer begins, 2012

Chase is now out of school and on summer break. He's so happy he's done with first grade. Since schools been out he has lost his two front teeth. He was so brave when Greg helped wiggle them out. We've been doing a lot of beach trips. We have a great time. Carl loves it and now that he's a little older for the beach he loves to sit by the shore and PLAY!

Here's Carl wearing his birthday suit at an abandoned beach, and Chase's new smile.

Fun family hike

The kids were real good sports on a family 4-mile round trip hike. And Savvy did the entire hike in flip-flops. We started at the Pali lookout and ended at Likeke waterfall.

Carl loved collecting stick along the way.  He was very serious about picking up every stick that he saw along the trail.

 

Chase picked up sticks too, but they were a little bigger than the ones that Carl was picking up! In fact, I think in this picture he is picking up an entire fallen tree:) 

They loved using these leaves as fans!!

 Here is Chase after we finally made it to the falls.  We had the entire area to ourselves for a picnic.  It was something that I will never forget!