First blog in 3 months

Back to blogging:)  Savvy turned 5 on June 14, 2012. Her brothers, Chase and Carl, and I made a zoo trip. When Greg came home from work we had birthday cupcakes.

Carl turned two on June 23, 2012. For his birthday we celebrated at Pearl Habor in a cabana. It was a combined party with Savvy. My parents, sister, Yesenia, and her two kids, Kayla and Xavier, with close friends, partyed with a jumper, popcorn machine, and a cotton candy manchine and some food:) It was a wonderful party! I was happy they spent this speical day with us.

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!

Family Visit

Dustin, Michelle, Christian, and Chloe visited us here on Oahu. Woohoo! It was a full, fun week. We got to visit nearly the whole island,  from beach trips to the PPC, and Pearl Harbor to the Dole plantation.

Dustin and Greg managed to track down the home of Dawg the Bounty Hunter.

I tried to keep up with all our outings while feeling sick with a cold. On Mother's Day Greg let me sleep for 3 straight hours while he cooked me dinner and took care of the kiddos. That felt really great.

On Monday we went on a boat ride to  a sand bar in Kanehoe Bay (that is where the filmed Karate Kid II). It's so beautiful there I just love it. Tuesday we went on a hike to Diamond head. Finished it thankful with all 5 kids:) And on Wednesday we said our goodbyes:(

What an adventurous week!! I have many more awesome photos to share but uploading takes forever:)

Water Boy

Carl enjoys the water:)

He loves eating time too

Preschool

Savvy completed preschool. This is her at the graduation with her teacher, Miss Alma.

Sailing away

Greg's new hobby sailing! My first trip..he's pretty good:) It was awesome and I didn't get motion sickness.

Our friends Kent and Marci. Greg and Kent took the sailing courses together. This day they took turns steering the boat.