Hawaii Trip

A couple of months ago, a dear friend of mine passed away and was going to be laid to rest in Hawaii. It was important to me to say goodbye to him and also be there to support my best friend, Faye. I had never been to Hawaii and never wanted my first time to be for a funeral, but my girlfriends and I decided we would make the best of it and enjoys ourselves because he would've wanted it that way. We stayed at my friend Pua's family's house, which she calls "The Jungle." They have all kinds of animals including a pet goat that her brother brought home from another island, who snuck in the bathroom while I was taking a shower and tried to get in the shower with me!! They even had a couple rooster families with little babies that would wake us up way too early every morning. Besides all the mosquitoes, we had a really good time sight seeing and visiting all the places my friend would talk about during his stories about growing up "on da island."

Faye and I

Kanoho and I at Laie Point

All of us girls at Pounders Beach

Opihi the goat

Hogle Zoo Fieldtrip

I was one of the chaperones that went with Jayda's kindergarten class to the Hogle Zoo for their fieldtrip. There were so many chaperones that each parent only had to keep track of two kids, which was nice. After the long bus drive up there and unloading all the kids, we only had about two hours to see all the animals and have lunch. Of course as soon as we got there, which was about 10ish, Jayda wanted to have lunch. That girl is ALWAYS hungry! I had Jayda and her best friend, Emma, in my group who cracked me up when she wanted to spend the most time looking at a house cat out of all the animals at the zoo! She probably wanted to see what a normal cat is supposed to look like after seeing our cat! (I'll explain later.) Anyhow, we had a really fun time and needless to say, after the ride home with a bus full of kindergartners I was ready for a nap!

The girls on the bus ride to the zoo

Easter Egg Hunt

This year we all went to the Wimmer's house for an Easter Egg Hunt and dinner. We played Blongo Ball and Eric even taught Jayda how to ride a "big girl bike" without training wheels and she did it without falling! Thanks Eric!

After The Easter Egg Hunt

Randy taking a turn

Jayda finding an egg

Eric helping Jayda ride without training wheels

Way to go Punkie!

Easter 2008

Jayda was really excited about coloring easter eggs this year and was asking me if we could color them weeks before Easter! I had to explain to her that they wouldn't be good by the time Easter came so by the time we did color them, (the night before) she couldn't color enough! I think we went through about two dozen eggs. I asked her what we were gonna do with that many eggs and she said "I'm really hungry for some egg salad sandwiches," with a grin. Weeks later, I was still finding colored eggs around the house!

Well my sister Ashleigh finally talked me into starting a blog. I'm always looking at my sisters' blogs and wanting to comment so I figured I might as well start one with Jayda and I. So here it goes....I'm going to start off by doing a little bit of backtracking with some of the recent things we've been up to.