Hangin' in Hawaii...

Yesterday the surf was too big again, Geoff had to be at the Sunset contest, then the opening for "the Eddie", so I had Greyson with me all day. After I took the kids x-mas pictures down at the beach, we went to Konos and dropped Bri off at Sunset.

Grey and I went to Costco, the church and back home. Had a little lunch and since it was so nice outside, we borrowed a pool from Ed and Laura. Grey had quite a busy afternoon just hangin' at Grammy & Poppa's yard.

throwing slippers in the pool and watching them float

just running around the yard, being chased by grammy

hangin' out with all the kids, auntys and uncles

looking at the yucky dead frog (pretty interesting to a little boy)

looking for chickens...he knows they're out there

just the sweetest little boy

playing with a truck that uncle Ricky gave to Jack

Three Generations

Yesterday we went to Turtle Bay again because the surf was still a little big. Terry got to teach his grandson about throwing rocks. As I was watching them, I was thinking about all the times I sat and watched Terry throw rocks with Geoff in Mexico, San O, any camping beach. Sure did bring back memories.

Cboosing the right rock

The big throw

Turtle Bay

Within an hour of getting to the No. Shore we drove up to Turtle Bay so Greyson could go in the water. It was so perfect! Really no surf, water was warm, the air was warm and there was that special golden glow in the air.

Geoff and Grey going in the first time. There wasn't any stopping him~ he loved it! Thank goodness!

The all important learning how to throw rocks into the water.

He wasn't afraid at all, just loved it.

Just hanging out, running in and out, back and forth to the water.

Yesterday, the surf was 20+ feet, so we didn't go to the beach. Geoff was at the contest (still can't believe the ran it), so we just hung out around here all day. Then poppa and I took Grey to dinner and Pearl Ridge to look at the Christmas stuff while Geoff and Bri had a date night.

I know I did 2 posts right after each other, I don't know what I was thinking.

Welcome to Hawaii

Geoff, Bri and Greyson all arrived safe and sound on Monday. He did good on the flight (I'm sure Bri will post her pics taken on the flight). We're so excited to have them here!

Greyson with the same look we all have after the 5+ hour flight!

Waiting for Daddy to get the car...good to be able to run around a little bit.

Kaamooloa Road Thanksgiving

This was the third year we've had a "block" Thanksgiving on Kaamooloa Road. The weather was perfect, tradewinds, no rain and sunny. The day was a fllurry of activity; using each others ovens, borrowing needed ingredients, the girls making cupcakes...

Christine's beautiful table settings

Some of the 40+ guest arriving

The kids went first. We had 3 turkeys, 1 turkey breast, 2 hams, 6 pounds of cranberry sauce, garlic potatos, kamaboku, soup,yams, creamed corn, green salad and more and more and more... Too many desserts to even count.

This made all the work worth it! I just realized, this is almost everything that I made, orange rolls, cranberry sauce, creamed corn and yams. Yum!

Hope your Thanksgiving was as nice as ours was.

Happy Thanksgiving from Waialua

Hula Pilgrim
Yum~ cooked in this...

Sunset on Thanksgiving Eve

Happy Thanksgiving and Aloha from Waialua, Hawaii

hana hou TWILIGHT

translation: do it again, repeat or 1 more time ~TWILIGHT

Last I got to see TWILIGHT again! There were some gals from church that wanted to see it for the first time, so we decided to go to dinner and then the movie. Two of them had read the books and the other two hadn't, so they only sort-of knew the story.

At dinner, we said something to our waiter about going to see it. He said he'd already seen it three times! My kind of guy. We gave just a general story line to the two who hadn't read the books, so they would have some idea what was going on (I realized you don't really have to have read the books to enjoy the movie). We were so excited, could hardly wait to get inside.

This was a Tuesday night, 7:20 pm and there were a lot of people (mostly girls, a mix of ages) some guys, I was surprised just how many people were there.

Funny, since I've already seen it once, I picked up on some different things. Did you see Stephenie Meyer? I probably loved it even more the second time and might even see it again.

Afterwards we stood around outside and talked about the movie along with several other groups. We all decided that we can't wait for the second movie. Now when will that be?