Stuffed Animals

As far as I can remember, I have never been a fan of stuffed animals. If i had them, I used them as pillows. But I do love seeing the kids sleep with them. Something about it is so cute. Mr. Tiger, Sesi, and Batman. Just go with it, I've been trying to tell him it's Superman forever already.

Family Fun Day

We had a Family Day yesterday. Beach bound. It has been a while. Jesse has been working long hrs at wrk for quite some time and it was a much needed break.

We had a nice relaxing day. Aside from the wind, it was perfect beach weather.

The kids enjoyed the Koi fish for hrs at the Queens Marketplace. A huge fish tank would be great for our home. But it's not going to happen.

Always good to get some sun!

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Christmas 2012

Letter from #1. Dear Santa, I want a monster truck. I want to help open Matthew boy's presents.

Recap of some holiday fun. We camped at the beach for Christmas. We also made gingerbread houses with my bro and his gal pal the wk before. We had loads of fun. I need a personal photographer to actually take pictures of what's going on while I'm busy with the kids. Anyone up for the job?

Happy Halloween

This year we signed up to Decorate a Door and pass out candy at Keei Ward. We were pretty busy. Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Manini BBQ

Several wks ago,in September, the Mister and I had a very informal last minute bbq at Manini Beach. I wanted to get together with my family that I hadn't seen in a while and we didn't have the time to wait because October was a very busy month for us. I rallied up my brother and Palu cousins and Palea fam to hele on to the beach for food and fun. Manini's was the spot we often went to as kids and it was very different then. In 2011 the Japan tsunami hit Kona and wiped away the big blue beach house that used to be on the property where the rock wall is. This used to be a rocky beach but the tsunami also brought up the sand. It's a perfect spot for little ones. A private party also came in and put grass in and theres a community garden with The concept to take if you need and give back in return when you have crops to spare. None of us had been there in a long while, it had been several yrs for myself. I was happy to see the changes. It was a sweet moment for me to see our kids play with their cousins here as I did growing up.

My dad with the white hair(Grampy to the kids) and Uncle Sefo. Together til the very end these 2. Growing up in Kona, anytime we did anything as a family, this guy was right by my dad's side. They dived together.. not so much now, they just float, fish together, camp together. Uncle Sefo is awesome. Glad to see some things never change.

Once you swim past the sand, there's a bunch of coral reef and great places to snorkel and body board, kayak, what ever you like do, do. The boys swam out and David uncle sefos boy, came back with an octopus. The darn thing latched itself onto him as he was swimming and looking in a hole or rock, cave. Whatever happened, it would've freaked me out. In one of the pictures you can see the marks across David's arm chest and stomach, where the tentacles were.

Aunty mae made her yummy mochi and brownie/shortbread cookies.. Bomb! I'm glad everyone made it out, we had a great time and I can't wait to do it again.