Christmas Photos

Alex's First Gymnastics Class

Since Alex loves to jump around like a monkey, I decided to have him try out a gymnastics class. He had a lot of fun trying to do handstands, walk on the balance beam, swing on the low bar and tumble.

Halloween

This year for Halloween Alex and Colin both dressed up as Tigger. So cute!

Fishing in Flagstaff

Today we went fishing at the pond by our house. I caught two trout!

If you are allergic to dogs, don't come to my house...

The dogs are taking over my sofa!

Molly and her son Smush (Bryant's dog)

Cosmo (Molly's puppy & Bryant's dog), Molly, Smush & Elvis

Smush close-up

Mags! So cute!

Animals at Alex's school

Alex's school has all kinds of animals on campus. They started out last year with 3 horses and a pig, and the animal population has grown considerably.

Sheep, Goats, Pigs (see that huge pig with tusks?)

More sheep and piggies

Alex and a Rooster

Bunnies! Alex loves the bunnies because they are so soft.

Turkeys - there are 3 of them

Here is one of the 2 donkeys

There are 2 Emus

More Bunnies

Some fancy chickens

Chickens and Bunnies

Quack, quack the ducks

One of the piglets

That's one big pig!

Alex gets a card in the mail

Colin is trying to walk!

Colin is 7 months old, and is pulling himself up to a standing position! Here he is trying to stand up and pet Molly at the same time.

Look what was in my garage!!!

Western Ground Snake

He was only about 5" long and as thin as a chopstick...looks like one big buggah' huh???

Random Photos

I wanna be like Mike (Phelps)!

Alex getting ready for his swimming lessons

Alex's Halloween Costume

Stitch, Tigger and Mags!

Colin on the quilt made by his Great-Great Grandma Teruya

Mr. Blue Eyes

Outrigger Canoe Paddling Long-Distance Season

This was my sister Cathi's first long-distance canoe race. She competed in Regatta (short) distance season for Outrigger Canoe Club's Women Novice A Team, and now she is competing in the long-distance race season.

This race was on August 24, 2008. Named Dad's Center Race (don't ask me where they got the name) started at Kailua Beach and ended at the Outrigger Canoe Club, for a total distance of 25 miles, with relief changes. It is an Open Women's Race, with 49 crews entering this year. Hui Lanakila came in first this year, followed by Team Bradley. Outrigger Women's Masters Crew finished fourth overall, and Cathi's crew, Women Novice A finished 19th overall.

Cathi's crew also raced this weekend's Queen Lili'uokalani Long-Distance Race in Kailua-Kona. That race was 18 miles (no relief changes) from Kailua Bay to Honaunau. Cathi's crew came in 16th overall, out of approximately 135 women's crews that entered, and 4th overall in the Koa Canoe division.

The long-distance season will culminate with the Na Wahine O Ke Kai on September 28, 2008; a race from Moloka'i to O'ahu, across the Ka'iwi channel.

Outrigger Women's Novice A

Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy

My mom bought me the above entitled book. Terrible Twos are nothing - Three is the new Two!

Arachnophobia

So I'm still here in Honolulu at my parents' house with Alex and Colin.

This evening I picked up a shirt off the floor of my bathroom and put it on after changing out of my swimsuit. I'm washing my hands in the bathroom sink when I feel something strange on my right elbow. I turn my arm around to see what it is, and there is a GIANT spider (the size of a can of tuna) running down my arm! I start screaming at the top of my lungs, because this damn spider is so huge.

My mom is in my room, adjoined to the bathroom and she runs in and says "what is it!?" I scream, "a spider!" and bat it off my arm onto the sink, where she proceeds to whack it with my shoe.

She tells me it is a Cane Spider, and that it usually doesn't bite. Geez, thanks mom. She also tells me they usually are solitary, but sometimes she's seen two at a time. Ick.

So I Googled "cane spider" and this is what came up (beware if you hate spiders): http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hawaii?Animals.cane

Some old photos

I found some old photos from high school of Becki and Jessica! I was too lazy to scan and upload, so I just took a photo of the photo with my digital camera. I think this is from the 10th grade Holoku pagent in 1993.

Stylin' in the George Ariyoshi lei

Day at the Zoo

This weekend we all went to the Honolulu Zoo. Alex had a lot of fun seeing all the animals.

Waimanalo Bay Beach Day

On Tuesday I took the kids to my favorite beach, Waimanalo Bay. There were quite a few people there for a Tuesday morning, and there were even a couple of wedding couples taking pictures on the beach.

Taking two kids to the beach is quite an endeavour. I lugged both the diaper bag, and backpack filled with drinks, the tent and towels from the car to the beach, while pushing Colin in the stroller and making sure Alex was following me.

We set up our camp and Alex began to play. We couldn't go swimming because there were many, many Portuguese Man 'o War jellyfish in the ocean. But we did have a lot of fun, and it was a beautiful day!

Waimanalo Bay - isn't it beautiful?

Alex

Cheese!
Making sand castles - and then knocking them down
The water is so blue

Alex's crab
Our Camp - gone are the days of just bringing a towel!
Mommy & Alex
Colin sleeping in the tent