Ron, Tracey & Ella

Monday, July 13, 2009

KoleKole Pass Hike

We took Ella hiking today up Kolekole Pass. She hikes the whole thing herself and declares at the top, "Let's go hiking again and again." Loosely translated means, "Why are we stopping?" It took a little effort and Ron's "noculars" to get her to take in the view and enjoy the rest before heading right back down :)

Friday, July 10, 2009

Report Card

Ella passed her Preschool Level 1 and 2 swim class today! Next week she's moving up to the Learn-to-Swim Level 1 class! (Pictures to follow)

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park

Yesterday, Ella and I joined some of our playgroup friends and headed to the water park. It was busy as school is out but so much fun. The keiki area was perfect for their age group and Ella, Hope and Ava spent the majority of their time going down the water slides...over and over and over. Ella and I also explored the family area and went down a couple of water slides together. We have summer passes and will go back next week... once school is back in session next month, Ella and I may spend a few days a week there :)

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Happy July 4th Fiesta

We had a BBQ and went all out with hamburgers, hotdogs, smores and sparklers... then piled into the back of Rachel's truck to watch the fireworks at the airfield. It was a great American holiday :)

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Love Bugs

Ella and Emmi had a birthday party this evening so Emmi and Christina came over a bit early so the love bugs could play:

Friday, July 03, 2009

Teeth

This is how I found Ella this evening when I asked her to brush her teeth:

And if there was any doubt, Ella loves to pose for any photo op:

More Garden

Because I'm obsessed with our garden... last night's dinner:

Friday, June 26, 2009

Zucchini Bread

Ella is so proud of our garden and loves the show off what we've picked...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Vegetable Garden

Our progress since May...

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day

Dear Daddy,

Thank you for everything you do. You are the best Daddy and I love you "with all my heart". I can't wait for another year of fun, learning and growing with you and I hope you know that you are my hero. Mommy thinks your pretty special too :)

Love, Ella xoxo

To our Dads... have a great day, we wish we were there to celebrate with you...

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments, love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come,
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

My Favorite Quotes

“The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the midst of it, you say to yourself, ‘Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.’
And the sign that something’s wrong is when you’re sitting quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.”

- Thorton Wilder -

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade wind in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. "

- Mark Twain -

Hell is a world where you have no home. And even though I was in heaven something drew me back to my home. I can’t put into words the things I've seen the places I’ve been or what it all means.
Because its not so much what you look at
But when you look, what you see
And I see that my eyes are the eyes of the world and in my eyes

I AM.

- anonymous -