Family Fun Days

Here we are at the beginning of another month!  The kids are all back into routine with school and activities.  And pretty soon the busy season starts again with weekend activities for Esme and Chan.  We're not sure how we're going to do it once the twins start having their own activities and games on the weekends.  Yikes!  When we get the time now we try to enjoy a lot of family time on the weekends to make up for the busy ones ahead.

 

We missed our beach time in Kona on New Years Day so we snuck over on MLK weekend

The kids love digging pools and then racing to the water to fill up their cups

We took an adventure to Akaka Falls one day and they all enjoyed the nice walk through the forest

Nearby we discovered a goat dairy and Chan surprised us by being so comfortable with the goats

As you can see the girls were not so comfortable

The kids are all turning into such great readers.  We're thinking Eve is ready to start reading but it might be a little longer for Poppy.

Nana went to all the effort to cut regular sized carrots instead of using baby carrots for dinner.  And for some strange reason Eve thought they were the perfect size for this trick.

My little rascal

It's been chilly lately and they've all been enjoying their sleepers

We took the kids bowling at Kilauea Military Camp and the twins were really just excited about their new shoes.  Ha ha!  They just kept dancing and sliding all over the floor in them.

Happy 2020!

We survived another great holiday season!  It was short and sweet this year and could have celebrated longer but oh well.  We can't complain!  The biggies woke up early on Christmas morning to check out their Santa gifts and stockings.  I made sure they let the twins sleep in since they didn't really know what to expect anyways.  Luckily that tided them all over until we ate breakfast and then sat down to presents.  Somehow the twins discovered some old toys in the carport so they played there for about an hour and the biggies got started first.  It was just easier that way ;)  At the end of the day everyone was super happy.  Santa brought Esme a new desk and booties.  She spends so much time at her big girl desk now and loves wearing her booties.  Chan got all sorts of balls and a basketball hoop which help to get out all his energy!  And the twins for the sparkly car and pink comb they asked for.  It was a good day!

Christmas pj's!  Seems like Esme is now the harder one to get to smile when it comes to family pics?!?!  This isn't the first time this has happened.  It used to be the twins though...

My little munchkins

Twins!

So happy for Christmas!

Modeling some of their gifts

Sneaking the gingerbread box under the desk...

A trip to Kilauea Military Camp to see all the decorated cabins

A pitstop at the KMC fireplace cause it was so cold out!

The kids went to Nana camp during break.  She took them on all sorts of adventures and hikes

Hiking by the Halemaumau crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

We started with some sparklers early on NYE

The we did a little fireworks show in our driveway once it got dark.  Our neighborhood was full of fireworks!

The twins really got into it this year

We usually go to the beach in Kona on New Years Day but high surf closed a lot of the beaches on that side of the island so we stayed on the east side instead this year.

Playing at Richardson's Beach Park

Family photo opp of the new year.  Five our of 6 looking isn't bad ;)

Eating their blinchiki at the beach

Happy Holidays 2019

And that's a wrap 2019!  We did it!  We made it through another year!  The kids are anxiously looking forward to the holidays ahead.  Our Christmas elf, Doodle, reappeared this month and that's kept them on their toes.  Eve refuses to believe he's magic and doesn't understand why the biggies are so into him.  Poppy's just along for the ride and follows suit with the biggies.  Here's an update on the family:

Esme aka Mimi, Meems
Age: 8 1/2
Grade: 3rd
Activities: Judo, Tennis, Soccer, Kumon, Piano
Fave Foods: taco salad, cheeseburgers, noodles/rice, madras lentils, mint gum/candy
Christmas wish: booties

Chan aka Chanee, Jay-man
Age: 6 1/2
Grade: 1st
Activities: Judo, Baseball, Kumon
Fave Foods: fruits, vegetables, yogurt, fish, milk, madras lentils
Christmas wish: hoverboard

Poppy aka Pops, Peanut, Boo-boo
Age: 3 1/2
Grade: Keikiland preschool
Favorite colors: purple and pink
Fave Foods: fruit, yogurt, madras lentils, gum
Christmas wish: pink comb

Eve aka Evie, Vita, Veets
Age: 3 1/2
Grade: Keikiland preschool
Favorite color: green
Fave Foods: crunchy foods, madras lentils, gum
Christmas wish: sparkly car

And of course Allen and I are still with our same jobs and somehow manage to keep it all together during this crazy adventure that we call our lives.  Hee hee!  We celebrated our 10 year anniversary this year and that gave us a lot to reflect on - how far we've come in that time and where we want to see ourselves in the next 10.  Here we go!

Happy Halloween

This year Esme decided to be a robber for Halloween.  She somehow got the idea from reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  Anyways, as soon as she said that then Chan quickly decided that he wanted to be a police man and wanted to make sure he had handcuffs as part of his costume.  Poppy found a fairy costume in our dress up bin and called herself the tooth fairy.  And Eve found a cat costume in the bin and said she was a scaredy cat.  Ha ha!  The twins were convinced that going to only 3 houses last year is just for babies and they wanted to do way more.  We ended up doing 4 with them and then convincing them to head home to hand out candy and see all the other kiddos.  The big kids walked the whole neighborhood though.  We let them eat whatever they wanted on Halloween night and they haven't asked for their candy since. 

The biggies got to wear their costumes to school so we got our money's worth this year.  Especially considering since this is the first year we bought costumes.  Usually we just dig through the dress up bin and find something but they're outgrowing a lot of it.

The evening trick or treat gang

We quickly did our pumpkins after school on Thursday before getting dressed

Chan recently participated in his first judo tournament.  He even placed 2nd!  Once he realized how the whole process worked he wanted to do many more matches.  

Esme didn't actually place since they had a hard time finding someone in her age and weight category but she still got a medal for her first tournament.  

Facetime with these goofies!

Poppy and Even had their first school pictures this year at Keikiland.  We weren't sure how it was going to go since getting them dressed and getting their hair done is always a battle.  Half the time they go to school in their pajamas cause they're so opinionated about controlling what they wear.  Turns out they put their dresses on fine and let us do their hair in the morning but somehow before pics were taken they decided to have their hair in pony tails.  Oh well!