Dog Beach

This morning we went down to Hickam Air Force base to a beach that allows dogs.  It's also just a really neat place to go.  Lots to watch and do there.  All the planes landing at the Honolulu airport fly right overhead with their landing gear down and if you are luck then tug boats and barges or big ships and fighter jets also come by.  Then there are lots of well behaved (seriously) dogs and shallow water everywhere to play in.  The tide was out when we were there and it's just a giant sandbar and you can walk way out and it is never more than knee deep.

a boy, his dog, blue sky, and the water.  Nothing better to change his cranky mood around!!

Got to see a big ship and a tug boat and barge.

We also saw lots of fighter jets in formation and coming in to land.  It was loud!

A boo-boo kinda day

Yesterday was not the best of days for Eric.  He fell on his bike and scraped his elbow.  Then on a walk back home from the playground he and Will got tangled and he fell and hit his lip and knee!  All in all he handled it well, not much crying.  That is until he got in the bathtub!  The water made them all burn and he was not a fan of me washing them out.  He had a cut on his finger that was hurting too.  He didn't want any bandaids.  He enjoys showing people his boo-boos!

A lot and a little

Can there be a lot going on but very little actually happening?  That's the way it has felt the past week.  Justin super busy at work, the kids busy doing kid things (playing outside, sports, school), and me busy with house stuff and even more busy with Girl Scout cookie stuff.  We didn't make it to the beach last weekend or on a hike.  It rained, again, all weekend.  But yesterday afternoon we picked up Nana and Papa from the airport!!  So now we really get to have fun and DO things away from the house!

fancy hair

He was cold so he wanted, socks, a sweatshirt, and a hat!

Eric made me breakfast!

Sunset last Thursday

It was beautiful.

The kids saw very little of their dad last week.  Maybe an hour each day.  Eric was THRILLED to spent a huge chunk of Saturday with dad.  Caroline and I were at a cookie booth from 9-1.  He didn't leave Justin's side all day!

Just a picture Eric asked me to take.  I was doing dishes and he set himself up like this and told me to take a picture.

A boy and his dog

I was vacuuming today and when I turned around this is what I saw. 

Nothing better!!!

Beaches and whales

This weekend was BUSY.  Will woke up with a slight fever, so no basketball game, and Justin had to go to work.  I was able to get a last minute babysitter Friday night that came to stay with the boys while I was off doing World Thinking Day with the Girl Scouts.
Sunday Justin had to work again.  I took the kids to church, Will was better, and then we came home and walked Miles and had lunch.  Justin made it home before 2 and he and Eric both got naps.  Then we decided to head to the beach.
Something about sitting on a beach, the sun warming you, listening to the waves, hearing the kids happy noises, and relaxing is a fantastic way to end a weekend begin another week.  It's something Justin and I have both come to just love.

We went to Three Tables beach at the North Shore.  There were some pretty big waves crashing on the "tables" but it kept the waves from being overly rough on the shore.  Will had fun boogie boarding on the big waves.

He won't have much luck snorkeling like that but he did claim that he had fun snorkeling!

Showing me his special finds!  I kept them.

Sunset

He was surfing.

Will was playing football with his dad.

My sweet girl sitting beside me.

Eric had to play some football too!

The wave knocked him down.

My great boys!  I love them so much!

So this was not just another beach evening.  We saw lots of whales (again)!  It seems like every time we've been to a beach lately we have seen whales.  Mostly you can just see them blow.  Last week we saw them slapping a fin.  This week we saw them breaching (big back flops) and making huge splashes!  There were lots of them out there.  Justin read in the news that there were 15-20 where we were!  Then as we were showering and getting ready to leave we watched a baby breach over and over while the mom slapped her tail right near the baby.  Oh and it was about 100 yds from us!  Absolutely amazing!!  I couldn't believe it and what a cool thing to see.  I loved it!

It's been a little busy

Life is just busy and some weeks just end up being busier than others. Some of our week looked like this.  Yesterday included a field trip for Caroline, picking up girl scout cookies, taking the boys to the dentist, sorting cookies, swim and basketball practice. Today's list isn't quite as busy but still full. Just going to the post office, px, making 2 pyramids, a Girl Scout meeting, and picking up the house. Tomorrow includes World Thinking Day with the scouts while Will has a basketball game at the same time.  We are also going to a cookout for dinner and I still haven't made something to take.  Suggestions?

Will and Miles this morning.  Will is still in his PJ's.  Miles is still his best buddy.

Eric sitting with one of the pyramids that I made.  Our troop has Egypt for  World Thinking Day.  My plan is to use the pyramids as display holders for our facts that will be taped to tooth picks and stuck in there.  

Life is busy and satisfyingly full!  I love it!

A little break in the rain

Sunday we didn't make it to church since all 3 kids have coughing colds.  Didn't want to share the germs!  But we did make it out to the NEX (Navy exchange) to get the boys some rain coats (they didn't have one) and go next door to the commissary to get 10 tubs of butter.  It's the only place that sells the vegan butter Will can have.  Later we also got out to walk the dog between rain showers.  We took the neighbor kids with us.

Eric is getting to be quite fast on his balance bike.  To the point that I really need to run to be able to keep up with him!

The biking crew.  The boys rode a mile around the track since we were the only ones out there it wasn't a big deal they were on the track.  

We also built a lot on Will's Lego battleship.  We had been missing a lot of parts (not surprising) but found an entire bag of parts when I was cleaning out the kids toy boxes.

The rockets all really shoot!

The past 2 days we have had some bits of sun shining and not as much rain.