'Ohana Means Family

Monday, July 6, 2009

Made It!

We are in Massachusetts. So far we have checked out Grandma and Grandpa's new house, played capture the flag with Uncle Anders, Auntie Nikki and Brockden, done fireworks, had root beer floats and "swam" in the hot tub. And that was just night #1. It's gonna be a pretty great month!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy 4th of July.

We feel very blessed to live to live in the USA.

We love our country and our home.

Today the kids and I begin our trip Massachusetts.

If you are traveling-stay safe!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Jayden is 9...

...and she loves it!

On Jayden's birthday I loaded the kids into the car and we headed to the movies. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was our destination. Jayden was excited but had mixed feelings about going because she and daddy always see the movie together and daddy wasn't home to go with us. I assured her it was going to be fun and she and daddy could see it again later.

While sitting waiting for the movie to start Jayden had a special visitor show up!
DADDY!!!!
He flew in that morning just for her.

She was sooo happy.
I was sooo happy.
Jason was so happy.
Everyone was wondering why we were so happy.

After the movie we had lunch..

and milk shakes...

a song sung by the waitress!

Today we had a birthday breakfast with a lot of Jayden's friends

We made fancy birthday waffles.

And covered them in sprinkles, chocolate chips and whipped creme. Yum!

Some peoples eyes were bigger than their stomach.

Then everyone painted sun catchers.

And did sparklers. They are just as fun during the day as they are at night...who knew?

Happy Birthday Jayden!!!!

Nine is going to be awesome!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

9

Jayden Kahaulani is 9. Wow, 9. It's no lie when they say time flies when you are having fun.

We sure love this girl. More than anything.

Happy Birthday Kahau!

Monday, June 29, 2009

Eye Opener

Today was the day. Jayden went in and had whatever was on her eye removed. I won't tell you what they did or how grossed out I was. I will just say one word: Nasty. But, thankfully, Jayden did not feel a thing and it was over before we knew it. In order to keep the kids busy while playing the waiting game in the exam room (not my favorite thing to do) we took lots of pictures.

Jayden's nervous energy was almost more than I could handle. Who can blame her? I don't want anyone poking around at my eyeball either. She was literally bouncing off the walls because of her nerves. It didn't help that Braley and Ansen kept commenting, "Jayden I hope the don't cut your whole eye out!"

Yep, right there in that little eye of hers was our problem.
Braley decided to take a crack at getting that little bugger out.
No luck.

Jayden inspected Braley. Why not? After all, she is the blind one.

Poor Ansen wasn't sure what was going on but he was a good sport about it.

So the foreign substance has been removed and Jayden still has two eyes. The doctor was a pro and she was a champ. I informed her on the way home that she has used up her 1 random doctor visit for the year and she is not not allowed to be injured or sick in any way until January 1, 2010. Anyone want to place a bet at how long it will actually be and who will be my next random medical mishap?