First day of school 2011

Look at that face! That is pure happiness as he waits for the door to open to room 34 and start kindergarten. He loves it and this week he wrote his first sentence "Look at me" and read a book about apples to us. It is obvious that he loves school and everyone is already his best friend and he is the fastest kid in his class.

Emma started the 3rd grade in an accelerated 3/4/5 grade split and she is struggling a bit given everything last year was super easy for her last year. She doesn't like the homework which there is definitely more of, but I think she gets a sense of satisfaction when she studies for spelling words and only gets 1 or 2 wrong on the test and at the start of the week she got most of them wrong.

Introducing Kami

The house was super quiet at night after Kylie went to play pain free in heaven and we had talked about a new kitty when Kopa died, so in early July we went to the Humane Society after a couple visit prior and left with this little girl. She was pretty tiny when we got her but her extra large personality! She loves Ally but Ally hates her...with a passion. We thought that would get better but it has been a couple months and Ally is still hoping Kami gets flushed down the toilet I think. But she has definitely brought some happiness back to the family!

Ocean Trip 2011

The trip to the ocean this year was to honor my grandma Lu and her 90th birthday. As a kid, my dad's side of the family would travel regularly to the ocean but as the family grew we couldn't get everyone there. So, gram's birthday wish was for all of us to meet for a couple days at Cannon Beach and it was a lot of fun. The weather was great, the kids had fun, and it was great to share one of our favorite places on earth with our family. Did I mention the weather was great?!

Hawaii...without the kids!

The view from our room! Jealous much?

Scott getting ready for his part in the luau.

The turtle that Scott bumped in to under water...and than we found out if you "bump" into turtles its a $10,000 fine so Scott didn't actually bump into it he just thought he did=)

My beautiful friend Lynn and her wonderful children! It was so great to see them!

Scott and I went to Maui to end this summer without the kids and had tremendous time! We met our great friend Lynn and her family for dinner, got a massage, and enjoyed happy hour quite regularly. We began each day by working out after a cup of coffee and than either went snorkeling or just read by the pool. It was great weather, the hotel (the Sheraton) was beautiful and it was great to not have any responsibility and for 5 days not listen to any whining! I hope you enjoyed the pictures!