November 2025

Ukulele performance at the Windward Mall in Kaneohe.

Visiting Pearl Harbor Memorial.

Kate starting making crochet creatures for money. Bryan started displaying models at his work and she started quite the little business. She is definitely talent!

Another project complete: We found the matching linoleum at Lowe's and Bryan was able to finish this project quite fast. Nice work babe!

Our complete bathroom makeover. The update looks great and the extra storage space is an added bonus. Like most projects, we ran into a few hiccups. We had to raise the electrical outlets, we had to raise the lighting fixtures, and we had to figure out how to glue/secure the mirrors to the wall.  

Mobility-a-Thon

Tea Party for a Primary girls activity.

Thanksgiving weekend at Hana, Maui.

We survived the road to Hana. We rented the cabins at Wai'anapanapa State Park and had the black sand beach to ourselves every morning and evening. It was a wonderful get away full of sunrises, waterfall, beach time, walks/hikes, and no electronics. I feel like every time we do a vacation where our cellphone service/Wifi is limited, our vacations end up being one of the greatest. 

Kaihalulu Red Sand Beach

Seven Sacred Pools

Twin Falls 

November 2024

Primary Girls see "Once Upon One Time" at Leeward Community College

Jane's Fall AYSO Soccer Team 'Girl Power' with Coach Chris

Kate's wearing contacts!

Kate's Fall AYSO Soccer Team 'Striker's' with Coach Dave

Pu'uloa Beach Park

New playground equipment at Kanoelani Elementary School.

Hiking with my crew at 'Ehukai Trail on North Shore. We got a little muddy with this one!

Kate's 6th grade class at an assembly.

We went night fishing with some friends (Teresa and Shem) at Haleiwa Harbor. We caught so many fish, even an eel! It was a lot of fun for everyone.

I went shark diving with some friends. Surprisingly, I wasn't as terrified as I imagined.

Ka'ena Point

Waialua Turkey Trot 5K

Impressed with the girls, especially without any training/warning.

Thanksgiving 2024

Bellows Beach Park

This was probably the best idea ever. Clean up was super easy and everyone had so much fun. I think the plan is to do it again!

Kate and Jane worked on some projects with Kristi and Jesse.

 

November 2023

November must have flown by! I hardly have any pictures. 

The girls have been taking Ukulele lessons since the beginning of September. They had an Ukulele Festival at the mall where they both played a couple songs. It was really fun to see everyone attend this event and how many children and adults are taking lessons.

After the performance, we hiked the Lanikai pillbox. This is a really nice hike too. It is very short, but does gain elevation fairly fast. We all love exploring the bunkers and the designs spray painted inside. At this particular location, you have beautiful views of the Moku Nui Islands. 

I'm pretty sure this weekend we went to Wet N Wild with Koko, but we don't have any pictures. I only say this because the next set of pictures I have are us hiking Waimano Falls Trail. We try to have a beach day/pool day one day of the weekend and then a hiking/adventure day the other day of the weekend. This particular hike was a little difficult only because it was muddy. The waterfall wasn't very spectacular because it has been so dry, so the three pools were stagnate water and no one wanted to touch. Initially, the hiking path was nice. But it was quick to get slippery and dirty.

I wanted a pictures of our legs to remind us of how dirty we got!

Jane is participating in a gardening club after school once a week. I think they are digging for or collecting worms in their teacher castings.

Kate's class has some type of arts and crafts about once a week, which is one of her favorite things to do. 

Some people from church invited us to do a Turkey Trot 5K. It was actually more like a 50 yard dash! The girls all got an award in their age group. I did as well. It was a great way to spend the morning before all the cooking commenced.  

We had one of Bryan's co-workers family over for Thanksgiving, along with Kristi and her friend Jesse. Everyone brought something and it turned out really nice and easy. The weather was perfect as well. It has finally cooled off some where we aren't running our air conditioning during the night.

Kristi and I decided to do family pictures at Bellows Beach Park at sunrise. They turned out awesome!

We brought Howie and he was so difficult to get any good pictures with!

This one is for our mom!

Someone asked if they could take a picture of the five of us. Ha! I'm not sure what they thought the family dynamic was here. 

For Activity Days, we showed the class how to cut snowflakes out of paper. Kate demonstrated for the class how to cut the snowflakes just right because hers turned out so well! It definitely made her feel special and needed.