Happy 5th Birthday, Kalea!

I can hardly believe I have a 5 year old! Kalea is such a good girl! She is helpful, determined, compassionate, imaginative, beautiful, the best BIG sis, and a daddy's girl (finally)! As of now, she is outside practicing to ride without training wheels on her little bike because she got a bigger one for her birthday. She doesn't give up and can ride for a bit, but gets too distracted to see if anyone else sees her accomplishment! We love you Kalea!

Captured & Consumed

I finally went to Wal-Mart and got my hands on the book, "Twilight," by Stephanie Meyer. I had heard bits and pieces about it, but finally Tia got my curiosity going. I have to say I am totally consumed with this book. It is awesome! I have to literally pull myself away because I have other things that are more pressing to do, but whenever there is a free moment, my eyes and mind are totally consumed with the characters. I am not an avid reader, so a book really has to get my attention. Another of my all time favorites are C. S. Lewis's, "Narnia." Remember President Hinckley's Book of Mormon challenge. Well, as I was a late comer to get the BOM read by the end of the year, which I started in late November, I ended up dreaming about everything that I was reading. I found myself in the forests running from the battles around me. Well, that too happened when I read the Narnia series. I get so "captured & consumed" that I dream about it. So, many times I was living in Narnia having conversations with Lucy. Now I am dreaming about "Twilight." So to make my point, if I am dreaming about the current book I am reading, it must be good. As a side note, "Twilight" will be coming to the big screen at the end of this year, so get a "jump start" on it now, you won't be disappointed!. How about you, what are your favs?

Sweet sounds of Laughter...

Tai sure got a kick out of Grandpa!

Alani's Baptism

We went to Orlando for Alani's baptism. It was so much fun. It was nice to be in warm weather, see green grass again, and wear shorts. Alani was so excited to get baptized by her dad. Her sister Maile sang a musical number that was beautiful . CTR!

Visit to Billy's

They were where?

So, after our tea party as mom was getting ready to go she couldn't find her car keys anywhere. We looked everywhere, retraced her steps, called Tia thinking they ended up in her car as mom was putting the kids in, but to her dismay, nothing! She ended up taking my car home to get another set of keys for her car. After she left, I kept looking everywhere. Later that night, I was cleaning up after dinner and ran the garbage disposal. What do you know, there they were in the garbage disposal...unharmed.

Tea Party

Kalea has been bugging me to have a "tea" party with her. So instead of doing a make believe one we invited her grandmas over and her aunt Chelsea and Tia and cousins Ekena and William. We had so much fun. Kalea made everyone a place mat. We munched on egg salad sandwiches, cucumber/cream cheese sandwiches; Kalea made everyone fruit cups complete with mandarin oranges, bananas, yogurt and granola. She was so proud of her efforts. Since she worked so hard on preparing everything she actually ate all of her lunch before dessert--a real feat, since she has a BIG sweet tooth.