field trippin

two days in a row... i am pretty rad.
so, these are all from my phone, naturally.  we got a little water camera for mothers day/ anniversary/ fathers day so there is a slight chance you will get to see something other than phone pictures soon.  possibly.

have i mentioned, it's summer time?  i am excited about that.  it's really really nice to not have to nag and wake up people in the morning.  i can't decide if i hate nagging more at the 7-8 in the morning hour to get everything ready for school or the 7-8 in the evening hour getting everyone in bed.  either way, those hours of the day are not my fav.  but now it's SUMMER!!!!!
this is my velzy girl on her way to school with the lei that she collected flowers to make for her teacher. and her candy lei, since ivy was going to get a whole grip of them at preschool graduation, she needed at least one.


the week before school got out was field trip week.  i got to go with velzy to the children's discovery center on tuesday.  it was really fun.  first graders are super funny.  i loved watching them run all over and try new things and laugh.  i have never heard velzy laugh as hard as she did when she and her friends were playing with this thing on the "ship" they have there.  i don't think she could breath she was laughing so hard.
us on the bus. velzy, liva & alex on the screen broadcasting the news

on the ship.  every kids favorite part- the wheel chairs.

banyon tree. band of crazies.
 

ivy's preschool graduation was quite entertaining.  she of course was nervous and didn't want to go, of course she went and did a great job.  they sang and danced a ton and it was a grand ol party. more pictures of that for another post.


wednesday of field trip week i got to go with ivy to bishop museum.
ivy making waves for the north shore.  serving lola and ronin at the cafe.

sliding down a lava tube. and sliding down a snail.
 
and i really didn't get very many pictures that day apparently, maybe because lola was with me and was scared of pretty much everything for the first half of the trip but it was really fun.

then on thursday of field trip week i got to go with luke and some of his co workers to take the admirals tour of pearl harbor.
we take really good pictures together. beautiful day on pearl harbor.

this is the utah, that was sunk in the attack on pearl harbor.  other than the arizona it's the only ship still in the harbor, sunken, from that day.  super cool to see- it's on the back part of ford island and you don't get to see it on the regular tour.    and some knots! i want to learn how to make these.


and this is the carl vinson.  it's a floating city that houses 5,000 and it came to port here for a few days before retuning to the mainland at the end of its tour.  it also happens to be the ship that osama bin ladin's body was buried at sea off of.  luke got to take a tour of it during field trip week also, no pictures of the cool places he got to see inside.  it was huge, the picture doesn't do it justice. there are a bunch of jets, helicopters, tanks... on top. super rad.


and that concludes field trip week.

this morning

as i lay on the living room floor (stretching) i heard giggles coming from the girls room.  they emerged, went to the bathroom so very quietly and flushed only once between the two of them as not to wake lola, and came giggling to find me.  first thing ivy tells me is how good velzy is at singing this song they have been "incessed" (obsessed for those who don't speak ivy) with.  we have been listening to a lot of me first and the gimme gimmes lately, they have really gotten in to Goodbye Earl.  velzy and ivy have listened to it 1,000 times and ask me to tell them the story of the song over and over and over.  ivy told velzy to sing it and i told ivy to join in and this is what i got at 7:00 this morning. i am actually pretty impressed with the fact that they did it for the camera but they are also incessed with watching themselves so they said i could film them.  oh, and my voice is nasty.

the me first version video

and i just uploaded a ton of pictures, another photo explosion post coming up soon!

hi.

ivy's may day performance

ivy's may day was on friday.  it was a sorta rough morning for the little lady, as she was real nervous.  for as crazy of a gal as she is, she does not like people looking at her.  not at all.  there were a few tears shed but she did it.  and she did great, i was so proud of her.  she even gave me a wave and smile before she went on, which made me feel good, i was really feeling bad for her.  you could tell she did not want to mess up, as her eyes were on her teachers the whole time.
 her preschool's theme was toy story and she was a barbie.  the first thing she said when i woke her up that morning was "i hate my costume!"  awesome.  she is not really in the video for the first few minutes, the other classes from her preschool go first. and there was one more song after this even, it was a long performance!

good job ivy girl!

velzys may day

may day.  it's kinda a big deal.
first graders had tahiti this year and they did amazing.

you cant really see velz till minute three (she is in the last row, in the middle of the video if you want to try and pick her out.) but then she comes up front and really shakes her thing.  i can't believe what a good job she did!  needless to say, i am making her start taking tahitian again cause the girl can move her haole hips with the best of em.
sorry about the jostling video parts, i am an amateur.



any bets on if ivy performs next friday at her preschools may day???

oh so long ago

we had spring break.  it's all a blur of fun and friends.  sometimes i wonder if my kids will ever know how good they have it.  sometimes they complain that they have to go to the beach.  pathetic.
we had some pretty junk weather for the kick off of spring break- the road in front of our house turned into a river and we were on flood watch all that friday.
this is all the stuff that washed out the little river by our house:

and here is our lovely beach


our friends from california came to stay at our house that night and it was super fun.  we partied till late into the night and then headed to town on saturday.  lola was sorta grumpy, she has been in a semi grumpy teething state for all to long now.  the girl is the worlds s-l-o-w-e-s-t teether.  it's terrible. but the point of me telling that was that she found herself a boyfriend.  they even share the same birthday, like 11 or 12 years apart.
lola and bowen

pearl harbor




then we went down to sand island and played at the beach.
we then made a spring break to do list:

monday of spring break we hit up the PCC.  a place everyone loves.  it was a bunch of fun and there were lots of friends all over the place. fishing, poi balls, spear throwing and tattoos.


 

tuesday luke joined us downtown for some hamsterball.  ivy wouldn't go in so luke hit it up again.  velzy loved it and wants to go back everyday.  it was so funny to watch her little body in there.
 



then we played at the beach and had dinner.  our buddies the hitz's were with us.  our kids are pretty much inseparable.

wednesday we joined our friends the smiths at queens bath.



thrusday we hit up the boyodo temple.
they have these black swans that i was sorta obsessed with, they have the prettiest ruffled feathers on the back, i loved them.  the kids had fun running all over, feeding the fish and swans, playing in the bamboo forrest and we had a little picnic at the coolest little pagoda.
 
2 moms, 10 kids.  and no one fell in the water.

and by friday we all needed a break so we hung at home and played.  lola got her first good nap in over a week. it was nice.  we had a friday night bonfire and the week was done.
i am tired just putting all the pictures up.