Another Summer Afternoon

Spring Baseball

Ethan's first season of spring baseball.

Kimberly looking on from the sidelines.

Life is ever busy, here is to remembering a wonderful, RELAXING, time.

ThAnKsGiving 2010.

Kimberly especially misses her clear nose. She's usually a little stuffy (allergies, dry weather, I don't know why) but here she was forever clear, and when we arrived home I am not kidding 12hrs later.... Stuffy.

Ethan loved being outside in the warm weather.

Perfect weather 80 degrees by day 60 degrees at night. Ethan is all boy.

He loved hiking, snorkeling, swimming, and seeing fish through the clear water.

View each morning from our window. Not to bad. Andrew and I were really trying hard to see how we could manage to live here.

One day just our family went on a beautiful hike on the other side of the island.

Evie misses the water. She'd live in the ocean if she had gills.

This is my favorite picture.

Emma chose her hiking attire. She misses the sand and dirt.

She'd play in sand and find any and all sorts of treasures.

Our last sunset there. It was sooo hard to head home.

It was the first vacation where I really didn't want to leave.

Found in the forest. Yep no snakes, bear, lions, my kind of place.

And no we just took this cool picture, no sampling was involved.

All the grandchildren minus one (Kimberly). Evie was done with pictures. You could only imagine how many we took (I think we filled 2 or 3 cards), and we wished we could have taken more, but with two small ones it was rather tricky.

One of my favorite shots. On the road to Hana. BEAUTIFULL!!

View from a hike to a blow hole.

Ok. Put me in black and white, and make it fuzzy, not too bad.

Dream vacations do come true. Thanks Dad, Mom, Karen & Sandy.

I have never felt so famous before. People were starring at us like crazy like we had 11 kids with us or something. You could see them trying to count how many.

Some may ask how life is now that we have 4. ... I say BUSY, & WONDERFUL.

I don't know how to post the pictures in the right order, hence this entire post is backwards, but one good thing about a yard with LOTS of leaves. While raking I remembered houses my dear friend Karen & I would make growing up, and the kids loved helping me rake this creation.

Something about the baby of the family.

We have kindred spirits, both being the youngest.

Crocodile Tears

Sad eyes!

Happy eyes!

Kimberly has always had really expressive eyes.

She is almost always happy. We all love her a lot.

First Day of Preschool!

Melon Days - 2 months ago

We had a great time!

One of the following people does not know how to "pretend" to eat watermelon; and yes, kissing the side of the melon slice does count as pretending to eat.

A couple more random pics from Melon Days.

Summer Vacation - Part II

So here are some random photos of our recent trip to Oceanside.

We spent almost the entire week playing on the beach, and in the sand.

The kids thought these water bins were almost as much fun as the ocean.

We had to keep a close eye on Evie, she was always plotting an escape.

Evie on the run.

This is how Kimberly enjoyed her vacation.

It was fun to take the kids on a few boogie board rides.

On our last beach day we finally got to see a really nice sunset.

Here's our little family.

Here's the big family.