what a boy

Here's Ash with his freshly shaven head,

and his two favorite things:

MILK and his BLANKEY.

Nothing makes this kid happier!

I wasn't sure about shaving his head, but

dad convinced me to do it.

Like father...Like son!

One way to beat the 100* heat

Either we are heading down the street to the Shave Ice Shack

*OR*

making our own at home. Nothing like a little team work,

to make some yummy snow cones. These little things

give your arms quite the work-out, for just a little ice.

But the kids are happy, and that's all we can hope

for in the summer heat :)

Family Pics Addition

I am VERY amateaur when it comes to creative decorating,

but I tried this and am pretty pleased with the results.

This is part of our family picture wall.

I have bigger ideas floating (thanks to Kar), for my BIG family room wall

but haven't gotten them quite underway yet .

Start with the small and simple things like this first, right?!

a copy cat

Ame always loves to put on her dance CD(which is actually pretty good, they combine several dance songs onto one & of course sell them at an over-priced cost), and practice her dance routine. She always seem to have a COPY CAT right at her side, trying to do the dance too. This wasn't his best show (of course when the camera comes out, they don't do it quite the same), but you can get the idea. Ash is quite the funny kid. Even when Ame isn't around, and the music is on, I see him trying to dance and remember the routine. It always gives me a good chuckle!

sand

After being cooped up in the house for a few days, with the flu, we ventured down the street to the park. We are lucky to live right across the street from the Elementary School, which has several playgrounds to choose from and there is another great city park just down the street. The city park has sand at the playground, which the kids love to play in. I don't think I could handle having sand in my backyard, and having it everywhere all the time, so it is nice that the kids can play in it whenever, but then we can leave the SAND at the park!