Hope it was a HaPpY Father's Day for all

The kids are always excited for these SPECIAL

days to honor someone that they LOVE so much!

They spent lots of time making books and cards

for Quinn. Of course it wouldn't be Father's Day

if we didn't serve breakfast in bed.

Nalu didn't get what was going on,

but he still was cute as ever...

(With the help of Jamie and her incredible talent)

I made this sign for Quinn to hang in his office

(which I still need to get hung).

I thought it was fitting...

I was sad to NOT be with my own dad this year, but

the kids and I made ecards and email videos

to express our LOVE and appreciation to him.

And we did get to spend the evening with most of Quinn's

family, to celebrate and appreciate Kimo.

All in all it was a simple, but hopefully HaPpY Day

for our special DAD's!!

the Beginning of Summer

We started a new behavior incentive at our house.

The kids can earn GOTCHA tickets, for good behavior

(listening the first time, not complaining, doing extra helpful things, etc)

After ALL 3 OF THEM earned 10 I said we could

sleep on the tramp, since they have been begging to do it.

Well they earned it more quickly than I anticipated,

in just one week, and so I was bound to

join them on the tramp for a night of restful sleeping...

NOT REALLY. After about an hour Ash went inside

because he wanted to sleep in his own bed.

That made it a little better, but we woke up

several times with blankets all over the place and

the other two continuously rolling on top of me!

FINALLY at about 4:30 Ame and Kaipo

agreed we should go inside and get a few hours

of good sleep. Thank goodness!

Now that they have done it, hopefully they won't

be asking to do it again for a LONG time:?!

But it was a fun memory made!

The beautiful WARM weather has finally made it

so we headed to the pool.

We traded Kaipo for Ella,

for a few days. In addition to swimming,

late nights, movies, makeup, and lots of GIRL fun

the girls also planned a LIMEade stand.
Of course it is never as $$ producing as they would

have hoped, but that is just one of the many

summer fun MUST dos...

and so summer has REALLY begun and we are lovin' it!