Devin Starts Karate

Devin was jealous watching his brother going to his martial arts class every week. Once Soccer was over we signed Devin up for classes as well. He was very excited and had a great time at his first class.

Pine Valley

We went up to Pine Valley over Memorial Day weekend to get away and have some family time. The kids were having a blast playing outside all day non-stop. 

Devin

Devin is Student of the Month!! I am so proud if him! He got to have a pancake breakfast with the principle. This is what his award said about why he received this award: "Devin has been good citizen and leader in our classroom this moth by following our top two school rules, Work Hard and Be Kind. Devin had dramatically improved his reading and language skills. He always tries his best! Devin's kindness has also helped him win many friends and admirers.

Devin's class had a Mother's Day Tea Party. It was so much fun listening to the songs they sang for us and hearing what they all wrote about the mother's. One of my favorite things was that Devin said I am 6 feet tall and weight 106 pounds :)

Sydney's New Bed

After we got home from Hawaii we went out and bought a big girl bed for Sydney. We wanted to give her enough time to get used to the bed before the baby came along and turns her world upside down. I was really nervous about how it would go. I was not ready for it but knew it needed to be done as soon as possible. The first night she woke up several times during the night crying, confused. But after that she has been AWESOME! All we do is tuck her in as say nigh night and she goes to sleep. Even for her naps! I have been so happy about it! My baby girl is getting bigger! Maybe we can survive baby number 4 :)

Ward Service Project

We had a ward service project the Saturday before we left for Hawaii. We painted over graffiti. It is the kids favorite project! They LOVE it and have so much fun. I was amazed at how much got done. We brought popsicles for a treat after the hard work. It was a good day :)

Day 6 & 7 in Hawaii

Friday, day6: 

We started our day at the Dole Plantation. We took the Garden tour and a train ride. It was very pretty and fun to learn a little more about pineapples. Silly as it may be I thought they grew on trees but I was wrong :)

For lunch we ate at the Kahuku Grill, run by the same people who run Seven Brother's Burgers. 

After lunch we headed to the Valley of the Temples. It is basically a cemetery but towards the back there is the Byodo-In Temple, which is a non-practicing Buddhist temple. It really was very beautiful. while we were there someone was having their wedding ceremony. They have a little gift shop where you can buy food to feed the Koi fish and birds. It was cool feeding the birds because they would come and eat right out of your hands. 

We then headed back over to our favorite beach, Kailua Beach, to relax and swim for the rest of the day. Then we ended the night at California Kitchen for dinner since it was walking distance from our hotel. 

Saturday, day 7:

For breakfast we decided to have a nice breakfast buffet at Duke’s which I rally enjoyed. Afterwards we packed up and checked out of our hotel. Sad that our time in Hawaii is coming to an end. Before we had to catch our flight we tried to pack in a few more sights. We drove over to the Punchbowl National Memorial which has a great view of Waikiki and then drove to Round Top Drive which also had gorgeous views. We then wanted to make sure we had enough time to get our flight so we headed towards the airport to fly home for six hours. We got home at midnight and picked up our sleeping children at Nana and Grandpa Roskelley's. I was excited to see my beautiful sleeping children.

Day 5 in Hawaii

Thursday, Day 5: 


It was a fun filled day over on the North Short. We first made our way over to the Hawaii Temple and walked to grounds and visitors center. We also stopped but BYU-Hawaii since it located right next to the Polynesian Cultural Center. For lunch we ate at a local burger place called Seven Bros. It's a great place with great customer service. I really loved the environment. We stopped by Pounders beach to kill some time before we the PPC opened up.

 
The Polynesian Cultural Center opened up at noon and there was lots to do. We started with a river raft ride. From there we went to each village and tried to hit each little "show" they had. Time went by super fast that we didn't have enough time to visit every village they had (although we visited most). They have different activities at each village which we enjoyed. Our favorite village we visited I would have to say was Tonga, the show was hilarious (the Japanese audience member they had come up was too funny!)



 They have this river dance parade, where each village comes out on a boat with dancers and dance the typical dance from their culture. It was cool, it started to pour on us during the parade but the dancers kept going. There was one boat where the person who was steering lost his balance, due to the vigorous dance, and fell into the river.







 We went to the Luau dinner that they have at the PPC. We received lei as we came in. It is a buffet with food typical for a luau (ever a whole roasted pig). The food as very good and they perform a show during dinner. They asked if anyone there was here to celebrate their anniversary for the month of April to come up. I made Jake come up :) we, along with the others had to dance on stage to a nice slow song in  front of everyone.
 After dinner we killed some time at the gift shops before the night show began and ended up spending way to much ;) The "Hā: Breath of Life" evening show was really good. It was so late by the time we were done and still had a good drive back ahead of us. We really enjoyed our day, it was one of our favorites.