Mele Kalikemaka

I promise

...to be home for Christmas from next year on.
It is so sad to be away from all of you, while the baby is growing so fast and is so cute right now.
Life is weird. It's fun and scary and sad. So much to grateful for and yet there's so much to be desired.

Warm Ponds

Here is a set of pix from the warm ponds.
Elijah was exactly 6 months that day!

Gypsy, Fortune Teller....is there a difference?

Traditionally I like to make Sunny's costumes for Halloween. Like her Pippi last year.


This year she wants to be a fortune teller....which lead us to gypsies....are they the same thing?

Should I make her look like this?



Or this?



Or this?

More Cute Kids

Party@TheSk8Shop

Our good friends Blake, Amber and Tosh are here on the island, as well as my old roomate Rob. To celebrate their visits and the Belated Grand Opening of our sweet Skate Shop, we had a rockin' party on Saturday. D.J. Cedar (a father of one of the kids in Sunny's Class) let Tony use his turntables for a while. He hasn't played in a year, since he sold his turntables when we moved here........Anyways, we raffled off a few boards and shirts and served 60 hot dogs and a hundred sodas! It was SO fun!

3 word answers!

1. Where is your cell phone?
dead as usual.
2. Where is your boyfriend/girlfriend or Husband/Wife ?
at the skatepark
3. Where is your father?
probably at work
4. Cheesecake?
my true undoing

5. Your favorite thing to do?
stay up late
6. Your dream last night?
elijah was big
7. Your favorite drink?
coffee with cream
8. The room you're in?
rasta skate shop
9. George Bush?
Alfred E. Newman

10. What you're good at?
Just about everything
11. One of your wish list items?
my own house
12. Where did you grow up?
South Orange County
13. The last thing you did?
helped a customer
14. What are you wearing?
my new skirt
16. Ketchup?
with french fries
17. Your computer?
comes in handy
18. Your life?
not too bad
19. Your mood?
i'm pretty tired
20. What are you thinking about right now?
gotta make money
21. Your car is?
mobile roach coach

22. Your summer?
endless summer here
23. Your relationship status?
i'm in love
24. Your favorite color?
i like purples
25. When is the last time you laughed?
i always laugh!

recent kid pix!

Sunny said she was a "crystal ball person".

Elijah gets all the chicks!

Honu

Sea Turtles are like the oceans goodwill ambassadors, liasons between humans and sea creatures!
They are really this friendly and wise! And not hard to find around here either!

These are just a FEW reasons I love where we live!!


Seriously!

Green Sand Beach...Olivine Crystal

Hippies and Coconuts!

My Baby Got Back

Sunny is home from hanging out with her Dad for the last 10 days. She slept here a few times but spent all waking hours with him! We've missed her....however we started moving today and will be in our new house by monday, so we were really busy in the meantime!


Boy, Do I love her!

Coconut King

Here in Hawaii, the Coconut is King!
This one is as big as Elijah.
When we popped it open it had 4 CUPS of milk inside, and it was VERY VERY sweet!

Pahoa From the Sky

I found these rad aerial views of the part of the island we live in!
What a great perspective, eh?

Lunar Eclipse from Hawaii

I stayed awake alone to watch the Eclipse last night.
Though I'd love to say I took this picture with my uber-telescopic-zoom, I didn't...but this is what it looked like from my front yard!


So awesome!

Full Moons and Babies

My dear friend Stephanie had a big baby boy last night naturally, on his due date!
8 pounds 10 ounces.....
Jack Thurman Ragland joins, Cassi, Jaren and Mary-Jane to make 4.
And he is the 30th Grandchild for her parents!

Check out our decks!

This is what the walls are looking like now folks, we're rolling!



And YES, I'm a blogging machine, somebody stop me!

iMagine

The lady next door to the shop (her name is Sri,as in Lanka) brings her kids after school on Mondays and Tuesdays. Today they walked in and gasped at our iMac computer. Once I showed them the built in fun cam they went crazy. They were practically beating eachother up and shrieking with laughter!
Fatima and Ibraham, or Baby and Boy and Sri calls them.
To understand Sri, think of a hippie-fied Fely! She sells sarongs and other various made-in-china sold in Hawaii trinkets!

Sunny Side

This is Sunny's Sale Side.....
She makes bank!

The Kids in town

There is something to be said for our customers....
Most of them are under 16 years old, mostly boys, and because of that the exchanges we have about money and prices is sometimes, well, Adorable! Little boy with 3 birthday checks and 7 crumpled bills totaling 52 bucks....wants to know if he has enough to get a new board, (and expects us to take the checks as is...) The picture up there is of Keahe, age 15. Since we opened three weeks ago, officially, he has been in here at LEAST once a day. He knew exactly which board he wanted and asked us to hold it. He worked 6 three hour shifts as a dishwasher and saved every dollar to buy that board! Isn't he adorable? He has one Element shirt and he wears it every day! The other picture is of me and Eli chillin' in the shop!


And since we get free pirated internet here at the shop, this is where I will finally be able to blog better!
Aloha Fam!

Pahoa's Skate Shop

Our new little skate shop has been open for three weeks already!
It's evolution has amazed us. At this rate we should look like we know what were doing by Christmas!
Check out the shop before and after shots....as you will see we've come a long way!