.*＊SNOW DAY＊*.

It finally snowed! I cannot express to you how excited I was to be able to bring Noa out and have him enjoy the snow....doing winter things I enjoyed as a child.

By the end of the day, Noa was exhausted.

{A special thanks to my amazing sister, Yoko, for taking these photos}

Such a fun snow day for our family.

Our Christmas in photos.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

From our family to yours.

Thankful.

 

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I know we did.

It started out for Chad with an early-morning surf session, then some Turkey bowl....for three+ hours....then we all had fried turkey dinner with some fabulous friends. We finished off our day black "friday" shopping at Wal-mart, and getting ourselves some early Christmas presents. AND we got home before midnight! ~ I think we can call that a great day!

I have so much to be thankful for this year. so much. My loving, supportive and ever-so-patient husband. My two very active but very sweet boys, and to be called their mommy. I am thankful for family all over the world that love us and support us even though we are so far away, and for friends, some that have become like family to us. I'm so thankful that we live in Hawaii- warm, sunny Hawaii...I am truly thankful for the gospel and the great blessing it is in our lives. All the little things that make me smile....I am thankful for it all!

Have a great holiday season, everybody!

the beach + a shark + a babe

= the cutest photos ever!

Kai Kai's 6 month photos are up on the photoblog. to see more adorableness, click here.

An Update on my SIX month old!

It's been 6 months already?! seriously, where did all the time go. 

I feel like I just had a newborn, like yesterday...

but now, weighing in at 14lbs 11oz, Kaiyu is doing all sorts of non-newborn-like stuff.

Let's take a look, shall we?

He spends a good part of his day on the floor.

exploring,

reaching,

scooting,

and crawling.

here's a little out-take.

I like when he tips over. it's my favorite.

He can also sit by himself for a good while, with no support.

He has started to eat solids.

his first taste of real, human food...

Okinawan sweet potato.

Hence, the purple mess.

 Kai Kai also loves applesauce (he can eat a whole container in one sitting) and rice porridge.

He loves playing with his big brother. 

copying his screams, kicking with excitement, and laughing...lots and lots of laughing....

I just love watching these two.

He has brought such joy and love into our home, and has melted our hearts completely.

We love you little Kai Kai.

Happy 6 month birthday.

xoxo

rolling...

this was just a little experiment....

*Click on the image*

something a little different.

PS did you know Kai can already crawl now....he totally does the army crawl!

video and pics to come.

Halloween

Happy Halloween!!

This year the kids were a couple of game characters... ^0^ ...I know, so Asian, right?

Well, I am pretty proud of my heritage, and I embrace it 110%.....

which is apparently a bit less than my other half. 

{here he is, controlling our kids}

The costumes were composed of hand-made hats, thrifted clothes, and other bits and pieces lying around our house.

I will post how I made the hats later. But first, aren't they just the cutest?!

We went to our ward's "trunk-or-treat"/Halloween party on Friday.

{end of the night, with faded mustaches and all}

Noa enjoyed every sugary second of it.

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our not so "jack-o-lantern" >>>> not a pumpkin, and not a lantern <<<<

with the recall on pumpkins, we had to improvise.
This is what we came up with.

Have a spookilicious Halloween everyone!

xoxo