Sunflower Sunday

Yesterday we walked to a field of Sunflowers by Waialua High School. There were several fields and they were so beautiful. We talked a lady who worked for the company that planted the flowers and she said they were all going to be ground up and fed to goats. It seems like such a sad ending for such a beautiful flower :) She said that we could pick some to take home with us. I love sunflowers!

Haleiwa Christmas Parade

This year Oly drove a tractor for Monsanto in the Haleiwa Christmas Parade. Jonny was really excited when he saw him in the parade. It would have been even more fun, if we could have driven in the tractor with him. He said that he had a good time and only got a couple of boos from some Anti-Monsanto people. :)

Eddie Aikau Competition

On Tuesday the Eddie Aikau competition was held at Waimea Bay. We have been waiting for this competition to happen for about five years. For the competition to be held the waves have to be large enough and the conditions have to be just right. On Tuesday the call was made to have the competition and about the whole island drove up to see it. The north shore was absolutely packed with cars. It took about two hours to drive about five miles. Many people just parked and either biked or walked to get to Waimea. I have never seen so many people at Waimea before, it was insane. It was a solid line of people along the road on both sides and all along the beach. Here are a couple of pictures from the competition.

The waves were huge, about 40 feet!

Oly watching the waves

Oly and me.

This last picture is of Kelly Slater catching a huge wave. He rode it all the way to the shore!

Thanksgiving weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. We had delicious food, relaxed with friends, went shopping and camping at Hoomaluhia. Oly said that we did so many things this weekend he feels like he needs a vacation. :) Here are a couple of pictures from the weekend.

Everyone gathered around the table at the Gibson's house. We love the Gibson family, and are so glad that they had us over again this year for Thanksgiving.

Jonny and Adilay ready to eat some turkey. (Actually Jonny was more interested in tearing the house apart)

This is what Jonny did when he first saw Adilay. I was lucky enough to have my camera ready. I love the look on her face. haha

These are the rolls that I made for the dinner. It was my first time making rolls. I think they tasted pretty good, maybe I will attempt to make them again sometime.

Here is our campsite. Isn't it gorgeous? It was Jonny's first time camping. He loved it!

Oly, Jonny and Ivy "Hawaiian sledding" AKA going down a hill in a wagon.

Me, Jonny and Kezia Hawaiian sledding :)

Halloween Happenings

We had a great Halloween this year. Here are a couple of activities that we did. They are a little out of order, because blogger is not letting me move the pictures how I would like :)

On Halloween night we went bowling dressed up as a elephant (Jonny), Rhino (Breanne) and Zebra (Oly.) We were a little nervous that Jonny wouldn't be too into bowling (especially because it was a little late) but he really enjoyed it. There was a little metal ramp that he used to push his bowling ball down the lane. He actually did really well! He beat Oly! The top picture is the official score. I bowled uncharacteristically well, and well as you can see Oly did pretty crappy.

Here is us in full costume. I was kind of scared that nobody would be able to tell what I was dressed up as, but the costume turned out pretty well.

Here is Jonny waiting to see how many pins he knocked down.

The night before Halloween our ward had a Trunk or Treat. Our animal costumes were not ready, so we threw together something else. I was kind of a 70s girl(I guess) and Oly was Captain Jack Sparrow. He had dressed up as Captain Jack a couple of years ago, and really really enjoyed it. He was pretty excited to dress as him again.

Our friends invited us to a "scary" dinner on Halloween night. We made these apple mouths and pumpkin oranges. They turned out pretty good, I have to say :)

These last couple of pictures are of Jonny at the pumpkin patch. He was really into throwing the pumpkins. I can't believe the size of pumpkins that he is able to pick up. He is a pretty tough kid!

MAUI, Hawaiian Superman

Have any of you ever heard the song, Maui... Hawaiian Superman? It is one of those Hawaiian songs that they play on the radio over and over for years on end. Well, Oly and I think that it is pretty funny and we played it on our way to Maui. So I thought it was a fitting title for this post. A couple of weeks ago my parents came to visit and we spent a week on Maui. It was so much fun! We stayed at a beach house in Lahaina close to the beach and shops.

Here is a picture of my parents. Aren't they adorable?

Jonny loved all of the attention. He never had a dull moment.

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Here is my dad and Jonny. I don't know how he does it, but he can get Jonny to fall asleep in his arms!

This is a lovely picture of myself, mother and sister Chelsea. Suited up and ready for Molokini crater.

Snorkeling at Molokini. The water was super clear.

Us on the boat ride to Molokini. Sorry the image looks super crappy.

And last but not least is Chelsea and Jonny. She called herself Aunt fun. Jonny agreed.

Emergency room visit

On Sunday night, Jonny fell off our bed and hit the back of his head on a nearby desk. We took him the the Wahiawa hospital around six pm and left around nine pm. It was quite the ordeal. I have heard horror stories about the Wahiawa hospital and was a little nervous about what it was going to be like. There was a couple of unusual things about the place (like not using gloves to touch his head wound,) but it wasn't as bad as I expecting. They put one staple in Jonny's head and gave us a staple remover. We are supposed to take it out ourselves in a couple of days. I think that will be Oly's job.

Here is Jonny getting his head numbed for the "operation"

This is what the back of his head looks like now. I am glad that they didn't have to shave off his little curls!