Adventures since the sea turtles

Since I haven't posted for a month (other than the birthday post I just finished) I thought I better share some photos of our latest adventures here on our lovely island.  I still find myself saying in amazement "I really live here!"

A few weeks ago we had a HUGE rainstorm that came out of nowhere.  It came down so fast that soon we had a river running through our backyard.  The girls were thrilled and enjoyed playing in it.

Another adventure we had was when we were out picking up some things at the scout store "in town" (that's what we call Honolulu here-the 1 real city in Hawaii. So everyone talks about "going into town" and such. It's pretty fabulous.)  We decided to continue up the Pali Highway from where we were at the Scout Store and came upon the amazing Pali lookout!  The views were absolutely breath taking!  There were also amazing gnomish/menehune-ish trees and plenty of Japanese tourists to eavesdrop on-it was great!

Hana was pretty sure the tree behind them was a slide for the menehune-I agree!

We actually really do live on this amazing island!

Aya took this picture.  She loves to take my camera and go crazy taking pictures that we find later on.

After the Pali Highway lookout we went to get some yummy Japanese food at Shirokiya-a Japanese department story that has a Japanese food court on the 2nd floor-always hard to decide what to get!

Happy Birthday to Geoff!

Wow, it's been a few weeks!  It's been busy and crazy and stressful and amazing here at our simple home in paradise.

Today is Geoff's 33rd birthday and as everyone who knows Geoff would agree, I am so blessed and the luckiest girl in the world to be married to him (I can say these things because he won't read this blog post until it's too late ;)  It's been a crazy weekend with sick girls yesterday resulting in the canceling of our birthday date night out :( and the annual Primary Program at church (I serve with the kids in my church and once a year we practice with them for weeks so they can do the entire program for the entire congregation.  They sing and give talks and such and it's amazing and hilarious and sweet and I loved feeling the spirit of those amazing children and the love Heavenly Father and Jesus has for each of them and for each of us.  It went really well but all of us that serve in the primary are exhausted!)  Anyway, that made for a really busy morning and church block.  When we came home and had nap time we had a nice birthday dinner for Geoff and his favorite chocolate cake with fudge frosting-yum!  We all enjoyed that a lot, especially Aya!

It took a while but the girls finally found a birthday for Daddy that wasn't pink or a crown!

It's been fun celebrating Geoff with our little family but it's times like this that we really miss our extended families in Utah.  We thought of all of you today & wished you could've come over to have some cake with us.  Thanks for all of the calls, facebook messages, cards etc.  Geoff really appreciated all of them!  Family means a lot to Geoff and he misses you all.  

It's been a fun day and as my Dad would say, "the celebration continues!" ...especially since we need to reschedule that date night!

I hope everyone has a great Halloween this week.  We have some fun costumes planned and will take lots of pictures to post soon.  Love you all!