Aloha!!

Aloha folks!! I know it has been a week since my last post. It's Spring break and kids are home for two weeks. That means with all seven kids at home, every form of entertainment equipment we have in the house has been monopolized by one kid or another. Even my own computer has been taken over by the kids, truly sad for a mom to wait her turn to get on her own computer...eheheh. And I guess I'm just being in a lazy mode.

Anyways, just a little update. Since my last post, there have been some little happenings here and there. I posted last Friday about my youngest son's class presentation. Well, that Friday morning after I've posted my post, my hubby called after dropping the kids off at school asking me if I know that my son Danny was super citizen that day. That was news to me since no one has told me about it. My son has told my hubby that he would be and there was a Super Citizen Assembly that morning. I went through all my emails (I usually get emails from Danny's teachers almost everyday) and even went through his backpack (he's forgotten to take it to school with him that morning) and did NOT find any notes or letter whatsoever that would inform me that my son was super citizen. Since my son insisted that he was, I had to call the school. And sure enough, he was chosen from his class for the month of February to be a Super Citizen. This was around eight in the morning and the assembly would be starting in half an hour. I was so mad at his teachers but anyways, I had to quickly got ready and ran out the door. I had to stop and bought him candy leis and spent way more money on the leis than I would normally spend if I had made leis myself. I made it to the assembly on time and able to see my son go up on stage and received him award.
Saturday morning, our whole family made it day out dropping my hubby off at the airport to leave for the mainland on a business trip and a little visit with his mom. We spent the better half of the morning hanging out at the airport. Sunday was pretty quiet around here. For some reason, the kids were a little more cooperative than I expected, didn't give me as much of a trouble as they usually do every Sunday. Guess they must have felt sorry for me or something...LOL.

Monday was spent mostly playing. I think I actually slept in that day. The kids were just content to just lay around the house, playing X-Box, watching TV and playing on the computer. I even heard my oldest daughter laughing and hooting when she was challenging her brothers to a game on the X-Box. It was nice having all the kids home especially having her home with the rest of the kids and playing with them. She was always the one who was constantly gone doing one thing or another either for school or sport.

Tuesday, we spent it doing most of the never ending piles of laundry we have spread out all over the house. And believe me, we still have long ways to go. I've never been so sick of a house chore as I do with laundry. There was always dirty laundry to clean and clean ones to fold. Seems like as soon as I thought I'm caught up, I find I have at least three loads waiting to be done. Sheesh!!!

Wednesday, we decided to make it a day at the beach. We went to Waimea. The weather kept changing, really sunny one minute and the next minute it was raining and windy. The little kids had fun playing in the sand and watching the big waves rolled up on the beach. I think we've gotten some of our stuff soaked from the rolling waves a couple of times. The older kids spent most of the time jumping off the rock into the water. They were having so much fun it was kinda hard prying them away from the beach. We had to make our beach day short because Jen and Joey had choir that afternoon. But Waimea hasn't seen the last of us yet...eheheh.


Here's our little princess enjoying the sand. She gets real kick out of rolling around in the sand to get sand all over her and then jumping onto the blanket I laid on the beach (and making sure I keep all the sand off) and spreading sand all over me and the blanket. The little rascal.






There's Danny checking in on Mom, LOL and Joey trying to keep warm. Everytime it started drizzling, he would run out the water to come wrap himself up in a towel to keep himself warm, the silly goose.

I didn't get a chance to take pictures of the older kids jumping off the rock. Because it kept raining and stopping and the wind blowing like crazy, I was afraid to leave my spot, the wind kept uprooting our beach umbrella so I had to sit there and kept from blowing away. As you can see, they looked like they had a really great time. We are definitely going back before the Spring break is over.

Yesterday, I took Stephanie to get her nails done. She's going to their prom tonight so she wanted her nail done. My friend Brandi will be doing her hair this afternoon. She's so excited about prom.

Last night, our Cub Scout had their Pinewood Derby. This is the first year for my son Joey and he was sooo excited about the Derby that was all he could talk about for the last two weeks. They had the race last night and he came in Second Place. He was so happy to have finally been able to go a Derby Race and have his own car race instead of watching his older brother's car race instead.

(Here's Joey at the race in his Scout uniform. Doesn't he look handsome?)

(Here are some of the cars at the race. The gray car right next to the yellow car is Joey's car. The yellow car was the first place winner and Joey's was the Second place. All the boys were so sweet, they were so happy for the first place winner, his parents are inactive so the boy came to the race with his inactive dad to the race and this boy has been in Primary for while but this is the first time he's ever been in the Derby. The kids had a blast.)

I was multi-tasking last night, videotaping the race for my hubby since he couldn't be at the race, helping out with the Beehive in the kitchen with their activity (they were making home-made pizza and cinnamon rolls) and managing the snack table. And taking turns talking to my hubby on the phone to keep me updated on what's happening. The poor guy wanted to be there but since he was still on his trip, we tried to make it look like he was there in person by having him on the speaker phone so he would hear what was happening. It was interesting. I think because of that multi-tasking, I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked and didn't really do a good job on the picture taking either. That is something I DO NOT, absolutely do not care to do again in the near future.

So there you have it folks. A little update on this week. I will be posting on Stephanie's new hair do later on tonight or tomorrow along with her all dolled up for prom. Now I need to get off and go see about what to make for lunch. Both girls are gone right now, Jen's babysitting for somebody today and Steph's gone with her friend to have her friend get her nail done today.

So have a great Friday folks and hopefully your weekend will be an easy one. Ta-da for now!!