Our favorite out to eat lunch spot and this is our day/night view from the restaurant (below)
Sergio taking the guys out for a surf sesh
Aloha Uncle Mike and mahalo for visiting us! We can't wait to hang out again!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
"Do not post an ad about me" Richard
Tonight we spent our quiet evening listening to The Songs We Sing, eating cereal, and looking up forums on Craigslist. Our favorites:
7 cemetery plots now on sale... score!
most all of the Haiku's we read, examples:
SoccerMom: "Cheering from the sidelines for the kid who's running the wrong way. He get's it from his dad."
"After Christmas in New York City, 40 trees in a garbage dump."
A man wrote about a woman who a body part that doesn't belong to a woman ending up she had one, whom he happened to be dating.
In the Beauty Section, how someone's hemorrhoid creme is no longer working as good eye creme.
Have a fun date night in and read Craigslist forums together! : )
Better late than never-We got a tree edition
I wrote this about a week ago but never got around to uploading the pictures... Here we go!
Well It has taken me this long to post on our Chistmas Eve night and Christmas Day...day. Two friends of mine just finished writing their Christmas experiences so it looks like we're all on the same page. Living in a place were everything is lush we had little desire to cut a tree down. In seven years of being married we have bought one tree. We happened to buy it the day of Christmas Eve for $14 a Walmart because I felt our son needed a real Christmas at almost 3 years old. Cutting down another tree with this global state and with our economy is not for us. Do I appreciate other people's tress, OF COURSE, they are beautiful, I love the smell, the memories of my trees growing up but then I remember that concept has been placed in my mind as a Hallmark thought. That we need a tree in order to be an all American family celebrating Christmas. Quite frankly, we're not all that traditional.
For our family we brought out the each persons stocking,which I can't fill until the morning of because Big Girl convinces the others to look in them. The Boy's rockstar nutcracker, my most treasured childhood Christmas item, my nativity set from the Holy Land made of olive tree wood. Drum role... and our new tree. That's right we got a tree this year! Richard made it out of branches from our yard. The adorable boy that our son is wanted us to use the daily banana peels as our star and they decorated it with dandelions and owls. Now they have a teepee year round to play in as well.
We played with our new toys, juiced in our new juicer, and ate Birthday apple pie for Jesus. God has truly blessed our family and I feel so grateful to be celebrating the birth of God who loved us so much that he would come to earth and live and love as we do. Only to die so that we can have eternal love with him in heaven. What an amazing God who does all of this and accepts us exactly where we are for who we are. Never needing to earn his love or achieve a goal to keep his love, he just does. He just is, Love. We hope you had a Beautiful Christmas and a joyous New Year to come.
Well It has taken me this long to post on our Chistmas Eve night and Christmas Day...day. Two friends of mine just finished writing their Christmas experiences so it looks like we're all on the same page. Living in a place were everything is lush we had little desire to cut a tree down. In seven years of being married we have bought one tree. We happened to buy it the day of Christmas Eve for $14 a Walmart because I felt our son needed a real Christmas at almost 3 years old. Cutting down another tree with this global state and with our economy is not for us. Do I appreciate other people's tress, OF COURSE, they are beautiful, I love the smell, the memories of my trees growing up but then I remember that concept has been placed in my mind as a Hallmark thought. That we need a tree in order to be an all American family celebrating Christmas. Quite frankly, we're not all that traditional.
For our family we brought out the each persons stocking,which I can't fill until the morning of because Big Girl convinces the others to look in them. The Boy's rockstar nutcracker, my most treasured childhood Christmas item, my nativity set from the Holy Land made of olive tree wood. Drum role... and our new tree. That's right we got a tree this year! Richard made it out of branches from our yard. The adorable boy that our son is wanted us to use the daily banana peels as our star and they decorated it with dandelions and owls. Now they have a teepee year round to play in as well.
We played with our new toys, juiced in our new juicer, and ate Birthday apple pie for Jesus. God has truly blessed our family and I feel so grateful to be celebrating the birth of God who loved us so much that he would come to earth and live and love as we do. Only to die so that we can have eternal love with him in heaven. What an amazing God who does all of this and accepts us exactly where we are for who we are. Never needing to earn his love or achieve a goal to keep his love, he just does. He just is, Love. We hope you had a Beautiful Christmas and a joyous New Year to come.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
100 things
Ask yourself, could I...? : ) about the 100 thing challenge
I live with a complex man. A man who at one pointe seriously considered being homeless. A man who as a child grew up with a bed, some toys placed along his bedroom wall and several matching sweat pants suits. He is so simplistic in so many ways. Yet he will hold on to anything he's ever received unless you need it. Then he will give it to you freely. I on the other hand grew up with everything a little girl would want. I grew up with a dress in every color(with matching leggings) a bedroom set including two matching twin beds with canopy's (really?). I had my own playroom until Alyssa was born and had stuffed animals that were enormous. And I would rather give it away before it is even my own. Thankfully Richard and I have found a new way to grow our family. One of the ways is by eating as a family every night. With our large dinner plates collecting dust(Richard and I use the smaller size ones with the kids). We equally hate doing laundry every 3 days. Thankfully we live in a community where it is common to leave unwanted items our for neighbors.
Several years ago I read about a couple in Portland who got rid of most everything they owned and were left with 100 items. Subsequently they got rid of a huge amount debt with their new lifestyle. I can't recall at the moment but either her or her husband worked from home. Richard works from home and us both being at home in "lounge clothes" or in swim suits the rest of the time. We felt ready for a new challenge! We will be personalizing it to our family which will probably go something like, 50 items for each child, 100 items for me, 100 for Richard, and 100 "family items" like furniture. So for us it will be like less than 100 items per person. Each year brings new beginnings and new ends. I encourage you to create a personal challenge, it doesn't have to be 100 items but make it a meaningful one. Simplify your life, you'll realize how little everything else really matters.
I live with a complex man. A man who at one pointe seriously considered being homeless. A man who as a child grew up with a bed, some toys placed along his bedroom wall and several matching sweat pants suits. He is so simplistic in so many ways. Yet he will hold on to anything he's ever received unless you need it. Then he will give it to you freely. I on the other hand grew up with everything a little girl would want. I grew up with a dress in every color(with matching leggings) a bedroom set including two matching twin beds with canopy's (really?). I had my own playroom until Alyssa was born and had stuffed animals that were enormous. And I would rather give it away before it is even my own. Thankfully Richard and I have found a new way to grow our family. One of the ways is by eating as a family every night. With our large dinner plates collecting dust(Richard and I use the smaller size ones with the kids). We equally hate doing laundry every 3 days. Thankfully we live in a community where it is common to leave unwanted items our for neighbors.
Several years ago I read about a couple in Portland who got rid of most everything they owned and were left with 100 items. Subsequently they got rid of a huge amount debt with their new lifestyle. I can't recall at the moment but either her or her husband worked from home. Richard works from home and us both being at home in "lounge clothes" or in swim suits the rest of the time. We felt ready for a new challenge! We will be personalizing it to our family which will probably go something like, 50 items for each child, 100 items for me, 100 for Richard, and 100 "family items" like furniture. So for us it will be like less than 100 items per person. Each year brings new beginnings and new ends. I encourage you to create a personal challenge, it doesn't have to be 100 items but make it a meaningful one. Simplify your life, you'll realize how little everything else really matters.
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