"Getting this high in most states is illegal..."

Anne and I being hooked to the parasail....yes, Anne was very excited. Then we were up, up and away! Anne was screaming with happiness the whole way. She said it was the best swing she has ever been on.

Sorry for the lack of quality in the pictures...didn't want to take our digital up there so I took one of those disposable cameras. We are quite high aren't we? I think if was 600 feet up...not sure though.

Everyone safe back on the boat. Poor Andrew couldn't go up this time. The wind was a bit too strong and he was too light. He didn't mind much though. He was a bit sea sick I think.

Always fun to do fun stuff while family is in town.

Here is Zac being totally dunked in the water. Actually I think the guy dunked Zac about three times....said it was because Zac was such a good sport. I had to put the second picture just because Zac looks so good!

Adventures with Darlin and Picklenose

Day 1: Strait from the airport we took Grandma and Grandpa down to Honolulu for some sight seeing.

Dinner on the beach....who can complain. We went to this great place on Waikiki where they have you cook your own meat. If you look closely you can see Zac and Picklenose sweating while they cooked.

Day 2: Have fun at the pool....

Day 3: Visit Ko'olina Beach...go snorkling of course! We saw the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (Unofficial state fish of Hawaii, I just love saying the name of that fish, mostly because I can!)

First Day of Kindergarten

Anne ready to take on the Kindergarten world...

Anne tuckered out after her first day...

BLAST OFF!!!

We waited until Grandma and Grandpa Turner were here to do Andew's B-day cake. First he wanted a train cake, then a Darth Vader cake, then finally a flying cake. Well this was as close as a simple cake maker could get. Thank goodness...he loved it!

3.....2.....1......BLAST OFF!!!

The Fire Station

A friend invited us to visit the fire house and Andrew was in heaven. The fire mand was so good to all the kids and let them crawl all over everyting!

He has been practicing his fire pole skills at the park and finally got to put them to the test on a reall live fire pole! What skills eh?

Andrew said, "Mom look at me! I am sitting on the latter truck!"

New Template!

A few people have asked where I got the new template for our blog. I have to give my sister Anjuli the credit, she found the templates on our cousin Holly's blog. Here is the site:

http://shabbytulips.blogspot.com/

Andrew's Birthday

Andrew had a great birthday! We gave him a bike which he insisted that he didn't need because he had his little red tricycle but once we finally convinced him that he could go as fast as Anne he was hooked.....it only took him a bit of help and he peddled away.
Like his Uncle Dan, when Andrew is concentrating on something really hard usually his tongue finds it's way out of his mouth.

We have made it a tradition while here in Hawaii to visit the Dole Pineapple Plantation on the kid's birthday to take a ride on the Pineapple Express. Now they call it "express" but I am not so sure if that is quite accurate since it gets up to a whopping eight miles an hour. Of course we also came for the yummy pineapple ice cream...



Love the pineapple!

Andrew's New Sprinkler

What a wonderful birthday present for a boy who loves to be outside and in water! Cousins, Conner and Colin gave this to Andrew for an early Birthday gift, and we finally tried it out today for the first time. Anjuli had been a bit worried at first that it wouldn't fit in our yard but as you can see it is just perfect. Not only was it fun for the kids but it was great for my lawn and flowers...got to love a two-in-one!

Here is Andrew being super intense with the water...

Anjuli, I bet when you bought this you didn't think you were buying a drinking fountain for my backyard!

Getting Wet in Olympia

One of the places we always like to visit when we go home is the fountain downtown Olympia. Last year Andrew was very hesitant. This year he ran right in and soaked himself!

Who is protecting who here?

Warming up on the hot pavement.

Grandma Sweetheart and Anne soaking in the sun.

Visit to Washington - Part 2

A fort on Whidbey Island we visited with the Burton Family.

Andrew and Anne taking a breather from all their running.

Strawberry Picking at Spooners! We had a lot of fun and got really dirty. At first Anne wasn't too hot on the idea because all the mud but soon she found that the rewards far outweighted the mud. She picked about five strawberries then ate about twenty!