Month: August 2013

June 2013

Sunsets



Anole

Sunrise

Kealia to Donkey Beach on the new bike





Potluck

The gutter garden is still beautiful

Smiths with Luci and Olivia



Just random cool eggs

Kapaa Water Park with Angel and Kanoe



Loosing my religion… at the Kapaa Library

Kamehameha Parade

On June 15th we went to the Kamehemeha Parade. The queens and princesses of the different islands:

And the Pa’u queen


Kauai is purple with Mokihana leis:



Niihau white, Kahelelani or momi (shell) leis

Oahu golden-yellow with Ilima leis

I think that’s Molokai, which is green and should have Kukui leis

Well that’s Leilani who wears her sunglasses however she wants. Deal with it :-)

And Maui in pink with the rose (lokelani) lei

Lanai orange with Kauna`oa or dodder leis

And while I think the hula girls are adorable I have a lot of trouble with the amount of Makeup they are wearing…

Probably Kahoolawe – should be grey with Hinahina or Native Heliotrope flower leis

Big Island – red with Ohia Lehua leis

King Kamehameha and his staff


Hula for the king


Queens and minions waiting to give presents and tributes

Leilani and Julia (in the way of the queens and minions)

Best hairstyle award goes to Maui

But I also like Kahoolawe a lot

Angel dancing in her halau

The king leaving

Horses were parked on their trailers in the heat while the rest of us celebrated

And Mikey, and that photo of course has nothing to do with the post, but shows our freshly done front yard and that Mikey is still cute

Kuilau Trail 6/7

Andy and I hiked on the Kuilau trail





Actually we wanted to do the powerline trail, but had to turn around

Later we had a potluck

New Photos

I thought I should post something recent for a change… all from this and last week


Leilani and I invented a game. You roll 2 dice, multiply and create art in the process. Then you proceed to build cities, colonies and connections…


Leilani drew an Apapane – and I think she did it really well


Quote “I am an animal, caught in a poacher’s cage, help…”


It’s raining, it’s pouring




More multiplying

True colors, no filters, photoshop used only to crop and remove wires.




Some schoolwork:
Spelling test

An essay. Mikey had just pooped on Leilani’s puzzle pieces. Handwriting indicates that she is not that happy…

But when she’s happy the handwriting is pretty nice.

And just because it happened today at school: Talking about work and employment in social studies I wanted Leilani to find the word “unemployed”. Sonja: “Many people have no work, we call them ….?” Leilani “Lazy!”

She also misidentified a Gameboy as a Nintendo which I thought was pretty funny as kids always accuse their parents of not being able to tell the difference. She argued for a while, and only stopped then when I called upon the all-knowledgeable Google to be the referee…

We talked about rich and poor and amounts of money they have and spend. She brought up debt. Out of nowhere she started to sing.”Paying interest is awful, paying interest is awful…” (It happened in German, and originally she sang “Zinsen zahlen ist schrecklich, Zinsen zahlen ist schrecklich…”