Big Island trip

Matt and Kainoa went to Hilo on the Big Island for Kainoa's first surf contest in November. We went with Halua Nalu, his surf club. The club represented O'ahu well, Kainoa got third place overall and scored some good waves and a nice little trophy. This is Matt and Kainoa on the way to the airport, and Kainoa posing for the media with his trophy. The banner photo is of the biggest wave he got in his heat. Stoked!

Christmas 2007

Well we were bummed not to be able to hang out with our extended family on Christmas, but the kids pretty much scored thanks to grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, and everybody else. Here are some pictures of Bella and Kainoa with their loot, and playing in the yard on Christmas day. Thank you so much for making our Christmas great.

Bella loves her new Barbie Jeep, baby, cell phone, lip gloss, and nail polish. She has obviously been studying Mom closely. Kainoa loves his new surfboard and bridge building kit. One bridge is built and he has had two sessions on his new board even though the weather has kind of sucked.

Our new blog

OK so here is our new Kester family blog. We are officially in the twenty-first century. As a child, I was promised by television that there would be jet packs by now but there are blogs instead so I plan to make the best of it. We put this together to share news, pictures, videos if figure out how to do it, and other cool stuff with friends and family that are far away. Please feel free to post comments and send pictures of your own and I will post them up. I put up a picture of Kainoa in perfect trim on the Big Island for our banner, so here is a picture of little Bella to make things fair...