Halloween 2009

Halloween in Laie is great, trick or treaters are out in force, and this year we had some friends over to celebrate with us. Tosh slept through the whole thing, but the rest of us went with the Star Wars theme (thanks to Summer). Matt=Anakin, Summer=Padme, Kainoa=Luke Skywalker, Bella=Princess Leia.




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Trip to Paris October 2009

Summer and I took a trip to France in October. I presented at a conference in Bordeaux so we were able to spend a few days there and in Paris. It was our ten year anniversary vacation! Rad. Kainoa, Bella, and Tosh went to California and had a blast with their grandparents, aunties and uncles, and of course all of their cousins. This trip would NOT have happened without our awesome family to help us out. Thanks so much you guys!

Anyway, I'll post one picture and then a link to Photobucket so you can check out some more.



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Surfboards

Ha!

At the beach and Summer's birthday cake

Beach swing with me, Bella, and Tosh.



Summer's cake with custom li hung mui mango flower, courtesy of me.

Local Food Potluck and Screening of "Food Inc."

We went to a super fun local food potluck at BYUH today put on by Carol Feinga and all the folks at the Kokua Foundation. We ate all kinds of great food and then watched a screening of "Food Inc." Go see it.

Oh yeah, and Jack Johnson gave a nice little private kids concert for the 75 or so people there. Here's some pics:

Turtle Falls

Kainoa came on our scout hike to Turtle Falls. Here he is taking the plunge.

I Love Fruit

Take an oddly shaped plum, a piece of paper and a pen, and mix in my wife, and you have neat-o cell phone art. She's a creative girl.

Anniversary

The happy couple immediately before missing the Black Eyed Peas concert and eating Moons Over My Hammy and chocolate milkshakes at Denny's. Don't ask.

More photos from this weekend

Bella ditched the training wheels. Well done.


Here are a couple of pictures of Kainoa and me after a surf on Saturday at Sunset Point. Kainoa scored a couple nice little overhead waves (for him). No action shots because Mom has plenty of action chasing kids around the beach.

First day of school

Okay so this one is a month old but it's cute.

Trampoline

Here's Tosh and Kai getting air on the trampoline. Check out Tosh's face, he's into it.

Beyond the Veil launch

To all of our internet minions religiously following my blog, check this out:

Beyond the Veil

Summer has launched her newest line of veils, as well as her new website. The veils are UNREAL! All of you considering getting married, the opportunity to wear one of these veils one your wedding day should just end all the deliberation right there. These things are extremely cool. Please forward the URL along to everyone who is interested in cool vintage-y classiness. Help daddy quit his job! Congratulations Summer!

Tosh at the mall

Tosh dug the cars at Windward Mall...

Sunday afternoon walk

We took a little walk this afternoon to get out of the house, and discovered somebody upgraded our favorite rope swing! Stoked!

I must somehow resurrect this blog...

...I will start by posting a picture. Here is Kainoa's board all done up with some righteous Transformers artwork. Flair always makes a surfboard go faster.

It's been a while

Sorry I haven't posted stuff up in a while, but here are some photos our friend Mark took, and a few random shots from the beach, around the house, etc. Kainoa and I have been surfing a lot, skating a lot, Tosh pretty much lays there but he smiles as much as he cries now so that's good. Bella still dances around her little world singing and playing, it's great. Summer is handling it all like the queen she is.

Here's Kainoa, stoked we got the cable hooked up...



Kainoa and Bella after a Saturday morning surf at Laniakea...



Here's one of Tosh talking to somebody, and one of Tosh that Mark took...




This is our fundraising booth for Halau Nalu, our surf club. We are peddling hot dogs, popcorn, chili rice, and other organic foods.



And here are three photos, one of Bella and Tosh, one of me and Tosh, and one of Summer and Tosh (obviously the last two are done by Mark the pro photog and the first one is me and my cell phone).





Aloha...

Tosh - First Bath

Here is a video of Toshʻs first bath. He smelled pretty bad so the timing for this event was just right.

Sunset Beach

I am trying to embed a YouTube video on the blog for future reference, so I picked this one from the 2005 OʻNeill contest at Sunset, my favorite wave. Check it out.

Weekend Fun

This bridge is at the end of our lane, and when the tide is high enough the kids love to jump and play in the ocean water that comes up under the bridge. I filmed them today and put it to some music. Hawaii is a great place to be a little kid.

Tosh at home

Here's a couple more pictures of Tosh...