scuba steve

during a trip to the black sand beach coen decided that he wanted to test out the snorkle gear. are. you. kidding. me. he can so totally pull off this look. pretty amazing, considering most people can't :-)

costco!

on saturday we drove gami and pop pop back to kona to catch their flight home and decided to hit costco. on the mainland we lived 1.5 miles from costco, and could run in just for 1 or 2 things (usually coffee and eggs). but now we are 2.5 HOURS from costco...boo. this was our first costco spree since our move and it was also our first double cart-er! eep! coen was a trooper, kind of. aparently while i was dicipling him for something, the sample lady pulled wes aside and told him that we were doing such a good job and to stay consistant. meanwhile coen was just hitting me in the face...at least that sample lady supported my efforts.

bad news bears

something terriable happened this week. i lost my camera. ugh. it is totally missing in action. i can backtrack every place i had it, right up to where it went missing (of course, if i knew where it went missing, then this wouldn't be an issue). but for now, it's a gonner. tear. i am counting on pop-pop to supply me with some pictures from their wonderful visit. but intil then, here are some random shots from my phone. thank God for camera phones, huh?

coen pulled a paint roller out of the storage closet a few days ago. he rolls it across everything and tells me he's "just doing the cleaning." a boy after my heart.


after 5.5 years (wedding gift) our coffee pot died. it held in strong right to the end, but gami and i had to go out on an emergency coffee pot replacement mission last week. i saved the old one (wes cut off the cord) for coen to play with. when i showed it to him, i pulled the pot out and said, "look you can pour it like this!" his eyes got really big and he yelled, "NOOOO! not on the floor!" then he ran into the play room and brought out a coffee cup for me to pour the non-existant coffee into.


last, what could be cuter than a sufer boy hanging out the sunroof waving at all the cars going by? our car was parked, no need to worry.

i hope to report a found camera soon. but intil then i will keep trying to snap pictures on my phone. loosing my camera really puts a damper on my blogging skills...but i'm trying not to let it get me down.

oh lily girl

when i was little my brother used to always tease me about the songs i would make up. i had a song for everything, and i wasn't afraid to sing it. coen has always been drawn to music, and lately he has been making up songs out of the blue. i caught this one the day before lily was coming home to live with us. he sure loves his lily girl...on the airplane.

wings!

at play group on monday coen was super excited to try out the butterfly wings. i may or may not have also tried them out ;-) his pretend play has really developed in the past month and it is so fun to listen to the voices and stories he comes up with. it is also quite a reality check when i hear him disciplining his stuffed animals...do i really say those things?! eep.

lily arrives in aloha

our sweet lab lily is finally home with us and ready to settle in as an island dog. hawaii has super strict laws on bringing anaimals to the islands. aparently hawaii is one of the only places left in the world that dose not have rabies...so they are doing everything they can to keep it that way. all animals must go through a 120 day waiting period, and since we had way less notice than that, she wasn't able to make the move with us. we opted out of quarenteening her in honolulu for 3 months, and left her with wes' parents to wait out her time. she was living the good life in truckee, california for 3 months. on friday we drove over to the much hotter kona side of the isalnd to pick up lily and her travel companions. it was a very good reunion. we sure love our lily girl! oh, and yes i insisted that she get her very own lei.




waiting...waiting...where is that lily girl? coen kept saying to me, "she's gonna lick me! she's gonna get my toesies!" he really missed her (and i missed her cleaning up after him).


she's here! a little bit confused and a lotta bit hot. pop pop and gami decorated her crate to make sure she would be treated well on the flight. can you imagine how it felt to be a black dog and leave the snow in truckee and show up in HOT kona?! poor girl. we gave her LOTS of water and then took her to the kona brewing company for lunch.


everyone cooled off with a cold one from the kona brewing company (coen had oragne juice) and they even brought lily out a pitcher of ice water. she layed out by the front of the restaurant and got lots of love from people going in and out. gami brought coen a vew finder toy with thomas the train slides. it was histerical! when he looked in and saw thomas he pointed out in front of himself and started yelling, "thomas! i see see thomas, he's right there!" then he would pull it away, look around and then do it all again. it never got old.

we are so happy to have our lily girl back with us. we sure missed her. gami and pop pop did such a great job taking care of her and getting her back to us in perfect shape (10 pounds lighter)! we are excited to have a whole week to spend with them exploring the island. much more on that to come! woof! woof!