Thanksgiving 2013

Thanksgiving is always so much fun, for the past 14 years my family has been able to visit Maui and it's always such a wonderful time.

This year, Lauren, Vere, Cole, Stella, Tabitha, Lucy and Hugh were all able to come out too!
Here is Maya and her cousin Stella.  Stella liked hanging out with Maya.

I was pretty jealous too because Maya kept getting these Stella hugs!

Cole the fisherman!

Stella & Lo at Baby Beach

There's the little surfer girl!

Cole fishing with Erik

Thanksgiving Day at Baby Beach

Thanksgiving bubbles for the kiddos.

This is hard kid work!
Launiopoko Beach Park

Cousins

There she is, little cutie!

More Maya & Stella moments

Grandpa & Tutu
Kalia & Maya

Me and the Girls
North Kaanapali Beach

The Hendricksons!

We had such a fun visit with everyone and went by much too quickly!

November: Last day of soccer

Maya's last soccer game.
Receiving her ball, trophy and photos, little cutie!

Maya's 1st trophy, she was very excited!

Maya, Lola & Mia

Kalia's last soccer game- pot luck!

Yum!
Check out her blue butterfly cupcake- go Blue Butterflies!

 Kalia and her trophy:)
 

The Blue Butterflies

Kalia played an ant in the class play.

Happy Halloween!

Aaaarrrrgh!

Pirate family goes trick or treating!

 Pirates meet up with batgirl and go door to door asking for candy.
Then if they get milk duds, they say "eeeew, I don't like milk duds".
I told them to wait until to say that until they were not in front of the person giving them,
said milk duds...

Pirates meet up with fairies and princesses,
and they walk and walk in search of more surgery treasure.

Kalia completely set up this scene
and asked for the photo!

Late night candy sorting.

Oh, they are so my kids.
Sort them into like piles!

The next morning was jog-a-thon at Kalia's school.
Here is second grade, ready to start running!

2nd Grade Girls!

For you Uncle Time!

XTERRA 2013

Team Duke's Beach House:)

 The girls greeting me after the run!
That was really hard!

Maya & I ready to lineup for the Keiki K!

The girls waiting to go,
then they announced they would go in two groups.
6 and older and 5 and under.
The 6 and older would run 1.5K
The 5 and under 100 yards or so.

Maya and the littles waiting to run!

The XTERRA crew counted down and then Maya took off!
Seriously, I had to sprint to catch up to her.
She got her game face on and started charging down the hill!

Kalia finishing offer her run.
Since the big kids ran so much further, we didn't know where they were!
She left before Maya and didn't come in for a while after Maya did!

Waiting to get her water in the tent with the other athletes:)

 Wearing her XTERRA medal and drinking from her XTERRA bottle!

Hendrickson girls run the XTERRA!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me...

We decided to do a family costume this year
and this was our pirate flag I painted late one night.
It was to go with our pirate boat, but that didn't work out as plan.
As I told Kalia when she said, "The boat doesn't work! But we spent so
much time making it!" You win some, you lose some!

Before the Halloween dance,
setting up trunk or treat at school.

Pirates checking out the dance floor.

All the kids are ready to trunk or treat (post dance)

The pirate trunk.