GG's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GG!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!
Voochie-Bob The Great Grandkids
Sebastian

Auntie Dee and GGNana and Alyssa
DD and Ry-Ry

The surprise visitors

Beautiful Halle

August 20th, my GG turns 80 years old. I flew in Thursday night for the big birthday celebration that occurred yesterday. My cousin Josh (from LA) and I surprised my grandma with our visit and made her quite weak in the knees.....all her grandkids were there! The birthday party was fantastic! Kim and Harry did a wonderful job hosting and catering the event. Kim prepared all the food herself and it was so delicious. Harry had the yard and house looking fantastic and was head of the grill. Jessi came down from Canada with her two little munchkins and brought a beautiful cake, cupcakes, and made the very creative birthday crown. Denise, Troy, and Delores all made it for the event along with my Grandmas half sister and son. And then, of course, my parents, my sister and family, and Brian with little Jasmin. Kirsten even made a small appearance before she had to leave for work.

Thank you to everyone who put effort into making this party a big success. It was so great to see you all and I look forward to seeing you again in a couple months when we come back for Christmas. Thank you also to Grant for taking time off from his busy work schedule and watching the boys!

Above are just a few of the pictures that I took yesterday. Enjoy......I have to go board the plane now (can't wait to go see my boys)!

the view from our backyard. koolau's to the right and kailua beach is more to the left (out of the photo view).

Hey Family! Here are some progress pix of our house under construction! There's lots of work left to be done and we have been hustling and bustling trying to juggle work, kids, preschool and this at the same time. Julie has been our snoop doggie dog going out to the jobsite everyday making sure the guys are workin! the kitchen cabs are ordered, appliances should be getting here in a couple weeks and stone, wood and carpet are all ready to go in! Hopefully (actually more like we better be) we will be in the house in the beginning of september to start the next new chapter of our lives! Please dont mind the colors you see in the photos, our interior designer and master planner (also known as wife and mama) has all the new finishes planned and ready to go!

Part 2 of our trip was to Universal Studios to see cousin Josh then off on a 3 night cruise to Mexico!

Josh was nice enough to hook all of us up with tickets to Universal Studios where he works and edits/produces movie trailors for big time movies!
We got to see all the stars! (like Curious George)

and scooby doo!
Josh has a window in this building that the tour drove by.
Julie was excited to see the Desperate Housewives set!

Waiting for the show pet skit to start...
Always time to wrestle in the room!

Thanks Josh for the great day at Universal!

And away we go! We goton the ship at long beach and met up with 50 others from the pfeifer family where we went on a three night tour to San Diego, Catalina and finally Encenada Mexico!

We kicked it of with a bang as Drew tried to test his luck wrestling some bigger opponents! Lissy was nice enough not to completely pummel him every time he tried!
Our 2 boys in the porthole ledge in our quarters.

Shopping in San Diego.

A little bike tour.
The Midway Aircraft carrier was pretty cool!

Dressin up for Dinner. This is taken early in the dinner... while thy were still in their chairs... and their clothes were still clean...
Papa and Nana
What a view (Catalina Island).

We rented a golf cart and drove around the island with the boys.

Catalina was a beautiful quaint little town... save for the bees and epishots!
We didnt get much more than 100 feet away from the trolley drop off in Mexico as Julie was hungry. She loves Mexican food... just not in Mexico particularly! :) Hence, not many pix at this stop! I think cousins Randy and Travis experienced enough of Mexico for all of us!... remember I made up for it on the boat boys!

Well, thats it for the trip, I think we promised some progress pix of the house which will be coming soon... Take care all!

hey family and friends, we just came back from a trip to...

DISNEYLAND!

We arrived in LAX in the afternoon and met Papa, Nana and the Taylor's at the hotel in Anaheim in the early evening. Julie was so excited to be near Disney that we had to go that very night! We are in line for a ride watching the fireworks show. The next morning we were off to California Adventure Land! Drew and Alyssa had a blast getting each other wet!

Drew even drove a car for the first time!

The cousins had a blast everywhere we went! Little Cameron couldn't go on too many rides,

but he loved the merry go round!

And he did brave some some pretty scary ones! That ferris wheel went up super high and it had a double action slide that sent the cart back and forth as well!

Papa was also nice enough to give him some fun rides of his own!

Julie liked the screamer so much she went for a third spin on her own! That ride was awesome! (btw, not me behind her, another frowning Asian! :))

Our little animal lover Drew's favorite ride of em all? Jungle Cruise of course! He must have rode it five or so times!

part 2 of our trip was a visit to cousin Josh at Universal Studios and then to a 3 night cruise to Mexico with the Pfeifer Family reunion. to be continued... soon... we promise!

Moving Day

Sorry, first of all, for not making a post in such a long time. For all of you that are not aware, we sold our house, bought a new house, and are moving into a rental property while we do some remodeling on the new place. Needless to say, a lot of things have been going on for us, but all are good things.

Everything is getting moved to a storage unit this weekend and then we are off to spend a week in Waikiki (thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Sumile) before moving into our rental. The first half of the week will be me, Grant, and the boys (w/grandma and grandpa next door) and then the second half of the week Grant will be off island on his muchly deserved annual golf trip with his boys. It sure will be nice to have Ray and Hazel right next door to help me while he is gone.

Above are just a couple pictures I've taken during our packing. Grant and Drew took apart our jungle gym last weekend and Drew reconfigured the pieces in our yard to make an obstacle course. The next day water had accumulated in the slide and the boys made it into a make-shift pool. It was so cute.....I bet they played for over an hour in there.

The boys have really enjoyed packing boxes with me as we have turned it into a game and Drew is sooooo excited to move to our new place.

I want to conclude by thanking Ray and Hazel for all of their help with the boys while we packed. We couldn't have done it without you!

He Walks!... okay, He steps!!

Just a quick message to let you all know Cameron took his first unsupported steps tonight! Unfortunately, Julie went to Dream Dinners to put together some dinners for the family so she missed it! The little guy has been able to stand unsupported for awhile now and tonite he was playing and kept standing on the couch and laughing when he did it. So I put him on the rug and he got up and stood for a little while smiling then took three steps to me before dropping to the ground! He did it two more times before getting tired of it. Hooray for the little chumster! Grant