おじいさん訪問 Papa's visit

Ian's dad is teaching in "semester at sea" this year again.

He is going around the world which I am very jealous with!

His ship ported in Hilo for two days so we had him over to our place.

It was a lot of fun (you can see in the boys' faces)

It was too bad that we had to concentrate everything in two days!

Hope he could come stay with us longer next time.

Have a nice trip, papa!

食！Food Food Food!!!

Since my profession was changed in to "say at home mom",

I've been learning how to cook.(not just how to cook, how to cook things to taste/look better!)

I wasn't enjoying it at first but I had to do it in order to live within our budget.

Now, I realized that I actually enjoy cooking more than before.

I even noticed that I'm becoming more and more critical to restaurant dishes etc that aren't tasty or healthy enough for us to pay for it! haha

This year, we are trying to eat less meat. (except fish)

I set a goal that I plan at least two days in a week that I don't cook any meat.

We've been feeling a lot better with our new diet so far.

If any of you have some good recipes for vegetarian, let me know!

ニット Knitting Project

I was taking a break from my knitting project for a while.

Since we were moving to Hawaii, I wasn't thinking that I would be knitting in Hawaii.

Well, we moved to a part of an island that gets pretty cold and that makes me want to knit!

This is my first project here.

She is adorable!

感謝祭 Thanksgiving

Thanks to my creative husband who came up with this idea

In order to prep ourselves for Thanksgiving, we started to write something that we are thankful for 

everyday after dinner.

"Count Your Blessings!"

It is true. It helped us to realize how blessed we are and how we should ALWAYS have something to be thankful for.

ショーン４歳に Sean 4th B-day

This year, we decided to hold his party at home.

We only invited his classmates and close friends so that he could handle the noise etc.

He enjoyed it. 

I baked tons of cupcakes and made a dinosaur:) 

Happy Birthday, Sean!

追加写真 Additional Pics

広島で七五三の前撮りをしたときの写真追加

Some additional pictures of the boys from this summer in Hiroshima

 Well, someone was such a bum that day so this is his only portrait:P

 A photo studio with mickey mouse.. well business oriented.

go go disney!

This is the picture that drove the photographers nuts since they were not cooperating with anything.

You can tell from their faces. haha

秋休み Fall Break

今週はイアンとショーンの学校が秋休みとかいう理由で一週間休み

さすがハワイ、なにかにつけて勉強しない！

まあせっかくの休みだから

と、まずはイアン、私たちのベッドフレームを手作りしてみた。

初めての作品にしては上出来。しかも半日で仕上げたのには感心！

All the public schools here have a week off due to "fall break"

They really don't study! haha

We decided to have fun and do something that we don't get to do too often.

First, Ian made our bed frame! It was his first DIY project but for the first time, he did a great job and it amazed me!! He even did it in half a day.

そして次はキャンプ！

ここハワイ島の南にあるキラウエア火山へ

真っ暗闇のなかに真っ赤な光が

地球は生きている

Next was camping.

We went down south to see volcano.

We were lucky to be able to see an active one this time.

The earth is living!

 

 Black sand beach

ブラックサンドビーチ

 

田舎町ナアレフの風景　想像していた古さびた乾燥地帯とは違い、緑がいっぱいの美しい町でした。

A small town called "Naalehu" 

Despite of our image of an old town in dry desert, this town has full of greens everywhere and is actually a beautiful little town. We loved it!

うちの教会まで発見　ちなみにこの教会、夜はライトアップされて、とても奇麗でした

 We found our church there, too. This church was light up during the night and it looked really pretty.

南端への道　風が強すぎて木も変形

島の南端で

こんな所に飛び込んでいるお兄さん発見

 この穴に飛び込んでおられました

写真だとイマイチ分からないけど

かなり深いです

南端の海、とても深い青が奇麗でした

 秋っぽくないけど。。私たちの秋休みでした

Nothing really looks like "fall" but it was indeed our fall break!