GLO Star

Today Micah received a special award at school. He was a first grade GLO star (General Learner Outcome). There are certain things they need to achieve. They had a special assembly where Micah got a certificate, a special pin for their school lanyard and a magnet for our car. Way to go Micah, we are so proud of you!

Darrick's new favorite shirt

Space Derby

Tuesday night the Cub Scouts held their annual Space Derby. Since Micah is a Tiger and in his first year of scouting it was all new to us. We received our kit and I am so glad that Darrick was here to help Micah build it. The leaders told the parents to help as little as we can so it was pretty cute because the Tigers were mostly flying rectangles because it was too much sanding to get it in a rocket shape.



It is propelled by twisting rubberbands connected to a propeller. You could do anywhere from 1-100 spins. Many of the boys who did 100 lost because their rocket either fell off or flipped and got caught in the line. And if you twisted it the wrong way it went backwards.







Micah decided that he would do 25 spins and named his rocket "Blue Bullet". He won his first race but lost the second so he was eliminated.





But we were surprised at the end when Micah was awarded the ribbon for best paint job! He was so proud. Darrick had duty so he missed it all but it was quite an adventure!

I love these shirts!

When our friends Jennifer and Brayden returned from visiting Texas, their home state, they brought us back there awesome shirts! Hays, is the name of a store in their area. We were so surprised, thanks again Jennifer!

I also included some new pictures of Luke Skywalker. He is getting bigger and is now 3 months old. We taught him this weekend how to sit. He gets a little doggy treat. He is so funny because he will come up to you, sit and look at you like "where is my treat?" And last night Darrick was eating some ice cream and Luke came up to him and sat and waited for some, but of course Darrick did not share. But when Darrick left the room, Luke had climbed from the couch which was reclined to the coffee table and started chowing down on the ice cream. Darrick caught him. I think they both were disappointed that that was the end of their treat.



Luke showing off his new trick-sitting!

Getting our outside in order

Darrick and I spent most of the day getting our outdoors in order.

We started off with the lawn, I mowed, while Darrick edged. Then we had to clean out the carport. We had been putting all our boxes in there so we had to break them down, sweep it all out and then put the bikes back in.


Next we moved to our outdoor storage and our shed. We took everything out and put all Darrick's "stuff" in the outdoor storage, it is now like his own mini garage. Then we put other stuff like luggage and holiday decorations in the shed.
This is the shed Darrick built last weekend

Darrick put the boys outdoor play structure together and I swept our driveway and gutter. We were so dirty and exhausted when we were done. Darrick put the boys structure by a plumeria tree, which they love! He put a rope with knots to climb and a bucket attached to a rope they can put things in and pull them up. I also put some pictures of the view from our lanai today-it was beautiful!

We're Back Online!

We finally are back online! Yahoo! The cable guy came and installed it this week but it was not working for a few days but Darrick came home this weekend from being out to sea all week and he fixed it. Well actually he discovered it was just unplugged...opps, I guess I should have checked that first. So much has happened I will list some of the highlights:

*We passed our final inspection on our old house and had to pay 0 fines!!!

*We are almost totally unpacked.

*Darrick has been going out to sea during the week and coming home on the weekends.

*The boys and I have been at the beach a few times every week.

*Darrick spent 3 days last weekend putting together a metal shed for our extra stuff.

*Last Saturday Darrick and I went to the Khaki Ball on a Sunset Dinner Cruise in Waikiki.



*Last Sunday we attended a dinner at our church for married couples and the One Love ministry-it was super fun.

*Luke, our puppy, is really growing and developed a terrible habit of biting us hard. We found a site on the internet that addressed this and told us how important the skill of not biting is and usually they learn it from their mother. You yelp the first two times he does it and if he does it a third you flip him on his back, growl and say "no bite" aqnd hold him there until he relaxes which means he submits to you. After a few times Luke got it and was a totally different puppy today! It was amazing.

*The Blue Angels are here, in Hawaii, and have not been here since 1994. We went today to see the airshow. It was free but while we were standing in line someone gave us 5 wristbands, which cost money, to sit in the grandstands. Micah had his friend JJ with him. It was so incredible!

We will continue to post regularly again now!