Kayaking, sewing, Valentine Picnic

Our last stroll on the beach before dark.

Silhouette at Ke'e Beach

There were no clouds at all and the sea was amazingly calm, but the sunset was still great.

We're people watching and eating our picnic dinner before the sun goes down.

Jim & Ann Bills prepared most of our great picnic; grilled chicken, veggies with dip, fruit, cream puffs and chocolate torte from Polynesia Cafe & juice. We brought smoked fish (from our friend Keoki) and Cowboy Cookies. It was all delicious and we enjoyed it at the restaurant with the best view in town :-)

Grandpa has been busy with building cabinets and creating hardwood cutting boards. Grandma has been busy with Family History and Relief Society. I'm the 2nd counselor and responsible for Enrichment meetings and activities. We recently learned how to make a quilo. Each sister brought their own fabric and everyone completed their quilo in one evening. I made mine with aloha print on one side and fleece on the other. They all turned out unique and beautiful.

Grandpa has been making more cutting boards. Do you all have one? Each one is different.

We even went to the second waterfall because no one was there.

Grandpa decided not to hike in the river because he didn't have his good supportive athletic shoes. So, grandma took our visitor friends up the river and up the the waterfall.

We hadn't been kayaking for awhile, so when some visitor friends wanted to go up the Kalihiwai River, we decided to go with them. It was a great, sunny day.

Furniture, beach & carpentry

Now that the work is finished, it's time to head for home.

Koa loves to go along for the ride even if it's not to the beach. Here she is at Ileana's.

Grandma Lynne is bringing lunch to the job. Grampa Bob requested his favorite: tuna salad sandwich!

He's cutting in two holes in the wall and installing windows for light and ventilation. It makes a huge difference in the garage/storage building.

Grampa is unloading some tools; he's doing some work on Ileana Carreno's garage in exchange for his dental work.

Koa loves to go to the beach. Here she is on the way to Larsen's.

Grampa, the happy gardener, just doing some weeding chores. Everything grows so well and so fast here, even the weeds.

Grampa built a jatoba (Brazilian Cherry) dresser for Jr. Gacusan in our Hanalei Branch. They are loading it on his truck so they can take it to his house and carry it in. Jr. was so happy with it. Their old dresser was smaller and the drawers didn't work well. Besides, this one is beautiful.

The entertainment center is all installed and everyone was very pleased. I don't know how I got this picture without any smiles.

Here's grampa installing the cabinet for Brandon Salvador. Brandon and Nelson are helping out

Fall 2006

Dad has been working on an entertainment center for a friend. It's looking great. He'll install it tomorrow.

Dad really is enjoying the fattigman, even though he looks pretty serious in this photo.

We usually do fattigman on Christmas Eve, but since we were behind schedule, we did them on New Year's Eve.

Christmas Eve we were invited to some friends for dinner. We had them take our picture so we could send out some late Christmas photo greetings :-)

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas one of our beach breaks was here at Larsen's Beach. (You can see the cruise ship going by.)



After Thanksgiving Mom was very busy with hula rehearsals and performance at the Annual Hula Ho'ike (Graduation Celebration).

We had a wonderful time with the family members that visited at Thanksgiving time. We put almost everything on hold so we could visit and do things with them.



Dad going on the daily Post Office run. The dogs love to go for the ride.

Aloha Dear Family,

I've decided to try to do a blog. We love to check out yours to see what you are doing. We'll try to share what we are up to and do better with photos. We'll see if it works.

Aloha,

Mom & Dad