Oh A Hiking We Will Go

So Saturday's around here usually involve sleeping in, long runs by myself, a lot of housework & laundry and town errands. We don't sneak a lot of fun into Saturdays. I want to change that, the kids are older and getting restless around the house. So we are going to have family outings each Saturday, nothing extravagant, just something outside the house and all together. So this last Saturday we took the boys on the Hauula Loop Trail. It is a 2.5 mile trail just down the road from us. We hiked it a few years back when Braedon was just a baby but haven't been back since. It was so much fun. Braedon was so excited too. He found a walking stick right at the start of the trail and was ready to go. During the hike he kept telling us "this really is the jungle!" It was so cute. His excitement ran out about 20 minutes into the hike, I don't blame the kid, it was all up hill, he was such a trooper though. He finally gave in saying, "I need a rest, my knees are tired" so we rested and then Jared & I took turns carrying Braedon & Jace. I didn't mind, I just told myself I was really burning more calories carrying around an extra 30 lbs! The boys, even Jace, walked off & on. We took several "rests" and enjoyed the views. We are so lucky to have such a beautiful backyard. It really is amazing to look into the "jungle" back there. At one point we looked up a geo cache on the GPS and started out to find it but Jace started to get restless and we decided to head back. The loop is great, you get the chance to overlook Laie & Hauula. The ocean is amazing from up there. I just thought, wow, we really are just on an island in the middle of no where! It took us 2 hours from start to finish, the boys did great, we didn't mind carrying them on & off. Braedon fell asleep about the last 25 minutes. We knew he was really asleep when he dropped all the long pinecones that he had been holding onto for an hour or so. Dont worry, Daddy picked them up and carried them out for the little guy. Overall it was a great family adventure and I look forward to what next Saturday will bring for us!

Beach Bums

From now on I am declaring Monday's our official "Beach Day". Today we left the house at 9:30 and snuck off to Alligator Pond and stayed until lunch. It was the perfect beach day. We had low tide, blazin hot sun and the beach was empty! A few friends joined us and the kids had a blast. Braedon loved climbing all over the "alligator" rocks and playing in the low tide pools. Jace ate about a pound of sound, nothing unusual about that for him. I worked on my tan, which needed some help! I forget how much I love living in Hawaii until I spend a day at the beach. It is truly such a beautiful place to live.

I can do this

Okay, so I really am excited about having this blog. I love to talk so this should be easy right? I keep looking at all my friends' cute blogs and I tell myself, I can do this, this will be fun. Then again, I just spent the last 30 minutes typing and retyping the "about me" section, and it is still empty! Then I decided to move on and post a family pic, but I couldn't find the certain one that I was looking for, so it is empty too! I'm sure I am just way overthinking it. So I am trying to decided exactly why I even want to blog, I know everyone is doing it, but why do I want to join in on the fun? Well, my answer is that I want to have a place where I keep track of our family adventures, I'm not a journal writer, so this will be the substitute. I want to write about my kids and husband and our life, then I will follow in the footsteps of so many ahead of me and make it a book each year. So here's to our new blog, bare with me as I stumble thru it at first, and watch for pics and info to come soon!