Hawaiian Summer Fun Catch-Up!

 

Beautiful Summer in Oahu!

The most recent long weekend we has no specific travel plans so hung out around the island....One favourite is the games place in Mililani Town Mall :) First hit is always the carousal ride LOL  Both girls LOVE the ride!! After that Alex plays the toddler games (smack the gopher, etc) while Ty and Dad usually go play the Pirate-shoot-em-up game...



Rainbow over Waimea Beach (Seb the person between the tent & other person)

These are from back in July when Sebastian was in the midst of completing the North Shore swim series (4 ocean swims of different lengths). Despite the craaaazy early show up times the girls and I tried to make it to most of them :)

Waimea is one beach that Alex likes - as long as she is 1) occupied and 2) it's not too too hot since she still refuses to go into the water to cool off. This swims series was fun for the girls as their favourite babysitter, Sam, was also at the beach with her family.

Getting buried in the sand still always a fun thing to do LOL

Especially when you have friends to do it with!
(Sam & her brothers)

Race-ready!!!! :-D




And yes - this flat, calm water above IS the same Waimea that you hear about having 20+ foot waves in the winter time!

Now we start killing time till the race is over!




Do a little workout...some push-ups...

Tyler and Sam swimming.......

Everyone starting to close in on that section of the beach where the race will end (orange floating balls are the 'chute' that all racers will go through).

It might not look like much but there is a fairly large crowd - many are up on the grassy area where the stands are.




Haha Race results are posted on the board behind Ty - not that she cares of course, she's more interested in hanging out in the trees!!

Tyler's Birthday :-)

Alexandra's Birthday

We woke up in Banff on Alexandra's Birthday (see below) and went back to Calgary around lunchtime. It made for a busy long day as the people revolved in and out and Alex was being a bit under the weather with a cold. Her cousins joined the party late - after the cake was cut but she did not mind as that prolonged the present opening into the evening LOL I don't have pictures of all of it - as the night wore on trying to get the girls into a bath & bed became the challenge! Normally I'd let them stay up later but with so much travel, little sleep in Banff and a sick birthday girl decided better not :)

Overnight in Banff, AB

Ahhh the mountains - I do so love being there!! And I soooooo did not want to leave :-)  LOL

The only downside is the Alexandra came down with a cold - which from the timing of it means she picked it up in Edmonton right before we came to Calgary, poor thing :(  But waking up in the Rockies on her birthday was a wonderful thing! The kids LOVED the trip - hotel, mountains and all. I took a lot of pictures but missed the waterslides, hot tub & kiddie pool in the hotel.

Now figuring out a way for another trip back LOL So much to do - esp biking & hiking!!

Easter Weekend

It has been a busy couple of weeks. There seems to be events each week to go to LOL No pictures from last weekends Easter egg hunt on post followed by b-que at our house, but I do have pictures of this weekends activities....Well at least some of them :)

On Friday 'Earth Day" coincided with Good Friday which meant that it was a 3 day weekend for most and they could attend the Festival (?) I cannot remember exactly what they called it - it was a blend of Easter stuff and just fun stuff...This also meant the lines were kinda long in the lovely bright, shiny sun. Boy was I glad the tradewinds were back though Alex was still a hot, stick mess by the time all was said & done. But  we had fun! Sebastian couldn't be with us as he had work-related stuff to take care of in the morning and by lunchtime we were done! Home & to the air conditioned movie theater to see African Cats (we've already seen Rio) in the afternoon......the girls didn't like African Cats as much as Rio, but we all enjoyed popcorn in the a/c!!