If today wasn't exciting enough with the Liebster Award, Heather at Mommy Only Has 2 Hands!, let me know that I was chosen to be the spotlight blog for this Wednesday's Hump Day Hop. For those of you that don't know, a blog hop is a link to your blog on a host's blog where you can visit other blogs, follow blogs you like, and gain followers.To everyone that is visiting from this Wednesday's Hump Day Hop, thank you for stopping by! And if you … [Read more...]
I really want to thank Brandi at Yee Wittle Things for nominating my blog for this award! Please check out her great blog about her beautiful family. Liebster in German means dearest, beloved, or favorite, and it is for bloggers with under 200 followers. The rules are: 1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog. 2. Link back to the blogger who awarded you. 3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog. 4. Reveal … [Read more...]
After Uncle Dean's Celebration of Life ceremony, there was a reception with some of his favorite Hawaiian goodies. One of the things there was POG juice (Passion, Orange and Guava), a favorite of mine and very hard, if not impossible to find on the mainland. Lucas and I watered some of it down and gave Ke'alohi some as a sweet treat to remember Uncle Dean, and... She loved it! … [Read more...]
Today we headed down to the Four Seasons Aviara for Uncle Dean's Celebration of Life ceremony. Uncle Dean passed away suddenly on a business trip in Beijing over this past Thanksgiving weekend. His sudden passing has completely shaken up family, friends and the Four Seasons staff. We have known Uncle Dean, Auntie Cheryl and their daughter Miranda since I can remember. Miranda went to elementary school with my brother and Mom and … [Read more...]
Motherhood is...mouthyYes, we feed our little girl! Though judging by the picture, you may think she's a bit hungry. Ke'alohi is going through a stage right now where she gnaws on everything and especially likes the edges of tables. We think it helps her with the soreness from teething, so in the mean time we will be wiping everything and anything we think she can get her hands or mouth on!If you want to see … [Read more...]
My new found love since going back to the iPhone, is the app Instagram. This is such a great app to use with the Camera+ app to take pictures. The reason I love the Camera+ app to take pictures is that you can zoom and edit the photos after the take them but before you save them. So I still use that app as my primary camera app. The cool thing about Instagram, is that after you save those pictures, you can open them up in this … [Read more...]
Ke'alohi woke up this morning wheezing pretty bad and seeming to have a harder time breathing clearly. Since I was taking the day off of work to stay with her because the daycare was closed, Lucas and I decided it would be smart for me to call Dr. Ouchi to see if I could bring her in. After talking to the doctor's office, they said that I need to bring her in right away and that Dr. Miller, who was in the office already, … [Read more...]
