My Mistake

Ten years ago, I worked with Procter & Gamble and received lots of new products. Yesterday, I found a Crest SPINBRUSH in our moving boxes and the girls LOVED it! They were BOTH using and sharing the brush so I decided to get new ones for everyone. At the store, I found they were $9!!! So, I decided to buy just one. BIG MISTAKE!!

Since Malia likes balls, sports, cars, and boy stuff, I thought she'd keep the race car brush and give Riley the new Hello Kitty brush. We made them play "Rock, Paper & Scissors" and Riley won. She's so happy!

Poor Malia was not a happy camper! SO sad. Guess it wasn't worth saving $9.

A Promise in our Backyard

We were blessed by a beautiful rainbow in our backyard this morning!! The girls wanted to find the pot of gold at the bottom of the rainbow but we had to rush off to school! What a beautiful way to start the day!!

Upcountry Kula

Kids were out of school so we took the whole crew upcountry to Kula for grass sliding, bike riding and a picnic at the park!

Maui Living!

It's been 3 weeks on Maui and we are slowly settling in. Everything is SO different and we're making adjustments quickly. The thing we LOVE is having a cool mountain breeze flowing through our home 24/7. It's like being outdoors but we're sitting in our living room. From our front porch, we watch the sun rising over Mt. Haleakala as it lights up the sky in beautiful reds/oranges. It's breathtaking! We received a warm welcome from the whole Asato clan when arriving a few weeks ago.

Ryan and I spoke at Grace Bible Church Maui and the following weekend at our Wailuku Extension Church. We shared about what God has been doing in our lives and how He brought us to Maui. Ryan did an AWESOME job speaking and sharing about God's goodness.

Lucas is exploring every nook in our home. He climbed into the sink and soaked himself!

We celebrated Jocelyn and Malia's birthdays!!

Friday's have been our "family days". We pick up the kids from school and head to the beach to end the day together in the sun and waves. We eat musubi's (seaweed, rice, meat) and treat ourselves to shaved ice(snow cones). Then we end the night watching old home movies.

Here's the girls on their first day of school. Riley is starting Kindergarten at Emmanuel Lutheran and Malia is in preschool at Grace Bible Church. They LOVE it!! We are so blessed to have 2 wonderful schools. The girls are transitioning well!

Sunday nights is family dinner with the Asato's. It's usually at Great Grandma's house but this time we went to Kamaole Beach in Kihei to watch the sunset.

Riley, Caedon, Alexis and Malia

Hopefully I'll get some pics of our home and the views up for the next posting!!

Cadillac Weekend

We spent last weekend in Cadillac with the entire Husted family! Kent & Becky hosted all of us at their new home!! Becky is amazing and was able to pull off hosting while being pregnant and recently moving in. Kent shot a skunk with his shot gun, we played a ton at the beach, visited with the whole Husted extended family and spent quality time together.

We celebrated Malia's 4th and Brandon's 6th Birthdays at the Beach!!

Uncle Kent held a gun lesson to show the kids the dangers of guns and that they are tools and not toys.

The boys ran a friendly 5k race together!! What a fit bunch!

What a fun time together as a family!

Daddy Daughter Dance

Riley went to her first dance at our church and dad was her date!

She was so excited and walking on clouds to have a special day with dad.

Here they are getting ready to leave the house...

Here they are having fun at the dance....even Ryan got into it!!

Riley sat right by the prize table and had her eye on this bucket the entire night. She was so happy when she finally got to pick a prize!

It was a memorable night for Riley and she even got a special card from Dad to take home.

8 Days til MAUI

I can't believe that we have just 8 days til our big move back to the islands. We've enjoyed quality time with friends and family over the past few months.

July 4th weekend, we spent the day in Portland with the Husted clan...playing water balloons/sprinklers in the yard and going to the Portland parade!

One night, we did fireworks with the Nickel clan. We put them down to bed at 7:30 and woke them at 9:30 for the fun!! Betsy made yummy smores and the kids had a blast!

We went to the Delhi Rocks Carnival where Jenna and Riley rode ponies and Peyton and Malia rode the trains.

We also hosted a birthday bash for Mom Husted! We grilled burgers, hot dogs and had Mom's favorite strawberry cheesecake. Yum!

Quick Update

I haven't had much time to blog so I'm going to give you a quick update on the latest...

This was our last gathering with the Boss's, Redd's, Jarvis', Love's & Coleman's. We will miss everyone and the sweet friendship that we've shared!

We enjoyed a beautiful 70 degree day on the lake at Hawk Island! Malia was freaking out on the row boat...she thought we were going to tip over and Luc didn't like wearing his life jacket. Everyone was happy on the paddleboat though!! All laughs and squeals!Luc has one drawer that he's allowed to play in and he makes himself at home!
The girls love to take care of their little brother. He doesn't like it so much.