Backyard Maze

After the shipment came in, Mr. Miller (Art's dad), thoughtfully saved the boxes and stayed up late cutting holes in each one to create a maze/fort for the boys.  The boys have spent a little time in it already, but I know they will be spending hours playing and making memories together.  Thanks Mr. Miller!  We appreciate YOU!

Daddy's work

The security company purchased a shipment of Segways recently and they arrived from the Mainland this week.  Jack was THRILLED that we were going to have "enough segways for everyone on the planet."  Jake and Will stayed up late getting them all put together.  One perk to working in Hawaii - you can always be multi-tasking:  working, getting a tan, enjoying the beautiful weather, etc...

Snips and snails

As we saw with the frog, Hawaii has no shortage of things boys LOVE!  One morning Uncle Will found a huge snail and of course shared it with Jack and Henry.  Jack wanted to keep it as a pet but Henry wanted to use it as a baseball.....he is now back to his comfortable habitat.

Look what has happened AGAIN!

Last night Jack came in the kitchen and said, "Something is missing!"  He had somehow lost his SECOND tooth since Christmas, but didn't even know when or where.  We searched and searched but it was never found.  A short note was left for the tooth fairy, so all is well.

Dole Plantation

Another local tourist attraction here on Oahu is the Dole Plantation, where miles and miles of pineapples are grown to ship all over the world.  A train ride, HUGE maze, and yummy! snacks are all part of the experience! 

The boys, of course, loved the train ride!  When the train returned to the 'station,' Jack immediately said, "This isn't right.  We are at the same station.  The engineer is lost."  He was sure that when you ride a train you should always end at a new destination. 

The Dole Whip (pineapple ice cream/yogurt/goodness in a cup!) was a big hit too!  I wasn't fast enough to get a picture of it before it was consumed by two hungry boys.

We plan to go back at some point and go through the maze.  It looked like a lot of fun but I wasn't up for doing it without Jake. 

Visitor!

Unfortunately I didn't get many pictures of Hannah's (Jake's sister) visit to Oahu & then the next week I didn't get too many with Jenny (BFF) when she was in town! But we had a blast with her and were even able to go out on the town one evening!  Thanks Jake for making that possible!