Holiday slip n slide

Today is November 18,2007. It is Katelyn's first birthday!!! We are waiting to celebrate until Merrill and Nancy (Rusty's mom and dad) get here for the thanksgiving holiday. I can't believe she is a year old. Unfortunately she is spending her first birthday with a high temperature and a runny nose. Hopefully she will be ready for a party by next week. I just wanted to send out some fun pictures of Hawaiian life in November. I bought a slip n slide before we left because our back yard has the perfect slope for a good slide. The sharks mouth raises up and down as the water pressure switches from the shark to the side of the slide.



This picture is from a week or so ago (before Katelyn was sick). It seems so weird to be out playing in the water when we should be raking up leaves and making leaf houses.

We have turned KyKy into an avid slip n slider. She asks if we can just please slip n slide and sometimes chooses this over the beach.

Da Da Da Da Da Da (think JAWS!!)

Hawaii house tour

Welcome to our house in Hawaii. Now everyone can get an idea of how it looks and what we get to look at from it's location. Once again I couldn't get the pictures in just the right order, but bear with me. This is the living room. You walk into it when you come in the front doors. Little Vanna in red is standing near an unseen couch and toy basket (her favorite.)




Here is the Lanai(deck), just out the back door. We found these chairs at ikea in Salt Lake and brought them with us. The girls think it is so fun to have chairs of their own that look just like ours. You can see the swing set in the back yard and just to the left of that is our orange and lemon trees. The neighbors behind us have an avacodo tree just over the wall and said we can have avacodos whenever we want. Our fruit picker reaches them and we enjoy avacodos and fresh squeezed orange juice on a regular basis. Mmmmmm!

This is a view of the ocean. I took this picture today and it isn't the best of conditions, but you get the idea. The whole front of the house is windows so we get this view from the kitchen, dining room, play area, and living room. You can barely see the change in shades of blue but that is where the clouds stop and the ocean starts.

Upstairs is where all of us sleep. The girls' room is on the left. You can see Kyleigh's bed. Our room is on the right and there is also a bathroom upstairs. We really like sleeping so close to the girls and the view of the ocean from both rooms is fantastic.

The kitchen and dining room are connected by a bar. Through these windows is a great mountain view and you can see into the back yard. The lower windows open upward and there is a small covered path all the way around so when it rains, which is frequent, you can leave the windows open and nothing gets wet. There is no air conditioning in this and most houses. Luckily Kalaheo is known for it's great breezes and we have lots of fans. It really doesn't feel that hot unless it is a windless day.

The dining room connects with what we use as the play area which connects with the living room. I thought I'd better show the play area as it usually looks, strewn with toys. What kind of play area would it be if it were always spic and span?

Not shown: The guest bedroom, which has it's own bathroom where we want everyone to come stay. No really, we aren't kidding. We are expecting our first visitors this month and look forward to more.