...Happy Mother's Day to ALL!

I KNEW this was going to be a GREAT Mother's Day, 'cuz
Jesse LEARNED to make his OWN toast today!!
He moved up in the kitchen from peeling his OWN orange to the toast dept.!
This COULD represent that "my nest" will some day have NO baby chicks needing feeding by the Mama bird!!!
N-N-O-O-O! I don't mind "cooking" meals for any of my kids, I just want to know Jesse will someday be a missionary and FEED himself!!!
LOTS of presents and cards!!
This day of "Mother" celebration is ALMOST better than Christmas in this manner...?
Less hype and MORE attention to the MOM!
Let's see... Can you tell the "THEME" of this year?
I got a beach chair, sun hat, beach towel, beach bag with slippers on it, swim
trunks AND the coolest board shorts from JENNA!
(I think she thinks she will borrow those!?!?!)
I DO admit to shopping for myself...
BUT I did take Jesse along to "help" him pick out the "correct" items!!
AND Michael DID go to Costco with me for the beach chair!!!
I think any successful Mother's Day is worth $100 in presents!!!
Small amount of annual payment for a 24/7/52 job! LOVE being a mom!!!
Then we ALL went to a concert this evening!
I sang and they listened and had good concert manners and NO complaints!
It was my Mother's Day wish!
Kauai Chorale is the group I sing with and is was a good concert about songs of LOVE!
Church was good this morning too!
The primary children sang and then the men/boys all sang Love at Home
and handed out long stem roses to moms and potential moms... Very sweet!
Happy Mothers Day!
And thank you to my wonderful, talented and lovely children for helping me be a HAPPY mom AND gramma!
I love you guys and never cease to be entertained by you ALL!
Thanks for making mine and Dad Michael's lives VERY fun and enjoyable!!!
LOVE, your MOM!

The NEW addition to the family!

Michael's new car... and our apt.
Jesse and Michael going out on a first ride in the new CRV!
Taking it to the beach for the Aaronic Priesthood "over nighter"
The gang in the morning at the campout.
RELAXING and enjoying the park, before driving back for
a job fair, violin practice and the south shore beach.

Life at the Beach on Sat.

Our USUAL position on the beach on Sat. afternoons.
Friends who work with Michael at the job site join us most Sats. We get lunch, sun and good visiting.
Jerry under HIS tree at the beach...
Life IS good!
Jenna and Kristine catching rays of sun.
Jerry swimming in the OPEN ocean, wave!!!

Oops, this car doesn't run on a track!...

Jesse was driving us to the Marriott the other morning and
ROLLED into a van at the stop light at the airport...
We did stop and take a picture to prove NO damage...
BUT the dude WORKS at the Marriott and recognized us when we were there with Jerry
and told us the bumper was pushed IN on the left side a little bit!!?
How could it have pushed in on the left with us bumping
them at 3-5mph SQUARELY in the middle? His RIGHT side had been punched in... and I think he just wanted to get the WHOLE bumper fixed on Jesse's OOPS! Jesse is a VERY careful driver, we just BOTH looked at a random car on the side of the road that morning and Jesse rolled into the guy in front of him...
The Lihue Ward youth are trying to raise $ for EFY this summer and they are holding car washes early Sat. mornings. This one was a good $ maker.
Maybe some of the kids will become good car washers
after a couple more Sats. They are taking donations too.....
This ward/stake is VERY ambitious!!
They are asking the youth to pay $150 of the EFY fee and airfare and the ward/stake is paying the rest!!?
Talk about helping the youth over here!!! Also they are paying for the youth to fly over to Honolulu and
go to the temple this May 17... Paid airfare and transportation and food for the day trip. Good experience!!

Meanwhile, back at the farm...

The WHOLE field trip gang on the large main lawn of the plantation.
The kids sitting on the porch of one of the many houses/offices on the working plantation. This Grove Farm owned over 1/2 of the island at one time... They produced the sugar cane and figured out how to get the water down the volcano mountain to irrigate the fields for the sugar.
Now we are at church, after the 3 hrs. and still smiling!
Lucas relaxing and showing his new haircut while at church.
Jerry and Kristine back at the farm.
In front of the plantation home.

Grove Farm Field Trip

Uncle Jerry and Kristine came to visit!!!

Well, we did LOTS of things for the 10 days they visited!
Here's Jerry showing one of the MAIN activities! Eating, getting ready to eat and planning eating! Shaved ice!!
TWO options of being in the sun!
Utah "white" Jerry and
weekday tanner "brown" Jenna! Yeah, that's a subway sandwich in her hand, LUNCH!!
The gang eating ONE shaved ice. There was ice cream in that shaved ice too! Yummy!
A bon voyage trip tradition... hula pie from Dukes with the gang!
Thanks Uncle Jerry for the treat!
Come back soon, we LOVED eating with you on this vacation!
FIRST bite and the fork broke!! Didn't really slow down that Utah ICE CREAM eatin' fellow much! I just traded forks with him and I used a spoon and got even the last scoop of hula pie!!!