Easter 2016

Easter was pretty much the same as every other year but in a different place.  The Easter Egg Hunt though was very different.  They hid 8,000 eggs.  Most of them were real boiled eggs.  There were so many people there that Caleb and Brayden didn't get any eggs.  The older boys got about 4 together.  Hailey decided she was to old to go this year.

Here are the pics. They are like any other year with a different background:

 

 

 

Coloring eggs and eating pineapple

Spring Break

Spring Break was so nice!  It was great to have a two week break from school and just relax and have fun.  It wasn't all peaches and cream with the usual fighting and teasing and by the end I was ready to be in routine again, but it was a much needed break.

We started with a visit to Sea Life Park, of course:

Hailey's favorite

Octupus

 The kids playing at a small park at Sea Life Park:

 The favorite!  Feeding the birds:

Jack has his first first ever!  He's always been a bit nervous holding a bird.

The Honolulu Zoo is awesome!  The elephants were like 8 feet tall.  

Not sure you can see it but the monkey has a baby holding on.  It was pretty cute and crazy how well it held on as it's mom swung all around.

Another playground at the Zoo

Swim Lessons:  We decided to put these kids in swim lessons.  They have learned so much and have LOVED it.  Caleb just started last week.  Pretty excited to see how he does.

Bo's Trip to China and Korea

Bo has been to China about five times now.  I try to get him to post about his trips, but he doesn't like to.  I decided this time I'd post some pictures from his last trip.  Bo left on Saturday, March 19 at nine o'clock am. He was back the following Wednesday morning.  It was a really quick trip spending only 2 nights in a hotel.  The rest of the nights were on an airplane.  This time around Bo had a thirteen hour  layover in Korea.  He was able to take two bus tours and see the city.  He liked it, but thought Shanghai was more interesting.

This is why Bo goes to China.  If you look at the top picture. The skirt doesn't hit the floor.  But, when they sent the sample to Idaho, it did.  After they OK the sample and get ready to mass produce the product Bo goes to make sure everything is the same as the sample they received.  Sometimes the product is cheapened and then you are stuck with a container of bad product.

One of the factories making the airbeds

Frog

 Pics from the day in Korea: (Since I wasn't there, I can't give much explanation.)

Conrad's "Big Island" Field Trip

Laie Elementary doesn't do anything small.  Beginning the twenty-ninth of February, the forth grade was able to visit the Big Island for 5 days.  Bo was able to chaperone which helped me be more relaxed about a five day field trip.  They did some amazing things.  Here are some of the highlights.  Conrad gave me the captions.  I'll put some links to more pictures here too.

Big Island Albums
More Big Island

Volcano that KMC is on

Lava tube

Big Crater that was steaming

Somebody made this in the crater

Another crater picture

Rare Blue Macaw 

One of the hikes

KMC, where we stayed

Akaka Falls Hike with a 400 feet high

We got donuts for breakfast