Empower Your Dreams Competition

The Empower Your Dreams Competition was outstanding!  All of the finalists did an amazing job.  It was pretty inspiring to see all of the presentations.  Click here to see all of the presentations of the winners.  

The judges this time we great and we had a fun time with them.  Here are some pics from our couple of days together.  We ate at the Luau, Pounders, rode segways around a beach.

Elizabeth Smart was one of the judges.  She gave a fireside while she was here and did a great job:

click the link to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1gH9L9VIo

A Few Last Small Adventures

Toward the end of our Hawaii adventure we made a few more trips.  We went back to some of our favorites and tried out some others.  Here are some pics from our last few:

This was our favorite lookout.  We drove up and up and up a mountian and walked out to this:

I loved the rainbow that showed up for us. :)

 That volcano below is Diamondhead.  The pictures after that are of our third hike of Diamondhead.

 View from the top of Diamondhead:

The kids LOVE climbing this tree at the bottom:

 One last trip to Matsumoto's Shave Ice

 Playing at a beach house of on the the other missionary couples.  It was our final get together before we all left.  It was in Wailua and the kids swam near the turtles.  Pretty cool!

 This was a one last motorbike trip with Bo's friends from the School.  Martha and Perry Christensen.  While they were motorbiking Martha took us to a really steep, fun hill to play on.  The kids LOVED it!

I'm sure I'm missing some of our last outings, but this should do.

Jack's Baseball Season

Baseball in Laie is different than here.  They stop leagues after age 9 so Jackson was the only one who got to play.  Conrad was a bit bummed but we had a great time watching this season.  Jack's last game was his favorite.  He was able to hit a single, double, triple, and home run.  He has really gotten more aggressive and into playing since last year.

A typical Hawaiian after game snack: lei, drink, fuit, crackers, musubi (spam sushi)

This game just poored and poored.  They ended early.  But, I think the kids had fun.

Father and Son Outing/Girls Night

Usually Hailey and I have a special date night when the boys leave for father and son's.  But, this year we decided to have a good-bye party with her friends.  The had so much fun. They are such a fun group of girls and we are going to miss them and their example.  

Bo went off to what he thought was our Stake Father and Son outing and after he had everything set up he realized he was at another ward's camp out.  They ended up staying but went to McDonald's for dinner and breakfast in the morning and came home.

The tent's were a bit small too.  At least we had something!

The Miracle in the building of Laie Temple

This is one of my favorite stories I've heard since we've been here and it happened almost 100 years ago in the bay just off of our deck.