Partyriffic!!!!

Some seriously fantastic things have happened over the last few days! First, I have a pictorial record of a Buddy hug.....

 Yay!!!!! I'm sure I'll be revisiting those pictures when the teenage years strike! Secondly, Shane had a birthday party planned by some of the best party planners our money could buy....

Apparently, our money couldn't buy anything other than these two jokers..... Third, we went to the beach......well, I went to the beach, there wasn't room for anyone else....

Lastly, I quit my job.....let me rephrase, I quit the job that I actually get paid at...those freelance jobs (keyword free) are still in full swing! Buddy got so excited about it, he decided to tame a rhinoceros to celebrate!

Too bad I forgot to take a picture of me taming the rhino to celebrate, because let me assure you there is some serious partying going on around these parts (well, maybe not Shane who is feeling the weight of adult responsibility) but Buddy and I are having a  blast! So all in all a super fantastic, partying it up, day! 

Hug with a face....

Today Buddy and I joined our love of bicycling with our love of  the water....

I almost feel like those guys that ran into each other with the peanut butter and the chocolate to discover a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup! Maybe we're weird (probably), but we thought the hydrobikes would be even more amazing if you were allowed to play bumper bikes with them. Now that, I would pay good money to do....oh wait, I paid good money to do this! Well, it would take the awesome level up a notch, in the meantime we made due with the awesome factor.... We may need a little more practice....

Nah, who am I kidding? We totally rocked the awesome factor!....

Buddy rocked it so well, that afterwards he gave me a "hug with his face".....I think he was just too lazy to lift his arms around me, but I'll take a hug from this face any day!

So all in all a super fantastic, hugged, day!

Lather, Rinse.....REPEAT

Shane's mom and 2 aunts are in town visiting us.....which just gave us a great excuse to do this again.....

 At least we were smart enough to bring Shane with us this time....

I mean someone has to finally get a picture of Buddy jumping....

How Shane got a picture of himself jumping, I will never know....

I did take pity on him and took a few shots to prove he was there....

Like I said, I'm a phenomenal photographer...Shane looks awesome, doesn't he? Now back to Buddy and me...

 Have I ever mentioned how much I love that little booger snapper? More importantly, have I ever mentioned how much I love the slides on this boat? Seriously, they are awesome....now we need more people to come visit so we can be forced to suffer through another boat trip again! So all in all a super fantastic, definitely don't mind repeating this day, day!

Buddy's Day Out.....

Since Buddy is going back to school on Monday, we decided to do one more thing on his winter bucket list......Okay, he didn't add that to his bucket list until he was sitting down and reading our copy of  Big Island Revealed on Monday, but seriously, how could you turn down a kid that does some serious research and reads a book about all that this island has to offer. He discovered Fair Winds II, neither one of us had ever heard of it, which makes me wonder why we had never heard of it! It's a boat that takes you out past the Captain Cook Monument to it's own little cove where you can snorkel, snuba, 

slide 

 (that's my graceful entry into the water from the slide)

or dive off a 15 foot platform

 (this is Buddy's graceful entry from the diving platform)

 to your heart's content. Pretty positive my heart was content...

So all in all a super fantastic, don't want school to start again, day!

Underwhelmed.....

Buddy had a friend come over to play today. They decided that swinging on the swing wasn't nearly as cool as swinging under it ...

All I have to say is....thank goodness for pants! Although, we are currently looking into more splinter resistant and slippy pants for Buddy and basically anyone else that walks in through our front door.....because no one can resist a slippy pant! In other news, Buddy has finally mastered the pooey dab.....

And I continue to master the wonderment of "why" regarding the dab. So all in all a super fantastic, no splinters in our bums, day!

The tale of two presents....

Living on an island means that many fantastical things happen! You get to stay longer at the beach than everyone else and jump into other peoples' hard work to claim as your own...

(I'm seriously thinking Buddy may be a little weird...shhh, don't tell him)

When you live on an island, you can make goofy faces....which I know you can pretty much do everywhere, but when you live on an island, you get to have the ocean in the background to elevate you to a whole new level of goofy faced awesomeness!

But seriously.....one of the best reasons to live on an island....SHIPPING! Yep, you read that right. Frequently things are super slow to get here, if they get here at all. This year's Christmas Shipment topped the cake. I...I mean Santa....ordered Buddy's present early in November to make sure it got here in time. Then 1 week before Christmas, it still hadn't arrived and we got an email that the company decided that they couldn't ship to Hawaii after all. Since Santa was in a scramble, Santa's helper (that would be Shane) ordered Buddy the most awesome present in the universe (that would be the electric guitar).  I'm not sure what happened after that, but somehow the original present made it's way under our tree after all on Christmas Eve. Shane put it up last night so we could enjoy our fireworks with flare....

Yep, we have serious flare!!!!! So all in all a super fantastic, I think we need more pushers, day!