Skimming it.....

After Buddy's guitar lesson today he asked if he could go to the beach. I obviously said, " no way, the beach is totally lame"......

Buddy's been learning how to skim board because his friend knows how to skim board.....and you must do exactly what your friend does, otherwise it would be totally weird! We were boogie boarding for a while, but the waves were huge and pounding so I felt like we should head to the shore to be safer. So Buddy did this for a while.....until he fell and bruised up his side and dislocated his knee cap. Good thing I moved us to the shoreline to be safer! Ha! So all in all a super fantastic, better heal up quick for wrestling tomorrow, day!

Allegedly.....

Buddy's spring break ends tonight and he'll have to go back to school tomorrow. We are sooooo not ready for the fun to end. Buddy joined a wrestling team with the nearby private school and today was his first practice. To say he is beyond excited is an understatement, and my old back would like to thank his teammates and  future competitors for taking their turn getting pinned by that brick of a boy! He returned to me beaming....and sweaty....and sore, but by golly, the boy was beaming!  Since tonight is  his last night before school starts up again he decided to play one last video game with his dad. He's allegedly only going to be playing it for 20 more minutes before he puts himself to bed....

I'm looking for the flying pigs as I sit here and type. In other news, my sister will be allegedly coming to visit me with all of her family over Christmas break. That's right 13 people (that's excluding the 2 that are on their missions) will be in my house and we are soooooo excited!  Buddy sat down tonight and wrote out a list of things that need to be done while they are here.....

I wholeheartedly agree with his list, I also wholeheartedly agree that he needs to go back to school and pay more attention to his spelling lessons! Ha! So all in all a super fantastic, why can't school start at 10am, day!

Spring break for suckers....

Buddy wanted to go camping over spring break, so camping we went. Apparently it was so much fun that Buddy did this the first night....

Thank goodness he made up for that weirdness a few days later....

Yep, reading while on a camp out can now be erased from our memories! So all in all super fantastic, we're totally lame and didn't even sleep over one of the nights camping, campout day!

Parental duties....

Buddy and I were suppose to hike Pololu'u today. Since one of us didn't wake up until 10, we made a change in plans since we didn't want to die  by getting stuck in a valley in the dark (good call if I do say so myself). Instead we ended up doing a bit of this....

Added bonus, he was doing that with about 15 other kids he knew, so it turned out to be probably way more awesome than a silly old hike! So all in all a super fantastic, probably going on a hike sometime this century, day!

Springy.....

Last Friday was the last day of school for Buddy before spring break. The entire school went to go work in a taro patch for the day...

and yes, that's Buddy in the red shirt. Then Buddy went on a scout camping trip  that night. I figured if he started out spring break that awesome, I better keep on delivering the awesome! So today I gathered up some of the spare boys I keep around the house and took them to go see a few things....

Errr....let's try that again. I gathered up some boys today to go see a few things...

I took the boys on the Fair Winds II again (since it's Buddy's new favorite) and it did not disappoint!

It was so awesome, Buddy even ended up walking on water....

Errr.....well, it looks like it if you look at it from the right angle, even better, the boys asked to take a selfie with me....

Yep, total win-win! Afterwards we went to the temple and Buddy got baptized for someone really famous. It wasn't the famous person, but they happened to have the same name, which still ranks pretty awesome in the cool factor book if you're 12....or 44. Whatever, it was awesome. So all in all a super fantastic, planning on hiking Polol'u  tomorrow, day!

Work release program.....

Buddy has missed a ton of school lately. For the betterment of his future we decided we should probably start introducing him to some other careers in case his future in proctology doesn't pan out  due to his lack of attendance. First there was his foray into computer programming....

Then introductory mechanics....

Lastly, the stinky business of poop collection....

 Which, in retrospect, may just assist in his proctology career afterall! This job at least pays! That's right, Buddy's first actual paying gag is poop collecting....how classic is that? Anyway, in other news, we hiked out to the lava this past weekend and didn't get back from our hike until 6am. Then we had a 2 hour drive home, which looked a lot like this....

Well, I hope the driver of the car didn't look like this......well, I wouldn't know, I was wearing a matching Buddy expression! In other, other news....

Buddy and I are taking our show on the road. I think it may be a short, isolated road, but on the road we will go! So all in all a super fantastic,  finally back to school...pretty certain the poop helped!