Not a Pro with the GoPro.....

Since Buddy had the day off of school today, and some of the in-laws are in town, we decided to take them on our newest favorite adventure. My brother-in-law Jae is extremely hesitant to get into the ocean, much less deep ocean water. Ever time he visits we talk nonstop about the possibility of shark attacks, partially because it's good to be aware, but mostly because his reaction is HILARIOUS!!!!! I wish I had a picture of him to post, just imagine a very manly looking man....then picture him shrieking at the thought of a shark in the 200 mile vicinity! Buddy and I can't help but laugh nonstop (with him of course) whenever he is here. Anyway, somehow we suckered him into going snorkeling with us around Captain Cook...so of course I brought my GoPro!!!! Jae was wearing a floater belt that had a long string that kept hitting his feet and making him freak out that there was possibly a shark attacking him! Best laugh the Budster and I have had in a LONG time. I wanted to document the occasion of him in the water snorkeling, because I'm pretty positive that will be the very last time he ever does it (and he looked hilarious)....sadly, for everyone involved, my GoPro is on the stupid fritz, so these are the only pictures I got with it....

If you were wondering, nope, Jae isn't in ANY OF THEM!!!! Why? Because my GoPro hates me. Thankfully my iPhone loves me....

and I love Buddy (here is a close up of that face)....

Of course Jae refused to jump into water, and getting him into it by walking was hard enough, so no pictures of Jae. So lets look at this awesomeness one more time...

Oh boy, I love that kid! So all in all a super fantastic, glad everyone made it out of the ocean alive, day!

The In-laws are coming.....

Shane's family is doing a "family reunion" of sorts down in Mexico this week. Unfortunately, Buddy has school and has missed approximately six million and forty-two days of school this year (give or take a day), so we couldn't join them. Thankfully, one of his sister's ended up getting confused and hopped on the wrong plane and ended up here. Thankfully, we just happened to be waiting at the airport at just the right time to see her arrive.....

To celebrate the momentous occasion, Shane took her to go play on some swings....

To pay back the kindness, she provided Buddy with some fancy umbrellas after we hit the gym....

Trust me, Buddy was greatly impressed!!!!! In other news, Buddy has become an entrepreneur and is 3D printing some finger fidgets to sell...

(They are little spinny things you spin on your fingers). In other news, I'm waiting for law enforcement to bust him for selling without a commercial licence!  In other, other news, Buddy is the best helper....

But then again, I'm probably just a little bit biased! So all in all a super fantastic, nice to have someone visit us so we don't stay so boring, day!

April is for fools.....

I was planning on sleeping in today, since it's Saturday and all. Somehow my body woke up at 6 am, then my mind woke up screaming it's April Fool's Day and I hadn't prepared.....Thankfully I pulled a few things off before the boys woke up...

 Then Buddy woke up and joined in on the fun....

Sadly we don't know how to unApril Fool's this one!!!

Okay,,,,not so sadly if you ask me, but then again I've been walking around as "The Human that Farts A Lot" stuck on my phone, my personal emails and all of my texts, so Poo Fart doesn't seem like so horrible of a title in my opinion! In other news, Buddy got invited to go play fugitive..... He's been wanting to play forever, but he's never been old enough. Apparently he's also old enough to dress himself now....

Let's remember we live in Hawaii......so apparently he's old enough to sweat it out too while he's at it! So all in all a super fantastic, enough time for one more prank, day!

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!