Bitten....

A few months ago Shane bought Buddy a surf board from a friend for a really good price. This past Friday, we ended up camping at the one and only surf spot on this side of the island. I ended up getting 7 spider bites on my face.....Buddy ended up getting bitten by the surfing bug. This is him taking a break after riding his board for a few hours after school yesterday. 

He's been bitten so much that we ended up buying another surfboard for one of us to join him, with the thinking that once one of us masters the longboard, we'll buy one more so all 3 of us can go. Talk about awesome parenting in my book! In other news, I cut Buddy's hair last night and now with his broad shoulders he looks nothing like my baby boy anymore, but a man! At least his voice is still cracking to make up for all the manliness he's exuding these days, it really is the little things that keep me going! So all in all a super fantastic, surfs up, day!

Hot stuff.....

We got invited to a birthday party that happened to include a beach and camping......

What we didn't know what was included in the campout was six billion degree weather during the night in a stifling hot tent....Hmmmm, maybe we should've RSVP'd sooner? So all in all a super fantastic, at least we had a cool (er) ocean, day!

Grumplestilskin and other fairy tales

A group cancelled their reservation with our Airbnb a little last minute for this past weekend, so I found that to be a perfect excuse for Buddy to host a party for 20 of his closest friends. Two of them ended up spending the night. The next morning after I grumped a little bit that I hadn't even heard a thank you from him, he and his friends presented me with this....

Which Buddy had strung together himself from the plumerias in our backyard. Talk about feeling like a horrible mother.....on the flipside.....nope, there is no flipside. Menopause is a beast, and a beast I would very much like to be done with.....pretty certain everyone that lives with me agrees with that statement, although I'd like to pretend I'm not that bad. To make it up to the boys for my grumpy pants, we took them to a deep dark cave to get lost in the forest  to get strangled by some trees?

Yep, that's the boys in a lava tube cave covered with tree roots...We took the boys to the Kaumana Caves, where we decided to take as many awkward pictures as possible....

Pretty certain we didn't hit our maximum awkwardness and we will need to try again! So all in all a super fantastic, well, grumptastic, day!

Growing up.....growing awkward?

Buddy will be a teenager in less than 2 months....He's getting more and more awkward EVERY SINGLE DAY....This is him running into the bed....

 Here he is falling out of his chair....for absolutely no reason at all....

 Here he is with the awkward gang.....

He's also getting more and more smelly every day.....but they don't have a way to capture that on camera....yet! So all in all a super fantastic, keeping the awkward alive, day!

For Life.....

This past weekend we attended a Court of Honor where Buddy received his Life.... 

Next step, Eagle Project....and boy-o, I think Buddy has some high aspirations for that one! In other news, after getting his life, Buddy decided to test the limits of his life....

Or should I say Shane's? At least he's been enjoying life.....

So all in all a super fantastic, enjoying the good life, day!

This boy....

I love this boy! What a super goober!!! First week of school done.....only what feels like an eternity left until we can sleep in again (can you tell what our priorities are here).

So all in all a super fantastic, wish we weren't so tired, day!

Seventh????

Yesterday was Buddy's first day of seventh grade.....I'm not sure how that even happened???? The night before he started asking me to homeschool him....mostly because he thinks that means he can sleep in as long as he wants. Trust me, the sleeping in part is tempting since we have to wake up at 6 am in order to be ready for the bus that takes him to a town 30 minutes away!!! The only thing holding me back is the homeschooling part of homeschool.....so we'll keep plugging along, eventually we'll get used to the early rising, or Buddy will graduate.....more likely that one! 

So all in all a super fantastic, I love this boy so much, day!