Summer at Oma's

The Garden Gnomes

The Baby Deer

The Front Walkway

The Backyard Deck

We are having a good summer.

More Maui Pictures

Aloha!!!

We are having a great trip... here are pics from our adventures so far...

Playing at Black Rock on Kaanapali beach... wave jumping!

Joey LOVES to boogie board... a few wipe outs, but still loving it.

Emmi collecting rocks and shells.


In our condo.
She is an island girl!


Searching out the HUGE Koi fish that were hiding under the bridge.
Cool bird that was hanging out by the pond.
Emmi loves the Koi pond and visits it often.






Pool fun.


On the sea wall.
We are having a great time... wishing you could be here with us. We are heading out for a fun day 2...

Aloha :)

Deer in Oma's Backyard

A couple of weeks ago a doe with her two fawns walked right up into Oma's backyard. They walked along the side of the house at a pretty leisurely pace, crossed the street and went into the neighbor's backyard to feed on the corn she puts out for them. On Monday morning this week I noticed that something had eaten most of the tops off of the 3 tomatoe plants I had closest to the fence around the garden. From the way the plants were chewed off it looked like deer. The deer family now didn't look so cute to me anymore. I got out the liquid fence and sprayed. On Tuesday afternoon shortly before Oma and I went out shopping, we noticed the two fawns playing in the backyard along the southern tree line. I wrapped on the glass, they looked at us and then just carried on. After about 15 minutes one wandered off back toward the parkway. The second one lay down for a rest right in front of the trees. We went outside, pulled the car out of the garage, made all kinds of noise and still this little fawn just lay nestled in the grass. We went shopping and were gone for about two hours. When we got home the second fawn had returned and they were playing again. I sprayed the garden perimeter again and put down some feed corn. Hopefully they will leave the garden alone and eat the corn.

Soccer Weekend

Joey defending.
Mason and Emmi. Mason was in my preK class... he is a triplet. I watched him on Friday while his brothers had tubes put in their ears and adenoids removed.
The only 10 minutes he got to sit the entire weekend... a trooper!

Joey played in a soccer tournament for his PDP (player development) team. They ended up taking 2nd place in their division... they played so hard; AMAZING! We are very proud of him. He loves his silver medal and is excited to play in the next tournament.

PreK Graduation

I just downloaded almost 200 pictures off of the camera... and that was only the first 2 weeks of June. It was a very busy 2-weeks indeed.

Emmi graduated from PreK this year. She has been a student at Noah's Ark Preschool for 3 years, but has been at the school as a sibling since she was 10 days old. She loves Noah's Ark, she loves the teachers, she loves the pastors... it is her school.

What a hit!

These pictures are from last week. Joey drove a ball to center field... it was awesome. He's waited all season for this!