Okay, I know.  Its been two weeks.  But I have a good reason for not writing!  I had a medical procedure done that condenses the gestation period to 14 days and had another baby!  What gender?  Boy, of course.  We named him Kimball and here is our current family picture:

Did I mention that he came out with the physical appearance and mentality of a 24 month old?  Ok, I know I’m not fooling anyone!  Yes, his name really is Kimball, but he is not ours.  If there really was a procedure like that our world would be way over populated!  Kimball is not even a cousin or a relative for that matter!  He is the son of one of my parents’ sister missionaries from their mission in Taiwan, Denise Winter and her husband Erik Oh.  Here is what their family would look like if my kids were theirs:

Here is their real family picture:

Kai and Kimball became friends real fast last night at the Taiwan Mission reunion my parents had at the Oh’s home last night!  Its really funny to watch them because they have the same mannerisms and sayings and likes!  Denise told me that the fact that Kimball must really like Kai because he was sharing his toys willingly!  his morning, Kai was begging to go play with Kimball or to have Kimball come play at his playground.  It was really cute!  I couldn’t believe he remembered his name!  In fact, as I am writing this, Kai is pointing to the above pictures and saying “That’s my friend!”  How cute is that?  Denise and I are planning on setting up playdates for the two of them soon!  They are a very cute family. 

As for the past two weeks,  I’ve started organizing my house.  Bill’s manufacturing guy, Danny has a father and son working for him- Santos and Oscar.  The mom, Grace, cleans Bill’s office and recently started helping me clean our house and organize it.  She is AMAZING! It works out well because for trade, I have started teaching her other son Ernesto piano.  My kids love her. 

My parents also came into town and had taiwan mission reunions (in case you didn’t get that from earlier).  We had curbing put in around our fire pit, our house, our dirt mounds and our playground!  We’re going to dig up the grass and put sand in around it.  I also attempted to plant a red maple tree but ended up with a sprained ankle instead!  I was digging the hole and when I jumped off the shovel, I landed on uneven ground and my ankle caved and I heard a popping sound.  I had heard that when you hear that sound when you twist your ankle, it is very probable that it may be broken.  I was in soooo much pain!  It was in the middle of the day and Kai and Koa were inside and no one else was outside.  I couldn’t put any pressure on it or it would make the pain intensify like crazy.  So I had to crawl on my hands and knees to the house because I was so worried about the kids!  I ended up swelling up to the size of a large orange – my ankle that is!  It still is black and blue to this day.  Anywho, that kind of catches us up! 

Hello again!

This week I started full time as a part time volunteer employee at Bill’s office!  Did you get that?  Typically, I go in with the kids at noon ish and then we stay til about 8 pm or later.  So I guess I really am full time!  The kids stay in the playroom we set up although trying to keep them happy in there is another story.  There is a big window I can see in from my desk so I can check up on them every so often.  We decorated the playroom in a Car (the Pixar movie) theme.  I’ll have to bring my camera in so I can post pictures. 

Another thing this week was we threw my cousin Michele a bridal shower.  It was really fun to make her blush with our presents!  I was in charge of the e-invitations.  Janzell (my other cousin) chose a cheerleading theme since Michele used to be a cheerleader in hs.  Since Michele’s mom was out of the country at the time, I had to get inventive for a picture.  I found a google image with cheerleaders from Kamehameha HS (where both Michele and I are alumni) and used my new photoshop skills to combine that image and one I had of her from our trip to Korea to create this:

It was pretty funny because when Michele first saw this, she thought it was her!  She said her fiance Jeremy was the one to tell her that it wasn’t her!

Also, Happy fathers day to everyone!  In honor of Fathers day, I created this for my grandpa.  Unfortunately, he hasn’t seen it yet because yesterday morning (yes, on Father’s day) he had an incident and had to be taken to the ER and is still admitted in the hospital.  Love you grandpa…

And that wraps up my week! 

Today I am just going to post pictures!  That way I finally post them and I also continue my weekly blog even though this week is the same as the past few weeks – moving to new office blah blah blah.  Exhausted yada yada yada… So here goes!

Aaron and Kai on one of our 4 wheelers

Kai just hanging out in his “bed” in our sand box at Bill’s old office!

Kai & Koa playing in the sandbox again.  Whats on Koa’s face?  Lets take a better look…

What is that?!  Oh yeah, he had gotten into some Oreos right before going outside!

Here are some pictures from the actual train ride on our Day Out with Thomas the Train.

After the train ride we visited some of the other areas they had there like the petting zoo and the Legos station.

Yes, that is handfuls of sugar and junk in their hands.  See if you can find these items: Cheetos, Capri Sun, Rice Crispy Treat, Cotton Candy, Diet Coke, Thomas the train tatoos! (temporary of course!)

The big news this week is that both Kai & Koa learned how to go down the slide on our playset by themselves!  Koa wants to be like his big brother so much he learned how to do it in one day by following and trusting him!  By the way, I know our grass is a little overgrown by the playset, but it does make a great landing pad the boys!

Here is Aaron watching a movie with us all the while Kai is talking his ear off!  Whether or not Aaron could understand Kai-nese is another story!  For the record, everytime I put clothes on Kai, he would strip down so I gave up!

I thought this picture was priceless.  The boys love riding with Bill when he is mowing the lawn.  I just love this view!  And I’m not talking about the mountains …

Hello again!

Tonight will be short and sweet as I am totally exhausted!  Today was actually the first break we’ve had all week.  It was kind of nice not to do anything. 

This week we have moved the majority of the stuff from the old office to the new one.  However, we didn’t have any of it in put away yet, so the first day of business at the new office was a little hectic.  Everyone was running around looking for the parts to ship out!  So we stayed after work and started stocking the shelves with the inventory.  And we did that every day since! 

Kai & Koa love going to “daddy’s office” or “daddy’s building”.  I’ve tried very hard to make it a place they want to go to.  I am in the process of making their play room an irresistible place for kids!  I’ve stocked it with tons of stuff from the movie Cars, which incidently is Kai’s favorite movie ever!  We also have cable tv set up in just that room.  I will also paint the room with magnetic paint and chalkboard paint so they can draw on the walls and play with magnets.  When its done it should be a FUN room!

So I guess undoing something I did the week before is kind of a theme I’m developing now!  You know the sand box in my truck bed?  Yeah, I had to shovel it out this week.  The idea originally was to unload it whole at Bill’s office onto a crate so we could move it around on a forklift.  However, I had driven through a car wash forgetting about the sand in the back so it was even heavier than it was dry!  Even if it was just dry, I don’t think we could have moved it!  So I shoveled it out into our yard filling in holes left by Bill (which happened when he drove through it with our truck and got stuck right after we had leveled it and laid sod after we moved in 3 years ago).  I’d been meaning to do that for awhile now, so this was just the motivation I needed.  Now I will put a crate in the truck bed, and put the new sandbox on top of it so we can remove it at Bill’s office. Live and learn, right?

Well, I started this on Sunday, so does that count?  I guess as long as I write once a week I’m still staying true to the spirit of my goal! 

Tata for now!