haircuts

It was time for a haircut again... Lullaby kept hers the same, she's working on growing her bangs out. Solace first just wanted his bangs cut, but then the rest needed a cut too. I loves those curls! I am moderately afraid of cutting his hair each time, in case the curls won't come back, but they always do. Such a cute boy. 

Hawker's hair curls only when it gets long. He loves cutting it short for a dramatic change. So handsome.

Matix has really long hair, and is growing it in order to donate it. He's such a thoughtful child.

random pics

Strawberry guavas grew on a million trees on the side of the road on the way home from church, so we stopped to pick them. 

Solace "helped" breaking down all the boxes. He got a saw and a knife and kept himself busy for hours while I unpacked, organized and put together shelving.

Filling water at the fill station. This is where we get our drinking water, since we haven't had our catchment water tested.

The big boys played at their friends house across the street and brought this cute little kitten home! Swishy chased her into a tree and she got stuck, but the boys rescued her again. Hawken named her Sunshine.

All the kids were huge helps with the unpacking, but especially Matix and Hawken. I'm so lucky to have them.

Waking hard and playing harder. Paul falls asleep anywhere he sits too long.

The kids got busy building stuff with all the packing materials and left over boxes.

Solace's 5th birthday was fast approaching. I made these cute "bubblegum" birthday invites. Inspired by a cute invite I had seen years before. I think they turned out cute.

The library has "Pokemon Club" on Saturdays, that we very rarely make it to, but when we do, Lullaby spends the whole time in Paul's lap reading as many books as she can.

Friends with a pool always make for a party.

Shoeless people in the grocery store make me so happy. I love that this is acceptable.

Sunshine getting bigger and bigger. She's still afraid of Swishy, but loves all of us.

birthday

We spent my birthday attempting to clear a path into our jungle... 

Paul and Hawken worked the most, and after a few hours we checked on google maps to see how far we had gone.  We thought perhaps that we had gone past the property lines... but we hadn't even made it a quarter of the way. Ha ha ha. The blue dot in the picture is where we were, the red pin is in the exact middle of the property.

It was a beautiful day and we drove over to Kona, we spent the day at the beach, and it was so nice.

While at the beach I got lots of birthday calls and videos. It was so nice.

Then we made the long drive home, and I got to open my cards and presents. So nice. 34 so far is a good one.

homeschooling again

We decided to continue homeschooling this year, and right away we headed out to some homeschool events and get togethers. One was in Hilo at Coconut Island, and one was in Volcano at the skatepark.    These two groups have become our regular homeschool groups that we attend and we love them so much.