Mom, Dad, Grandma and CW Visit Part II

At Haunama Bay:

 

 

At the Blowhole Overlook:

At the temple:

We tried to get some pics of the kids in their cute church clothes (I made Elijah's bow tie and pants) but these were the best we got - it was too windy and bright and they were tired and grouchy.

 Had to crop this one for modesty

At Sunset Beach:

At Laniakea Beach:

At Clisles:

 

Well that's all the pics!  We had a great time visiting with Mom, Dad, Grandma and Christopher.  We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and to have had them come out to see us!  The kids definitely miss them now but we were glad that they were able to spend this time with them - now when we do Facetime they really remember who everyone is.  We love our family so much!

Mom, Dad, Grandma and CW Visit Part I

I'm a little behind on blogging so these next few posts are going to be picture-heavy.  The pictures may also be a little out of order - but they all were taken during the two weeks that Mom, Dad, Grandma Wei and Christopher came to visit - the last two weeks in April.

Here we are hanging out at home:

Elijah's favorite position-

 

The work station

  

Getting ready to go to the temple

 Grandma on one of her morning walks

 My boy

 CW and John jamming at our Sunday family dinner

Here we all are at the PCC:

Watching the canoe pageant

 Taking a canoe ride

 Waiting for the canoes

 By the entrance

Ko'olina Lagoon:

I had to crop Cora out of this one for modesty

At Turtle Bay:

 Ryan, Dad and CW went to Waikiki and climbed Diamond Head:

Bubbles

This picture makes me crack up every time I see it.

Flat Stanley's visit and Easter

 Around the beginning of April we had a visitor - Flat Stanley, all the way from Jacob's class in Marysville, Ohio!  We had fun showing him around Laie.  First the temple:

Then BYU-Hawaii:

Then Laie Elementary School, where we ran into Troy:

 

And finally, the beach, where it was a little too windy for Stanley.

The day before Easter we went to the Gunstock Ranch Easter Egg Hunt.  It was a lot of fun for the kids.  I forgot to bring a basket for them so they had to use their hats to collect eggs. I didn't actually think they would get many eggs, there were so many kids there, but they hid plenty and we were able to fill up our hats. 

Then we took a picture with the creepiest Easter bunny ever.

On Easter morning we had bunny shaped pancakes and - what else - hard boiled eggs.  Then we went to the front lawn and hunted for Easter eggs.  Apparently I didn't take any pictures of that - just videos.  It was pretty cute.  For a few weeks after Cora kept asking to do it again.  "What do you want to do today, Cora" "I want the Easter Bunny to come and hide eggs outside and we go out and find them."  We were going to take pictures of the kids at the temple after, but it started raining really hard right when we got out of church.  Elijah was wearing a new bow tie and some church pants I sewed.

Here is Ryan with his Scouts, going camping.

And the kids one day when we took a walk to the temple.

Grandpa and Marcus hanging out at Heidi's house.