A smorgasboard of posts...

To finally catch up of course.

Here are some posts to catch you (the few that actually read my posts) up on what has been going on with my family. I have been so bad at posting lately that so much has happened but I am not posting them all because that would be just way too much. So I picked a few and here we go:

Oh and again trouble with the spacing between pictures. I think I posted to many pics.

So again........WHATEVERS!!!

For Dezi's birthday we did go to Farrell's and celebrate on the day of his birthday but also did
a little celebration with just family at the Deliz home on Halloween. It was so much fun but too
much work. Gil and I said we won't be doing that again.

Dezi with some of his presents.
(and he did trick or treat as skeleton because yes I waited last minute to get a costume and that was all walmart had to fit him)....(that wasn't ugly)

Some of the cousins.

a little more of the cousins.

Sorry Chalei....
Okay, one of the games to go along with the car theme of his party was to roll tires as fast as
you can to a cone and turn around and come back. It was a team effort. Well I should have
known this was going to happen to someone......my niece Keely is rolling super fast (She's 4 by the way)
she makes it to the cone, is coming back and boom....she trips rolls over the tire looking like superwoman with arms and legs out, lands on the floor and the tire rolls over her. It was classic and funny. Her mother and I were laughing so hard. She didn't care though. (Good thing)

Okay Thanksgiving was at the Naluai's this year and it was amazing!!

In the words of Rachel Ray....YUM-O!!!

the girls playing around.

All the cousins from Gil's side. There's more boys missing and like 1 girl.

Do a funny...

Hanging out with the Seattle Arquero's.

Day at the beach...

Cutie pie cousin Tiare...

We buried Gil.

Took our family Christmas pictures. They came out okay. But what can you expect with a 2 year old.

Walked around the Kapolei lights (one cul-de-sac, 5 houses don't know if its quite worth it but they went all out.....like ALL OUT!!)

Yes this is a Heineken Christmas tree but they decorated it and had it light up to music that was playing. All 5 houses really decorated their whole yard including houses with everything imaginable. One yard had 6 different trees decorated differently with a ceramic little village thing with I think close to a 100 of them, a life size gingerbread house, arches, the words Merry Christmas in huge blocks, with snowmen and other things around, complete with a bench to take pictures with your family, Ferris wheels, just all kinds. I can't even think of them all.

And then just hung around. Dezi is starting to get into Gil's car obsession (Oh NO!!) If Gil goes outside, which is where he has been for a while since we bought a "new" used car for Gil to drive in when I take my car and he has to fix it up safe so Dezi can ride, he has to go outside and watch. It's cute though now cause since Dezi got a little race car for his birthday, he "works" on that while Gil works on the real thing.

It's circus time...

A long time ago the circus came to town. I don't how long for and even forgot when. The about time was probably like........3 maybe 4 months ago? We had a totally awesome time and wouldn't have even known if Gil's friend didn't tell us.

Gil had talked to his friend earlier in the day and asked what they were doing? He said nothing much but that they were going to the circus that night. Circus? What circus? So we looked it up on line and lo and behold it was their last weekend here. We last minute decided to go and take Dezi and it was awesome. There are too many pictures to even decide which ones to post so I will tell you the gist of what happened and maybe later post a video.

They had....

of course the man on the flying trapeze, clowns, a couple that did a REAL shooting arrow trick/s (like the real shooting trigger arrow thingy), girls and a guy that spun on ropes, a balancing man that also spun metal 3-D shapes on his chin, a contortionist (spelling?) , a Chinese man that spun those super expensive vases on his head, a guy riding a motorcycle on a rope and the girl doing tricks from a small trapeze hanging from the motorcycle and other things that I just can't remember. It was all so good and Dezi was amazed...

As were we.

This pic is during half time but they still had everything out and was setting up for the next acts but this is how he looked the whole night. Just staring.

These are the girls and the guy is in the blue of course that twirled on these fabric things. It was super beautiful. And one girl from this circus is from Hawaii. She graduated from Punahou. Woop, woop! I love this circus and would totally go see it again. They were supposed to have animals but ours was the last showing that night and I guess by then the animals weren't cooperating. Or so they said.

UH....

This is what happens when you have two, 2 year old toddlers and 1 adult.

Say cheeeeeese!

One more time say cheeeeese!

Okay together.

Great guys........ thanks!

If they only turned toward me.

Bishop Museum...

A while back we took Dezi to the Bishop Museum to see the Dinosaur exhibit. He didn't like it one bit. They had dinosaurs set up outside on the lawn, he didn't like those. He didn't like the dinosaurs inside, bones or whole. But he did like everything else we saw. The Hawaiian, the volcano and sea animal fossil shells.

It was a fun day for me and Gil though. We learned new things and saw some interesting things. I haven't been there since a field trip I took for class in intermediate. Can you believe that! I couldn't remember anything about the Museum except for the whale that hangs in the Hawaiian section. HA!

So not sure about the dino behind him.

He kept saying "No no no no!"

FREAKED OUT....when he saw this thing.

and MAJORLY FREAKED OUT.....when this popped out from behind the bushes roaring!

He kind of had fun with this activity...you brush the rice away to uncover the fossil. But there was a dino in the corner so he making sure that it wasn't making noise or moving.

He had fun with this. Daddy and Dezi sliding down a lava tube?

I think that's what it was. After the dino exhibit we walked around to see everything else which Dezi loved. There's to many photos but he did have a great time.

Happy Birthday Dezi...

For Dezi's 2nd birthday we took him to Farrell's at Pearl Ridge. He had been there for his 1st birthday with family but of course didn't remember it. I thought it was okay. Nothing really that makes me want to go back, but since Gil missed his 1st birthday at Farrell's he wanted to go there to experience it for himself.

I thought Dezi might like the drums and noise (since he makes a lot of it at home and thinks it's funniest thing.) But no. He didn't like the noise. He didn't like the people. He didn't really like his dinner except for the fries, he most definitely did NOT like having to sit down at the table. But he did like his dessert. Oh well, what can you do for a 2 year old.

I feel like I have been blessed with a great son. He is fairly an easy child and doesn't give me to much grief (as long as I play with him and give him my full attention....He he) . But he really is good and I'm glad he's mine.

Scared of the noise while everyone was singing happy birthday!

LOVED his fries!

Loved his ice cream cone!

Dezi Kain you have grown up so fast. Too fast for mommy! I love your fun loving personality, smile, laughter and cheesy faces. You can make me laugh just by looking at me seriously and then putting that big grin on your face. You are so energetic. Sometimes more than I can handle but I have fun trying to keep up. At times you are cuddly and just want to be held and read to. And I love when you grab my face and give me kisses for no reason. You are smart and sensitive but also tough.

I have been so blessed beyond measure and can't imagine a day without you. I love you more than words can express and can't wait to see how you grow and mature. I love you so much!

Love, Mommy & Daddy

Our summer...

"Dezi, what do you want to do today?"

Cars? Cars? Mooooommy....caaaaaars!

All summer!

YM/YW Halloween Party...

This year the young men and women of our ward put on a little Halloween party for the primary kids. There was face painting, donut eating, other fun games and I think all the kids had a blast. They dressed up in costumes ready for the fun. The youth did a great job in getting things together and making sure the kids had fun. Some of them even dressed up too.

If you obviously couldn't tell from the picture, Dezi was Handy Manny, a character from the Disney channel. Okay I have to laugh because no one knew who he was. Even I didn't. I was so late this year getting into the Halloween spirit that I just put him in jean pants and gave him his tools to carry around which he didn't. He was actually afraid of all the weird looking people that night.

At least you could tell what I was. Thanks to Marj we were gypsies! Pretty hot ones if you ask me. LOL!!!

This is one of the games that the YM came up with. You get blind folded and have to stick your hand in boxes of scabs, boogers, brains, warts, and toes and guess what it is, but in the middle box, one of the YM grabs your hand from inside the box. It was pretty scary cause your not expecting it. A lot of the younger kids didn't want to finish the boxes once the hand grabbed em'.

And this is one of our YW painting a face. She is a very talented artist I found out.

Over all the night was a success and the kids enjoyed themselves.