My son, the crossing guard

This is my wonderful 11 year old boy McKay, and this year he is a crossing guard and takes it very, very seriously! He is the "team captain" for his group and therefore, he gets to keep the whistle-big stuff I assure you!

You should see him in action, he keeps the whistle in his mouth and loves to wave the people across and then tell everyone hello as they cross, like they are crossing the street just to see him.

It is too funny and cute!

Much to McKay dismay, he know needs to wear deoderant and stridex pads on his face. I wonder if his hair will start curling soon?

Audrey Hepburn VS. Victoria Beckham

Ok, I am really trying hard not to feel old lately! But, the other day, I was taking Kaitlyn somewhere and she mentioned that she had a long neck. I said, "oh, you are lucky, just like Audrey Hepburn" and she asked, "who's that?" I told her that she was a movie star and a fashion icon. She said, " oh, just like Victoria Beckham, she is a fashion icon"! I wanted to say, mmmmm, I don't think Ms. FAKE BOOBS and everything else should be considered a fashion ICON!" I just said, "mmmm, not quite the same, hon!"

November 21-one more month!

Yes, I know most of you know that in one more month, the movie Twilight premiers. My kids and my Young Women are all excited about that. I am too, BUT I am really excited because in one more month, my PARENTS COME HOME!!!!!!!!
They have been serving as public affairs missionaries in Ghana Africa. I am not sure how long they will be home because I am sure another mission awaits but I am sooooo very excited to see them. I can hardly wait to get a big bear hug from my dad and giggle late into the night with my mom. Maybe we will go bra shopping, we get the biggest giggles in the dressing room when we go bra shopping! In fact, I think I had only gone bra shopping once by myself before my mom left on her mission! How sad is that-do I need to grow up or what? I have gone twice by myself these past two years, I am baby stepping into adult hood!

Miss Maren's picture

Miss Maren heard that Chasie got his picture posted on the blog, so of course, she wanted hers too! I think it turned out sooooo cute!

I don't know if you can tell, but we did set her hair in curlers the night before. We do that occassionally-I don't know how she sleeps in them but she loves it when her hair is curly and wishes that she had curly hair like her sisters (she doesn't say like mine though-mmm......). I tell her not to worry, that her sisters didn't get curly hair until they were older. Kaitlyn's is soooo curly now-who would have thought? Never underestimate the power of puberty-it can curl straight hair!

Chasie's first parent teacher conference!

I went to parent teacher conferences this past week. All the kids are doing really well this year and it was fun to visit with the teachers.

Chasie's kindergarten teacher is great and he loves going to school every day. One of her first comments were, "you can tell that Chasie is the baby of the family. Does he get the other kids to do things for him?" I had to admit that yes, everyone does EVERYTHING for him! She said that when they are working on stuff, usually Chase has other people doing it for him-cutting out things, drawing things etc. She usually just has to go over and ask, "what is going on here?" and Chase will give her a big smile and she reminds him that he needs to do his own work.

What a bunch of enablers we all are!!!!!

Another thing she mentioned is that Chase is a man of little words. I just about fell over in my chair! Do I actually have a QUIET child?????? This has never happened to me before! We will wait to see what she says by the end of the year when he feels more comfortable!

Luau Extravaganza!!!!

Here is one of the two Luau dances that the girls did. I didn't tape the other dance because I had already taped the dance at practice. Wasn't it so thoughtful of me to share both dances with you? Maren is the one that is always in front of the speaker and of course, Kaitlyn is the one a foot taller than everyone else!

This is a picture of Kaitlyn next to the smoking volcano-pretty cool, huh? Maren is by the Drums.

Pictures of the girls with their cousin Genni who performs with them...

Great experiences, the girls did great AND it is great that they won't do it again for another 2 years!!!! Hula starts again in January...I am welcoming the break!

Hoalie's dancing Hula!

This video is from Saturday's hula practice, this is serious stuff since the big time Luau is in less than two weeks, on Oct. 11th! The girls have been practicing twice a week and I think they look good! Can you tell which girls are mine? How about the tallest one in the group in the front row?!?!?!??! Kaitlyn is now taller than me and will audition to move up to the next group in January even though she only has two years of experience, she is just tooo tall to dance with the Keiki (kids)!. When they turn (It is Kaitlyn's voice you hear that tells them to turn in Hawaiian), Maren is in the yellow skirt, by her cousin Genni who is 3 years older but Maren towers over her. I wonder where they get their height????

Anywho, I think Kaitlyn's hands are AMAZING when she dances, she is so graceful! I have another video of her doing a dance for a YW talent show that I will post next.