Girls Graduation..

These are pictures of my babies graduating Kindergarten. I can't believe that they are this big. How time flies!! I have now an 11th grader and 2 first graders. My babies are all grown up.

Friends forever ...

Being a military family is never easy. You have your good and your bad just life everything that comes with life. I hate that my children have had to endure this already. My son has been one tough cookie. He has had experience with it from the beginning and at the age of 16 he is a pro and already knows you lose friends and make new ones but it is never easy. And it has come time for the girls  to endure that part of being military brats. These are pictures of the girls with their little best friends. Bella in the middle has just recently PCS'd with her family to Washington State. We will miss them dearly. We are planning to do family trips together but will they ever be fulfilled is yet to be seen.
Segan is their little buddy and he will also be leaving us back here in Hawaii while him and his family move on to South Carolina. It's funny how we will have friends spread out all over the country. One on the West Coast and one on the East Coast while we will be leaving to San Anotnio, TX. But I do believe that we will see each other one day again...even if it's on skype. :)


Atiana, Bella, Allana and Segan

Silly kids!!

Friends forever

Easter Egg Hunt 2011

At the Hickam Easter Hunt April 2011.

All the eggs for the 5-6 year olds

And the hunt begins!!

A lot of kids and no not all were 5-6 year olds

Atiana after she got all her eggs.

Allana after hunting down Easter eggs

Allana

The girls posing for the camera after the Easter Egg hunt.

Daddy's R&R!!

This is the girls at the airport while waiting for daddy to get off the airplane. And of course what else would make it perfect but having some Starbucks. They had no clue what we was doing there. It was a big surprise. Anthony told them we were at the new Target so I just went along with it and one of Atiana's comments was she did not like the new Target...lol.

This is as they see their daddy coming through the doors they are running to him. They are so happy to finally see him again.

As they reach to give daddy a big hug. This just melts my heart every time I see it.

Atiana did not want to let go of him for a second.

Such a proud father he is!!

Wow...

a lot has happened since I last posted which was back in February. My husband came home on R&R had a great time with him while we could. The girls were super excited for him to be back but once he left it was the saddest thing I had to endure all over again. It was most upsetting for the youngest one of the twins, Atiana. She really broke down and that was really heart breaking for me as a mother. It was even hard on my husband this time around to leave them all over again. But on the bright side we have only 4 or 5 months left before he is finally back at home for good (or until a next deployment).

Then came the girls kinder graduation sad George was not here to see this but I took lots of pictures for him and video of the girls. 
Now the girls are on summer vacation and we are just hanging around till it's time for George to get home and then it will be time to get ready to PCS out of here and to our new destination SAN ANTONIO, TX.
I was not to excited to be moving there as for it's not close to my mother in law but when I saw how much house we can get for our money that totally changed my mind and now I am super excited. We have been stationed there before and so I already know the area and have friends that live there. I get to have my real Mexican food that I so miss. And this is one place that I know my mom will fly out to because she says it reminds her of home (California) that is another plus about San Antonio. Well I think that is it for now and if I remember anything else I will post more. I will also upload a few picture links to each event that I just spoke about but in their own post.

Hikes

 Sorry I have been gone for way to long but I am back and like I've said before I will try to keep on top of it. So what have I been up to or the family for that matter. We have been doing lots of stuff especially me. My husband is currently deployed defending our country in Iraq. So in order to keep busy for the next year I have taken up hiking and running. And with that said I'd like to share some pictures of my hikes that I have done here in Hawaii. The first hike that I did was back in September maybe of Maka Pu'u Light house. It's not a real hike it's more of a trail that you follow and it is paved so easy that me and the girls ended up doing it the second time I went so fairly easy to do.

 

Trail coming back down Maka Pu'u Light house

 

This is the Light house you see once you reach the top. (Beautiful View)

The next hike I did was back in September it was Diamond Head and oh my goodness did I want to quit after the second set of stairs.  I was really out of shape I had not been running or doing any sort of activity so yes it hit me and hit me hard that afterward when I got home I ended up with a killer migraine. Light and noise would bother me and not even a cold shower helped so I ended up taking an Excedrine and took me a nap and that seemed to do the trick.

Entrance to the Diamond Head

The Dreaded stairs(but not so bad second time around)

View coming down.

The view once you reach to the top of Diamond Head!!

A friend here recently asked me to go with her again on the hike to Diamond Head I dreaded the hike thinking it was going to be the same end results. The only difference is that I had been running off and on so I was a little more in shape this time around so in shape that me and my friend ended up doing the hike in an hour or so and then somewhere in our little brains we decided to go and do Koko Head.
Koko head I have been wanting to do since I took up running and hiking and pretty much since I lost all my weight. But that is the dreaded hike that everyone talks about here on the island. It is an old set of rail road tracks that go up a mountain that they used back in the days to transport military members and supplies to the top of the mountain. Now for what I have no idea only thing I can think of is to keep watch from the Japanese I am assuming who knows.

So anyways, back to what I was saying we decided to drive up to Koko Head and just take a look at it and see if we can just go up half way. Oh and the total of stairs it has is I believe somewhere 1048 well there will be a picture of how many stairs I had to climb to the top. Yea right we are only going to go half way if I am going half way and already in pain I might as well finish it .....and that we did. I have to say it was the best experience ever I am so glad that we ended up doing it.

First step

As you are climbing to the top.

reached 200 stairs!! ( we were still ok)

by this time we were thinking what are we doing but still ok.

When we turned around and saw this we thought very worth it.

By this time we were definitely huffing and puffing and thinking what were we getting ourselves into.

Then we finally saw the last step and we were so proud of ourselves.

So freaken glad we had made it to the top. Shannon and I.

Now we have to go back down. That was not as easy as going up.

Posing for the camera. CHEESE!!

And now I want to do it all over again but I would like to video record every step (well not every step) of the way up so that people can experience it with me via video and see how tough it is. Well tough for those who are not in shape because there some people just running up the stairs like nothing I just so wanted to push them off the rail road tracks.