Sunset Beach and Ted's Bakery

My cousin's wife emailed my a few weeks ago about an assignment that her son was doing for school. He had to send "Flat Stanley" on a vacation to visit a friend/relative and get some pictures. We got Flat Stanley in the mail and were deciding where to take him. My sister Marla had requested some chewy pinapple candy from the Dole Pinapple Plantation so we figured that would be a good place to start.

Since we were already more than half-way up to the north shore we decided that we really wanted to go find a bakery that we kept hearing was the best bakery. So, we headed further north in search of Ted's Bakery. They are famous for their Chocolate Haupia Pies. We learned that Haupia is Coconut Pudding, so, it's a Chocolate Coconut Pudding Pie. I have one word to describe it: DELICIOUS!!!! That is THE BEST pie I have EVER had.

Ted's Bakery is right next to Sunset Beach. We decided to go to the beach for a while to play. I LOVE Sunset Beach! I have decided that it's my favorite beach along the north shore. It was lots of fun!

Weekly Review - April 5-11

Monday, April 5 - Kaylee went outside to play in our backyard and came back in yelling "Gabby! Come look at this! You're not going to believe this!" Of course, that got me to come look to. There was a turtle wandering around in our backyard. It came in under the fence, wandered around a few minutes, and then moved on.

Tuesday, April 6 - One of Gabby's chores is to wash the bathroom mirrors. She loves this chore, and she has excellent fashion.

Wednesday, April 7 - Since moving to Hawaii I have been doing homeschool with K & G. It has been a very educating adventure (in many more ways than I could eve have imagined.)

Thursday, April 8 - Kaylee let Gabby borrow her CD player while Kaylee was still doing her school work. Gabby was really jamming out...singing, dancing, leaping. It was very entertaining.

Friday, April 9 - Paul got off work early and wanted to get out of the house. We took the girls to "How to Train Your Dragon" and it got over right about time for rush hour traffic. We decided to wander around a few stores and grab some dinner before heading home. While we were wandering around one store Kaylee found a soap dispenser that she was sure her aunt Marla would love! It was a duck, and Marla loves rubber duckies.

Saturday, April 10 - Gabby went upstairs to get dressed and came back dressed head to toe in pink...not just pink, but pink shiny pants, pink slippers, and all. When we went shopping she traded in the pink slippers for some pink cowboy boots.

Sunday, April 11 - Since last Sunday was General Conference and Easter the girls decided to wear their new Easter dresses to church today. When we came out of church it was pretty breezy.

Weekly Review March 29-April 4

Monday, March 29 - The palm trees in front of our house have been dropping a lot of leaves/branches lately. The kids think the branches make excellent brooms, houses, fans, etc. They think they are really fun to play with. (Until the landscaping company comes around on Tuesday and cleans them all up).

Tuesday, March 30 - Since moving to Hawaii I have been homeschooling my kids (Because of the poor quality of schools, etc. There could be a whole post on this subject) Lately we have been learning all about the oceans. My kids have been LOVING learning about the ocean since we live right in the middle of it.

Wednesday, March 31 - For our science experiment we made Groovy Lava Lamps. K & G were so mesmorized they wanted to keep making it bubble. This is their favorite science experiment we have done.

Thursday, April 1 - It was the last day of swimming class. Kaylee was sad but had tons of fun. Gabby was so happy that it was finally over. We only convinced Gab to get in the pool 4 out of 8 days of swim class. Kaylee now wants to go swimming everyday so she can practice some more.

Friday, April 2 - For our Easter treat the girls helped me make No-bake-cookie nests. They love cooking/baking. They each chose how many eggs were going to be in each nest and what color eggs might belong in each nest.

Saturday, April 3 - The kids really wanted to dye Easter Eggs all week. I told them we would do it on Saturday so Paul could dye eggs with us. Saturday came and they pretty much hopped out of bed and asked to dye eggs. They did their chores so fast I had to check to see if they were really done...they were!

Sunday, April 4 - Happy Easter! Gab was so excited when she discover the treasures left by the Easter Bunny, she went running upstairs in a high pitch top-of-her-lungs voice to wake Kaylee up and see what was on the table.

Happy Easter

This morning I woke up to the sounds of a very high pitch scream of Gabby coming running up the stairs...it went something like this: "Oh Kaylee!!!! It's Easter!!! The Easter Bunny came! Come look, Hurry!" I really prefer not to wake up to high pitch screaming. A nice whisper in my ear works quite nicely. I pulled myself out of bed and went downstairs to see what the kids discovered.

First they found this:

Then they saw these:

Then they found these:

Easter Eggs

K & G have been begging ALL WEEK to dye Easter Eggs. I told them that we would dye eggs on Saturday so that Paul could do it with us. Pretty much the first thing out of their mouths this morning was asking if they could dye eggs since it was "finally" Saturday. I told them there were a few things that needed to be done including the chores on their list for the day. Wow! I have never seen them rush through their chores like that, even when we offered to go to a movie yesterday they didn't want to do chores...but when it comes to dying eggs the chores were done remarkably fast.

Weekly Review March 21-28

I haven't been doing very well at my weekly review post since I got to Hawaii because of how busy my life has been. Due to popular demand (or request however you would like to put it), it seems that people like this post on my blog. I am going to try to get back into doing my weekly post because I really enjoy seeing our weekly review as well. I thought about going back further than this past week...but decided that I will just start with this week, and maybe do some back posts if I have time later.

Sunday, March 21 - After going to church we had a nice relaxing day at home, sat out on the patio, and had a nice relaxing day.

Monday, March 22 - Kaylee and Gabby started swim class at the outdoor pool on base. It was a nice, sunny day all day long...until we got to swim class then it started pouring rain. Kaylee didn't mind, she figured that she already had her swimsuit on, the rain wouldn't hurt her. Gabby did NOT like the rain at all. She got out of the pool and would not get back in. I ended up stting in the car with her until Kaylee was done with class.

Tuesday, March 23 - Another day of swimming classes. We had a hard time convincing Gabby to go to class in her swimsuit but once we were there the teacher was able to talk her into the pool since it was a nice sunny day out. She liked it and was excited to go down the slide until she went under the water as she came off the slide. Then she didn't like swimming class again.

Wednesday, March 24 - Kaylee has LOVED going to swimming class. She has loved just about everything about it...except the rule about staying agaist the wall when the teacher is out with someone else. She just wants to head out and play...not stay against the wall. She also loves going down the slide at the end of class.

Thursday, March 25 - Happy Birthday Gabby! My baby girl turned FIVE-YEARS-OLD!!! How did that time fly by so fast? For her b-day we made cupcakes, went to swimming class, opened presents, went to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner, and talked to Grandma and Papa on Skype. It was a fun, busy day.

Friday, March 26 - After a crazy week we stayed home, despite Paul's best attepts to convince the girls to go out and do something, we stayed home. On Wednesday we spent over 5 hours getting my car registed with Hawaii plates so the kids just wanted some play time at home. So, my pic of the day is my new Hawaii plates on my car because it seriously took forever jumping through hoops to get new plates on my car.

Saturday, March 27 - Gabby's only request for her birthday this year was that she wanted to go camping. She has been talking about camping for her birthday for months. This weekend we went to Bellow's Beach and went camping.

Sunday, March 28 - After camping at Bellows Beach when we went to the beach to play we were prety much the only people on the beach. It was fun building sandcatles, playing in the ocean, relaxing with a good book, etc.