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Pualani Swimwear Photo Shoot!

Some friends of ours own a swim wear company called Pualani Hawaii!  They asked if Alexa and Jacie would like to be models for an upcoming catalog.  So we got up early and headed to the beach!

Here are some pictures from the shoot.

Here are a couple pictures of my beautiful nice Alexa!

And a couple of cute little Jacie.

Jacie and another little girl that was in the shoot.

It was a fun shoot and I can't wait to see the catalog!

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Nicole’s Graduation Celebration!

My niece, Nicole, just graduated from Mililani High School and to celebrate we had a great party!

Here is Nicole and her proud dad!

Me, Craig and Jacie.

Nicole made her own table center pieces.  She was going to put water in the container and a little fish, but the sand clouded up the water, so we used them like this and they were very nice.  We attached balloons to the top so they were very festive!

Party favors, yummy cookies from Charmaine's Bakery!

A yummy lemon crunch cake from The Alley.  Known for their delicious cakes and food!

Great entertainment.  Manoa DNA performed first.  They were fabulous!

Next, Da Braddas did their comedy routine.  If you haven't heard of Da Braddas, they have a local TV show on OC16.  They are hilarious!!

And of course they make the family come up and get some ribbing!

And the Honolulu Dance Company performed some great dance routines.

But the best entertainment was Nicole's brother Thomas!  I didn't know that he was such a great hula dancer! 

Congratulations again, Nicole.  I'm so proud of you!!

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Alexa’s Elementary School Graduation!

Wow, I've just realized that they do graduations for every milestone now, at least here in Hawaii.  As you know, if you've been following my blog recently, we had Jacie's graduation from Kindergarten, Nicole's graduation from High School and now Alexa's graduation from Elementary School.  All I'm missing is someone graduating from middle school!

I do think it's a good thing though to recognize kids for their achievements.  Heaven knows, it's not easy being a kid these days, and I think recognition goes a long way in incenting kids to keep plugging along and continuing their hard work!

Here are a couple pictures from Alexa's event.   I'm so proud of her!  She is a good girl, who studies hard and is kind to all!!

Alexa with her proud mom!  On to middle school!

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Mililani High School Graduation!

My niece, Nicole, just graduated from Mililani High School.  I'm so proud of her!  Here are some pictures from the night.

The graduation ceremony was held at the Stan Sheriff center on the University of Hawaii campus.

Here is the proud graduate.  If you caught my post about Jacie's graduation last week, you know that the giving of lei on special occasions is a big tradition here in Hawaii.  As you can see, Nicole got tons of lei and it wasn't even the end of the night.  What you can't tell from this picture is that one of her lei is short one item.  While we were seated waiting for the ceremony to begin, Jacie got hungry.  She's a little bottomless pit.  And when she gets hungry, we all hear about it until the situation gets remedied.  So we had to untie the end of one of the lei for Nicole and give Jacie a packet of cookies or candy (I can't remember what exactly it was.  Sorry Nikki!!

Here is Nicole with her dad and mom and then with her brother Thomas and sister Emilee.

And with Alexa, Jacie and Craig and with Auntie Sherry.

They grow up so fast!  Have to enjoy every moment while you can!!

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At the Beach!

I'm going to step out on a limb here and show you a picture of me in my swim suit, only because Jacie is in the picture too and that makes it worth it!  Jacie has been really wanting to go to the beach and learn how to snorkel.  So Sherry got her some snorkel equipment and we headed off to the beach.

Here is Jacie in the car heading to the beach.  She couldn't even wait until we got there!!

Finally, at the beach, in the water, and ready for the big moment…well almost!

Here I am trying to calm her down and get her to put her face in the water.  You should have heard her breathing so hard through her snorkel. 

Okay, maybe she'll feel safer with her little vest on too. So cute!!

After a little snorkeling she was so proud of herself and she really did do a great job for her first time.  The day was a little overcast and not your typical hot Hawaiian day.  We'll have to go again soon.

Alexa went in the water for a little bit, but was more interested in getting back to her Harry Potter book.  She's on The Goblet of Fire, one of my favorites of the set!

Here's Craig, in case you can't read upside down!

And here he is "meditating"?!?!  He's a funny boy!

Jacie trying to get warmed up by mom.  More snorkeling adventures to come later in the summer!

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