Happy Easter!

What a wonderful day we had! First the Easter Bunny came to visit Ashton this morning.

We went to church this morning (for the first time since Ashton's been baptized) at New Hope Oahu. They have a really nice day care for the kids while the parents attend the service. When you drop off your child, you are given a number so that if there is an issue during the service the assigned number will flash across the screen. We almost made it the entire hour when Adam noticed that our number was now flashing across the screen. He was crying and wouldn't calm down. I give Ashton credit..new place and new people. He did awesome!

After church, we came home for Ashton to nap and for me to attempt my first ever quiche. We then headed over to the Britt family's home for Easter brunch. It was so nice to have our Hawaii Ohana there to spend the day with.

Ashton had his very own Easter egg hunt, he made his very first colored egg and got lots of hugs and kisses from all his aunties.




Ashton's Easter Egg Hunt


The many family photos as we try to get Ashton to smile and look at the camera


Dave & Kate, Riis, Mary Kate & Ashton, Christine & Ian


Dying Easter eggs

Fun at Iolani Fair!

What a great time we had. I waited in line for a famous KC Waffle Dog for over 45 minutes while Daddy and Ashton had fun walking around.

Ashton had fun dancing, spinning, playing games, eating ice cream and looking at all the other kids running around screaming. It really is the best to see life though his eyes.



Ashton had his first face full of dirt...he was spinning and dancing when he lost his balance and face planted. Poor thing looked up at me with a mouth full of black dirt...of course I couldn't help but laugh when he started laughing at himself.

Fun with Daddy

Ashton loves, loves when his Daddy rides him on this bike (note to self..looks like Ashton really should be wearing a helmet).

Easter Bunny....

fail....He was not happy! We got our money back since the photogapher was too slow...Adam got this blury shot.

Riis on the other hand was just too cute for words.

Dole Plantation

A fellow blogger friend, Lori, totally reminded me that we've never taken Ashton to Dole Plantation. After a failed swim class we decided it would be something fun to do.

Ashton loved the train! We fed the fish and enjoyed Dole Whip. Yummy!

Tsunami 2011

I almost forgot to post about the Tsunami scare we had a few weeks ago which was caused by a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan. I had signed up to receive text messages for alerts such as these and around 8:00 pm on March 10, I receive the first text message with many more to follow. It was well before the sirens went off and luckly Ashton was already down for the night. I called Adam since he was working to warn him to fill the car up and get home as soon as he could.

Needless to say we were very fortunate that Hawaii did not substain much damage and we were all safe and sounds at home. We had the tubs full of water, a pot roast in the crock pot with the rice cooker on just in case:-)

Swim Class

We finally decided it was time for Ashton to take some swimming classes. We enrolled him at the YMCA. It will fun bonding time for Daddy & Ashton to enjoy on Saturdays for about 8 weeks.

Ashton had fun, but was that kid that started to cry and was over the whole idea. He loves to swim in the ocean so I was quite surprised to see that type of reaction from him. I think it was pretty chilly as it was only 9:00 am. Hopefully next week will be more fun for him.