Long Time, No See

I'm trying to think of a really good excuse as to why I haven't blogged lately. Hmmmm... nope, can't think of one. Sorry it took so long for me to post the following pictures. Now that Hannah and Sam BOTH like to play on the computer, nah... I shouldn't use that as an excuse, either. I've just simply gotten out of the habit of sitting down at my computer. I'm going to really try to make an effort to do better.

On that note, waaaay back in August my family came to visit! Claudia and Bobby stayed 10 days, and my parents stayed for two weeks. Unfortunately, the school year over here started on August 2nd, so Hannah had to miss a couple of our day trips to the beach. She hates missing school, so that was out of the question. We all still had a blast. It was so awesome to have them here. I wish they could've stayed longer. Two weeks went by in a flash.

Three or four days before the fam got here, Scott broke his ankle. He was running in the early morning with his Army peeps. It was raining and he twisted his ankle in a water-filled pothole in the street. The real bummer was that he couldn't go to the beach with us because his crutches didn't do so well in the sand. Plus, he was supposed to go surfing with Bobby during their stay. Unfortunately, he was unable to, so Bobby MADE ME take lessons with him. Let's just say it's not my bag. I can think of a hundred, no thousand, no- a MILLION things I'd rather be doing. Hannah makes it look so easy. For that matter, so did Bobby. He was catching waves left and right. Oy ve!

Besides the surfing debacle, I had a wonderful time with all of them. We rented a cabin right on the beach. The waves got pretty crazy at times. They kept knocking everybody down and beating us up. Claudia was smart and never put more than her toes in the water. We also rented a kayak and did that for a little while we stayed at the beach. Mostly we got to just relax and enjoy being with each other. The guys played poker almost every day 'til the wee hours of the night. Hannah and Sam had permanent smiles tatooted on their faces the whole time. Deucie & Grandpa took them to the movies, bowling, to play putt-putt, to ride on bumper boats, to Chuck E. Cheese's, etc.

I can't wait until we go home for Christmas. I miss them all so much.

Aloha and enjoy the video.

Deucie, Grandpa, Claudia, & Bobby's return to Hawaii @ Yahoo! Video

These are the same pictures I used in the video, with a few more captions...