Easter Weekend, Aloha Style

Happy Easter to everyone.  We hope you were able to enjoy family, food and fun.  We also hope you had time to reflect on the greatest blessing of all and the reason for this holiday.  Helaina and I attended a very Hawaiian Good Friday service where most of the songs were sung in Hawaiian.  We celebrated Easter Sunday at the church we have been attending since we moved here.  After church there was a pot luck in which we ate 'Choke Food' (Hawaiian slang for a huge amount of food) that was 'So Ono' (really good) it 'Broke da Mouf' (really yummy).

On Saturday night Chris, Helaina, and I walked down to the beach, which is about 5 blocks, and had a picnic.  We grilled out with the Hibachi grill that was also gifted to us by the Gerichs when they left (yes, I'm still sniffling).  As a lesson to myself, don't ever go to the beach without a swimmie and a bathing suit with a one year old, even if it's late in the day.  Helaina tried several times to get daddy to take her in the water.  He tried to explain that we didn't have her suit and so she abandoned his hand and tried to go herself.  Fortunately, she wasn't too persistent but we will be prepared for next time.

On Sunday night, I was eager to not cook again so we picked up Thai food from this little hole in the wall place that makes pretty good food and went to Kako 'Ako Park.  It's a great park right on the ocean and it was busy but not too crowded.  We watched the sun set and reminded ourselves just how grateful we are to live in this beautiful place and how very blessed we are that HE is risen.  May God bless you and your family.

"dis" way daddy

return trip.  mission failed.

poser on the beach

Sunday Night