Josh, Brittanie, and Miss Ru came to visit us in Hawaii last week. They brought with them, Braddy, Heather and Chris. We had a full house. Our small 450 sq foot studio/wanna be one bedroom apartment, 20 gallon water heater, and 1 bathroom housed us all. We were snug and loved every minute of it, except when Josh farted and well..thats obvious you want to run to save your life..but we all inhaled the fumes because thats how we rolled. They arrived late Wednesday night and I met them at the airport and greeted them all with flower leis (which we recycled later at Evs graduation). I then met them at the car rental place to bring them the car seat that my wonderful and amazing in-laws let us borrow for Miss Ru. We headed to Laie around 10 pm and I led the way getting us to Laie in approx 50 min. (long day for our visiting family/friends). Evs had beanie weanies with rice ready to serve for our hungry crew and wowed them with his amazing cooking skills. We set up camp in our lil apartment, two air mattresses side by side and a couch for Braddy (which he didnt complain about after the second night when Josh and Brittanies air mattress deflated and would not stay pumped more than 15 minutes) and tried to call it good for the night. Miss Ru didn't have a clue really what was going on, but did not want to sleep. I was so happy to see her cute smiley face, that I volunteered to take her on a stroll at midnight to help her fall asleep. Once she fell asleep I made my rounds to secure her REM state of sleep and hoped she would have good dreams. Once getting back to the apartment I debated whether to just leave Ru in the stroller or take her out..STRIKE..I should have left her in the stroller. She woke up and we couldn't get her back to sleep. Poor girl her sleeping schedule was so wacked. Anyways..I think she finally slept for a whole like 2 hours or something. I woke up and heard her jabbering away so I took her outside on the swings and Josh joined me. Then we went on a walk as the sun came up. It was neat to be with my brother and his little girl. Time spent well. We did so many things when they were here, not to mention loaded up on shave ice, mochi ice cream, and custard malasadas. Even though one of the air mattresses ended up having a unrepairable hole because Josh popped it j/k=) we still managed to have good laughs about waking up to a random noise {insert noise here} (rrreeehhh..air mattress getting pumped up) in the middle of the night. Regardless of a few nights on the hard floor or on our hard springy bed, they were still able to enjoy snorkeling at sharks cove, Hanauma Bay and Waikiki Beach, surfing at Castles, shopping at the swap meet and international market, sight seeing along North Shore, pineapple fields, and town. We were able to get them discount tickets to hit up the Polynesian Cultural Center too. We ate good grinds spam, eggs and rice, enjoyed many laughs, and celebrated Rubi's first birthday at the turtle Bay condos in Kahuku with a Tinkerbell Party (that she picked out). We played us some fun friendly games of monopoly (which I won without cheating, sorry Braddy, thanks Josh) and farkle (which I came back at the end to steal the title of sole farkle winner), and the guys played a long boring game of Risk which Josh won without cheating. We ate more good grinds at Boots and Kimos and Stortos, attended Evs BYU-Hawaii graduation (Josh and Braddy yelled loud for him when they werent supposed to yell), the guys helped us move out of and clean our little apartment (LIFESAVERS!!) I am so glad they were able to make the trip, we had a blast with them here. The weather had a mind of its own, so I am sad that we werent able to do everything they wanted to, but glad we got to spend lots of time together. Gotta love family! They left Wednesday April 14th, with all their goods and 5 additional bags and a box of ours. We miss you all already and cant wait to see you for Rubi's California birthday party. ALOHA OE' OHANA! Lots of photos not in any particular order..
2 comments:
you're adorable
what a wonderful blog! I think i'm just gonna put a link from my blog to yours so everyone can read it! :) Love the pee picture too! It will definitely be a trip to remember! Thanks for hosting us! We love you guys! PS- I need evans parents address! :)
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