Things I love about Hawaii, and the things I don't like so much:)

I love...
Everyone wears slippas (flip flops) and removes them before coming into your house, even the servicemen.

That if your 13 year old son forgets his shoes while going to a doctors appointment, its ok! No one even bats an eye. (except for me, floors are NASTY)

 I am  with in walking distance to everything.

I can go days without driving my car.

When walking down the street, people I don't even know (they know us because our WHOLE family spoke at church last Sunday) say "Hi Sharps!"

You can order spam, eggs and rice at McDonalds, (I haven't yet but one day I am going to make my boys try it) Spam is really big here.

My House

When the serviceman comes to the door. Instead of knocking  he says over and over again, "Carrie, Carrie, Carrie" not sure why I love that one but I do.

When calling the intermediate school to ask a question about my registration packet that was not complete .due to school error.The head hauncho happened to answer the phone and was very upset at her helper who made the mistake so instead of putting me on hold, started to yell at the other lady. She was calling her stupid, etc..Cracked me up! Then she  came back to me sweet as can be.

Pineapples

Mountains

I actually like the drive to Honolulu, its beautiful, it takes an hour to go to Target, walmart or costco but its a great drive.

My husband is making money at his dream job! So he's happy I am happy!

Long Sleeve shirts can be made into short sleeve..oh yes I did:)


THINGS I DON'T LIKE SO MUCH...

Cockroaches!!!!! These boogers are gigantic!!!

Sand....still trying to figure out how to keep it out of the car.. No success yet..

$5 a gallon milk...my kids drank a lot of milk before we moved here, not anymore.

That every time we go anywhere we have to all put sunblock on!

My friends and family are so far away..

Waimea Bay

 Waimea Bay,

 known for its extremely high waves in the winter, 

and in the summer, jumping off its huge rock cliff. Notice rainbow in background.

 It was pouring rain minutes before.

 This was a bell tower to the right of the Bay, I just thought it looked picturesque.

 My cutie T.

 And "A" who tries to get out of all the pictures. I think we teased him to much. 

When he was little he always had to be in every picture so we teased, but now he won't let me take a picture of him. 

Before we showed up there was a couple modeling for a photo shoot in this exact spot. So we had to get a picture there as well. Glad we did, look at the clear blue water.

And here is the rock. 

Notice T in mid air. 

The boys all( well everyone but lil B) jumped non stop. 

By the end of the 2 hour period we were there, B  and T were jumping backwards and doing twists. 

Then they begged to go back a couple days later.

Crazy Boys!

This and that

 This is what I see out my kitchen window. 

 This is the first day we got here, kids had made friends already. There are a ton of boys on our street.

 These birds are everywhere, especially after you mow your lawn. They follow you while you are mowing and eat the bugs. They are actually very pretty and look like a white miniature flamingo.

 There are so many different flowers everywhere. One day, after I have lived here long enough, I will wear one in my hair everyday.

 This is a lava rock. Lil Bis obsessed with them, he can hardly believe that its an actual lava rock.

These birds come to visit our yard all the time. That's a coconut piece behind him if you were wondering,(kind of looks like something disgusting)

Anyone know what this bird is called?

"Da" Beach

We went to the beach right after our hike. I actually can't remember the name of the beach, but it was really cool. It had tide pools and a huge swing. 

We loved how the locals were diving in off the ladder. They were doing flips and dives.

T at the tide pools.

This swing was in the biggest tree, when you jump off you go flying!

awww Hawaii!!!
After we swam we had lunch at the park behind the beach with the Bishops family. Oh my! Talk about delicious! We had the yummiest chicken and sushi (and I don't like sushi but this was soo good). The bishop is an avid fisher man and caught or rather speared 20 different fish while snorkeling!
Yes we are enjoying it here.
We miss our friends and family but we do love Hawaii!

Laie Hike

 On the Fourth Of July we took a little hike up 2.5 miles up the mountians to Laie Falls

 It was beautiful. The terrain we covered with lush forest to red rock.

 The views were spectacular!

Above is the view from about half way up..

These are the guava strawberries that B could not get enough of! 

We made it! No one even made me carry them! Whew! my kids are getting big..

Yes, we ALL swam in the pool in front of the waterfall.

We made record time to get up and down. Some of the locals told us it would take us 5-6 hrs. We were up and down in 3 and half. Talk about Speed!!

Sunday Morning

Due to the time change we woke up very early on Sunday morning, our ward doesn't start until 12, so we took a walk.

The Laie Temple.

Then down to the beach. Its just breath taking, the green foliage,the sand, and  the blue blue water.

My kids say the sand feels like heaven,so soft.

We ran into our bishop who is a native Hawaiian, and he was able to teach us a ton of  things about  Laie. Right where we were standing we can swim sea turtles at night, then to the left a little we can walk to Goats island when the tide is low. He also showed how to catch a crab. Those babies are big!

At his house he picked coconuts off the ground and taught the kids how to  open  one up. It was quite the experience!

 Lil B thought it made a great helmet..

Our new home

View of Honolulu from the plane.

This is our home. The neighborhood is great! We came home twice this week to 2 different people on different days mowing our lawn, another day to someone bringing us coconut trees!
Talk about the Aloha spirit!

This is our street.. notice the church at the end of the street. The beach is behind the church. We can walk everywhere!

Living room, I have not decorated or painted walls, but thought I would give you a little idea of what we live in. It's much bigger than our last place, so we love it!

This is our back yard. Great space to play soccer!