:: ALOHA ::

Leaving Washington.

We got up at 5:30am this morning and it's now 8:30 pm, but only 5:30 pm Maui time.

Over the ocean and clouds, nearing the island.

Almost there . . . about to touch down.

Views from our top floor condo (sweet!!) :

More updates and pictures sure to come.

leaving on a jet plane

Next time you see us, we will be saying "Aloha!"

Leaving these three behind (sniff, sniff).

:: camp fuego ::

Turning seven at Camp Fuego was a lot of fun.

The campers were pretty wild and excited at first, but it didn't take long before they got into the swing of things.

:: Campers ::

:: GRUB ::

:: Sleeping Bag Races ::

:: Tug-a-War ::

:: Scavenger Hunt ::
(standing in the neighbors house awaiting the next clue)

We found the cake in oven. Teehee! Happy Birthday Wonder Boy!!

:: Cake Eating ::

:: Bracelet Making ::

:: S'mores Making & Eating ::

:: Present Opening ::

The End.

jumping into seven

4:49 am

At 4:49 am on the morning of August 6th,

this little boy came into our lives.

Born a Leo with the personality to match.
With hair the color of these which was a total surprise.

He was once afraid of this man.
But never afraid of these

or anything else requiring buttons or motors or power cycles or alarms systems or decoding capabilities or computers or . . . . (the list could go on and on)

His sense of humor always looks like this.

But his quiet moments of still look like this.

He can do this,

and this,

and this,

and this . . . . FEARLESSLY.

We love him as wide and as long as this.

And we hope he continues to dive in, head first,

with reckless abandonment and pure joy always.

Happy 7th Birthday to our Wonder Boy, our El Fuego, our son!

:: camp loot ::

I'm having a really hard time believing my little boy is going to be 7 years old in two days.

This Wednesday!

SEVEN!!

In two days!

Sev.Ven.Years.Old!

Soooo crazy to think about!!! Can you believe? I can't!















Score!!! Our little campers get to take some fun things home with them after Wonder Boy's party on Wednesday. They will each each get a drawstring bag complete with camp logo, a canteen, also with camp logo, a flashlight, compass, trail mix and a granola bar.




















I'm pretty please with how the canteens turned out. I bought the only canteens they were selling on Oriental Trading Company but they had an ugly army sticker on both sides. So we did a little embellishing.




















(Miss O modeling the backpacks for me.)

J ordered the cake this morning and this is the first time I've had no involvement with the cake. I just told J to ask for a camp theme and Wonder Boy picked out the flavor and what he wanted his cake to say. I'm eager to see how it turns out and you betcha, I'll post a picture. I am planning a little scavenger hunt for the birthday cake. We'll send the campers on a goose chase to hunt down the dessert. I think it will be lots of fun!!

We are off to buy a little four man tent tomorrow to complete our camping extravaganza. We have a huge one but we put it in storage and I completely forgot that we had done that until tonight. It was the plan to have the tent in the backyard for the kids to hang out in. Play in. Be the back drop for the party, et cetera. We had wanted to buy a smaller, easy to pop-up tent so J could take the big kids camping by himself. So even though I know I go a little crazy with the party themes and all, I'm not that crazy buying a tent just for a party. Cut me a little slack people!