Football Saturday

Ahh, college football. How I have missed you. We started the day with doughnuts and College Gameday. Then had football games on the whole day. It was great! 

Unfortunately, Dad was out of town at the game, so the boys were not too interested in watching any football. Instead, they painted their tow trucks. It did keep them busy for thirty minutes, so that's nice. 

I love football!

Batter Up!

Josh had his second baseball game today. It went much better than last week. They are definitely improving. And Josh got to show off his pitching skills. 

They are on the right track and really enjoying themselves. 

Go Mud Hens!

Touchdown!

We started into fall football season today. Football Saturday, baseball Sunday. A busy fall. Dad officially retired from coaching so Daniel has a new coach this season. He is great with the kids. The team is called the Sharks (which Josh thinks is cool). 

Daniel scored a touchdown on the second drive of the game. He was so proud. 

Here's a cute fan.

Here's to a good season. Go Sharks!

Fall Baseball

We are fully into fall sports now, which makes for a busy schedule (practice Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights and games on both Saturdays and Sundays. I love Mondays!)

Josh started baseball first. What a difference a league makes. He went from being the best team during summer to a very rough first game in the competitive league. It is now kid pitch and our boys have some things to learn. I guess that is why they get two practices a week. 

It is on a real baseball field so they get to sit in a dugout, which is fun. 

And Josh had some good fans. 

It's hard to get a picture through the fence. It's going to be a good season. We have already seen progress. Let's go Mud Hens!

Touch-a-truck

On Saturday we attended the second annual Touch-a-truck event. Which should really be called, Boy's Heaven". They have a bunch of trucks, cars, tractors, etc, parked at a parking lot and you are allowed to climb in and around all of them. We spent a good hour and a half there walking around. 

They liked the milk truck (with chocolate milk samples)...

....a dump truck....

....a police truck (they even got to climb in the back and thought that was cool. We are in trouble.)

They even had a blood mobile, although as far as the boys were concerned, it was a motorhome. 

...and a limo...

....and of course, a semi-truck....

....pulling a piece of equipment.

They were able to dump trash into a garbage truck and smash it up. Very exciting!

And clean the streets.

It is a perfect event for boys. Till next year!

1st Day of School (part 2)

Daniel started Pre-K today. He was super excited and very disappointed when he did not get to start school with Josh on Monday. He has the same teachers and room as last year and a lot of the same friends. He is very excited to play everyday.

Last year before Kindergarten. He's getting so big!

1st Day of School (part 1)

Today Josh started 2nd grade. He is getting so big. He was so excited for school to start. We met his teacher last week and dropped off all his supplies so all we had to do was bring an empty backpack and a water bottle.

(I did not plan their outfits)

Here's to a great school year!

Paradise-day nine

We started our last morning in Kaua'i at the Beach Hut for breakfast. It was a little shack near the beach with a walk-up window and upstairs seating. It was nice.

Then we did a little last minute shopping and headed to the airport. We were nervous about the flight based on our experience coming out to Kaua'i. Luckily, this time the flight only took off fifteen minutes late, despite the gate agent getting to the gate 15 minutes before our original flight time. 

After the 23 minute flight, we landed in Oahu. We got checked into our hotel and went for a walk along the famous Waikiki beach. 

It was nice, but very crowded. I think we got spoiled with the Kaua'i beaches. 

We got dinner at Jimmy Buffets then strolled through the International Market Place. That was a little overwhelming for me with so many people. 

We did find some fun signs, though.

And ended the night walking through these shops. It was an experience. 

We woke-up nice and early the next day to fly back to Denver via LAX. It was a pretty uneventful flight except the free movies they gave us. Score! 

It was an amazing 10 days with just my husband. I can't believe we did half the things we did. Traveling without kids is a completely different experience. It was nice to reconnect with each other. We will definitely have to do it again soon. Thanks for the great trip, babe!

Paradise-day eight

Sunday was our exploring day. We started out looking for a place to eat breakfast. On the way we drove up to the Wailua Falls.

We could only see where you could look from the top, but it's still very powerful to see in person.

Then we continued on our quest to find breakfast. We figured we would find a place that serves breakfast by seeing where a lot of cars were. That is how we found Eggberts. It was pretty good. They had excellent french toast that was made even better with coconut syrup.

After breakfast, we continued our day of discovery by finding the Opaeka'a Falls. These were a little farther away from the lookout, but still very cool. 

Then, we headed out to find Hanalei Bay. It came highly recommended. We could never find it though. So we tried for another recommended one, Ke'e Beach. The directions to get there were drive until the road stops. Along the way were a lot of one car bridges. This was my favorite one.

We made it to Ke'e Beach, along with half of the island. The parking lot was full, as well as the road leading up to it for about a mile. So we decided to try another one we had passed along the way, Tunnels Beach. It was beautiful. 

There also happened to be a paddle board competition going on there. It was pretty neat to see the start of that. 

On the way back from Tunnels beach, we found a shaved ice stand on the side of the road. This was no Tropical Sno. 

After we got back to the hotel, we hung out at that beach for a while to even out our color, then headed in to clean up for dinner. We went to Duke's by the hotel, also a highly recommended restaurant. It boasted a famous salad bar (nothing too special) and a hula pie.

That one was pretty good. 

Then we rolled ourselves back to our hotel room for the night.