Aloha!
So this month Jaggar came and stayed with us over his fall break! It's always great to have him here! It amazes me how bonded he and Isla are. She doesn't see him for months at a time and still remembers him and gives his picture an "up high" (high five) almost everyday. While he was here we took the kiddos to the Aquarium. Jag can name almost any fish we see there. We also went on a hike called Swinging Bridges. You have to cross two rickety bridges that are made from narrow slats of wood and wire cable. At the end of the hike you get to jump off of a man made water fall in the picture. We all jumped and had a nice day. Michael was doing back flips and suicides off the dumb cliff. Some kids that were there were giving him requests every time he jumped. Jag and I are the more traditional jumpers haha. While he was here Jag "hinted" to me that he wanted an ipod. A few days later he checked a box that we keep for him that we put any $ he gets from family for holidays/birthdays. He had $150!!! I told him that was probably enough to buy an ipod....so he now has a brand new blue ipod nano! He is so excited he fell asleep with it on. We also had a birthday bash for Michael....the BIG 36!!! haha. He'll kill me for that...anyways. It was really nice we had it at a beach park with a bunch of friends and the kids. We bbq'd and had a big spread of food and brownies. Michael has been surfing way more lately. He has found some guys from work that he goes with at like 5 am for dawn patrol sessions. Where you muster the motivation to do something that hard that early is beyond me ....so I give them credit! I've been surfing a little more on the weekends. I'm actually able to get up and stay up now! Wo
o hoo! I've been getting up every weekend until last weekend when the waves were a bit larger and I just got hammered repeatedly!!! Needless to say I dragged my sorry butt back to the shore and caught nothing but water up my nose haha. We usually take turns, one surfs, one watches the baby. She is always a cheerleader and I can see her from shore when I'm up with her hands in the air yelling, "Yeah Mommy!!! Go Mommy go!!!" So one last story then I'm out. Michael was washing the dishes one day and Isla drug the step stool out of it's home and over by Daddy to watch. He's washing away not paying much attention to the fact that her hands are in the water and the step stool is no where close to being tall enough for that to happen. He yelled for me from the other room to come see something and you can see in the picture what she was standing on.......the handle! I swear the girl is part monkey! Anyways...enough for now!Much Love to all!
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