Ha`oli Maka Hiki Ho

Posted on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | No Comments

That’s Hawaiian for Happy New Year!
There’s a lot going on around here.  Malia just finished her first semester at the University of Tulsa. She’s doing great and enjoying all of her mechanical engineering courses.  Though chemistry was a bit rough on her.  I think chemistry was the class that taught her how to study for [...]

Pride Takes St. Louis by Storm

Posted on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 | No Comments

This weekend the Pride of Broken Arrow stormed into the Bands of America Super Regional in St. Louis and left with all the hardware. As you know our son, Zac, is one of the three drum majors for the Pride. Eight high school marching bands from Oklahoma made the trip. They included Broken Arrow, Piedmont, [...]

Ohana in Kauai, Day 15, Last Day in Paradise

Posted on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | No Comments

Papa, Nana, Zac, Tim, Lani, Nicole, and Jacob left the house around 9am to catch their flight to Honolulu, where they will be staying for three days. The flight for the remainder of our party didn’t leave until 6:43pm. So we grabbed our beach towels and boogie boards and headed down the street [...]

Ohana in Kauai, Day 14

Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Another two beach day! First we (me, Momi, Malia, Kaylee, Lani, Tim, Nicole, Sara, Ruth, and John) went to Ke’e beach in the morning to do a little snorkeling. While there we saw some green sea turtles. We were limited to taking photos with a film camera since the underwater digital camera refused [...]

Ohana in Kaua’i, Day 13

Posted on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Not that all of the days here have been relaxing, but this one was more relaxing. While Momi took Malia, Zac, Kaylee, and Nicole to Ke’e beach to swim with the honu (turtles), I stayed at the house and lounged on the lanai. It was a morning where I didn’t go anywhere.
After lunch Momi, Malia, [...]