Some Hawaii Pics

Rather than try and give a long, drawn-out dissertation on our trip to Hawaii to visit John's parents, I'm just going to share some of my favorite pictures. This is the condensed version of the trip in pictures even. I took over 300! I know. I have kind of a problem. Anyway, enjoy!

Happy Easter!

Well, we did the best we could with our dreary, stormy Easter Sunday. Up top, there's a picture of the kids checking out what the Easter Bunny brought them. I had planned on setting up the camera to get a family photo before we went to church, but it was really dark out with the clouds and looked like it'd pour down at any moment. We tried to get a picture of a few of us on the stairs inside, but John and Aidan didn't want their picture made....so here are Neely and I in our Easter dresses. It's the best we could do.

Little Green Men

As we were returning from the gym this morning, Aidan made a funny. There's been construction on the North Gate for the last several weeks, and traffic is rerouted along the flight line for a little bit before we can get to our house. As we drove by this morning, Aidan said, "Mommy, that's where Daddy lives." You know your husband has been working too much when your three-year-old thinks he lives there. I corrected him, reminding Aidan that Daddy works there and lives with us. Then he said, "Daddy likes to work. Daddy likes to work with the green people." I about died laughing. I couldn't exactly correct that part. Yes, they do all wear green flight suits, therefore making them the green people, I suppose. I wonder what John will think.

Easter Celebration Begins

Our Easter festivities began today. The 96th Bomb Squadron hosted an Easter egg hunt and picnic at a park in North Bossier. It was the perfect day for it. We had that crazy tornado come through on Thursday night, so it was nice and cool, t-shirt and jeans weather, but sunny. There was a pretty good turnout for the event. There were probably between 15 and 20 children there, not so many that everybody starts to get out of control.


Aidan had a blast. Last year, he wasn't too interested in picking up eggs. He got distracted by a lacrosse team practicing on the other side of the field and watched them rather than hunt for eggs. He was great with it today. He also got to play with balloons, on the playground, attempt to jump rope, and chase kites. Needless to say, it wasn't difficult to get him to lie down for a nap this afternoon.


This evening, we dyed eggs for our little family Easter egg hunt tomorrow afternoon. We're keeping to ourselves this year - we're still a bit jet lagged and probably wouldn't be much fun - so Aidan will get to find all our eggs by himself. Anyway, he loved coloring the eggs. He got a little carried away toward the end and was just dunking them in every color and pulling them out of the cups with his bare hands. He got messy, but that's what little boys do, right? Hopefully next year, Neely will be better able to participate.

I couldn't resist.

I just loaded my photos on Granny's computer, and I had to share my little kissy lips hula girl. Isn't she adorable? Tiffany's going to have fun with her once we reschedule her pictures.

Tomorrow, tomorrow...

Now that I'm sounding like little orphan Annie, we return home to Louisiana tomorrow evening. We've got a little less than 24 hours of Aloha left. When we return and recover from jet lag, I'll get started posting some of my 300+ photos. No, I'm not kidding. My amazing new memory card holds nearly 500 raw files. It's wonderful. But don't worry, I won't subject you to all of them. Only the best! Until then...aloha!

Reminds me of a joke from Miss Congeniality....
Gracie Lou: In Hawaii, don't you use "Aloha" for hello and goodbye?
Miss Hawaii: Sooo...?
Gracie Lou: So if you’re on the phone with someone and they won’t stop talking, how do you get them off? Because you say, "Okay, take care, aloha." Don’t they like start all over again?

Thank you all...

...for your help. We made it through our flight just fine. The kids were AWESOME, and we got tons of compliments from the passengers surrounding us when we landed in Honolulu. Hopefully, they'll do just as well on the return trip.