Halloween!

Baby True must be adored!

Kids in pajama's are so cute Check out his long hair. He is so crazy cute!!!

More pictures from the Luau

Check out this great one of Pat and Shannon!

Amber and Evaila! Evaila had to get the pose exactly right.

Our new friend, Nick was a huge help along with his fiancee, Kendall.

The Girls!

Sisters!

Taj and Baby True

Luau Pictures!

Finally, some time to work on a quick report about our luau and some great pictures.

We fed over 180 people, we cooked over seventy pounds of pork, six pots of rice, two huge pans of sweet potatoes, quarts of lomilomi salmon and gallons of green and macaroni salads! The meal turned out wonderfully and the good people of the Ohana Project worked and worked and worked.

The highlight of the luau was the wonderful halau from Hokulani's Hula Studio. The beautiful Kathy once again brought her graceful dancers from her halau and they amazed the crowd.

We have been trying to get the seniors from the Greenwood Senior Center (where we meet on Sunday mornings) to come out to one of our events. We were thrilled to welcome more than twenty wonderful elders and they enjoyed the show immensely. One of the gentleman got up after the hula show and emotionally thanked us for the luau! We were so stoked to have the participation of these lovely people.

Enjoy the pictures, I remembered to take them mostly at the end! Some of them are of us doing the prep work. You of course will see many of baby. He did great and enjoyed the many people who stopped to admire him. :)

Baby True Loves a Luau

Aloha friends!
I have a lot to report and finally some pictures! Thanks to our dear Liz Morgan we have figured out our camera problem. Now I have to find a new battery on ebay and until I get the new one, Liz has loaned me one of hers. We are struggling to try to subdue our unruly video camera. We have video of Baby but it will not download to the computer, so hopefully, sooner than later we will see some live action from the little tot.

Speaking of tot's...

Baby True is stumbling around like a drunk little sailor. He LOVES walking and when he does he knows that he is being so cute! He is taking five to seven steps at a time. This picture was taken right after he took a step from the chair to his toy. Check out how happy he is with himself.



Baby is still a very happy, charming baby. He is experiencing a little pain from his teeth which makes him a tad grumpy. But as long as there are people around to talk to him and keep him company he doesn't do much crying. In this picture you can see a little of his three teeth on the bottom, still no teeth on the top. He is also eating his new favorite food, edayame!


Now that I have sung his praises let me tell you that we are VERY tired. Baby was a great sleeper until about 8 months and now he thinks it's great to wake up every three hours. We are exhausted! He goes to sleep well but can't stay asleeep. We are trying to let him learn to cry it out in the crib and go back to sleep but he hates that idea. He stands up in his crib and yells at us, "get up you lazy parents and do what I want!" He knows that we are suckers and weak and we have to work so hard to not get him out of his crib. We need to move his crib out of our room but our house isn't set up that great and I don't want him downstairs by himself.

In this picture he is trying to get to Mama and the computer, he has taken to climbing on to everything he can possibly get on.


Here he is really mad that we have started to belt him into his high chair as he likes to stand up and throw food on our light beige carpet!



And finally this is what happens when you insist on playing with a box. Babies are so fickle, he had to play with it and when he got stuck he screamed and when he got out he looked at me like it was all my fault. I guess it was my fault because I took a picture instead of rescuing him.


I know this post was supposed to be have some info and pictures about the Luau! I wrote and posted a ton of pictures to this post but for some reason firefox kicked me of and I lost it! I will post more later, the luau was great and I am so in love with all of you Ohana Project peope!

ALOOOOHHHHHAAA!

Still working on the camera issues!

Sorry no new pictures. We have to get a new camera! But our dear friend from Delta, Ruby sent us a CD with pictures from the Delta Powwow. We were in Alaska in June and had a great time seeing everyone! There is a couple of pictures that show Dad's new outfit. Enjoy the pictures.

Picture Famine

Sorry for the long lapse between posts. Life has been incrediably busy and good recently. We have had a ton of great barbeques and we are really enjoying our friends, neighbors and family.

Our camera has not been working very well. I think we need a new battery or new camera. And we are also trying to figure out our video camera. I am hoping to post videos someday.

Baby True is so amazing. We enjoy him more and more each day. He is 9 1/2 months old. He can cruise around the whole living room with now problem and will occasionally stand on his own. He loves eating cheese, rice and vegetables. Fruit is a little sour for him but he is slowly beginning to eat it. Miguel and Noni (my sister's kids) are the greatest thing in his life so far. When they come running in the house he gets VERY excited and makes dinasour noises that crack us up. He also has started to laugh in his sleep which is very endearing. Pretty much he is the cutest baby in the entire world.

The picture was taken by our friend Christinen who is a professional photographer with some amazing skills. Her website is
christinerenee.com
I highly recommend her if you are looking for pictures of babies! She is great with babies and it was a great experience having her take pictures of Baby True. She comes to your house and makes it really easy.

Thanks everyone for reading our blog and being such a wonderful support to Matt, baby and I.

Swimming at Uncle David's and Auntie Gretchen's House

Alaska Report

It's been a long time since my last post. We have been to Alaska and back, we were there for the 11th annual Alaska Ablaze Alaska Native Family Camp. Baby True did wonderful and enjoyed himself very much, he was charming on the plane and didn't cry one time!

The camp is in Mentasta Village (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentasta_Lake,_Alaska) . It was beautiful there and we loved hanging out in the village and just "being". We had a great time every night under the big top and were encourged to further seek after the Creator.

We then went to beautiful Delta Jct. and hosted a powwow on the front lawn of my mom and auntie's motel. I am always amazed at how my Dad makes this powwow happen. It was the first time for Dad to wear his new regalia. He looked KEEN! Uncle Tom, Auntie Margret and Aunt Sue were there from Oklahoma and it was great to see them. Uncle Tom and Aunt Margret were in Hawaii for Ted's wedding and it has been awesome to get to know them better. I didn't take pictures the whole time I was in Alaska but Lis is going to email me some that I will post as soon as i can. Until then check out our friend Ruby's blog she has pictures of the powwow. http://gameranchinginalaska.blogspot.com/

More soon!

Mini-Matt

we love baby true

He's just so darn cute.

He seem's to really want what he shouldn't have. Isn't that the weirdest thing? Cord's, knifes, hairbrushes, are way more cool then his toy's. In this picture the laundry basket was the coolest thing.

Auntie Lala

Mommy and Daddy are for sure Baby True's favorite people. But when Auntie Lala get's here most evenings he get's really excited and recognizes Lala. Lael is trying to make him say Lala for his first word's. :)

It's all about Baby True!

Long time, no blog!! We have had a crazy month so far. But here are a few pictures to make up for the long absence. Baby True is divine and is doing so many interesting things. He has the army crawl done and is doing a lot of rocking back and forth on his hands and knees. He finally has a tooth poking through. It's making him a little grumpy but so far he hasn't really screamed about it. More soon!

This picture is a little girlie but Auntie Haunani bought it so we tried wearing it to Haunani's Luau but Daddy put his foot down.

Hiro and Everett

Josh and Charity were here for Matt's birthday. Everett and Baby True had a good time with each other. Matt took these really good pictures.

Matt's Birthday Party!!!

It was a HUGE success. We had a great time. The rain threatened to ruin the event but held of. I am not sure how many people were there but we ate, danced and listened to the band. Here are some pictures.