rainy days

When your day starts out like this...

you know it is time to get out of the house:)

And since the weather has been so junk we decided to go to the mall.

We played on the playground, where we ran into Leslie Fitzgerald (a girlfriend who I use to hang out with 6 years ago who lives in Kaneohe) and her kids, read books at borders, checked out the new thinker toys store, ate at Taco Del Mar had dessert at Ben and Jerry's and bought Kali a new umbrella which she takes with her EVERYWHERE.

Kali does not leave her home these days without her baby, a purse filled with a play cell phone, hello kitty wallet, keys, lipgloss, ipod, and occasionally her camera.  She prefers wearing skirts her slippers and gets excited to wear a jacket if it is raining or she thinks it feels a little cold.  She is into accessories these days, bracelets, rings and asks me to put her hair in pigtails, braids or a pony tail, but sadly it doesn't last to long and she asks for me to take it out, EVEN if it looks ADORABLE!

My little Krewzer is into ANIMALS right now.  He loves looking at his animal books and making animal sounds.  We went to the Zoo last week and he loved it!!  The first animal he saw was an elephant and he ran right up to the gate so excited, but as soon as he saw it move he backed off a little unsure, it was pretty funny!!

He is a climber and loves to jump. When he wakes up and we go into the room he is jumping up and down in his crib, he decided that was more fun than climbing out.  Even when he is jumping on the ground he can get his feet off the ground every once in awhile.

He goes to nursery now and they say he is so happy and entertaining.  Every time they sing songs he gets up and dances.  That is my little Krew man.  Anytime he hears music he just has to move and dance around.

He is such a happy little guy, always laughing and reminding me how fun life can be :)

big sister

Kali and Krew love to sit on Aaron's lap or mine when ever we are doing anything on the computer.  When I walked into the kid's room the other day this is what I saw :)

eggs anyone?

It was time for both kids to go down for a nap.  Krew went down easily as always and Kali did not, as always :)  Her excuse today as she was laying there was, "mom, I need some broccoli and ranch."  How could I refuse, this little girl doesn't eat much as it is, and to ask for broccoli.  

OF COURSE YOU CAN :)  

As she was eating her broccoli I received a call from my sister in law Veronica.  I had to go to the computer to help her with a few things over the phone.  After we had finished our conversation I went to go check on Kali and this is what I found:

She had successfully cracked and was mixing one dozen eggs.  I couldn't get mad at her she was so proud of herself, she didn't even make a mess and after checking for shells I only found two small ones. 

 IMPRESSIVE :)

She also had some toast in the toaster, so when they were finished she buttered those while I cooked the eggs.  While we were cooking and spreading the butter Kali said, "mom, isn't this awesome?  We are working as a team."  :)  She is just so cute sometimes!!

Yuen Family Reunion: sneak peek

This was such a fun family to photograph.

More pictures can be found on my photoblog and my shanaejonesphotographyfacebook page.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BRADA!!

Happy Birthday to the most optimistic, always happy, big hearted, humorous, guy I know!

Hope you had a perfect day!!!

LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU.

look who is back in town

and we couldn't be happier :)

Birthdays.

Happy Birthday Melissa!

We celebrated Melissa's birthday with an amazing cheese cake made by Chad.  

It tasted like it was straight from the Cheese Cake Factory!

Happy Birthday Lili!!

Lili turned 4 and celebrated with a girls pajama party and sleep over.

It was the girls first sleep over, SO FUN!

They got their hair straightened by Melissa.

Nate was so thrilled to have all these crazy girls running around his house.  Tyken, Krew and Nate played together at the playground for most of the party :)

Thanks Mike and Angie for taking them.

Kali and Lili were so excited about the sleep over one of the first things they did was pretend to sleep:)

That didn't last long:)

Girls just want to have fun!

beautiful little Jocelyn at the party

Kim made them all princess crowns.

they got to make their own pizza's

We sang Happy Birthday!

and ate icecream

Lili opened her gifts

and in attempt to get them to relax and wind down after loads of sugar we had them watch a movie.

After all was said and done Brylie and Kali were the only ones left at Lili's home to try and actually sleep over and they didn't fall asleep until midnight on the mattress,

while Nate and Lili watched a movie until 1 am.

Kali woke up at 4 am and came home.

Brylie woke up the following morning at 8:30 am.  She made it! :)

It was a trial run to see if they could actually have sleep overs:)

Thanks Kim for such a fun party for the girls!!

And for being willing to let them have their trial sleep over at your house :)