It's GREAT to be 8!

My kid is getting old!  Tyler turned 8 this year and chose to become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by getting baptized July 1st, 2012.

We were so lucky to have Grandma and Grandpa Bryson come from Utah and Gramma Jamma come from Oregon!  We got to have about a week of vacation with them, which of course was super fun!

These are the (AWESOME) pictures my good friend took before his special day!  Very debonair!

 These are the baptism boys!  It was a joint baptism with Tyler Bryson, Moroni Aholelei and Braeden Samura. 

Will you have a leg next week?

Sooo, remember a few days ago when Brad wasn't able to make it to Kaili's dance performance because the thing blew up in his face?  Well apparently, that was not the only problem of the day...

A few days after "the explosion", Brad showed me this.  He said it was either the wasps that stung him or maybe a Brown Recluse bit him.  Hmmm.

Now, he said the wasps definitely stung or bit him because he was moving dirt and ran over a hand full of them that attacked.  He knew he knocked off at lease 2 from his leg.  But the spider thing was not for sure.  He thought maybe one was hiding in the wood or rebar he was moving and that a spider had crawled up his shorts and bit him.

A few weeks ago, my mom sent us an email explaining what a Brown Recluse looks like and what happens to you if it bites you:

Man is bit by Brown Recluse

Day 3

Day 5

Day 6

Day 9

I showed Brad and the kids the email and ever since then, every spider the kids come across is most definitely a Brown Recluse and we're all going to die!  The images must have stuck with Brad too because he was fairly certain his leg wound and the spider pictures were very similar.  We spent a good portion of the evening Googling. 

In the end, we decided it was just the wasps.

:-)

Scrub-a-dub-dub

 Well, it's been a good 6 months since the last time anybody has taken a wash rag to these things, I guess it's about time...

Bring out the cleaning crew!

Slacker!

Kaili didn't forget to bathe herself...you can't ever get too clean!

Abby joined us to blow bubbles, or just suck on them, that's good too!

Waiting...

 We were at the Hilton for about 12 hours while Kaili had dress rehearsals, lunch, pre-production, etc...so we (Tyler, Sina and I) opted to go "borrow" some of the Hilton's beach chairs and go to the Hilton's beach.  Met up with some friends and had a nice breather from the rehearsal!

Pretty Princess

 Ballet time again!

I think someone might be in line to be a Heart Breaker in the future!  What a doll!

 Waiting, waiting, waiting...

 Waiting, waiting...

 All the Dancers...Kaili's mushed in the middle, somewhere...

 Still waiting...

 Ahh!  Finally, after being there all day (literally, we got there about 8:30am and it finished about 8:30 pm...Here is the finished product, the final dance performance!


Before Kaili's Dance, I called Brad to see if he was coming...He said, "I don't think I can make it.  I don't feel very good.  My eyes are watering and my nose is running like crazy."  I asked if he was having an allergic reaction to something...He said, "I don't know, maybe...something blew up in my face." 

What?

Turns out, something did blow up in his face.  A gas tank he was working on didn't like what he was doing to it and it exploded, the gas cap nearly missing his face (which Brad says would have broken his jaw!)  Well, I guess you can use this as an excuse to get out of Dance...actually, it got him out of church the next day too, because he claimed he had a terrible headache, couldn't open his eyes, and had particles of something coming out of his eyes...Ok, ok, I guess you don't feel good... :-)

(P.S. He has fully recovered and is his regular old (crazy) self again!)

Coach Sasha and Kaili!

After the dance performance was over, we were walking back to our car and noticed a giant locked fence blocking the exit to get out of the parking lot.  Oh great, we have been here for the last twelve hours, but I guess it wasn't enough! 

Poor Brad, with the watering eyes and the running nose was going to come rescue me with a pair of bolt cutters (yes, we have no reservations about breaking out of the place that held my car captive), when luckily...one of the other owners of a locked up car thought smart and just wandered around until they found a security guard with a set of keys. 

After we were released, we finally made our way home, to nurse our damaged Dad back to health.

Splish Splash!

This is Kona's newest, fun place to go!

The kids had a BLAST!

This is the world's largest blow-up water slide, thing...ever!   Tyler says, "It's even the biggest in Hawaii!

Sina rode down with Lydia the first few times...

 but then she was on her own!!

Kaili

Buddy

Kaili

Even Moms and Dads dare to do this ride!! (But not me...someone had to take pictures!)

Tyler!

Sina!!

This is about as FUN as you can get!

TOYS, Toys, toys

My kids have a ton of stuffed animals.  I occasionally think about going through and getting rid of half of them to downsize the mess...  But then, I am reminded of how much the kids actually like each and every one of the little buggers...

They take them, and line them up and play with them all day long.  It is something that causes all three kids to play nicely and contently together for HOURS! 

So, I figure, until the day comes that they do not pay with their silly little animals, I will just leave well enough alone :-)