Seeing The Fingerprints

 The first windstorm at our home took down the neighbours tree, the trampoline was picked up and carried away and broke and our power was knocked out for a few hours.  The noise was loud sleep was lost but mostly we were warm safe and fed.  It's like like a big gush of wind strikes things down, but you have to carry on and pick up the pieces.  Keep moving, clean it up as best as you can.  No it's not always replaceable or fixable, it makes things change, but who knows what those changes will bring.  The second windstorm did a lot more damage in the town we were in.  Many were without power, some for days, beautiful trees were knocked down, fences torn away, and well in our backyard 3 apples trees came crashing down.  No more applesauce from this backyard.  Again it's a matter of picking up the pieces, or cleaning up the mess and moving on.  No one was hurt with all those storms so that's a blessing indeed.  In the mea...

So we celebrated our 11th anniversary away from home in a warmer climate.  We challenged ourselves to do some new things on Maui.  We met our challenge and had a fantastic trip.  It was nice to relax and unwind from the super crazy happenings back at home.  Let's just say before I left for the trip I was more then ready to shut down my brain.  It was on overload..... Here are some photos from our journey. First Breakfast....so quiet Only could hear the crash of the waves and feel the breeze of the wind. This was our condo 12th floor ocean front On our anniversary we rented this little Vespa We zoomed around the west side of the island. We felt more secure on this thing on those 1.5 lane roads.  It is much easier to run the scooter off to the side in case you see a car coming at you head on last second as opposed to a car to car head on :) Some pictures of us in the tropical sunshine exploring the beauty. Ended our e...

Our oldest of our little men had a birthday.  He finally hit the age of 5.  He's been in school a few months so the number isn't that shocking really.  He just loves school.   He always has this huge smile of satisfaction on his face after he leaves the bus.  Or it could be he's super excited to see me?  I don't think it's the latter though. He chose a paramedic theme for a birthday this year and it was another fun theme to have.  I hosted for the first time an all boys party.  What a difference!  Once the walkie talkies came out it was spy agents for the remainder of the party.....so easy! Here are some enjoyable moments from his birthday, and his friends celebrating and his family time celebrating (additional pictures will be edited soon)