...and we're back!!!

Hi everyone! OK, since we moved into our new house we've been super busy, but the real reason we haven't been posting our nifty little stories is that we aren't allowed to use the computer without Daddy helping us. And he is lazy. You've met him. You know. Anyway, here are some pictures to get you up to date!

My big brother Obadiah had his first day of school at the new school! When we moved into our new house we changed districts but he really likes his new school. He's made lots of new friends. He likes them all, but he REALLY likes Anika. Don't tell him I said anything.

We went on lots of bike rides! Ever since I learned how to ride without my training wheels I've been riding my bike whenever I get the chance. Obadiah is still a little faster than me but that's OK. Don't we look rugged in our helmets? Daddy got a vintage camera, and he's really geeking out about it. That's why this picture looks goofy.

MY BIRTHDAY!!!! YES! I turned 4! I'm getting so big so fast, I'm gonna catch up to Obadiah in no time!

My birthday is right before Halloween so we got vampire teeth for my birthday! Obadiah was so happy for me that his eyes went crazy!

I had my birthday party at the play place. They have a climbing wall and big foam cushions and a dress up room and tons of toys!

Guess what? It was my buddy, Mason's birthday too! We were so happy that we had our birthday party together. Our parents seemed really happy about it too. I think maybe because they are so cheap and this way they only had to pay for half a party.

Sweet! We all got dressed up for Halloween! We had such a blast! We went trick or treating and we went to church! Check out our costumes! What's that? Is Spongebob Squarepants throwing gang signs?!?!?! Don't do that Spongebob! We live in Rosetown fool!

Whoa, wait a minute! Who is that masked mystery man in green?

WARNING-Do not look directly into my eyes. My lasers may melt your face off!

We got Tee-Peed!!!

Mom and Dad told us to look angry for this picture so that they could make their friends feel bad but we were so happy! It was super cool. You know why? 'Cause we didn't have to clean it up!

Isn't it the perfect tree? It was freezing out there, and our noses were all running like crazy. Daddy said he was gonna go look at the other trees but I caught him sneaking back to the pickup and turning the heater on!


It was my turn to put the star on top this year! YES!!! I've waited all year for this!


I got to put up the star which means that Obadiah got to put up the angel! This is gonna look so good!


All done! We can't wait for Christmas! We keep telling our mom and dad whenever we see something we want. We yell out, "MOM, DAD, I want one of those!" about every fifteen seconds. We're planning on wearing down their defenses so that they'll buy whatever we want. We'll keep you posted on the results of our experiment.

SWEET!!!!

Malachi took the training wheels off!!!

fathers day

Hi guys, it's me Obadiah. We wanted to share a few pictures from our Father's Day hike. Daddy said that to hike around Spring Lake was all he wanted for Father's Day. And that's WAY cheaper than what we had planned on getting him so... hike it is! We took our scooters and Dad walked. This is the trail up to Spring Lake.

Here it is. Isn't it beautiful? Well worth the 4 mile hike! We love Spring Lake and we even stripped down to our shorts and jumped in for a bit!

WHOA!!! Wait a minute! I don't remember seeing this sign before! Oh man, we gotta get outta here!!!

OK, back to safety. We figured it was best to head back to the playground. I don't think the Mountain Lions would want to hang out here. Too many noisy kids.
Plus, there are water fountains to play in. And it was hot! So, once again, we stripped down to our shorts and jumped in!!!

MALACHI!!! DON'T DRINK THAT WATER!!! Oh man, that can't be good. Oh well.

Anyway, we had a great time, and Daddy said he had a wonderful Father's Day!

let's go fly a kite!!!

Hi everyone! It's us again. Dad had the day off and it was beautiful outside so we went to the park. It was a little windy so Dad brought the kite along just in case the wind picked up.

That's my big brother Obadiah. He's pretty smart now that he's graduted kindergarten! He got to fly the kite first. He said it was hard to hold on to it. I didn't believe him. I thought he was trying to trick me so that he could fly it all by himself all the time.

Here I am jumping up to try to get the string away from Obadiah. "Give it to me dude!!!"

Ahh... Here we go. Now we're talking! I didn't believe him when he said that it was hard to hold on to but he was right!!! That stinking kite dragged me all over that park! My Daddy was laughing so hard. All he could do was laugh and take pictures while my life hung in the balance. Way to go dad.

Aloha!

Aloha! We haven't been around here lately because we've been soaking up some sun over in Hawaii!!! Here we are on the plane. A plane ride to Hawaii sounds like so much fun. Turns out it's a really long time to sit in one place. I think my Daddy was trying to drug us so we would sleep. He kept saying, "Did you cough? I thought I heard someone cough. Here, have some Benadryl." I wasn't fallin' for it though!


When we finally got to Hawaii we rented a Jeep and we kept the top down almost every day.


It was super windy in the back seat. It was so windy that when we were driving we couldn't even open our mouths to talk. It was so quiet when we drove! Mommy and Daddy kept saying, "We gotta get one of these!"

Here is the lagoon at the hotel where we stayed. We were in Oahu. It was really really pretty there!!! Can you see the rainbow?


The first big trip we took was to the Sea Life Park. When we got there we looked at all kinds of animals and then we got to go swimming with the dolphins! The dolphins feel kind of rubbery but harder than we thought they would feel like. The water they swim in is totally salty!!!


We even got to dance with the dolphins! The coolest thing was that there was a baby dolphin in the pool with us! It was only about 2 feet long and it would jump up out of the water! We got to feed it too! One of the trainers broke a small fish in two pieces and handed us each a piece. The guts got all over our hands. That part was not cool.


The next day we went to Waikiki beach. Can you believe how clear that water is?!?!?!


Me and Daddy entered a karaoke contest back at the hotel! We sang "American Woman" by Lenny Kravitz. We got second place! We lost to some kid who sang "Who let the dogs out". We demand a recount. It was rigged.


The next day we went to the North Shore. The North Shore is known as a surfers area. We found this cool looking old "woody" car that surfers seem to love. We also found a killer beach where we all tried body surfing! It was really fun.


Body surfing os SO MUCH FUN!!! There were 6 foot waves so Malachi didn't last too long. Neither did mom's bikini. So those two hung out on the beach and me and Daddy body surfed until we were exhausted!



A really nice lady told us how to find a special beach where the Green Sea Turtles come up on the shore to lay their eggs. We found the beach and there where three turtles up on the beach and we could see a few more swimming around in the ocean too! You can see two of the bigger turtles in this picture.


We spent the next day at Hanauma Bay. It was so beautiful! The beach was amazing and Mommy and Daddy rented snorkeling gear for all of us. Malachi didn't dig having his face down in the water so he stayed at the beach. Mommy chickened out when a killer fish tried to eat her. We found out that the fish was about six inches long. We called her "scaredy-fish" for the rest of the trip. She hates that.
Me and Daddy swam around the reef for a long time. We saw so many beautiful, colorful fish! We even saw a four foot fish plow through a school of fish chomping on the smaller fish!!! It's was so awesome!

When you have a vacation that is this epic someone's gotta come back with a tattoo!!! Mommy and Daddy chickened out on their tattoos so Malachi and I had to step up to the plate! We got traditional Polynesian tattoos on our arms! I think we got ripped off though. Out tattoos are starting to fade! Daddy's tattos never fade! I'm going to go to Daddy's tattoo artist next time I want some ink!


Daddy asked us to post this picture. It's kind of fuzzy but he says it makes his abs look good. Anyway, here we are. The happy family. We had a GREAT time! Thanks for checking out our pictures! We didn't want to bore you with all of the pics so we only showed you some of our favorites. If you like our pictures and you want to see the rest, CLICK HERE to check out the rest of the pics!

Mahalo!

(that means "thanks")

I got a loose tooth!!!

Check it out! I was eating a popsicle and I bit down on the stick and then my tooth got all loose! It's kind of hard to tell but it's the one on the bottom, close to the middle.


I was so excited that my tooth was getting loose that I begged my daddy to take me to the store so that we could get apples. Everyone in my class said that that's what you're supposed to do when you get a loose tooth... you get apples.


Everyone said that you bite down on the apple and BAM your tooth pops out. You know what? THEY LIED! You know what really happens? It hurts... really bad. Now I'm mad. Would you please put the camera away Dad?!?!?!


OK, fast forward a few days. It kept getting looser and looser until finally my mommy couldn't stand it any longer. She reached in there, grabbed my tooth, and yanked it right out of my head! Can you believe that?!?! I'm so stoked. I called my grandparents and my best friends to let them know! I took the tooth to school for show and tell. It was my sharing day. My whole class was happy for me. Now to cash in. I've gotta get to bed so that the tooth fairy can hook me up.

Good night!

Hanging out with the Grandpa and Grandma Sebastopol

Hi everyone! It's me, Malachi. Here we are in Grandpa and Grandma's yard. We're planting a few things. See that tee pee? That's gonna be a Green Bean tee pee. And behind it? That's gonna be a Sunflower house!


Grandpa even put in a water pump so that we could water our garden! It's kind of hard at first, but you get the hang of it. It's pretty messy but's it's WAY FUN!!! I got tired of pumping it but I convinced Obadiah that it was totally fun, so he's doing all the work for me.


Here is me and grandpa. People say that we look like each other. I'm not seeing it guys.

By the way, what on earth is all over my face? And somebody please tell my mommy to cut my hair. Is it me or is my head just HUGE? It's got it's own atmosphere... It's a virtual planetoid.


OK, back to planting. Obadiah had a little stick dealy that he would use to dig a little hole. Then Grandman gave him a seed to put in there. We planted Morning Glorys with the Sunflowers so that when the Sunflowers get big and tall we can tie strings across the top and then the Morning Glorys will go across the strings and make the roof of the house!

We'll keep you posted on the progress! Malachi... out!

Birthday Time!!!

It's my birthday, it's my birthday, gonna partay like it's my birthday!!! Oh yeah baby!!! It's my birthday. Let the celebrations commence!!!

This... is how every day should start! With gifts!!! Mommy and Daddy got me a keyboard! I told my Daddy that I wanted a keyboard because he plays the keyboard really good. And I want to be like him.


PARTY TIME!!! I got a few of my closest friends together for a little soiree at the local roller rink. Nothing says party like shoot the duck, hokey pokey, and red light, green light. They even had the whole roller rink sing happy birthday to me!


Here are all the friends I told you about. They sure enjoyed all that frosting. We didn't really dig on the cupcakes, but that frosting was killer.


Then it was time for the gifts. The crazy thing is that it was about the same time that the sugar rush started kicking in. Look at it! It's like a mob scene. "STAND BACK people it's my birthday and I'm gonna open my gifts!!!"

I got some really great stuff and I had a great day! I've got some of the best friends in the world! Thanks you guys for making my birthday so special. I love you guys!!!