Signs of Life

This year I'm planting a garden, for the first time ever. Anyway, I love tomatoes so I've planted some seeds indoors since it's too cold to start them outside. Here are some beautiful pictures of my little baby tomato plants. I have three varieties, although at this point they all look exactly the same, I've started cherry, Roma & regular tomatoes. Aren't they so cute?

Happy Birthday Jonathan!

This year Jonathan's birthday fell on Easter, which has never happened before. Because it was Easter and because he had to work on his birthday we celebrated his big day a little early. This year Jonathan got a Wii for his 27th year. He was skeptical at first but I think he likes it, since he's playing Super Mario Brothers at this very moment. He also got a movie we've been looking for forever, Pure Luck. Anyway, I think it was a pretty good birthday for him, you'll have to ask him to find out for sure. Here are some birthday/Wii pics.

Happy Birthday Dylan!

Our nephew, Dylan, has the same birthday as Jonathan. This year we went to Kangaroo Zoo for his birthday. All the kids had a lot of fun playing on the inflatable toys. Here are some pictures of the event.

Weekend Warriors

I've always wanted a garden. Jonathan and I have lived in our house for almost three years and every year I've said I wanted to plant a garden, and every year I get too lazy to do it. Well, not this year. Jonathan was on spring break this week so I took some time off and instead of going to Las Vegas, like we had planned, we stayed home and built a garden spot. I don't have any before pictures, but I have a lot of during and after pictures.

This is what we did Thursday morning. This is as far as we got in the morning because the ground was still frozen about 4 inches below the surface.

We took a break to let the ground warm up so we could break it up more.

Later that day Cornel Jr., Kage and Jaida came over and helped us.

This is my favorite picture. Kage is such a funny kid!

This is what it looked like after it thawed out and we were able to spread it around.

Then we put up a fence to keep the dogs out of it.

This is my manly husband pounding in the stakes for the fence. He's so strong! I love him :)

This is my lame attempt at pounding in a post.

And we finished! Friday we built planter boxes so I could try the Square Foot Gardening Method. Jonathan is skeptical about it so we're going to have a little competition, he's going to grow his corn in regular top soil and I'm growing it in the SFG Mel's Mix. We'll see in the fall who's corn turns out better. If worse comes to worse we'll have a lot of corn!

And I even got a little sunburned.

Adventures in Babysitting

We got to babysit Cornel & Bekki's kids while they went to a volleyball tournament with Sheliah. The kids were great, we ordered pizza and watched Ratatouille. Jaida loved being at our house so much she walked back over by herself (no shoes) after Linda and Pili took the kids to their house. It's a good thing we only live three houses away from them! That stinker. Here's some footage of the evening...

thought of all the stupid things i've done

I don't know about you, but I know I've said a lot of stupid things in my life. I don't know why I can't learn the lesson to think before I speak. This fault of mine has plagued me for a long time. Here are a couple of examples:

• The time I went shopping with a friend and remarked about how some of the clothing in the store was "school teacher bad". My friend, bless her, was so sweet when she said, "I'll have to tell my mom about this store then." I felt awful, I totally forgot that her mom taught elementary school.
• Or the time when my husband and I were talking to a car salesman about a $25,000 truck. When the salesman asked what kind of payment we were hoping for I said, "we'd like to keep it under $200." The salesman was nice when he said that if they were allowed to finance cars for 30 years, they would.

Let's not mention the times I've "let the cat out of the bag" on secret matters. I think I'm just going to try to keep my mouth shut from now on, unless I'm blogging, of course.

He has a name - or 7

I'd never be able to remember all these names or their spellings... Congrats again, Kevin & Sara!

Lalea Makali'i Pilikua Pomaikai Kalani Kiekie Saluone Kaohelaulii