Meet the newest member of our family

We promised our daughter a guinea pig for finishing up a full summer of summer school and swim classes. We went down to the Humane Society today to adopt a guinea pig and they had a few cute ones. "Teriyaki", as my daughter named him, was the only one that was not afraid to be picked up by me. She sat out all afternoon to watch him in his new home!!

Had a really nice stay-cation a few weeks ago

at the Kahala hotel. When you live in Hawaii, it makes sense in the summertime to get out to the hotels and beaches and have a relaxing day out in the sun.

Fortunately to fit in with my current healthy eating plan, there were lots of really nice Japanese pickled vegetables. (note that I conveniently left out the photo of my second plate which had the ham and potatoes on it!)



After brunch we took a walk out on the beach and the kids couldn't resist walking in the ocean!

We really need to do this more often.

Attended a nice wedding this weekend

and I found a few places to take some nice pictures. Still practicing using my new digital camera.

This first shot is at Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens in Kaneohe, Hawaii.


This is a shot of the wedding cake at the reception at the Ko'olau Golf Course.

After two weeks on the ranch

Sonic has lost a LOT of weight. But it was great to see that he's still alive! He has made a whole bunch of new chicken friends and is hanging out with them, despite being the only white chicken in the bunch. We were not super sure it was him because he looks SO different, but he was the only white chicken there, where previously there weren't any.