Shiflet Party of 4

Halloween

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Halloween

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Aubrey was Violet from The Incredibles, she totally created the costume herself. She did a great job! Taylor and Lindsey were Twin Nerds, and yeah.....they are good at it! I was the Green M&M.

More Kauai Pic's

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Some more pics from our last day on Kauai

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Playing with Shadows

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Saturday at Hanalei Bay

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Taylor decided she wanted to rent a surf board and teach herself to surf. She did a great job. I couldn't catch all the waves she was able to ride out, but I was surprised she could stand. I tried it and it is hard to stand, takes alot of upper body strength. Taylor decided that is why surfer dude's are buff.

Friday's Road Trip

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The Napali Coast is gorgeous! If you take the top two pictures and put the ocean pic to the left and the Mountain pic to the right and stuck them together, that is the whole picture of what we were looking at. We were at 4000 ft looking down. Again my camera can't do it justice.

Friday's Road Trip

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Friday's Road Trip

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The Canyon was completely clouded in when we got there, which is usual, but as we waited a little bit, the wind blew some of the clouds out and it was breathtaking. Pictures can never do the color and beauty justice. The underwater picture of the fish is about the best one I could get using our underwater camera, it is hard to find your subject with snorkeling gear on!

Queens Bath Hike

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Queen's Bath is where the queen's would be taken to bathe. The hike is very steep and muddy and once you get to the rock cliffs the water is beautiful and treacherous. The sign says 28 people have died here, because they got too close to the edge or climbed too far down and the waves are extremely strong and unpredictable. Talk about beautiful and blue, blue water. We did see quite a few sea turtles swimming. I put a video up for you to look at.

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Hanalei Bay

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Boogie Boarding at Hanalei beach
Aubrey & Whitney at the Condo
Beautiful Hanalei Bay

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We made it to Kauai!!

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So we started driving from Lihue Airport into town and the girls are just laughing because all over Kauai are wild roosters and chickens. They were scattered during the 1992 hurricane and no one tried to claim them or gather them so they are everywhere just running wild. Now they have multiplied.

We went boogie boarding at Hanalei Bay Monday. It was fun in the sun, some rain, but they call the misty rain here liquid sunshine. It feels good! Today we did shops in Kapaa and went to Spouting Horn and the little shopping stands there. Tomorrow we are going snorkeling. Hope to find some turtles to swim with.

Taylor's Bday cupcake tree

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Not bad for an amateur

Aloha

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We are Hawaii bound tomorrow! Our whole family is going to Kauai and we are just a bit excited. We didn't think it was going to come to fruition, but thanks to my dedicated husband it did. I hope to be able to post pictures while we are there......if I can pull myself away from the beach.

Peak View Enrichment

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Peak View Enrichment

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They had to go find an Aspen tree so they could do their camping tradition of carving. They went a little overboard and brought back a whole tree.

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Aubrey took this where we were catching crawdads. I love the picture. Good eye Aubrey!

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We just got back from our camping trip. 1st time in the 5th wheel. Now that's the way to camp!! It was just us so it was very quiet, but relaxing. We decided we have much more fun when our friends come with us. We did quad riding and pretty much know every road up there now. That means we are going to have to find a new place to explore. We came upon a huge flock of wild turkeys and their babies, that was cool. Taylor and Don went crawdad hunting, I won't touch the cockroach looking things. I'll get some pictures of that on soon.

School starts next week and I wish we had a couple more weeks of summer. Back to schedules and stress. Aubrey is a senior this year so this will be a great and exciting year for her. Taylor is starting 5th grade and she is not my little girl anymore. She is only about 5 inches shorter than me.

My First Blog Effort

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So here I go, trying to understand this blogging thing. I'm not very patient so who knows how far this will go. We had a fun picture shoot at the Fritz Photo Gallery!! Thanks Paul for taking all the pic's, and thanks Steph for putting us in our poses!

Aubrey had her 1st ballroom dance lesson today. The instructor said she is a fast learner (that's what all the boys say too) JUST KIDDING!! She has developed a huge desire to learn it so that is what she got for Christmas this year.

Taylor got her first Ipod for Christmas. She also got a Disney SingIt which is Karaoke. Got some great blackmail video of Taylor and Aubrey trying to be rockstars.