Saturday is National Scrapbooking Day and I’d like to celebrate with a few very cool giveaways! Be sure to check back on Friday for the details! These giveaways will be good for Traditional, Hybrid and Digital Scrappers and other people who like cool stuff! ;)
Today we celebrated Wednesday. An average day in paradise where the boys got out of school early and Troy got out of work early enough (and no homework for Jalen) so we drove up to the North Shore. First stop at the Dole Plantation to take a picture of our current house guest flat stanley who is visiting from Alabama. The worlds largest maze is there and Jalen wanted to check it out. I told him, maybe next time. You know that maze is huge and you can’t see over the hedges, just like in Harry Potter… and he was ready to get back in the car and keep on down the road. :)
Next stop in Haleiwa for Shave Ice at Matsumoto’s. This is our very favorite place to get it. We always order strawberry shave ice with vanilla ice cream and today we added blue vanilla and condensed milk on top. OHmyFrozen heaven. it was so good!
When we finished those two off, we headed back down the road to the “turtle beach” and lucked out. Today there were 6 turtles on the beach. The Hawaiian Sea Turtles are an endangered species so you can’t get too close, but we were lucky today and got lots (and lots) of pictures. they are so beautiful.
then down the road again to Waimea Bay, also known to Jordan as the “lucky stick beach”. The last time we went there he and Jalen picked up some “lucky sticks” there and thereby coined the name.
We made it back home in time to make dinner and have a mostly quiet evening. we are blessed. by the way, aren’t they looking cute in their new sunglasses and watches from Target?! They look like big boys, I just can’t get over it.
I also want to thank my friend Eileen who sent me some blog love last week, You are a sweetheart! :)
Thanks for stopping by, love-love and blog you later!
Joscie, rhymes with bossy!
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What a fun day!! I want to take off early and visit all these fun places today!
OHMYGoodness! I so totally forgot about the Dole Plantation! It has been sooooo many years since I’ve been. I really need to make a trip out there again soon. What a beautiful Wednesday ya’ll had. LOVE the turtles!
Oh Joscie, you are so very lucky to live in Hawaii. I’ve been to the Dole plantation, really enjoyed that visit. I just love looking at your blog and it’s so weird in one way that for most people, it’s pictures of vacation of paradasial proportion, but for you, it’s just every day life :)
Thanks for the fun shots since we didn’t make it to the North Shore! Your family is so sweet.
love your pictures…..
makes me soooo homesick!