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Graham turns 9 🎉
New bike and some new baseball gear! Headed to Waikiki for the weekend to kick off spring break (too many friends away on vacation to have a party!). Pretended to be tourists in the city!
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It’s March!
Back to a somewhat normal routine after lots of travel and visitors. Shelling, surfing, movie nights, plus basketball finished up for Graham and baseball started for both boys. Arts for Aikahi was a big fair/fundraiser event at school – each kid helped at their grade booth and Eden performed in the open mic show!
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Florida for the Kratz wedding
Headed to Fort Myers for Elle & Micah’s wedding. Bonus was a long weekend in a big house with cousins (and the rest of the family, including Grammy!). Elle & Micah’s wedding and festivities were the highlight!
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PopPop & Bev Visit!
Had our much anticipated arrival of PopPop and Bev in January. Was so fun to show them around and explore some new HI things together! Highlights:
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Japan: Kyoto
Final stop on our trip: Kyoto. Then bullet train back to Tokyo and the 7.5 hr flight back (thank you jet stream!) left us all exhausted – dealt with jet lag for a good week…but all worth it. Highlights in Kyoto:
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Japan: Osaka
Second city stop was Osaka. Took the bullet train and basically only had one afternoon and then did Universal Japan! It was cold, and Aaron and Graham got flu-like symptoms but we powered through. Two main highlights:
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Japan: Tokyo
After Christmas we left for Japan. 9.5 hour flight from Honolulu to Tokyo on the Japanese airline was smooth! Highlights from Tokyo:
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Christmas! 🎄🎁😄
Beginning with a Christmas Eve service and a living room sleepover, we had and got lots of presents, fun, and a surprise question for the kids from Elle! A different but fun Christmas for sure. So fun to have family in town with us!
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Cousins are here…again!
We had Elle visit again…but this time with Darla and Tess, our cousin and aunt, after visiting Kauai for a few days. We went to the beach, worked on a puzzle, had a gingerbread house competition, and celebrated Christmas! ( more on that later). The gingerbread house competition got judged from family from both ends…
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Cousins are here!
Elle and Jill came for a few days before their trip to Kauai. Enjoyed showing them around the island and we tried to get in the Christmas spirit with a (very) scaled back version of our annual cousin Christmas cookie party🎄
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Candy Cane Lane
Girls’ enjoyed the 5th & 6th grade dance! Olivia helped plan it at student council with a theme of Candy Cane Lane 🎄
Hawaii Vogelzangs 