Last but not least, V3 Graduates!

A couple of days after the big hoedown, we boarded a plane and headed to Hawaii for my cousin's graduation and to visit family. The flight over was definitely eventful as there was a medical emergency mid-flight. About an hour and a half into our flight we heard a call for any doctors or nurses to identify themselves immediately. It turns out the couple sitting in front of us were both doctors. There was also a nurse and two EMT's (two flight attendants) on the flight as well. A passenger had passed out on the flight and took awhile to come to. We saw O2 tanks being used as well as IV's. Every few minutes or so, we'd see a flight attendant on the phone calling in with the vitals. Once the two doctors left their seats to help the sick passenger, we never saw them again. They spent the rest of the flight in the back of the plane attending to the emergency. When we landed, more chaos occurred as first we were told to hurry up and get off the plane. Then, the left side of the plane, which was our side, was directed to move over to the right side of the plane. Finally, we were told just to keep the aisle clear as the EMT's boarded the plane.

After the eventful plane ride, we stopped by our condo to drop off all of our baggage, then headed toward my grandparent's house to learn that Grandpa was going for a haircut. We gave hugs & kisses and headed straight to Zippy's to eat... and boy, did we grind! We headed back to my grandparent's house until it was time for graduation. It was then time for us to honor Chel and watch her receive her diploma!

The graduation was nice and the perfect length. We were all so proud and excited for Chel. Then, it was time.... time to go rushing into the area where all the families and friends could congratulate all of the grads. The grads get 15 minutes to themselves to hug and be together before they are to go stand by their pole. There are poles in this big room with letters on them. The grads go to the pole that coordinates with the letter of their last name so family & friends can easily find them. Pretty genius if you ask me! We ran to the "V" pole where Chel was waiting for us. We each gave Chel a lei as did a ton of other family and friends. There were big bags full of fresh flower leis, candy and treat leis, inner-tubes, cards, cut flowers, and much more! Uncle was taking video, my parents and Aunty Donna were sorting all the goods, Krys, Aunty and I were unloading Chel's neck, a tag-team effort of cousins and uncles took turns holding the "Chelsie" sign and Bran was taking still photos. There was a lot of hugging and kissing by everyone! What a great night!!! With Chel off to Project Grad, their overnight grad party, the rest of us were starving. Can you guess what we did? Oh yeah, we headed to Kahala Zippy's to eat again!

CONGRATS to Chel, who will be coming to the mainland to play volleyball with her older sister, Bran, at CWU!

Addi Turns the BIG 0-4!

The last couple of weeks in May were very busy, but exciting for our family. Our little sass-a-fras turned the big 0-4! Munchkin's "real" birthday started with a princess party at school where she took princess/prince crowns, ice cream and goodie bags for her class. Later that night, we had a family dinner at the one and only Chucky Cheese (aka the petrie dish). Munch was in heaven playing games, collecting tickets and of course meeting Chucky. Then, the big day finally arrived. The day that we had been planning for a year.... the day that my mom had hand sewn 18 (or some crazy number) of horses on a stick for.... The ponies had been scheduled, cowboy/girl hats and party favors were in hand, my sister had perfected her ribs and of course the little one was ready to party!