Frog Hunting and Water Pumps

One thing I mentioned that we did in Missouri on this trip was FROG HUNTING!! Ezra's family has 3 ponds on their property, they are full of fish, snapping turtles, and FROGS!! Many of you know my issue with frogs, slimy, jumping, living frogs. Well I finally got revenge on all the years of torture. I know that this wont end their tortures ways but I at least got rid of a few in this world that wont be able to haunt me! Okay that sounds crazy. Ezra actually did most of the frog hunting since I had a hard time just looking at them, and then to have to stare at them through the scope until I could get steady enough to shoot was way to much for me! I did get a few though. Here's some pictures.
Also I added a SISTERS CLUB picture, the members will understand!!

Missouri Trip

Ezra hasn't been home for almost 4 years, and we weren't sure when we would get back out there since we never know when he is going to be home. So we decided to go for 2 weeks to visit his family in Missouri. We had such a good time, it was really nice for us just to spend some time together playing and hanging out since he hasn't been home for at least 9 months in the past year. We got to do so much in just two weeks it made the time fly by. We went to a Cardinals game and hung out in St. Louis with his brother and his girlfriend, fiance we might as well say!! Then we had a few family BBQ's so we could see everyone, which was a lot of fun. They are all so close to each other both sides of the family, it made me miss my family so much, I wish we all lived that close together and could do family BBQ's. Then his parents took us to the Mark Twain caves, if any of you have read the Tom Swayer Books you know what I am talking about. It was cool to see where he actually came up with all the cave storys for his book. Then we went to Nauvoo, and we went frong hunting, and they took me to a Red Neck Wedding, for real!! We I also experienced my first Tornado Warning. It was scary to say the least. I have never seen a storm like I did that night. They had flooding the next day and so we visited on of the dams that almost gave out because there was to much water.
One of the coolest things about Missouri though are the Fireflys, they were so amazing to see at night. Every night there were just thousands of these flashing lights, it was so pretty, I wish my Mom could of seen them. We also got to meet our new niece and also spend the week with Braden. Braden is our 6 yr old Nephew that we haven't seen since he was just a year old. It was so much fun to spend time with him, we had so much fun with him.
We had such a good time just hanging out on their farm and seeing everyone.

Hidden Beach

There is one corner of the island that you can't drive on because there are no roads. It is where Waiana meets Wailua. The only way to get around this point of the island is to either hike or four wheel out there and even then you can only four wheel so far. So the other weekend we decided we would four wheel out there and hike back in because we had heard of this beach called "Hidden Beach", got its name for obvious reasons. So we don't know if we actually ever found it but we did find this beach and hung out there for the day, it was so pretty and just me, Ezra and Smokey which was neat. Snorkeling is supposed to be amazing when the waves are down, and even though they didn't look very big in these pictures it was pretty rough. For those who are familiar with the islands there is a picture of Ezra on a rock and behind him you can see the island come out to a point, that would be the point you drive around to our house past Haleiwa and Waimea. We are definitely spoiled and blessed that we get to live in Hawaii.

Lazy Puppy

So Smokey has started to do this cute deal while we are eating. He gets tired of looking at us and begging so he rests his head now on the table or on our knees and just watches us until we either give in and feed him or he figures out that we aren't going to give him our food. He loves to sleep on the coffee table because it is much cooler on there, but the other day we had placed his food on the table so we could vacum or something, and next thing we knew he was lying on the table eating his food (He always lays down when he eats no matter what). It was just really cute with his head all the way in the bowl and laying with his little legs kicked out to the side.