Sunday, October 25, 2009

The Pumpkin Patch



Yes we planted a garden this year, but NO pumpkin's grew. So we went to the The Pumpkin Patch to get our Halloween pumpkins. We had so much fun. The weather was nice and there were so many different fun things to do.
































There were all sorts of activities for kids & a bunch of different size Hay slides






Like always Kaia enjoyed herself
and Deion had issues



















There were different musical instruments
made out of farm materials









Got to feed a few animals & ride a farm train.



















The corn maze was a lot of fun. Deion & Kaia loved it. We had to run to keep up so we didn't loose them




After spending a few hours having fun with all the activities we then took a tracker ride out to pick our pumpkins



2009 Utah State Fair

So we went to the state fair this year. We're going to try to make a tradition to got to the State Fair every Sept. The kids had fun. Kaia and Deion got to go on a bunch of rides like a train & a balloon ride and the big slide. They saw cows & goats & pigs & Rabbits & birds and we smelled them all too.






















Kaia had a blast on a car ride and got to ride a Pony.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A Spotlight on KAIA

Our little girl started Preschool this September. The beginning of the rest of her life. There's no turning back now. She'll have school forever now. ( well it seemed like forever to me). She attends a private Preschool just 4 houses down on our same street. So it's nice she can walk. Deion and I walk her there 2 days out of the week. She's really enjoying herself with the other kids and she is actually learning and retaining what she learns there. They focus on a different letter every week and learn and do all sorts of fun things about that letter.







This is Kaia on her first day of school







She has been wanting to go to school ever since she first saw yellow school buses.



This Kaia's with her school bag and her new bike Daddy bought for her
















KAIA has also been dancing in our Kapa Haka group. We're called KO NGATI HIONA (the people of Zion) We Sing and dance about our heritage from New Zealand. In the summer months we have alot a shows. We usually dance for festivals, church groups, companies, neighborhoods, weddings, pretty much anywhere people want a Luau. Sometimes we cook the traditional food (pork and potatoes in the ground) or sometimes just the show.
We have about as many kids dancing as adults. Kaia is the second to youngest one who dances. I have to say she totally steals the show. She is awesome at the words and the singing loud but just needs to work on smiling more and sticking to the actions and not getting distracted.





This was at a festival that happened to be by somes fields with a few cows or horses in them. Well right between somes songs Kaia said kinda loud "eeww it stinks". Well the mics totally pick that up and the croud and us cracked up.








I'm so proud of her. She actually enjoys getting up in front of hundreds of people and performing. This is her swinging the Poi Balls.