August 2009 continued...

Hawaii Trip

After Tyler's first 2 days of school we left for our amazing hawaii trip.

The view from our room. Literally paradise!

Other view from our place. We played sand volleyball everyday for at least a couple of hours. It is one of the things that I definitely miss about our trip.

View at night

Our first site seeing... the blow hole. It is a nice long and steep walk down. But it is tradition and a fun site to see.

Half way down we found a great background picture.
All the Bladh kids, except Brett on his mission :(, looking into the blow hole. Just minutes before Josh was looking in by himself and got completely soaked.
Us girls decided to stay far enough away from it and just observe.

Friday we spent the day playing volleyball and visiting one of Napiili's resort beaches. I actually went in the water because it was so warm and clear. Elle loved going in and wasn't scared at all.

When she wasn't in the water she played in the sand. Elle is a major sensory learner. So she can sit in it all day long.

Tyler and Benj found this stick and Tyler became obsessed with it.

Saturday night out at Bubba Gumps for dessert. We had way too much to eat. The night before we knew Elle had infections. Look at her, poor thing.

Tradition has us hear at Iao Valley every Sunday after church. It is a calm, peaceful place, but is known for a big bloody battle that took place there. It was one of the wars that led to the islands becoming one.

Those Bladh boys! Gotta love 'em.

Our family overlooking the Iao valley river.

She had bad ear infections and she is still smiling.

The famous swinging vines outside of Iao Valley
Tyler loved the vines. We have a picture of him 2 years ago swinging from the same vines.

Usually Elle wants Juli all the time, but on this trip she couldn't get enough of Lisa. She would do anything to be around her. If she heard her voice she would go running to find her. Lisa was her mom on this trip for sure.

Big Beach... One of the best beaches as far as beauty goes. The water is so clear and warm and the sand is definitely a color you don't see in California and your feet just sink in, it is so soft.

Just love this picture of Tyler that Lisa took. My little beach boy

Another cute picture taken by Lisa

Elle of course playing in the sand.

The best Luau around. Beautiful views, good food and fun entertainment. They give unlimited drinks, so lava flows all around.

Josh didn't want to dress in the hawaiian attire

Elle after 2 days of taking medicine. She was still not herself. So sad.
Lisa and me walking around looking at all the hawaiian stuff.

Lisa is so good at taking pics


View from the seats at the luau

Hawaiian dancers

Elle lightened up when the food came around. It was really dark and the flash on the camera gave some light. But Elle was eating everything. She would reach back behind her without looking, grab the food and stuff it in her mouth. It was actually kind of gross.

She enjoyed her dessert.

Of course a Bladh family vacation couldn't be complete without both kids getting sick. We left on Wed and on Friday night Elle woke up with a fever and was crying. Josh went to the ABC store and bought some Tylenol. After taking it she threw up. The medicine seemed to be helping with the fever but she was still fussy and whinny. Finally on Sunday after church we decided to take her to the doctors. $275 later she had 2 ear infections and a throat infection. She had to take heavy medicine so there wouldn't be problems on the airplane. That night Tyler woke up with a major fever and threw up. We went through an entire bottle of tylenol that week on top of her prescriptions. Elle was getting better but we had to keep her out of the water as much as possible and she was unhappy almost the whole trip. On the airplane home I got a migraine and wanted someone to just shoot me. There was no where to go and they don't have any medicine on the airplane. Even though someone was pretty much sick the whole time we still had an amazing time.

August 2009

Just for April I have decided to devote my night to updating my blog. August was a busy month so here I go...

Elle turned 3

When no one was looking Elle got into the cake by moving a chair to the table, climbed up and started digging in. We had to refrost it.

Chaz and Elle share the same birthday, August 2nd.
I can't believe she is 3. I love her so much and am so proud of her.


Tyler started kindergarten Monday, August 3rd

He goes to Rosa Parks Elementary and his teacher's name is Ms. Karr. She is an amazing teacher and got teacher of the year in the whole school district.

Elle loved coming with him and didn't want to leave. She got over that quickly when she realized she ruled the house.

Tyler didn't even care about me, he made himself right at home and didn't even look back.

Tyler and Talyor are in the same class. They've pretty much have known each other since they were born. Some people thought they were twins. I guess their names do go together too.

The Annual Tyler Bladh Sleepover Awards

As some of you know, our son Ty had his 5th birthday over the weekend. Now one of his cousins started the tradition of having all of the boy cousins for a sleepover for their birthday…. I think it was Kobe? Not really sure but that’s beside the point I could go on about how great this tradition is but…. Let’s just get to the story. I wanted to give you a brief view from my perspective as his parent and the uncle of these fun kids of just how awesome the night was. First I’ll start with Ty. He has had this birthday planned since his last one, so for a year now we have heard how he is going to have all of his cousins over, which he calls his “friends,” and they were going to have pizza, watch a movie and stay the night.



When all of the cousins got there it was complete and utter chaos! Hilarious! I think Bruin either liked the cheddar flavored chex mix or hadn’t been fed that day, because he must have eaten the whole bag. I’m assuming it was the prior reason, can’t imagine the wife of our police officer not making sure her child was fed. After feeding the beasts and listening to each one of their takes on the pizza, the drinks and the snacks we had available we took them to the park. The herd was separated into two different groups: those that could find their way to the park on their own and those that couldn’t. It’s really a good thing that Chaz and Juli were there because we probably would have lost some along the way.

We got to the park and the pack of wolves got to playing games with each other. They naturally separated into 2 different groups and that consisted of one of the oldest cousins cheating and then crying because another faster cousin won from shear speed in whatever game they were playing. After watching some of them risk their lives climbing on the outside of the play sets we decided it was time to leave before we had to visit the hospital.



So we got home and had cake and ice cream. Now, Erika and I wanted to watch tv and the kids had the idea of watching a movie also. Well… we didn’t want to give up the good tv in the family room with the surround sound and the comfortable couches. So we decided to cram all of them into Ty’s room… all 7 of them… in Ty’s hot, small tv, bad sounding room. It took us about 2 seconds to convince them that it was a good idea and another 10 min to convince the mob not to take out Tosh who was sitting in front of the tv. After I saw how deliberate he was sitting to block people’s view I just said, “well Tosh…. You’re on your own kid, have at ‘em boys.” Luckily at that time the silent ringleader Trey needed his beauty sleep and had already fallen asleep so no harm done.

After the movie, we brought the flock into the family room and let them each gradually go unconscious. Then the morning came and the silent ringleader, who had all the sleep he needed, woke everyone up at 6:30…. I have to believe it was all part of his diabolical plan because we had not the effort to wake up at that time and chaperone so the mob had a good hour to run about and go without supervision. Genius…. Pure genius. Once we realized what was going on we arose from our slumber and had everyone put all of their stuff “by the front door”….

Once again another part of his villainous planning as you can see. Then we made pancakes and waited for their parents, who I can only imagine had a more restful night then usual, dreadfully come to pick up their saintly children.

A good time was had by all, now it is time for the Annual Tyler Bladh Sleepover Awards:


Most likely to eat until it hurts

Most addicted to video games

Most likely to become the next Evil Knievil

Most likely to get away with anything, mostly because he gets lost in the background

Least amount of pain tolerance

The next Al Capone. Look at him in the back with the red shirt, I don't know whether he's passing gas or smiling thinking about what he's planning on doing next....remarkable...

Happiest kid of the night

Our favorite girl