The Olde Ashton Family Blog

We had a great time with our new friends at the Ka Pu’uwai ‘O Hawai’i – The Hawai’i Club of North Carolina. It started on Friday, September 14 and went until Sunday September 16th.

We had an incredible time, we ate ono kalua pig and had a late potluck lunch with the members of the club. Besides ono grindz and entertainment, we swam in the pool, played volleyball, and of course, talked story with everyone. We were definitely were the “malihini” (newcomer or visitor), but everyone was very warm and welcomed our family immediately.

We want to send out a giant mahalo to the club, and hope that you will have us back next year.

Here are some of the pictures from the setting up the Imu (underground ground oven) on Friday night.

This is no longer gonna be called Thursday’s Favorites like on Thalia’s World because I never know what day I may decide to post on!

Taylor’s Current Favorites
Favorite Color Pink- no doubt
Favorite Show/Character-Adams’ Family
Favorite Outfit-This week was the monochromatic look. It was school spirit week at preschool which meant wearing a certain color each day. Miss Taylor had to wear only that color! So for blue-she wore blue shirt, blue jeans and blue crocs. Today was yellow and she was so upset she did not have any all yellow shoes!
Favorite Toy/Gadget – Computer but has enjoying outside play more this week.
Favorite Craft-Cutting and making cards for people are her favorite. She made the sweetest card for our dear neighbor who is moving this week.

Jamie’s Current Favorites
Favorite Color-Purple I think! When he sees purple he exclaims so excitedly “Purr-pull!”
Favorite Show-Yo Gabba Gabba (a new show on Nick Jr if you don’t know don’t ask!)
Jamie’s Favorite Outfit- His pirate hat and eye patch. He loves wearing it and saying “Arrgh!”
Favorite Toy/Gadget-His train table and Thomas trains
Favorite Craft-He is enjoying coloring more but he always turns the crayons into rockets and counts..”1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-tinnnn BLAST OFF!” and shoots the crayon up into the air.

Here are a few pictures from our last trip down to Atlantic Beach, although we went to the pool more than we went to the beach on this trip for some reason.

Just in case you were wondering… Jamie was out cold asleep during the fun.

On my blog, “Thalia’s World” I used to do a feature called “Thursday’s Favorites”, a list of the kid’s favorite things at the time. It’s not Thursday, but this list is long overdue.

Taylor’s Current Favorites
Favorite Color Pink- no doubt
Favorite Show/Character-Lola Bunny In Michael Jordan’s Space Jam
Favorite Outfit-Whatever she chooses at the moment. She can now reach the clothes in closet and loves putting together new outfits during the day. Usually several a day!
Favorite Toy/Gadget – Her computer with Glubble browser for children. She loves playing American Girl games online and doing the beauty studios in Barbie My Scene. It makes for a nice activity to do in the heat of the day when she can’t play outside.
Favorite Craft-Cutting right now is her favorite but she loves any craft that we do

Jamie’s Current Favorites
Favorite Color-Still Undetermined (maybe Carolina Blue!)
Favorite Show-Thomas The Tank Engine
Mommy’s Favorite Outfit for him- His surfing polo shirt with tan cargo shorts
Favorite Toy/Gadget-He really loves his Darth Vader Mask and Carolina Pom Pom he uses as a sword/ light saber.
Favorite Craft-He just started using the glue stick to stick things but he also has made a couple of wall scribbles (not out favorite that is for sure!)

We are probably just like you, and are spending more time outside playing with the kids and swimming at our swimming pool, than posting here on our blog.

We will continue to post pictures and things as the summer progresses. Meanwhile, quit reading this post, go outside, and do SOMETHING!!!!! hehe…

Here is a favorite quote of ours…

“While making living, do not forget to have a life!”, or something like that…

The Ashtons

Taylor went to one of her friends/classmates birthday party. It was a beautiful day, and not too hot. The kids had a great time. They loved the pool and water slide as you can tell!

If you need another reason to be using Firefox, and you are a parent of children under 12, here it is. There is a new extension for Firefox that lets you create and/or approve websites that your children right in the browser. It also allows you to give the children their own username and password to allow different sites for different children.

My daughter is 4 years, and has already fallen in love with getting on the Internet with my wife and I. As she gets older, this will be an excellent tool to help us if we walk away for a few minutes.

Featured Firefox Extension: Approve sites your kid visits with Glubble – Lifehacker

Glubble – A new online experience for the entire family

We had a great time at the beach this past weekend. The weather was beautiful, and the water was not as cold as you would think that it would be for this time of year. James and Taylor went all the way in the water, and loved every minute of it.

We stayed at the Trinity Center Retreat at Salter Path, NC. We have stayed there once before, and we really like it. It is one of the best kept secrets of Atlantic Beach!

We went to the annual GlaxoSmithKline Summer Sizzling Fun Day 2007 today, and had a great time. The kids got to ride a bunch of the rides, and jumped in the inflatable jumping things. Jamie did not do to much today, because of not being sure of himself, and being a little scared of the bigger children. Here are some pictures of the day.

Taylor and Jamie got a new car for Easter, and here is some of the fun!

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The kids have had a great time so far, and Easter is not even here yet. Here are some pictures.

Taylor met one of her friends at Pullen Park today. We had a great time, and went for ice cream afterwards.

Here are some sweet pictures from yesterday. We are still trying to get moved in to our new house, and we thought were a few pictures.

What a beautiful day to be at the park. It was a bit windy, but otherwise a perfect day. Taylor and I went on a long walk today, just like we did when she was 2 or so. We lived near a pond and had lots of places we could walk to. We spent so much time together and I would not trade of it for anything in the world. We will try to find some of the pictures that we took of us at the pond and post them here.

I also took a lot of pictures and will be posting them soon as well.

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