the Kids

The goats are very bold these days. They are mostly motivated by their tummies....

When we go to feed them now, they will happily jump up on us to get to the yogurt container full of grain and alfalfa.

Here's Diego
aren't his eyes pretty?

I tried to get a picture of all 3 on me at once.... but between the food in my hand, them pushing against me, and the camera....

at least I got both Rocky and Diego together : D

Here's another kid

And baby rambutan! They look so cute on the tree

Naked Farm Work

Who says you need to get dressed to do farm chores like feed the goats??

No need clothes to get the food

No need clothes to walk up the long road
Hey, goats are naked too!They could care less what we wear.... as long as the food is there!

Kitty Love

Some cute kitty pictures.

Here's Milo playing on the couch, in the glare of the rising sunMakalena is not interested in Milo

Hokulani loves to drink water from the fish pond. Our cats have never liked bowls of water, preferring moving water.

When she drinks, the fish all come to her- they think they're being fed... she hasn't eaten one yet ; )

the newest member of our family

Meet Milo!

I mistakenly told GB that he never surprises me..... so one day he came home for lunch and had me close my eyes. When I opened them, Milo was in my arms.

Born at the end of August and adopted by us at 7ish weeks old.

He's very spunky. This is a rare cuddly moment.

Common look. He talks a LOT. (I guess as annoying as it is sometimes, he fits right in to our loquacious household!)

First contact

Makalena and Hokulani are tolerating him. No one has swiped at him, but there is lots of hissing.... I expected as much.

Goat News

The goats are getting more and more used to us.... plus they'll do almost anything for food.

Here's Rocky, just getting comfy being fed from my hand.Diego is very interested, but not enough to actually touch me.

But when I come to feed them, they all 3 run to the gate to greet me.


On our way to school one morning we found these rascally goats Outside of the LARGE gated enclosure. Turns out they can squeeze their little bodies in a 6" square. They were coming thru a gap in the gate- the temporary patch job was a piece of hardware cloth leftover from the concrete work.... I watched Rocky jump right thru the small holes in the cloth. Goats are crafty!!!

New Koi!

PARTY!

After the house blessing, the party continued.

Firstly we moved all of the tables from the mango tree to the house. It had started to rain and the food was getting wet and our guests were standing under the tarp looking at it.

The potluck meal was awesome. People brought great food. It was delish!

The kids (and many adults went back into the pool). The pool saw a lot of action this day!


Our friend Jake offered to be the bartender for our party. He gave me a list of some stuff to buy.... but boy did he TRULY exceed everyone's expectations. I think he missed his true calling.

Here is Jake with Jeb, his cousin, and fellow bartender who went on to complete the Ironman Triathlon the following weekend in Kona.And here is the drink menu. I believe that Sue came up with a lot of this. Please click to make bigger..... it was so creative.

The Jewish Princess was created for moi. Love & Sax is the name of GB's move
We didn't take a huge amount of pictures at the party because we were too busy having fun. Seriously it was probably the funnest party we've had.
Tons of friends were there. Most of the guys who built the house and pool were there (taking the kudos they deserve, I hope). And everyone seemed to get along great.
Someone (Kathy?) did pull GB and I aside and got us to take a couple of pictures. You can see the TV on in the background there. Pool parties are exhausting for little ones, so they always spend the 2nd half of the party catatonic.


Oh, and we also rolled Noam and my birthdays into the party... here we are being sung to

And the cake...
Next huge party? Noam's Bar Mitzvah- 10/24/08!!! Don't miss it!

House blessing

We had an awesome housewarming party on October 4th. After all of mega amounts of work that have gone into the house and land (so far!), we were so ready to share our home with friends and celebrate.

We were extremely fortunate that Kainani and Halealoha offered to do a Hawaiian house blessing for us. The party was fun, but their blessing felt so right.

The 5 of us entered the house, along with Kainani and Halealoha.

The two of them chanted as we entered. We went to the 4 corners of the house and blessed them with water from the sea.
Halealoha also cut this maile lei with a ko'i. The lei represents the umbilical cord (as we gave birth to the house). He cut the cord, with GB helping by holding a board behind. The part that came off is the piko.

When that was complete, they sang again, and then we all shared some poi.

GB invited in our guests to all have some poi.

It was really magical!

kids with kids

Day 3 since we adopted Rocky, Diego and Weed. They are still really scared of us.

I tried pairing kids with kids

Animals!

When we got back from picking up the goats, Rocky, Diego and Weed, GB found an ad on craigslist for chickens.....
I went right out and picked up 8 of them. They are new layers (almost all of them) and doing great!

Our first egg

Rocky, Diego and Weed

2 adults, 6 kids

GB and I are proud to announce we're now the proud parents of SIX kids.... ALL BOYS!











Introducing.....

Down to their bedroom

What? You are too afraid to come out??

Noam tried to feed them by hand.... but they were very afraidHere's Weed

This is DiegoRocky.... he's the "boldest"