Pioneer Day

Rockwell and I ran the Temple to Temple 5k the morning of Pioneer Day. Rockwell's team usually runs it together, but they didn't do it this year. He looked at his schedule and they were supposed to do an Easy Day, which means they run nice and slow. He said, "Oh perfect, I'll just run Mom's pace." Haha!

We did it! We finished in 26:49.

It was fun to run with Rockwell the whole time this year!

We went to Katie's that evening for a swim party with the Loosli's and Nielson's.

It was a really fun night!

XC Camp

 Rockwell was so excited for Cross Country Camp. This is one of his very favorite weeks of the year. They needed another driver, so Jody asked Paul if he could come. Luckily it worked out with Paul's real estate work, and he was able to go help out.

They do a lot of running up there. :)

They also have a lot of fun. They tube the river every year.

On one of the runs, the boys and girls run a different route, but their routes meet up at one point. The boys always get to the road first, and it's tradition that they leave a note on the road for the girls.

This year's camp theme was a patriotic one since it's America's 250th birthday. The boys wrote "U R red, white, and cute"

They also spend an afternoon at the pool every year. They have all these traditions that they do at the pool: a high pitch scream contest down the slide for the boys and a low pitch scream contest for the girls, they do some sort of washing machine something, and a few others that I don't remember. :)

These are all the Juniors this year.

Jody has a points system that's happening all week, and on the last day he announces the Camp King and Camp Queen (the boy and girl who earned the most points). Then the girls announce their own Camp King (the boy they all crush on). Rockwell was the girl's Camp King this year. He loved that!!

I'm so glad Rockwell has all these friends on the team. They're good, respectful kids. He loved being the older kid at camp this year and continuing on the traditions he has enjoyed the past few years.

Kauai Day 11

 The annual picture by the fountain!

Paul had a time-sensitive real estate deal he needed to work on, so we stayed at the condos after we checked out so he could use the internet. We played games, watched tv, and just hung out all morning. When Paul was finished, we went into Hanalei and had lunch at Big Nick's.

Then we drove to Wailua Falls, which was beautiful.

We went to Costco to fill the rental car with gas, and decided to get one last shave ice. There was a truck called Shave Ice Kauai across from Costco so we gave it a try.

The guy working was awesome, and he told Tessa that she could play with his dog Winston while we waited. She loved that!

The shave ice's were enormous!! It was a good way to end our trip to Kauai. It's always so hard to leave. 

Mahalo for the good times Kauai! We love you!!

Kauai Day 10

 We love this lookout over Hanalei Bay!

The kids wanted to surf again so we went back to Hanalei Surf and rented boards. Only 2 could fit on our car, so we decided to rent paddle boards too and have Rockwell and I paddle those down the river and meet Paul, Tessa and Damon on the beach. That way we'd have two surfboards and two paddle boards for the whole day.

It was fun to paddle down the river out to the ocean with Rockwell. We got the hang of paddling on the waves and were actually able to ride a few of the waves in to shore on the paddle boards. It helped that it was a super calm wave day. :)

Tessa and Damon had fun surfing. The water was calm, so they had a lot of wait time between waves. It definitely wasn't as good of waves as the day we did our lesson, but they enjoyed it still.

During one of the wait times, Tessa was even able to do a beautiful handstand on her surf board. That is not easy!!!

We tried the taco truck for lunch. It wasn't amazing, but it filled us up since we didn't want to leave our boards at the beach to drive somewhere for lunch. We've always wondered if the food was good there. Now we know. :)

There were seriously so many waterfalls in the mountains all week. It was so beautiful!

Damon took a turn on the paddle board for a while. Then he wanted to get back to surfing.

It felt long to paddle back up the river at the end of the day, but Rockwell and I made it. There were two sea turtles swimming in the river, which was really cool!