A cute apron for a cute boy...

Colette has a really cute apron that her Meme (great-grandma) got for her at the Country Peddler's Show. For the past couple days, I had been thinking about making one for Gavin using hers as a pattern. I finally just sat down and did it.

It took me about 3 hours to make it, but I had many little interruptions along the way, and I was not organized (my stuff is barely unpacked). I am really happy with how it turned out, and Jeremy even said it looked good. (He said I should sell them, lol.)

I didn't start out telling Gavin that I was making an apron for him - he's way too impatient, he would have been on top of me the whole time I was sewing. He walked in, though, while I was sewing, and figured out I was making an apron. When I told him it was for him, he was so excited. He kept coming in and asking if his apron was done, he wanted to wear it.

He tried it on once I was done with the apron, and he was just so happy to have it. Gavin kept walking around in it.

I got the fabric last year at Ikea, and the binding is a white quilt binding. I made the top part different from Colette's, I figured it would be easier to have it squared off than rounded.

And here's Colette modelling her original apron. She said that she liked Gavin's new apron better than hers, and she wanted me to make a new one for her too. She gets so jealous!

I made bread!

Today I was bored, and so I decided to make bread. Challah bread to be exact. I love it! I had never made this bread before, much less tasted it, but I've heard it was really good. I was not disappointed. The recipe makes two loafs, and here is the first one.

Yes, that is mojito mix in the background. Want to come over and drink it with me?

North Shore Dinner

Tuesday evening, we drove up to the North Shore for dinner, and to try to catch the sunset. We wanted to try a place called Cholo's, an "authentic" mexican restaurant. We figured we would probably be disappointed by the food, being that we are from a place with such awesome mexican food, but we had to try anyway.

Cholo's was actually better than we expected! I figured that I would just be let down by enchiladas (because there are so many variations on a normal enchilada, you know), so I played it safe and ordered the Carne Asada. It was pretty good. The only let down I had with my meal was the tortillas. They were just warmed up store-bought tortillas. Oh well.

After dinner, we tried a North shore tradition, "shave ice". I have a few things to say about that. 1. "Shave" ice? really? we can't add that "d" in there? Sorry, these kinds of things bother me. There are signs all over the island for "shave ice", and it seems to me that it should be "shaved ice", right?

2. Another discrimination because my hometown is so close to Mexico: these things do not compare at all to raspas. Yes, the ice is good. But the flavors here are just weak. Jeremy and I were sad that they don't have tiger's blood flavor here. Back home, they would have a huge sign with all the flavors (like 30-40), but here they had maybe 15. Oh well. It was still a nice treat, and the kids enjoyed it.

I had been wanting to see the sunset for a while. The island has mountain ranges on both sides, so you can't see the sunrise or sunset from our house. We'd heard that the north shore was a good place to see the sunset.

We found out that it was, indeed, a good place to see the sun set. If the weather allowed. We did not get to see hardly anything because of the clouds in the way. It was still a lovely view, though.

Looking away from the beach, we saw the moon already out, and a rainbow! Yes, there's a rainbow there. Squint until you see it. or just humor me and tell me that you see it. :P

I had to take a couple pictures of the kids, and I think they turned out pretty well.

Jeremy wanted a picture with the beach in the background. Isn't he cute?

And he took one of me too. Actually, he took three of me. The other two turned out horrible. But this one isn't too bad.

Kailua Beach

A while back (sorry, I'm behind), we went to Kailua beach with our neighbors. It is the prettiest beach ever! We took our brand new puppy, Lola with us, and we all had a blast!

Normally I would crop this picture, but i wanted you to see just how small this little girl is. She's 3 pounds!

Colette had a lot of fun playing in the sand for a while, and then she got in the water and had even more fun.

Gavin is...... hitting the water? I don't know, but look at how much fun he's having here!

Just to show you how pretty this beach is.

Colette playing with the neighbor's girl, Lili.

I let the kids use the camera

And this is what they came up with....