Kevin, Kalani and Josh's Pictures

Joshua's Third Birthday

2008-06-17T14:59:00.002-05:00

For Joshua's 3rd birthday we took him out to eat where they sang him a happy birthday song. He was quite surprised at first but loved it by the end.

Joshua At the Park

2008-05-26T15:00:00.003-05:00

Poor Chloe!

2008-02-25T16:53:00.004-05:00

Josh loves Chloe, but the feeling is not always mutual!

February and Valentine's Day Fun

2008-02-25T16:43:00.003-05:00

Josh loved getting Valentines cards, candy, and presents from his preschool classmates and family. Thank you everybody! He especially loved this set of stickers...so he decided to put them all over his face.

Joshua and Santa

2007-12-08T12:58:00.000-05:00

Halloween 2007

2007-11-09T09:58:00.001-05:00

Kim and Ed's Wedding

2007-08-23T20:48:00.000-05:00

On August 11, we celebrated the marriage of Kevin's sister Kim to Ed Park. The wedding was held at Viansa Winery in Sonoma, California. Joshua Lokahi had a great time getting to know his cousins, Michael, Paul, and Daniel. The kids especially loved the music, dancing, and best of all....a bubble machine!

Joshua gets his groove on with his cousin Paul.

Joshua and Mikey in bubble heaven.

and Daniel gets in on the act

Sunday by the lake with Joshua

2007-06-30T15:17:00.000-05:00

Last Sunday we went for a walk around the lake with Joshua's grandma (the one from Hawaii). It was exciting. We saw a rabbit, a heron, a cardinal, many squirrels, several turtles and, of course, ducks galore.

Joshua at the Park

2007-06-23T12:27:00.002-05:00

We had a fun day playing at Apex Community Park with our friend Amanda and her little girl.

Josh and Kevin

Amanda and Joshua

Kalani with Josh and Araya

Joshua's 2nd Birthday

2007-06-17T19:00:00.001-05:00

Joshua's Birthday Photos

2007-06-17T15:29:00.000-05:00

Here are some more pictures of Joshua's second birthday.

Joshua's Birthday

2007-06-17T14:28:00.001-05:00

Joshua celebrated his second birthday on June 10th. These two years have flown by! He had a few low-key celebrations: cup cakes with his preschool class, a little family party, and a neighborhood party. His tutu (Kalani's mom) is coming on Tuesday, so he'll have another little party with her. Here are a few pictures from his birthday festivities.

Videos of Joshua Outside

2006-12-30T12:21:00.000-05:00

Here are some videos of Joshua walking around outside from last week.

Week Between Christmas and New Years

2006-12-30T11:42:00.000-05:00

We had a really nice week between Christmas and New Years. I worked at home so I was able to see Joshua and Kalani on my breaks. Since Joshua seemed so interested in seeing me work. Kalani set him up his own desk (and he loved it). He would wake up in the morning and want to go right to his desk. He had his little laptop Kalani got him for Christmas and a bunch of office supplies we had laying around.

While I was work Kalani and Joshua found other fun activities to do like dressing the dogs in silly hats (always a favorite) and playing outside.

The weather was unseasonably warm many of the days last week. So we were able to go out quite a bit.

For New Years we are planning to go to First Night Raleigh. It is the family New Years celebration in downtown Raleigh. They drop an Acorn at midnight (but I do not think we will be making it that late).

Happy 007 New Years all!!!

Christmas 06

2006-12-26T16:54:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas Everyone,

We had a very nice Christmas here at home. Joshua just loved all the gifts and holiday sweets. Here are a couple of videos of Joshua on Christmas day. In the first one Kalani and Bogey are helping him unwrap a gift. In the second he is playing on a little laptop toy. He loves things that flash and make noise when he touches them.

The little orange Chinese outfit was sent all the way from China from Auntie Shannon. The weather was so nice last week (one day was 75 degrees!), that Josh didn't even need a jacket with the short sleeve vest!

Leanne came over for a nice Christmas dinner of rib eyes, asparagus, pear/gorgonzola/walnut salad (with delicious pears from my Uncle Paul and Aunt Clarette!), cherry cobbler, and more. We took these picture of in front of the fireplace.

At the park

2006-12-16T10:14:00.000-05:00

This morning I took Joshua to the his favorite park. Here are some action videos. He loves these music pipes (a series on metal pipes each with a different note and metal ball to make it sound). The second video is him going up and down stairs (probably his favorite activity at the moment). We also walked all through the wooden fort structure and slide down several slides.

It was hard to capture video he kept wanting the camera. He had to really be into what he was doing.

Playing with the music pipes....

Going up an down the stairs...

Got A New Camera

2006-12-15T17:56:00.000-05:00

We are back in business, we just go t a new camera for Christmas. Here are some picture I took this morning testing out the camera.

There is not that much new going on here. Joshua is growing like a weed. We had a quiet Thanksgiving here at home (just the 3 of us). We will also be staying close to home for Christmas.

I even setup a youtube account here is my test video....

Other pictures...

Happy Halloween

2006-10-30T10:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Halloween Everyone!!

Here is a picture of Joshua in his monkey costume. He was dressed up here to go to the Apex Halloween carnival. We went with Tyler and Conner (see their costumes below. Dianne took more pictures at the carnival and I will post them once she sends them to me.

I know I have been incredibly lax a posting to this site. I do have a bunch of pictures from Hawaii I hope to get on here soon. I also have pictures from my mom's last visit. We did break our camera in Hawaii so we have not taken many photo since the trip.

Joshua is finally walking (Yeah!). He took his first solo steps a couple weeks ago and he is getting better all the time. Kalani has been taking Joshua to classes at the Apex community center (silly song and movement classes).

Joshua's First Luau

2006-08-07T19:50:00.001-05:00

In July, Kalani, Joshua and I took a two and a half week trip to Hawaii. On Saturday July 8th we had a big party for Joshua's first Luau. We had the Luau at Don the Beach Commers Resturant which is right on the beach at The Royal Kona Resort.

From our famialy we had Kalani's parents, Aunt Dana, Uncle Dan, Shannon, Danny, Laura, Meara and Pasha's cusin Connie. We also had lots of old friends Angel, Tylor,

Shelton Family Reunion 2006

2006-07-30T11:10:00.000-05:00

In June Kalani, Joshua and I attended the Shelton Family Reunion in Fort Walton Beach Florida. We were there on June 10th, so we were able to celebrate Joshua's 1st birthday. As you see here Kalani is give Joshua some of his first birthday cake (my mom got his this cake in the theme of Disney's cars. Joshua got a lot of attention at th reunion being the youngest attending family member.

Another big event at the reunion was my sister's boyfriend Ed asked her to marry him. We are very happy for them both (we really like Ed). We have heard they are planning for a wedding next summer in California.

On the second day of the reunion we held the family golf tournament. We had three teams of 4 and we played a best ball event. The wining team (shown on the right) was Marty, Casey, Jimmy and myself. There I am wearing my victory hat :).

We stayed at some condos right on the beach, so we went to the beach everyday. We also had quite a bit of good fresh seafood. Bellow are some more pictures taken from the reunion.

Myrtle Beach

2006-03-26T15:15:00.000-05:00

The first weekend in March Kalani, Joshua and I went to Mrytle Beach SC. We had a great weekend. Joshua just loved the pool. Kalani is excited to take him to pools around here once they open for the summer.

February

2006-03-26T14:22:00.000-05:00

I am sorry it has been a while since I updated this blog. It is often hard to find the time. Here are some updates from Febrary. Our Friend Brooke came to visist from Virgina. Daniel and Brooke came over we had a nice dinner.

Joshua got his first teeth in February. Here is his brushing away.

For Valentines Day Kalani, Joshua and I had a nice dinner at home.

Here are some other pictures form the month...

Outfits

2006-01-22T10:03:00.000-05:00

There you go I am now up to date. Here are a couple more cute pictures of Joshua.

11 Years

2006-01-22T09:56:00.000-05:00

Kalani and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary last weekend. We went to XIOS. Eric and Kate stayed and listened for Joshua as he slept.

Shannon

2006-01-21T16:21:00.000-05:00

Kalani's cousin Shannon came to visit us this month. To meet her nephew for the first time. We had a great weekend together (went out to dinner, walked around the lake - still incredible weather) and had a fun poker night with many of the friends she made as she lived her last year. Here are a couple Auntie/Nephew shots.