My Easter Song

Easter Sunday

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful the Lord God made them all.

I’m thankful for bright and beautiful and wonderful things. Especially our family is bright and beautiful and wonderful to me.

We had a delightful family chat today!

One to give & one to keep: Hot Cross Buns for Easter.

What a wonderful general conference we've been so blessed to enjoy. We are so blessed by the Savior and His teachings and His messengers who are trying so hard to awaken in each of us the truths of life. I endear their words into my heart.

Cultural Night at BYU Hawaii

Cultural Night at BYU-H was a delightful two nights of dance performances from 25 countries.  Performers were students in the various international clubs on campus.  I took a million pictures.  Here are a few cool ones!

This group from Korea was mesmerizing! 
Such beautiful costumes!

This is our student, Tiffannie, with the Latin America group.

That which we obtain too easily, 

we esteem too lightly.

It is dearness only 

which gives everything its value.

Heaven knows how 

to put a proper price on its goods.

             - Thomas Paine

Visit from Jen, Vic & Aaron

Had a wonderful time doing family names at the temple

Hukilau Market Place in Laie

Eating Tea leaf wrapped Chicken Laulau

Surprise visit from Aaron! :)

Aaron surprising Jen!

At Chiefs Luau

Hukilau Beach Laie

Rats and Turtles

Yesterday while Chris and Bill Baker were singing on the porch with uku lessons, Jeannie and I were writing up sales manually due to the system being down. Those darn rats chewed through all the cables so we heard no bells ringing from the till. Thankfully our guests were kindly patient and understanding about it all.

Making leis for our turtle kits

Turtle making kits bagged and ready for sale

So cute!

We stuffed two of them to show how cute they are.

Today was stake conference and in the 4pm session Chris led a priesthood choir.

Saturdays at the PCC Mission Settlement

We love working with the Bakers!

Every Saturday at the Settlement, we open up, set up shop and have an opening song and prayer then Br. Baker tells us whatever we may need to know and concludes saying “Lets go make it a great day!”  He & Sis. Baker are really great to work with.  We just love them.

Making more microwave bowls holders

We hung up this new quilt today!  So pretty.  These are
all hand stitched and take 900 hours!  Original Hawaiian
quilting was just two colors.  They believed that more colors
distracted from all the quilted stitches.  

From our Office:  The PCC was really full of happy travelers yesterday.  The clouds kept it cool and made us think rain was coming any minute but it held off all day!  This week there were travelers from India, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Mayanmar, Denmark, Batesville Indiana, Moore Idaho, all over Asia and tons more places.  They come here from all over the world.  Even someone came from Iran!  The PCC is 55 years old this year! 

 I had a lovely morning at the temple Wednesday.  Sis. Susan Tanner was one of the Temple workers.  Her husband is the  BYU-H president and Sis. Tanner was the 12^th General Pres of the Young Women’s organization. I loved being with her there at our session.

Emily & Hollis visiting

                                 A fun time with Em & Hollis!

Emily learning to twirl a fireknife at the PCC

Learning to toss a fishing net

Success!!

PCC lagoon

Valley of the temples

Dim Sum in Chinatown

 Hollis's cute little mermaid
moʻopuna wahine (granddaughter) from Hauula

                

Happy Birthday Hollis!

                                               

Hollis's children and grandchildren came over for the birthday!

Did we tell you to pull a funny face?

We also went for a little ride to Pupukea Heiau, a lookout over the beautiful ocean. Emily saw something none of us noticed...little puffs of white out in the distance.  There was a pod of whales spouting here and there out in the ocean.  It was so cool!!!  Wouldn't it be so cool to be next to a whale when it spouts to see how high up the water goes.  I'm glad Emily had eyes to see this cool sight and share it for our eyes to see.