Da Frandsens

Kaai was given the opportunity to train for armed gurad service. So of course he had too, the chance to play with a gun! Heck Yeah!! So this is a short clip of him at the gun range training to use a 38 special (which they will be upgrading to a 9 mm soon) this was just for practice! **The guy who did the video totally sucks but atleast we got a breif moment. Thanks alot!

These were the tree in front of our house when we first moved in. They are about 9 years old and have never been maintained since they got big. So when we came we realized they were pretty out of control and needed to be removed. So we put the call out to the elders in church and a hand full came to our rescue. It took about 2 hours to really get them down, but this is all that is left. Now this is the beautiful new view of the house. Next to go are the ones in the back that are just as big and that ugly little tree in the front that is growing really funcky. Its all about curb apeal baby!

May 8th, 2008 The days have finally gotten nice enough to take some outdoor field trips. Our first was to the zoo. Kalei and I got to go with my good friend Jessie and a few of her friends and their little ones. Kalei was happy to make new friends. She was also excited to be out of the house. Although we were there to see the animals the hightlight of the day was the water ball at the enterence of the zoo. We spent the first 10 minutes an the last 10 minutes just letting the keiki's enjoy the water. It was when they started to try to climb in that we had to say it was time to go. The animals at the zoo were kinda sleepy and most were just kinda hanging out but the kids were still excited to see them. They were still pretty captivated for most of the day. Kalie thought the elephants were pretty cool. I think cause they were so big. Trying to catch the big guy and smile at the same time. Kinda worked. The kids were pretty excited to see such big animals, and to be out of their stroll...

In front of our community there is a train track. Now since Kalei like trains we decided to take a family walk and put some money down to get smashed. Along the way we ended up finding a whole bunch of already smashed coins. Kalei had a blast walking on the tracks and finding all kinds of treasures. Kalei and Mommy checking on the money we put down the day before. Guess the train still didn't come. Kalei and Daddy finding the smashed money stuck in the tracks. Trying to focus so she doesn't fall. She does have two left feet sometimes. Getting a helping hand from Dad.

When Kaai use to live in Utah many years ago he had this 4 wheeler that he loved. Well when it was time to get married he was so good and sold it to a friend for some extra money. Well now that we are back here, his friend was cool and let him borrow it. So when he gets that chance he takes Kalei aound the yard. She calls it his "MMM MMM". Now Kalei has her own something to ride. The other day we went shopping and saw this bike and just had to get it. We couldn't get her off this thing. So she was so excited to come home and help daddy put together her "bak" as she says. She loves to push herself around the house on this thing. Now we have the fun of teaching her how to use her feet on the peddles. Thank goodness it is getting warmer and we can go outside and ride soon.

To end the break we took the kids, loaded up the van and headed for Cali. where we were going to meet mom who was with John for a basketball tournament. The kids were so excited to know that this was a 12 hour trip. Lucky for them they didn't have to drive. Poor Kaai he drove the whole trip both ways. But I am proud to say that I stayed up the whole way both ways, which is a milestone for me since I usally fall asleep just driving for 30 minutes. To take a break we stopped in Cedar for a little while to see Jared. He was nice enough to buy us some snacks. So what do we get.. all the mento hawaiians get ice cream bars at like 12 something in 30 degree weather. We stood outside chevron eating ice cream laugh about mom saying mahalo every where so goes in the mainland and people looking at her funny. You had to be there to laugh. It was a nice stop. We stopped in Vegas and got some sleep at some random motel. It was kinda creepy but all part of the fun of a road trip. The next day we ...

While the keiki were here, Kalei got to spend some time with Uncle while he was checking his myspace where he has the song "No Air" on his page. I guess while he was checking it he was singing the song and Kalei totally caught on. This is a video of her singing a part of the song. You can hear Nai'a in the backround getting her to do it. Now that she knows the song we can not sit at computer without her plugging in the ear phones and asking to listen to "No Air". She will listen to it atleast 6-8 times before we have to try to get her to do somthing else. Thanks Uncle!