Last night was amazing my hubby came home with a beautiful surprise of flowers, balloon, birthday cake and gifts. Super blessed and grateful for him and all that he does to make me feel special on my birthday. My mom also called him to arrange dinner delivered to us from her (she’s in Hawaii). We…
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31 & Blessed
I woke up around 7am and enjoyed the quietness of our new house. I cuddled with my sweet baby boy as I looked out of our bedroom windows at our trees in the backyard. Seeing the sun shining through the trees and into our room brings such a magical feeling of happiness. It’s always bittersweet…
Let’s Talk Hawaiian #13
This post will have something to do with the month of December! MERRY CHRISTMAS – MELE KALIKIMAKA I wanted to have this translation early for you guys so you’ll know it before Christmas comes around and so you can use it! A few other words that will help you during this cold winter are:…
Let’s Talk Hawaiian #13
Aloha readers I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! Today I’ll be sharing with y’all…yup you guessed it…. HAPPY THANKSGIVING: Hau’oli Lā Ho’omaika’i Hope y’all ate just as much as we did! Check out my last post Thanksgiving 2018. Me ke aloha -SIMPLY SHANA
Let’s Talk Hawaiian #12
Hi all my fast learners!!! So I have a song that my son learned over this summer which he knows very well. BTW he loves singing!!! This song is called Na Mahele O Ke Kino = Parts Of The Body. It goes like: Poʻo, Maka, Ihu, Waha (touch head, eyes, nose, mouth) Pepeiao, Lima, Manamana…
White Christmas
Never have I ever had a White Christmas! Once again island girl problems but Hawai’i (Big Island) has snow on a beautiful mountain called Mauna Kea (but I’ve never been…yet). Since this was our first year away from our Family Christmas Parties back home we thought it would be a great adventure to head up…
Let’s Talk Hawaiian- #3
Lately I’ve been teaching William some Hawaiian words. If we still lived in O’ahu I would’ve sent him to the same school that I went, but this way he enjoys learning his culture on our own pace. My friend from O’ahu sent us a calendar for Christmas that has the months and days all in…
First Trip to Disneyland
One of our vacations before we left Hawaii besides our Honeymoon was our summer 2016 family vacation to DISNEYLAND. We figured that our son is old enough to remember this experience so HECK YAH! To top it off it was our first time (yes I’m 20 something years old and I’ve never been, do I…
