To the love of my life

just for you dear

A good week of exercising

Finally got a full week of exercising under my belt. I haven't been able to put 6 consecutive days together in a very long time. However this past week was a good week, with 60 miles of biking (3 hrs, 12 min) & 13 miles of running (2 hrs, 33 min) and a 100 meter ocean swim, for a total of 6000 calories burned this week. Hopefully the trend will continue of at least 6 days of exercising and a couple days of swimming thrown in for a complete workout.

Looking forward to an easy bike ride for a couple hours tomorrow.

It doesn't get much better than this!

What a wonderful birthday I had today. Everyone wished me happy birthday(home, work & friends) and made me realize just how many true friends I have in life. Lynn had to teach tonight and Amanda needed some valentines for school tomorrow, so off to the mall we went. Once there Amanda suggested we go to Farrell's for dinner (which was in the mall). I said sure that shouldn't take us too long. Quick and easy dinner
Just as the waitress brought the bill she asked if I would fill out these cards and they would mail birthday coupons. Amanda jumped into action and said today is my dads birthday. The waitress quickly jumped into action and got all the employees together for a quick birthday song (this is the same waitress we had tonight singing). When she asked how old I was Amanda quickly answered for me. The kids loved it and felt like they really got me good.

This was the first song I heard this morning when I got in the car and it stuck with me all day.

All-in-all it was an excellent day for me to just stop and realize just how wonderful my life is with a wonderful family, great parents and in-laws, the perfect brother and a few good friends. Then tonight as I took the kids to bed both Amanda and Jake said to me just as they were falling asleep, happy birthday dad and I love you. What more could I possible ask for in life? nothing, but exactly what I have - thanks to everyone

What a weekend of fun, swimming, and special treat for Amanda

This was a weekend to remember. We were all over the island doing all kinds of fun things this weekend.
First and foremost this is a Mai-tai toast to my younger brother (Nathan in Anchorage) who had is 32nd birthday today and hopefully this will remind of the nice warm Hawaiian days
Jake and I, have a photo moment in the pool. Little Jake is becoming quite the little swimmer.

Jake doing is favorite activity of all time - eating ice-cream after Amanda's special evening and wearing a little on his face. He says it taste better that way.

Jake getting in on the photo shoot prior to one of our weekend adventures.

Here is Amanda the morning after getting her ears pierced. She was incredible and loves her new ear-rings and hair style. I'm sure glad I have plenty of guns for the boys in the near future.

Amanda in the "hot-seat" after getting her ears pierced

Amanda getting the first ear pierced. She said it didn't hurt at all.

Before all the serious action we decided to take in a quick game of glow-n-dark mini golf. This is always a great place for some good family fun

And prior to arriving to the mall we drove around Kaneohe Bay to look at some neighborhoods and stumbled across an open house for this brand new 3000 sq ft home overlooking the bay. It's in an area called Bay View Estates, this particular home is called the Gardenia , (check out the photos) and comes completely furnished (fake grass and all) for a whooping $1.4 million dollars. It was a very nice house, but not for the Soots family.

What a great weekend, now it's back to the office and school next week. We need an extra long weekend soon!

karate kid/muscle man

Here are a couple video's of Jake in action.

karate kicking a water bottle

more water bottle kicking

Mr. muscle man