We are LOVING Kauai!

We are loving Kauai. We have a sweet house only a mile from a great surf break. We are doing well and we are about to launch our non-profit organization for Surf Spoon. This org will raise money to enable kids all over Hawaii to get the gear they need to surf and the $ they need to enter into surf comps. We have a lot of great people helping out! We are also going to soon launch islandroots.tv This will be a TV website with great info and news feeds about cultural happenings throughout Hawaii. All the kids are doing great! I have included the mountain veiw from our home. Love to everyone!

With 5 kids, coaching surfing, working as a web designer and living so close to the beach I often find it hard to get to my blog and update the family. You can all thank the storm for keeping me home today and giving me a chance to have some free time. I was thinking about the last time we had a family photo and I think it was in 2002 or 2003. Wowzy! I'll try to get that together soon. All the photos I just loaded are of my neighborhood. We have beautiful tidepools that are like swimming in a fish tank.

The Chill Mobile!

This is our family bike. We cover the top with palm fronds and surfboards. We take it to surf competitions and give people rides. TONS of fun. We have made a lot of friend with the chill mobile. We make the local newspaper every once in a while and sometimes we harvest a bunch local fruits and turn the bike into a mobile fruit stand and sell to the tourists. We both have "real jobs but we love doing it.

Thanksgiving 2008 Starr, ME, Lillikoi

Wow! Why am I the runt of the family. My sisters and mom are all taller then me. My girls are going to pass me up soon too. I feel tall at 5'4" but I guess I am not. The weather was nice, only a bit of rain. We spent the Holiday with some of Hawaiian relatives in a beautiful outdoor kitchen. I made a yummy turkey with mango, macadamia nut stuffing. We all loved it! Believe it or not, no one surfed on Thanksgiving. Pretty much unheard of in our fam.

Are there really fish in our hale?