FIRE and friends

Last night we went with our friends to watch some serious fire fun!! We watched Mele's "little bro" Vili practice his flaming poi balls and his teacher gave us a demonstration of the double flaming poi balls...it was awesome to see! She was the same gal that performed at the ward luau a few weeks ago, and she is VERY talented. When we met her last night she was so sweet and genuinely welcoming, we were sad to see her leave to go back to Guam!!

I told Mele that I want to learn some of these dances...there is one that you do with a large "stick' (a guy did it at the luau) and you can light the ends on fire...I am totally into learning the ones that involve flames!!

Mele and Misi also had dinner with us before the fire fun and Karyl and Mate had a blast playing outside and making a mess with the bubbles...Mate loved her bubble gun we got from the OC Fair! Here are a few pics of them goofing around...

The one with Mate on the bike is while we were watching the Fire Poi!!

Then, this morning the boys started early....6:30 a.m. early. They went to get a huge cement mixer (the thing is its own trailer!) and when I went out at 9 a.m. they had already made a ton of progress considering they didn't get back and started until after they got the equipment and got everything set up! Below are a few pictures of their progress and the fun toys they get to play with today....

I will post more pics as they get more done, I couldn't believe how fast they were, they were already half done with the front patio!! If I don't pay attention they are liable to cement the entire house down...on second thought, that would keep the wasps out, wouldn't it?

Here are just a few cute pics of the kids yesterday, I was trying out different settings on the camera and honestly, I can't tell the difference other than some setting take smaller pictures. I guess I should go find the manual and read it...