Updates:

09.18.2008 | 7:16 am | family

Updates on the family:

George has started a new job at the shipyard: working the IT helpdesk. He’s loving it. He’s also started working on a certification in Arabic Language and Culture. See his blog for insight into why.

Lara is busy keeping the household togheter, with an eye towards this time next year, when life as they know it will be totally different.

Quinlyn is learning well in school. She has her off days, but on her good days, she’s brilliant.

Kevyn is testing boundaries. Most of the time, when you tell him to do something, he does it. But if he digs his heels in…

Caelyn is becoming a wonderful, beautiful, manipulative little snot. But isn’t that how the youngest is supposed to be?

Changes

07.25.2008 | 10:22 pm | family

If you’re wondering why the family blogs all look different, there are a few reasons for this:

  • I wanted to cut costs, so I moved the family site from my old hosting company to my reseller account. This required a complete re-installation of Wordpress (our blogging software), and thus, I felt it a good time to change the look and feel.
  • Somehow, our old server/site got infiltrated, and was being reported as a malware-hosting site. I’m still investigating to make sure there are no lingering effects of this, but Google seems to think we’re ok, os I can breathe, a little.

So if you like the new look and feel, let us know!

Back, with broken arms.

07.14.2008 | 7:28 am | quinlyn

Yesterday morning, Quinlyn fell off them monkey bars at the playground. She fell, and upon landing, broke both bones in her left forearm, right above the growth plate. Mommy and Quinlyn spent all of yesterday at the hospital, but she’s home now, and doing fine. More details will be in mommy and daddy’s blogs, I think.

Back

03.26.2008 | 7:52 am | Uncategorized

So after a snafu with my hosting company, we’re back online. I’ll get this thing caught up later, though.

A relatively normal day

02.28.2008 | 12:16 am | family

In case anyone hasn’t heard via IM or phone, the littlest ‘maka has taken her first unsure, unsteady, terrifying steps. She still prefers to crawl, but with enough prodding and goading, she’ll take a few steps. We’ll try to get some pics and video of it.

I called home today form work to discuss some people coming over on Friday, and after Lara was done with me, Kevyn wanted to talk. He might not know a whole lot of words yet, but he’s definitely learning how to use conversational tones. You should hear him run around saying “Hey, daddy.”

Quinlyn is being her normal rambunctious self, but she got a break from homework today because the teacher misplaced it. Lucky girl.

That’s it for today’s update. We’ll get better at this (actually, technically it’s yesterday’s update, but you get the drift).

A long time ago…

02.26.2008 | 11:08 pm | family

Boy, has this blog fallen by the wayside…

This part of romaka.net was intended to keep everyone abreast of the goings-on of the family as a whole, but I can honestly say that it has not been successful. Starting tomorrow, that will change.

An effort will be made to update this every day, with pictures, video, or jsut a message saying how our day as a family went. Lara and I are both trying to maintain our individual blogs on a more frequent basis, but that is mostly for us to tell how we feel, not how the family is doing, if that makes sense.

In other words, expect to see a lot more stuff coming your way (whoever you are) from the family!

P.S. If you’ve searched “romaka” in Google lately, you might have seen a warning that “this site may harm your computer” under our search listing. I never was able to figure out what flagged us, but whatever it was is gone now. I did a thorough sweep through the sites code and database, and Google did it’s own review, and we both determined that the site is clean. The demons have been excorsized. So visit with impunity!

Dad’s Vacation Part 1: Around Hawai’i

10.8.2007 | 10:12 pm | podcast, video

Ok, so now that my computer is back from Alienware, and I’ve spent the requisite week re-installing, configuring, fixing, troubleshooting, and messing with it to get it right the way I need it to do all my techie things, I’m back trying to get caught upon months worth of family video. As before, the music videos will end up here in the podcast, and the full videos will be mailed to family members on DVD.

This video is from July 20th, 2007, when my dad was here. We visited the Macadamia Nut farm, drove around Oahu

New Video, Finally!

09.28.2007 | 6:35 am | family, podcast, video

Ok, this is a random video clip from May of 2007, where Kevyn is dancing to the blue man group. Finally starting to get caught up on the videos! Yay!

More old episodes

09.4.2007 | 10:56 pm | family, podcast, video

Here are some more of our old video episodes. Since I’m still waiting for my development machine to get back, I don’t have the processing power to make new ones. Once I do, though, it’s on…

Good Job Quinlyn!

09.3.2007 | 10:43 pm | accomplishments, quinlyn

As most people who know us are aware, our oldest, Quinlyn, is ADHD. She had a lot of trouble in school last year, even taking into account that she had a VERY tolerant and wonderful teacher.

This year, we were, of course, worried about the same. It just about brought us both to tears when her teacher (who’s name has been removed form the follwing image) sent this home with her:

Good Job Quinlyn!

I hope that Quinlyn understands (we have, of course, told her) how proud we are of her at times like these. And we hope her teacher knows how much we appreciate that she took the time to notice the positive!

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