Haslam Family in Hawaii

While in Hawaii we took family pictures. It isn't very often that we all get together since we're so spread out. So it was a great opportunity.

Here is the entire Don Haslam clan.






Don & Susan with their grandkids.

Hawaii

In July the Haslam family went to Hawaii to celebrate my mother in law's birthday. We had been looking forward to it for several months. It is always great to get to go to Hawaii, but it's especially great to go with the family and see everyone all together.

We flew out of LAX direct to Kona. Here is Tyaan sharing her music with Megan while we were waiting to board the plane.


Finally on board! Melissa and Scott trying to get comfortable for the long flight. (It's about 5 hours.)


After seeing nothing but ocean below you for hours the island is a very welcome sight.


It's a lot of fun to fly into the Kona airport. They just roll the stairs up to the plane out on the runway and you get off. The airport is very small and all outdoor. Let the vacation begin!!


We stayed in a house for the week. It was nice to have our own pool. The house was beautiful. This is the view of the back yard. Just over the plumeria trees you could see the ocean.


The best part of Hawaii is relaxing. This was a day spent by the pool. Megan was a lot of fun, and had me almost asleep!


We had a nice dinner at Roys in Waikaloa for Susan's birthday. It was a great meal and was fun to have everyone together. Andrew loves Uncle Jon!


Susan with her birthday souflee! (It was delicious!)


We spent one day touring the island. Tyaan had never been to some of the places so it was great to go see them again. This was our first stop. We spent a lot of time here, it was beautiful. Several of the family hiked down a ways. Tyaan of course out in front.



This was a later stop. Akaka falls. It's a pretty easy walk down to this spot, and it's gorgeous.



We finally made it to Volcano National Park. It's amazing!! I was really looking forward to seeing it again. We didn't have a lot of time since we got there late in the day.

We did get to walk through a lava tube.


Jon's birthday also fell during that week. We had a cake for him also.


And of course my favorite view. I took this while laying out at the beach. What a beautiful place.

Girls Camp 2009

I was asked to go to girls camp this year as a leader. I was very excited because it was Tyaan's last year at camp and I was able to go with her.

The theme of camp was "It's a Jungle Out There" I was asked to be one of the SIS leaders (Sisters in Service) which is the year of training (or initiation...) before they become counselors the following year. They are freshmen in high school. Tyaan was Jr. Staff, which is the group of oldest girls that are asked to take on leadership positions. She pretty much ran camp, and did a fantastic job.

Tyaan's camp name is Outburst.


This is the 2nd day of camp, which is when the campers arrive. The older girls (Jr. Staff, Counselors, and SIS') get to go up the afternoon before and set up. The SIS' pick a theme and song to identify themselves through the week. We were jocks, so they were all dressed in jersey and sports attire. Their shirts had their names on the back and the number '09. They were very cute. It was a fun theme to work with through the week.


These are my SIS' at our table. They were each partnered up and assigned a cabin to serve. They had to attend to their cabins table whenever they were called, so they couldn't get too comfortable. I made each of them their own place mats with a sports theme. I knew what their favorite sports were so they were all unique and had their names and the theme of camp on them. The girls loved them!


Part of certification was crossing a monkey bridge. The priesthood got it set up and some of us got to try it out. Tyaan went across it very easily...of course.

I was a little slower... The men were ready to catch me if I fell, although I think they probably would have been more injured than me! Luckily I made it across and nobody had to save me.


One of Tyaan's responsibilities was to make the mail box. She made a tree with a hole for each cabin. It was SO great!! (Notice the SIS' always get put at the bottom)


Mike and Kathy were both up at camp as well. Kathy was doing certification, her camp name is Trail Mix. Mike went up as priesthood. Since it was his first time going up he got his camp name...McGyver. Pretty appropriate we think.


This is me and the other SIS leader Wendy. This is in our cabin while helping the girls practice their skit.


Each day the SIS' have assignments that go along with the daily theme. Each day their campers get to dress them up, and there is an eating assignment. This day they had to feed the person to their right.

This day they were dressed up as tour guides. They had to pretend they were speaking into microphones every time they talked.


At the end of the week is SIS graduation. They get their camp names and become counselors! Camp names are VERY important and it is a lot of pressure to give them each names that fit them well and that they will like. We did pretty well. It came down to the last minute on a few of them, but we got them all done. They receive their name by poem which was really fun to read to them.


It was a lot of work, but the girls were great. I had such a good time with them and I know they will go on to be great counselors next summer!

Quick trip to Vegas

Ginger & Donna took a trip to Las Vegas the week of Tyaan's graduation. Ginger's daughter Candace and Donna's daughter Tammy were there with their families as well. And Gingers mom (Tyaan's grandmother) came too.

We took a quick trip out there so we could visit with everyone. It was a fast trip, but a lot of fun to see them all

Ginger making pancakes!


Tyaan with Candi's kids. They were a lot of fun.

We don't get to see Ginger & Donna too often anymore since they moved to Oregon so it was great to visit with them.

Class of 2009 Graduation

Graduation Day finally arrived! June 10th, 2009 Tyaan graduated from Chaffey High School.



High school sure seems like a long 4 years, but they sure did go quickly.

Don ordered a lei for her from Hawaii. It was beautiful. She couldn't wear it during the ceremony, but put it on as soon as it was over. We were so excited to get to be there for such a special occasion.


My high school graduate...

Baccaulaureate

Tyaan was chosen to speak at her class' baccalaureate. It was held the Sunday before graduation. She did such a great job! It was great to see her with all the other seniors in cap and gowns.



It's still hard to imagine that she's so grown up already. I was so happy for her and what a great girl she has grown up to be.

Swim Banquet

On June 3rd the swim team had their banquet. It was a lot of fun, I was one of the parents that helped so I got to go get the cake and get all the pizza. The coach gave out all the awards and letters. Tyaan got her varsity letter, again. She also got the captain award and a league championship patch. The coach said some really great things about her. I wish I had taken my video camera so you could hear the things he said. He went as far as to say that he felt like this league championship was HER championship. It was great, she was a great captain and great swimmer. She worked so hard and did so well. I wish I had some better pictures...

The coach also gave me and 2 other moms our own league championship t-shirts in front of everyone. I thought that was really nice of him (he's a very nice man) AND...when I got home Tyaan handed me my very own league championship patch that he gave to me! I was so excited!!

I am so proud of her, and I'm so sad that her high school swim days are over. What a kid.