Friday, June 24, 2011

Transcend

A documentary type movie is being made about the life of Jon Mozo. it is called transcend.
i think it is going to be a beautiful film.devin graham is filming the movie. nikki called last week and said it was time for our interviews for the movie. we just got home from ward camp. the house was a mess, we were tired and sunburned but they are trying to wind things down and wanted to get it done. i thought if i had more prep time i would just worry about it so we just went with it.
devin filming
matt went first, i wanted to see how it worked, what questions they asked and think about what i wanted to say. it is a little nervewracking. when you are sitting there watching you can think of a billion things to say, when you get in front of the camera you feel like you have lost all thought.
matt did great though and it really helped me to know what i wanted to say. no one took a picture of me but we all had teary moments. it brought up a lot of memories of jon and all of our good times together. i really could have talked for an hour about all the times we had with jon but it is a 5 min. interview that will probably be cut down to a min. or so. that's a short time to sum up jon!
afterwards i have just been thinking about all the times we had with jon and looked up some pictures, my scanner doesn't work so it is just the ones i have done already on the computer.
jon brought a family from tahiti to visit hawaii. we did everything on the island with them. here we're ice skating with teurihei the mozo's and the kamalani's. look at caleb, so little!
jon bought dirt bikes and an ATV. we would go out to kaena or the kahuku race track and ride. the kids loved it. they both got hurt pretty badly which matt told about in the interview but he said they will always look back that it was fun not that they got injured
jon is not in the picture but he was there, cooking up fish to eat on the beach. we would go to the beach and stay til dark.
here we're at turtle bay with nikki's sister odette , again jon was there and it reminds me of him so much but i guess he was taking the picture. a couple in the pool asked me to take their picture and he got behind them and made faces i am sure they were thrilled when they saw their pictures!
this is when ki and jon rode the jet ski from haleiwa to makaha~ a long ways, to swim with the dolphins.
i have posted this quite a few times but it is such a beautiful gift we have from jon
the water park was always a big thing to do, this was with tahitian family again. jon is there in the back by ki. amber and yani and mai mai are so small!
this just reminds me of jon because mateiva loved kiley and jon wanted her to marry him so we could get land in tahiti!
matt told about the crazy parties at the mozo house. we danced and played silly games and had a great time!
jon, ki and amber all have birthdays in april and we celebrated them together. amber was 8!
chris and his giant underwear, good times!
after ki hurt her leg on the bike by hitting a rock, jon and carlos spent the rest of the night trying to move that rock. it wasn't going to make a difference but jon felt like it was for ki to give it to that rock!
not sure who drew silly faces on this picture but these kids were like cousins. jon brought them all together.
both kids in casts. at the same time. while matt was in iraq. now that's fun! but jon was always there to help with anything we needed! we have great memories of time spent with him. we miss him. his legacy does live on. i can't wait for others to get to know him in the film.
you can see the trailer here. just click on the link below. devin has done an amazing job!!

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

ward camp 2011

we spent last week camping at bellows for ward camp. i was able to be there most of the time and matt and caleb stayed the whole time. ki and scotty came down one day for dinner. we had a great time!!
i don't know what it is lately but i am not very good about taking pictures. i was just having fun chatting with friends and relaxing and then on thurs. decided to get out my camera so these are not the greatest representation of our time but some of you might enjoy it anyway.

we have had this game for years and it is always a hit. blongo ball or ladder golf. they boys have tournaments and practice their techniques!
i wish i had a picture of sondra's grandaughter evalyn who after everyone was done playing and they left the balls on the ground she went over and hung all the balls up! she is so cute!

playing in the water~ all day. well here's the schedule. the kids all get up by 6 and want to go to the beach so after breakfast and devotional everyone is at the beach by 9 or 10. then at 11 or 12 depending on how young and hungry your kids are we all head over to camp and make lunch. we sit around and relax and play games and then head back over to the beach until 4:00. then everyone goes back to clean up and make dinner.
after dinner everyone hangs out playing until bed time which differs greatly depending on your age! the little ones and the old ones about 10. the teens, tweens and brave adults between 1 and 3 a.m.!
we have skit night, they were pretty funny this year. there is movie night, shave ice day and potluck dinners!
ki hanging out at the beach, isn't she cute!!!
every day involves digging a hole of some sort! the men have started buying real shovels to make it more efficient! what can you do with a kids toy shovel?!
old friends and ward members come down to visit. isn't heidi the cutest?!
the kids thought it was fun to watch the young men play ladder golf!
noah thought it felt good to be in the cooler of soda's with ice. he however did not want the top shut! i'm with you noah!

North Shore Triathalon

Caleb became interested in bike riding so matt bought him a bike and then signed them up for the north shore triathalon in waialua.the first race caleb has ever done. they had about 6 weeks to train. caleb didn't really do much but swim a few times, run a few times and ride his bike a fair amount. i think matt was really excited to have a child be interested in what he loves!
we had been at ward camp all week so they went to bed early fri. night and we were all up at 4:30 a.m. to head out to waialua.

it was cold and dark but you can always feel the excitement of everyone setting up, running back and forth to warm up and making sure everything is in place.


matt showing caleb how the swim will go and what to watch out for. it is an experience the first time you do a swim like this with everyone jockeying for a place in the water you get bumped and swam on top of but matt was going to stay with him for a little bit.
they got their numbers on and then it was just waiting for the start.


it was light for the 6:00 a.m. start, still a little cool but that's a good thing for the rest of the race.
heading down to the swim start
and they are off... a 400 M swim
hard to see the pack of people but they are right in the middle
out of the water, the race up the beach to the bikes
matt
caleb is right in the middle in the black shorts
caleb, right behind matt
trying to get the sand off your feet so you can put socks on!
matt's off~ "good luck cabe"
caleb took a little longer dressing but matt has done this a few times

he's off for the bike ride. 10 miles.


matt coming back from the ride for the run transition
caleb coming back, not too far behind matt
matt at the finish
1 hr. 13 min.
caleb at the finish


caleb's time. i forgot to shoot matt's. i'll admit i was a little focused on caleb this time since it was his first.
they did it! together! caleb was happy and matt was thrilled! caleb did great for his first race, and not much training but next time he just wants to do a bike race.
it was a beautiful day in waialua and it was 8:30 by the time we were done so we went over to the farmers market which was wonderful and all weekend we had corn on the cob, tomatoes, zuchinni and peppers! i also got some beautiful sunflowers but they had so many bugs on them they have to sit outside!