By the Far Side of the Sea

Aloha! So yeah- 3 months is a long time to not update this thing, we've been very , very bad. (only coal in our stockings this year)  Hopefully most of you are following us on Facebook and get some visual updates that way.  We just finished our Christmas Letter and in case you didn't get a copy, here it is: ************************************************************************ In case you have forgotten the long held Russell tradition of an annual family update which must be sung to a classic holiday song, well here you go. We know you all are very excited about this and wait each and every year for it to arrive in your mailbox. A few things have happened over the last year and we are happy to share an update with you to the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”. You must sing through its entirety – it's not a choice. Ready... So, it's been an entire year since we got on that plane, flying about 3,000 miles is to some quite insane. Kona is f...

Aloha faithful followers-  If you remember from our last posting about 2 years ago (seems like it), we admitted to our addiction to moving stuff.  Well, we thought we had our addiction under control but in fact we are moving AGAIN.  This time it is not our choice as the house we so dearly love is being sold from underneath us.  Now before you feel too sorry for us, we knew that the house was for sale before we moved into it.  We took the chance that because it had been on the market for 18 months and was overpriced with not too eager sellers, that we would be good to go for as long as we needed it.  Well, the problem is that we made the house our HOME and basically "staged" the house for them.  We knew we were in trouble when we started having to show the house 2-3x/week.  I guess before each showing, we should have thought it through a little bit and left dead roaches around the house and maybe one or two of Evie's potty tr...