It's that time again...

Well, it's time for another update!

Not a lot has been going on this last week. Nate had to go to the Big Island for PTA and get all the equipment situated. He left Sunday and got back Thursday. We decided it was time for a date night. We went to dinner and a movie. While he was gone I basically just stayed around the house cleaning up and keeping the puppies busy. The Scott family invited me over a couple nights so I didn't have to be alone. This weekend Nate and I along with Mrs. Shelia and her daughter went to the pumpkin patch. It is only open 2 weekends a year so it was packed. We had a lot of fun picking out pumpkins and eating shave ice. We found two pumpkins that we are going to decorate. Today we Skyped with Grandparents Balough and that was super fun to be able to talk to them. We also decided to make Crab Legs for supper, which is one of my favorites. We were going to go to the beach but I wasn't feeling very well so we just stayed at home and watched some movies.

I have been getting into the swing of FRG. I will take over officially in Nov. This means I now need a more high tech phone (boo). For anyone who knows me they know I hate phones and all that goes with them. There are too many people who are on them constantly and sometimes it can get REALLY annoying. All that said I am going to be getting an Iphone 4. Again, I am not a fan of Iphones but the sales lady said that while he (Nate) is deployed I would be able to skype with him no matter where I am. This will come in handy when I am out and about and Nate gets online I will be able to video chat with him even in the grocery store ;). That sold me on the phone so I will be going to the dark side in Dec. It will be my Christmas present ;). I am looking forward to getting started with the FRG.

Well that is all for now. Nothing much planned for the coming week but I will try to take some pics. I hope all of you are doing well...write again soon.

Sunday October 17th (Day 57):

(This was my Dinner after I dropped Nate off at the Airport...Sushi and Miso Soup)

Monday October 18th (Day 58):

(One of my favorite Halloween Candies)

(My very pretty/sleepy puppy)

Tuesday October 19th (Day 59):

(My new purse that Mrs. Shelia gave me...LOVE IT!)

(My new shoes and they only cost me .97 cents @ Old Navy)

Wednesday October 20th (Day 60):

(Such a pretty place to live)

Thursday October 21st (Day 61):

(My icecream/yogurt from Menchies it was Blueberry...so good!)

(Me and Baxter)

Friday October 22nd (Day 62):

(Nate with his lei and our puppies)

Saturday October 23rd (Day 63):

(We are having fun at the Pumpkin Patch)

(The Pumpkin Patch)

Sunday October 24th (Day 64):

(The front of our house decorated for Halloween)

A little Break...

Hello All!!!

Well, we have been back from Ohio for a couple of days and are trying to get back into the swing of things. I have put the pictures on a little bit of a break until this weekend. I hate taking a break, but some things have come up that had to be taken care of first. I will be back to the picture blogging tomorrow.

Our trip went well. I always love getting to see extended family, although the circumstances weren't that great. We had a lot of family time together and played a lot of fun games. One of the games was called Curses. It is basically a game where you act out different scenes and you have different "curses" you have to use (like speaking like a witch or swatting flies everytime you talk) this game reminded me of camp so much. I loved it. I love being able to act silly sometimes and this was a good time just to cut loose and forget the sadness. I beat Nate and won the game. We were able to take Nate's mother out to get her steak and then we went and had some late night fun, that shall not be named bc it might incriminate us ;).

I have decided after out travels that I am quite content with staying here for a while. NO MORE PLANES! I missed our home and our puppies. I am looking forward to family coming to visit next year.

I am now the FRG Leader for HHC Brigade. That will keep me busy for a little while. I will be in charge of making sure information gets out to all the families in the HHC Brigade and organizing meetings and get togethers. I am excited to get involved and meet new people.

Well, that is all for now. I am going to start the picture blog back tomorrow. We are going to the Hawaii vs. Nevada game tomorrow so that will surely be picture worthy. I am going to try to do more of a summation blog and then the pics to follow rather than the day by day blogging. I hope all of you are doing well. Thanks you again for all the thoughts and prayers for Nate and his (our) family. All were appreciated.

The Good and the Bad...

Saturday the 2nd (Day 42): Was surf day!!! I had so much fun. We left really early (about 5:30am) and met the bus to go out to the beach. The instructors were all very patient and def. knew what they were doing. I caught 3 waves, on my knees. This was a big accomplishment since just before not being able to even balance myself while I paddled in. I would so recommend it to anyone. I don't have pics yet but I will go by and get them from the place. These are my sandy feet afterwards.



Sunday the 3rd (Day 43): was a crazy day! We just went shopping for some things. Then we came home and I made this spicy tomato soup with cheese dippers (SO FLIPPEN GOOD).



Monday the 4th (Day 44): I went with Mrs. Shelia to drop her mustang off. We then met our husbands for lunch. Afterwards I just came home and did a little cleaning and snuggled with Oreo ;).

Finished this project:


Pic for day 45



Tuesday the 5th (Day 45): I am now the FRG leader for HHC Brigade. That will be a lot of work but I am excited about it. We found out during the meeting that Nate's step-father Tim passed away. He will be greatly missed. This was not a surprise but it still is hard. He was suffering from cancer for a couple of years. Now he is in a place with no suffering. We are working on trying to get there as soon as possible. God is so good in that the Red Cross will pay for our flights home. This is a huge blessing bc we def. didn't have the money for both of us to fly home. It was almost $2000 dollars at some places for just one of us. We are just asking for thoughts and prayers for the family. Thank you for all of your support through the years.

Yay for October!

Here's an Update:

Sunday the 26th (Day 36): Well we were really excited to get up and go to church here at our community chapel. We got up early got everything together and ready to go. We got there and the doors were locked and all the lights were off. We then found out that service was going to be on the beach. Well we were def. not dressed in beach attire and we would be way late if we decided to head that way so we decided just to have church at a local restaurant along with breakfast. After we kinda failed at that we decided to head home and have our Back to the Future Marathon and snuggle and play with the puppies.


Monday the 27th (Day 37): Was pretty much a lazy day as far as I remember. I think I ran some errands with Mrs. Shelia then home to play with the puppies. Oreo is such a stinker this is how she falls asleep on her daddy:


Tuesday the 28th (Day 38):Mrs. Shelia and I hit up the on post thrift store. Finding fun things that are really cheap that I can turn into something amazing just makes me smile. Mrs. Shelia had to get tags for her new Mustang so we headed over to the office where that is done. We went into the restroom and I had to take a picture of all the random nick knacks(sp.) in there...craziness.


Wednesday the 29th (Day 39): I went with Mrs. Shelia to take her new car to get a check up to see if they could fix a chip in the car. We got SO lost. It was def. an adenture. After all of that we went to Goodwill for her to drop off some stuff and I have been looking for a window that I can turn into a picture frame SO BAD. Goodwill didn't have any windows (figures) but I found some other things I can use in my crafting.


Thurday the 30th (Day 40): DATE NIGHT!!! Nate and I went down to North Shore to eat at this amazing seafood place. It was so amazingly good and the view was so pretty. I love going out with the hubs!

View from our table:


Friday the Oct. 1st (Day 41): Today has been crazy! I dropped Nate off at work bc I had to go buy a rash guard shirt for surfing tomorrow, which I am so flipping excited about. Then I had to pick up some paint for my crafts and stuff. I have been very busy crafting for Halloween. I love decorating for each holiday. Then I was off to cleaning land. October is going to be jam packed with things to do. We have an island tour next weekend then we are attending a University of Hawaii football game and then some Haunted Lagoon. I am very excited to see what is going to happen this next month. Hopefully I can post some pics of the beach FINALLY and of Nate and I surfing ;). Aloha for now.

So forgetful...

Here's an update!

Thursday the 23rd.(Day 33): Ok so I have developed a very bad habit of ALWAYS forgetting my camera when we go to the beach so for all anyone knows I could really be living in the remote mountains of NC or something. I was determined that when we went to the beach this time I was going to remember our camera and I did...but apparently you have to have a memory card for the pictures to get saved...DRATS!!!Anyways, Nate got off early this day and we decided to go to the beach and snorkle. The normal beach we go to had a NO SWIMMING sign up so we proceeded to go down the beach until we found a place to swim. We finally found a Beach Park and parked and started to the beach. The waves were HUGE and so much fun. We couldn't snorkle bc the waves were stirring up the sand to much on the bottom so we just spent about 3 hours "body surfing". Apparently a couple of people had already been sent to the hospital at the beach we were at bc of the roughness of the waves. They were even doing PA warnings to not be in the water if you weren't a strong swimmer. All that said we had a BLAST! I of course have no pics to show of it so we might just have to head back out soon. It's getting to be surf season here so it's going to become packed and the water is going to become rougher. Well, after we got back to the house I had some mail waiting on me...my bicycle license. Apparently here they take biking really seriously so this is my new license ;).


Friday the 24th (Day 34): Nate had to go back to his class to get his certificate of completing his training course and guess what? He got the top honor is his class. He had gotten 100's on all of his tests so therefore he was the honor student and was recognised with a special coin. I am so proud of him! When he got home he took me to get some craft supplies I needed to complete a shelf project I am working on. That was about it for Friday.


Saturday the 25th (Day 35): We have spent today being lazy and just working on the house. I finally completed a shelf project I've been working on. We had steak and homeade potato chips for supper = so good! I think we are going to start our Back to the Future marathon soon. Every time it comes on television we miss it so we bought our own copies and now we are going to have our own marathon ;). I hope everyone is well and I will update again soon...hopefully with pics of the beach ;).
This is my shelf project:

-painted it white

added stripes

made it into a flag

again

Hung it in the Laundry room to hold our beach and snorkle bag!

A little off...

Ok well I'm getting behind on these frequent updates so again I will have to play a little bit of catch up:

Friday the 18th (Day 27): We attended the Hail and Farewell. It was nice to meet some of the people Nate will be working with. I also got another lei it was like my last one...very pretty.


Saturday the 19th (Day 28): We just stayed in and watched movies and had a lazy day. I made Beef stir fry for dinner which was really good and very easy to make.


Sunday the 20th (Day 29): We went to our neighbors bbq/birthday party for their son Henry. We had a lot of fun meeting a lot of new people and eating a lot of really good food. I brought potato skins, which I have never made before. The potato skins turned out really good and I def. going to make them again. I forgot to take a picture of the skins and there weren't any left at the end :). Afterwards we went for a Frappe, which is my new addiction...they are SO flippen good.


Monday the 21st (Day 30): I had to mail some packages so Mrs. Shelia helped me get to the post office and figure out how to mail shoes ;). Then Nate and I just spent another night with the puppies.


Tuesday the 22nd (Day 31): I spent the day with Mrs. Shelia she is helping me with my resume. Apparently the Army wants a different resume than the outside world so I was working on that. I am getting ready for when Nate deploys to find a job to keep myself busy and not worrying all the time. I might just go ahead and get one bc then I will already be in the swing of things when he leaves. I was so off this day to. I was washing clothes with no detergent and just a floppy day so I decided I just wanted to go out for dinner so we asked the Scotts if they would like to go out with us. We all wen to Pizza Bob's down in North Shore. It was really good and we had a fun time. We got home and played tug o war with the puppies and watched GLEE ;).


Wendesday the 23rd...today (Day 32): Mrs. Shelia asked if I would watch her daughter Cordelia while she took Andrew, her son, to the orthodontists. This girl is so fun so of course I agreed. While I was watching her her friends came over to play so I spent an hour or so with 3 little girls coloring, watchign cartoons, and playing Polly Pocket. When I left they all drew me hearts and gave them to me :)...kids are so sweet!


Well that is all for now hopefully I will get better at this updating thing.

short but sweet!

Tuesday the 14th (Day 25): I was feelin so much better from my previous sick day. My wonderful husband surprised me with flowers. He is so thoughtful. He also went and got us Season 3 of Big Bang Theory and Season 2 of Fringe and he surprised me with Glee ;). I made a Beef Enchilada (sp.) casserole for supper. That is about it, nothing too exciting.



Wednesday the 15th (Day 26): I went shopping for flowers. I love flowers they can add so much to a home. I went a little crazy, but this will be our home for the next couple of years and now it feels like home. Of course the puppies just relaxed all day ;). I love my lazy doggies!


Tonight we are going to a Hail and Farwell so that should be fun. Nate and I get welcomed into the company tonight. I am looking forward to meeting everyone. Well, that is all for now.