The rest of the visit

So to finish my parents visit...

During the week, mom and dad did some sightseeing.


We went to dinner in Honolulu and there was a beautiful sunset!




At dinner! Yum!




Hanauma Bay snorkeling!




That brings us to the end of the visit from my parents! Thanks for coming mom and dad!

Coming up next, Mel and Matt's visit!

A long time ago...MAUI!

Well I know it has been ages since I have updated my blog and I know my devoted readers are dying in anticipation! ha! It has been a whirlwind summer! I can't believe it is almost over and we will be moving soon! I will try to catch you all up to date so there will be several posts and pictures coming!

Starting where we left off...my parents came to visit back in May!

We had a wonderful time seeing my parents. I wish I would have had more time off to enjoy hanging out with them, but we had a good time. My mom cooked and cleaned and I feel like I hardly did a thing while they were here! Well I did cook once! It was nice.

Here's a picture of dad and I right after they got here! It is also a glimpse of our living room (which now has a huge photograph of the beach)

Right after they got here we went to Maui for a few days. Jeremy and I LOVED Maui. It was gorgeous and relaxing!

Mom and I at the airport


On the road to Hana


At the hotel before dinner


Parasailing was so fun!




Ziplining!




On top of the crater


Next post...the rest of my parents visit.

Better Late Than Never

Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks or so. Sorry I've been bad about updating. I'll let the pictures do the talking.
They start from the most recent and work their way back.

Here is Jeremy in his chucks.


Doesn't he look good?!


Here is my hair brown. Not a great picture but gives you an idea. It was actually darker than this and faded and since the picture it has faded a little more.


Here I am at the top of Diamond Head. It is a crater you can hike up. The hike is not that good, but the view on top is awesome.


Here's Jeremy on top. It was hot!


The view of the lighthouse.


We also went to the Queen's Palace. Also not the impressive.


Here's the picture of the laundry room I never posted.


And the other side. It's really big


This is the ghetto table our tv was on. But we have a tv stand now!


Our living room. It has since been updated some...


A day at the beach!






That's it for now! Mom and Dad come this week and we are going to Maui this weekend so we'll have more pictures soon!

Easter Week

It's been a busy last couple of weeks since I last wrote. I worked in Honolulu last week and had lots of early mornings fighting traffic. My training went really well and now I am working at the bank here on base. So far it is good, except sometimes it can be really slow and boring. I had the day off which was nice to sleep and relax!

Now for a bunch of pictures!

Here we are with the Easter bunny at our church Easter egg hunt!


We ate at Hard Rock Cafe one day...


This past Saturday we drove around the North Shore of the island. It turned out to be a nice day and we enjoyed exploring a little more!


Here we are at a bay we stopped at to eat lunch!


A "hidden" beach we found. It was gorgeous!


We also went to the Dole Pineapple Farm and went in the largest maze. Here we are lost.




Here we are at the end. We gave up and didn't find all the secret things we were supposed to find.


This is Easter Sunday. Jeremy is posing while I set up the camera.


In our Easter Sunday attire


One day when I came home from work, Jeremy surprised me with these beautiful flowers!


Last night as we were driving around, we saw this beautiful sunset!


And it just kept getting better and better! I wish I could of gotten better pictures!


That is it for now! Have a great weekend!

My new job

I started a new job this week at Bank of Hawaii! I am working at the location here on base. This week I basically just observed and next week I get to go to Teller School in Honolulu. It's not too busy here on base and the hours are really great. I am just working part time but they are open Mon-Thurs 9-3 and Fri 9-4. I will have to work one Saturday a month at a different location from 8:45-1:45 or something like that. It will be a good job for me.

Other than that not much has been going on! I finished my last paper for school ever this week and it was a 10 page double spaced research paper on military sexuality. It's so nice to finally be done with school!

We have an Easter egg hunt at church tomorrow and look forward to that.

I am so excited people are buying tickets to come visit! Mel and Matt are coming in June, Katie, Katie, and Kara in August, and my parents in May! Everyone else needs to come visit too!!!

Long overdue

So I know it's been awhile since I have updated. I'm trying to remember all the things we've done these past two weeks!

One Tuesday Jeremy got off work early and so we went to the beach. It was nice to be able to go on a weekday and get some sun!







My friend Becca from ACU came to the island with her family and fiance for Spring Break. I got to meet up with her for lunch on Thursday and it was so much fun to be able to hang out with someone from ACU and catch up on what's going on! I loved being able to see her! Thanks for going to lunch with me Becca!

Sunday we went to a wedding on the beach. The couple was from the mainland and called our church to find a preacher. Our friend Bill did the wedding and we were the witnesses. It was really nice.

On Friday Jeremy got off work really early and we spent the day running errands. That night we went to a famous steakhouse called Buzz's and it was really good. We also went to this ice cream place where you get a HUGE bowl. Then there are about 12 different yogurt flavors and you get to fill your bowl with any kinds you want. Then there is every kind of topping imagined and you put whatever you want on your ice cream. Then they weigh it and you pay by weight. It's AWESOME! I love putting tons of toppings on mine and not having to pay for each one individually.
It was also our 9 month anniversary and I really wanted some cake so I made a cake and decorated it quickly!


Saturday we had a mandatory family fun day for Jeremy's battalion. It was a cookout and they had activities for the kids. About halfway through a huge fire broke out behind where they were preparing the food. All the firetrucks came and we stood and watched as they put it all out. It was in the area where they are building new houses so it was a bunch of wood and stuff so it got pretty big. It at least made the mandatory event interesting and no one was hurt. We also look like lobsters because we got sunburned. My neck is bright red and so is Jeremy's face...not good.


Sunday morning we went to church at Pearl Harbor church of Christ just to visit. It was great and everyone was really nice. We met up with a friend Allyson who we knew from Junior Scholars at ACU and her husband and went to eat with them and their friends. It was really great to hang out with people our age who are Christians. We are planning on hanging out with them again this weekend for a bbq.

We have our guests back with us for a few days in between their trips to the other islands. I have a job interview tomorrow at a bank here on base so hopefully that goes well!

Other than that we have just been working on our garden, enjoying walks and runs, doing things at church, and enjoying the nicer weather we are starting to get.

Welcome home Jeremy!

Jeremy is back! We have been enjoying hanging out together all week. I cooked lots of food, snuggled with my husband, and went out to dinner.

I made a delicious salmon dinner one night. Jeremy says it was gourmet. It had oranges, strawberries, onions, peppers, onions, and lots of other ingredients I had never used before. It turned out pretty well I think and we enjoyed it for many days. It was in the Paula Dean cookbook I got for a wedding gift. I've also made a hashbrown casserole upon my husband's request and made another one tonight for potluck tomorrow.

We finally bought our plates, bowls, and mugs tonight and I am very excited. We bought red ones and yellow ones to mix match.





We went out to eat in Honolulu last night to celebrate Valentine's Day and my birthday. It has been raining alll weekend which has not been fun. We wanted to go to the beach today, but that was a no go.

This was from our dinner in Honolulu. (Aunt Sara, he loves the new polos! He's worn both already and they are perfect! Thank you!!!)


Jeremy gave me this purse that he bought in South Carolina. If any of you saw my old purse that was falling apart that I bought in Belize, this one is exactly like it but different colors! I love it!!! The picture isn't very good.


Jeremy turned in his OCS package this week. This means he is trying to become an officer. If it gets past all the boards, we will be moving to Quantico, Virginia sometime in the fall where he will go through officer bootcamp. Pray for us to have peace that wh will get this if it is what God wants. It would make life a lot better for him at work and us at home. I had two papers due this week so I worked on those all week!

Jeremy says he will do a post soon and put pictures up from his trip. We'll see if that happens!

Aloha!