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!

Our first guests!

We had our first guests the past 2 nights. The family minister and his wife from church are in transit moving back to the mainland. They are floating around different houses in between going to the other island before heading home. Since we have so much extra space here they are keeping all of their clothes and things here until they ship them home. It has been nice having company since Jeremy has been gone. They are in their 70s and very sweet.

I have been doing more shopping for the house. Lately I have been doing a lot of buying, bringing home, deciding it doesn't match this or that and returning it. I am slowly finding things that do match and am pleased with the progress. I ordered our area rug for the living room and I cannot wait for it to get here. I was returning something at Walmart today that I had bought at a different Walmart. I returned some curtains that cost like 19.99 at that Walmart but 22.99 at the Walmart I bought them at. He informed me that the other Walmart in Miliani charges more on most items because they get less traffic and customers. I now know to not shop at that Walmart anymore!

Jeremy comes home tomorrow and we are both so excited. He got an earlier flight so he will get home a day earlier! I probably will not be around much for the next few days :)

For all of the non bloggers!

Good news! You can now leave comments by just putting anonymous and then signing your name at the end of the post! This is especially for my grandparents out there who couldn't figure it out!

Things are not very exciting around here. I've been helping out our family minister and his wife, who are moving back to the mainland, clean the preacher's house so our preacher and his wife can move in. Other than that I am trying to get rid of the cockroaches in our house. Apparently you are supposed to get used to them here because they don't stay away, but I refuse. I don't want them!

I went to my first visit with a military doctor and let's just say I don't ever want to get sick. She was not nice and kept telling me things that I know are not true. She tried to tell me that Zyrtec is a perscription medicine (which any good doctor knows it is not anymore) and that my medicine didn't come in 10mg but only 20mg or 40. Well why does my bottle from Walgreens say 10mg then? Yeah she was wrong. Dr. Martin move here!

I am now the teacher for the 2s and 3s on Wednesday night at church. As one of the guys said, I got voluntold. That is where you are told you are now volunteering for a role. So far it hasn't been too bad. I am trying to teach them songs since I don't know all of their songs here.

I am sad I am not in Abilene for Sing Song. And the dedication of my grandparents welcome plaza and labyrinth and ACU. Don't get me wrong, I don't miss Abilene, but I am excited to see the Sing Song video of the Siggies (my social club) rock!

Aloha for now!!

Happy 21st Birthday to ME!

It was hard celebrating my 21st birthday without Jeremy or any of my friends here. Luckily I didn't spend the day all alone. My dear friends the Haneys, who I lived with last summer, invited me to join them and their nephew and his new wife at the luau that night. It was at the military hotel. Most of these pictures are for you mom...so enjoy. I have also added more at the end of various things!


Here I am with my first legal drink. Don't worry the other drink in my other hand was Irvalene's. I didn't two fist it on the first night...haha


Here they are taking the pig out of the underground oven. The food was sooo good!


Beautiful sky at the luau


Here's Irvalene and Bill! Aren't they cute!


And here I am. We later learned we had the flower on the wrong side. It's on the left if you are married.


A part of the show


They had all the couples stand and look into each others eyes and say something and then dance. I caught this cute photo of the two of them!


The next night Irvalene had a party for 3 of us who had birthdays that week. It was Bill's, Amber from church, and mine. My mother sent all these decorations to the Haneys to use. If you know my mother you probably are not surprised. She also made them take all of these awkward pictures of me by myself.


These are the flowers Jeremy had sent to me for Valentine's Day. Again I wish he could have been here! Sorry the picture is bad quality as I took it with my phone.


A couple of weeks ago my precious cousin Rivers sent me his flat Stanley to take care of. Here he is on the beach.


Irvalene gave me some puzzles to do while Jeremy is gone. I have been working on this puzzle and finished it last week. It was actually a lot harder than it looks!


Well that catches me up on pictures for now!

I went to the beach today but didn't stay long as it kept sprinkling. It was still nice to sit outside and read though! Have a good day!

Aloha!