tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41137997567761416942024-02-18T21:35:29.031-08:00Come away with me...Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-83344801171245110082011-12-30T23:40:00.000-08:002012-09-05T23:41:33.337-07:00December . . .<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Can't believe that it's already the end of the year, time seems to pass so fast when the weather stays the same all year round. Again it just didn't really seem like the holiday season when it's in the 80's and sunny out. It makes me miss the cold crisp weather, and getting to bundle up. </div>
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This is how Colt and I spend our winter days in Hawaii, hanging out at the beach.</div>
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Our first Christmas in our new house.</div>
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This year we had a big Christmas party at our house, it was a lot of work but we had a great time.</div>
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Eggnog buttercream and Nutella buttercream cupcakes</div>
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We had a white elephant gift exchange, it was a lot of fun.</div>
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I made my first diaper cake for one of our friends. It turned out really cute. To transport it I put it in a box and set the box on the floor, I went to the kitchen to get something when I see Colt running across the house with the little monkey in his mouth. Bad dog thought that the monkey was a toy and stole it off the top.</div>
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November was packed with lots of fun, hanging out with friends, trying new recipes and crafts.</div>
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James likes to send me recipes he finds on the internet, that he wants me to try and make. So I made him a big batch of spicy chicken soup and mini corn bread muffins. It was a time consuming recipe, that turned out amazing, but it could of fed more than 10 people. We ended up giving half of it to our friends, next time I will have to only make a third of what I made. It is definitely a recipe I will be making again, here is a link <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/catherines-spicy-chicken-soup/">Catherine's Spicy Chicken Soup</a>. The corn muffins turned out alright, but I think next time I will try a different recipe, James didn't care for them too much. </div>
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My first baby boy afghan I crocheted, James helped me pick out the colors. I think it turned out pretty good, it was just very time consuming.<br />
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<b>Date Night!</b><br />
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We went to the hooka bar, with April and Jon. It was a lot of fun, and it was my first time going to a hooka bar. It was a pretty laid back place, they don't serve food or drinks, but you are welcome to bring your own. So we brought a cooler with some drinks in it. They even had a guy singing live music. I think going to the hooka bar opened a door for a new hobby for James to invest in. Uh Oh!<br />
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<b>My First Wreath</b><br />
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So this wreath is pretty special, I made it out of an old pair of ACUs that James wore while deployed to Afghanistan. Besides the base of the wreath and some felt, the whole wreath is made out of a pair of ACUs.<br />
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I started out with cutting strips of fabric, which left me covered in little strings once I was finished.<br />
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Since Hawaii doesn't have the best craft store and their selection is very sparse, I had to improvise on what I used as my base for my wreath. So I took a wreath that had some decorations already on it and stripped it down to just the base. I then started threading the strips of ACU through and tying them.<br />
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I took a section of ACU and wrapped it around and secured it with the draw string from the ACU bottoms, that way I could be able to attach the flowers easier.<br />
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It took two days to finally finish it, It ended up being pretty tedious, with all the threading and tying but it turned out pretty good.<br />
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Made some felt flowers, which turned out pretty cute. I even used the buttons for the center of the flowers.<br />
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Hot glued the flowers on to the fabric.<br />
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Since we have a screen door, I wanted it to hang on the outside so it could be seen better. So I added a loop to the back by using the strip of fabric from the waist band and resewed the button so that it could fasten. It ended up working pretty good.<br />
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Here it is all hung up.<br />
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<b>Thanksgiving!</b><br />
One of my favorite holidays. Growing up every Thanksgiving was spent with family, always filled with lots of great memories, plus great food. This Thanksgiving we hosted it at our house, it was packed and we had tons of great food. James made a turkey for the first time and it turned out amazing.<br />
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The turkey turned out so juicy. What an amazing cook.<br />
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The desert I made, it had a cookie and pecan crust, a pumpkin filling and a sweet cream cheese topping.<br />
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It was a great month but I'm excited that December is here and I'm ready for the Christmas festivities! <br />
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We've been in Hawaii for over a year now. We have made a lot of new friends and have gotten to do so many fun things this past year. </div>
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<b>James and I celebrated our birthdays, 26 and 25 now!</b></div>
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Date night on Waikiki, having drinks at Dukes</div>
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The beautiful opal necklace James surprised me with for my birthday.</div>
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With the help of his friend he helped designed it.</div>
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I surprised James with a painting by an artist named Naoki. This isn't the exact painting but it's very similar. We had gone to a little art gallery several times and every time we went James always marveled over this painting. So I bought it, wrapped it up and then hid it in the spare bedroom closet. Because James likes to try to guess everything that I try to surprise him with, I wrapped a decoy present and left it on the table for him. He couldn't figure out what it was, when he opened the decoy gift he found a picture of the painting and told him to go look upstairs. He had no idea and was very surprised. The painting is done by Naoki inking the fish and then he lays rice paper on top of it, then he goes back over the paper to highlight the details. </div>
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Cupcakes for the October bake sale.</div>
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Last ones for this unit, James will be moving to a new unit soon.</div>
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left is a vanilla cake with a Nutella buttercream</div>
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Came home to a beautiful surprise,</div>
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I love how James will just surprise me with flowers out of the blue with a sweet little note.</div>
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We came home with 9 pumpkins and we baked lots of pumpkin seeds</div>
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Alyssa was Jessie and Ellie was a little gnomeo </div>
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The ate tons of candy</div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-45350760813195547882011-09-30T02:17:00.000-07:002012-05-16T02:18:05.411-07:00September . . .<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">
We did a lot of fun activities this month, can't believe that how fast this year has gone by. I am now back in the gym coaching gymnastics, it feels great. </div>
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Hanging out at the pool on Pearl Harbor</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Tunnel to Towers Run 2011</span> </b></div>
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For September 11th, we did the Tunnel to Towers run.</div>
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Watching the sun rise before the run starts</div>
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Love these trees, they look like they have been painted</div>
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<br /></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-40761808264657604302011-08-31T01:26:00.000-07:002012-05-16T01:41:15.687-07:00August . . .<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We had visitors this month, yea! It's so nice to have family visit, it makes being away from home not so hard. Plus that means going to the beach and doing lots of fun touristy activities. We had such a great time, but it went by too fast. It was nice to have James home for a week too.</span><br />
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So July marks James being home for a whole year now, I can't believe how fast it went by. Thinking back on the year that he was gone, it now seems like it went by so fast. It was hard to be apart from James, but I feel like we grew closer and when he came home it was like he had never left.</div>
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So no cupcakes this month, but I made snickerdoodles for the first time. I'm not a fan of them, but James loves them. He came home to a surprise after work. They were pretty good, and I had a few for myself.</div>
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I wasn't home when he came back, so I left him a note.</div>
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Never watched the tv show and wasn't very interested in it based the commercials for it. I read the back cover and it looked interesting. There were a few things that I could relate to, but it was a good book and an easy read.</div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-12528697200541837452011-07-04T15:34:00.000-07:002012-05-03T16:47:23.623-07:00Happy 4th of July!<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Yea! I love the 4th of July, so much patriotism all around us. James was deployed for the last two, so this one was extra special for him. We spent this Fourth of July down at Pearl Harbor, there were lots of fun activities, food and a free Plain White T's concert.</div>
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So happy to be spending it with James</div>
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Beautiful fire works </div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-53340124070688102392011-06-30T14:25:00.000-07:002012-05-03T16:48:13.184-07:00June . . .<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
With all this warm weather, it seems like these days have all blended into one another and June is already over. This month wasn't too busy and I was able to get a little baking in and I finished another book.</div>
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I got to spend a few days this month hanging out at the beach with James and a few of our friends. With having to work most weekends I haven't really gotten the chance to hangout at the beach, so I was nice to just be able to relax. </div>
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So we rented a truck and a few friends came and helped us move all of our big pieces of furniture. That night we planned to stay in our new home, but Japan was struck by an earthquake and a tsunami warning was put out for the island of Oahu. So we left and moved to higher ground and spent the night at our friend's house. The tsunami ended up being a dud and we didn't much sleep because Colt cried all night. James left for school and I got stuck moving the rest of our house hold items out of the old house and having to clean it all up.<br />
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March wasn't a very eventful month, since James was gone. My computer crashed and I ended up losing everything on it. So that's why I haven't been able to post in a while. So I'm back!Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-32781529868755837652011-02-28T15:03:00.000-08:002011-05-10T15:27:56.058-07:00February . . .<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Ahhh... So this month flew by fast. I went home to be with my family and see my grandfather before he past away. While I was home James' grandfather past away, and the day that I was heading back to Hawaii, James was headed to Toledo for his grandfather's funeral. So February started off to be a rough month. So we spent two weeks apart with traveling home to be with our families.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">When we came to Hawaii in 2009 to get married, James talked about going to swim with the sharks. So we got up bright and early on the 24th, drove to the other side of the island. On our way out to the shark cage, which was about 3 to 4 miles offshore, we saw dozens of whale pods. It was amazing to look out across the water and see all the whales come to the surface and spout water.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">James and I were the first ones to get into the cage, it was amazing. There was probably close to 20 sharks swimming around the cage. The sharks are attracted to the sound of the boats engine, because they associate the sound with the crab boats. When the crab boats go to pull up their pots, the sharks come up to eat the left over bait, so they just assume that that's what these boats are going to do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">It was such an amazing experience and a bit serial. They are such calm and gentle creatures. The only scary part was looking down and seeing little jellyfish swimming around us. And before James could pull me out of the way from them I got stung on the leg. As soon as our 10 minutes were up and we got out of the cage and back into the boat, two hump back whales past in front of the boat about 20 feet away.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So James and I went to check out the gym at the community center in our housing. When we got there I noticed they had a really nice pool, but I was very disappointed to find that they close the pool from October to May for the off season. I couldn't believe it, we live in Hawaii where pretty much all the time it's summer weather, except for a few days where it's a little rainy. I thought that was pretty ridiculous.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">James and I have a beautiful new niece, her name in Avah May. Born to James' sister Jessica and her husband Michael. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPPXflvhpubWI5dhavGKn5BgLLLpqfDbWjLLMcwSEHMzInPU-YPUhaoJlpGnQK4DieOKzQ1RiWV_PUAuxbLAWoxEL_R8LHgeVQGEjXcUHWVmVyeFH0HNGfTIeV05hDZw2UJEyEi5tNrBI/s1600/imagejpeg_2_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPPXflvhpubWI5dhavGKn5BgLLLpqfDbWjLLMcwSEHMzInPU-YPUhaoJlpGnQK4DieOKzQ1RiWV_PUAuxbLAWoxEL_R8LHgeVQGEjXcUHWVmVyeFH0HNGfTIeV05hDZw2UJEyEi5tNrBI/s400/imagejpeg_2_5.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Avah May</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1/12/2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">8 lbs 9 oz 21 in long</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We went and played poker at our friend's house with a few other couples, and James won the pot. Since James has been talking about going to check out Chinatown, we woke up the next morning and went down there to have some Dim Sum for breakfast. It was good, but not as good as the Dim Sum in Seattle. It was fun, we walked around and looked at all the little shops and bought some fruit. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDBmhRB3QgzzpYk_gG-NcmLYCQ3KlQ_R2Rbo5yeh8JyTcZQk9jjnyvGEVTxC2fCjccMZjTO6oX-vWj2DPJyHaX5-LInufOoK5hKYnValz5EriKZTJn_bbWEoq1PMIOztmJbe9dHfqFknw/s1600/dimsum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDBmhRB3QgzzpYk_gG-NcmLYCQ3KlQ_R2Rbo5yeh8JyTcZQk9jjnyvGEVTxC2fCjccMZjTO6oX-vWj2DPJyHaX5-LInufOoK5hKYnValz5EriKZTJn_bbWEoq1PMIOztmJbe9dHfqFknw/s320/dimsum.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So to get into nursing school in Hawaii I have to take a pre-nursing exam. When I registered for my test in December, the only spots open were all the way on Maui. My mom bought me a plane ticket so I could fly over and take it. So I get the day off and fly to Maui, and due to all the rain, they were having problems with their Internet connection. So we moved out of one computer lab and into another, by then an hour and a half has gone by. So in this other room they were still having problems with the Internet, so they tell us that they are going to have to reschedule the test for another day. So almost 20 people who flew to Maui are now screwed out of the money that they paid to fly there. I wait in the room while everyone leaves and end up being able to get on to take the test. I flew all the way over so I was determined to take this test. The test has 3 parts to it, so I take the first and second part, but then realize that if I start the third part that I will probably miss my flight home. So I call to change my flight and right when I'm about to pay I find out that they have to close the building and I wont be able to finish the last portion. I just broke into tears, I was so upset because I just spent 2 hours working on this test and I was so close to finishing. I make it to the airport about 20 minutes before my flight was to board, I'm just glad I didn't miss my flight along with all the other trouble I had. I was finally able to take my test back on Oahu, but I had to find someone who could cover my shift for me. But I think I did really good, now I just have to wait 3 weeks to find out my results.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">James and I have another new beautiful niece, Cora Belle. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Born to my brother Charles and his wife Faye.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7d2ixpgs4qX1-qoSVop_KBD-5Yk-rlFVQ28WqJSufb-3oBqFllJR1s8Mq-eKcddV1SiJs80GL75bXZNj0pjcYqiXrRCv1ELR74Exn8P7iCmX6z5gxLd2UHj7z47Y5rIpwo6zjYYAlxU/s1600/IMAG0416.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7d2ixpgs4qX1-qoSVop_KBD-5Yk-rlFVQ28WqJSufb-3oBqFllJR1s8Mq-eKcddV1SiJs80GL75bXZNj0pjcYqiXrRCv1ELR74Exn8P7iCmX6z5gxLd2UHj7z47Y5rIpwo6zjYYAlxU/s400/IMAG0416.jpg" width="238" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cora Belle</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1/29/2011</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">7 lbs 15.4 oz 18 in long </span></div><br />
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</div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-15650181792429470492011-01-01T22:58:00.000-08:002011-02-08T22:59:45.828-08:002010 Recap!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>So here is the top 10 events from 2010! Wow that went by fast . . .</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1. <strong>Recieved the best Valentine's Day gift ever!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2. <strong>We got Engaged!</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5. <strong>Had a second Honeymoon!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">6. <strong>James bought a Harley!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finally our first Christmas together!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(The first year together James went home to see his family and the second one he was deployed to Afganastan.)</span></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-16015140001257983192010-12-31T21:18:00.000-08:002012-05-03T14:29:52.437-07:00December . . .<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">December!?! What? It can't be December it's 80 degrees out. It's just weird not having to bundle up and try to stay warm. But it's just weird to see all these houses decorated with lights and hear Christmas music when it looks like summer outside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My mom came to visit this month and I got a job. The day my mom got here I got a call saying that I got hired. Luckily the first week I didn't have to work too many days so my mom and I still got to do a lot while she was here. It's nice to finally have a job and get out of the house. So while my mom was here we got to do a lot of fun things:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We got to watch a sea turtle leave the water so it could come sun it's self on the beach, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">it was pretty cool to watch. They are such amazing creatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Luckily the weather was beautiful the whole week that my mom was here, the week before and after she came was a down pour. So glad that the weather was nice, it would have been such a miserable vacation if it would have been rainy the whole time. It was a lot of fun that she came, I'm glad she got to get away and relax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So I came home from work to a great surprise. We weren't sure if we were going to get a Christmas tree this year, with the prices of trees being so expensive in Hawaii and money being tight. So we still hadn't decided if we were actually going to get one or not. So James picked me up from work, we get home and I'm just so tired all I can think about is relaxing and changing my clothes. I get in the house set my things down in the living room and James is acting all suspicious, but I can't figure out why and then I notice the beautiful Christmas tree set up in the living room. What a great surprise, it looked so beautiful, James did an amazing job. I couldn't believe that I walked in the living room and didn't even notice. It's a small tree but it's so perfect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So for Christmas Eve, we went to our family friends' church for their Christmas Eve service. It was really nice, they really take pride in their productions and they treat everyone like family their. During one of their songs, all of a sudden we started hearing this loud noise thinking that it was something outside. Then we looked up and we noticed that they had put in snow machines up on the rafters and there was fake snow falling on us. It was a nice surprise and it definitely made my day. After the service we went over to our friends' house and had an amazing shrimp and prime rib dinner. James dressed up in his uniform and he looked so handsome, but it was so hot he was a little uncomfortable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">New Years Eve 2011! It was great even though I had to get up early the next day to work. We had a lot of fun at our friends' house playing Kinect with everyone. Unfortunately we missed the New Years count down, but I still got my New Years kiss from James. All in all the year 2010 was great and full of lots of adventures and change. I'm excited to see what 2011 will bring us! </span></div>
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<br /></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-55669850676414387972010-11-30T20:47:00.000-08:002011-02-08T21:28:45.577-08:00November . . .<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">November didn't seem to be too eventful, starting to get settled into our house but its hard when we don't know how long we will be here. The cat and the dog are not to sure about each other yet. Colt just really wants to play with him, but Shadow wants nothing to do with him. Colt is a handful, a lot more work than I thought he would be and it seems like potty training is going to be a long process.</span><br />
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</div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-88609196268133915382010-10-31T19:32:00.000-07:002011-02-07T19:34:25.074-08:00October . . .<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We finished our trip to Ohio at the beginning of October. For my birthday we took a long bike ride and had an amazing lunch with his parents. It was fun getting to spend some good quality time with his parents before we left. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDP-fS1itJmTOCP_xKP5PQA1zZ3hQKf7VJg92s__p9ozQh4QOpzZHqgrAH_B7IXumLSs726lcrc5Xq_Ktm1-3-DU0GEdM9ItBvFRKODUqHa_pAsULmjV8nIc352nVGIipkaJjUYS8ar6E/s1600/IMAG0229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDP-fS1itJmTOCP_xKP5PQA1zZ3hQKf7VJg92s__p9ozQh4QOpzZHqgrAH_B7IXumLSs726lcrc5Xq_Ktm1-3-DU0GEdM9ItBvFRKODUqHa_pAsULmjV8nIc352nVGIipkaJjUYS8ar6E/s400/IMAG0229.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We spent most of September getting to be with James' family in Ohio, which was filled with many fun activities. It was great to get to see James be with his family, it had been so long since he's been home. Almost a year and a half since he was home last before his deployment. I'm so glad that we were able to get to spend time with his family and do fun things with out having to rush. In the end it ended up going by faster than we expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">James got to spend lots of quality time with his little brother Connor. He even got to go be a guest reader in his kindergarten class. Connor is hilarious and speaks way beyond his years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">August was a bitter sweet month, with summer ending and being packed full of events. Summer program ended and it was hard since it was my last one with all the kids. This summer seemed to go by so fast, mainly I think because time seemed to go by so slow while James was gone, that now that he is back it has seemed to just fly. We had a great group of kids this summer, which made the summer a blast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Vincent, one very funny little boy, who became my shadow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Love this picture, Jordan, she is such a character</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Love these girls, Lily and Lynn, summer wouldn't have been the same without them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In August we also celebrated James and I getting married. It was great getting celebrate with all of our family and friends, especially since we will be leaving soon. The weather was beautiful like we hoped, the sun poured down on us at my aunt and uncle's farm. It was a fun day, and I am so thankful for everyone who helped me prepare for it all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beautiful backdrop, Mt Rainier</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thank you so much Candace for all your help!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another big event in August, was taking 8 high schoolers on a 20 mile backpacking trip. It was an adventure, many of them had no idea what to expect, and one we (Pat, Micah and I) had to talk into going. He complained about it the whole ride up, but ended up being the first one to finish and was really proud of himself. It was a tough 3 days but it was totally worth it, the kids were very encouraging to one another and helped keep moral up by singing Mulan songs up the mountain. I was definitely not in good shape for this one, I was in so much pain afterwords.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">End of day one we were so happy to finally set up camp and be done hiking for the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Copper City, an old ghost town we stopped to check out along the way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day two, swimming in the lake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The last day, we finally made it to the summit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We were told many times that we had made it to the highest point, just to come around another bend to find </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">another trail ascending upwards. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> We also did a family outing to the Circus, it was a blast. I hadn't been to the circus since I was little. There were so many great acts but my favorite were the little miniature donkeys, they were so cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">10 year Anniversary Luau.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Got some beautiful flowers and words from Pat, since I was leaving. A very nice surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://s1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/anna_srip/?action=view&current=sign-1.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/anna_srip/sign-1.png" /></a></span></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-37377646541781367532010-07-30T15:46:00.000-07:002011-09-29T00:15:56.590-07:00Winery!<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So while James was deployed him and his buddies planned a trip for the wives to a winery. After getting off work we drove about 3 hours to Outlook, Washington (wine country). By the time we got there it had gotten kind of late, but it was still beautiful out, the sun was just setting and the air was still warm. We made dinner, sat out on the back deck and watched a lightning storm. Since we were the last couple to get to the winery, the room in the guest house that we got was the "Champagne Room". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The next morning we woke up, James made an amazing breakfast and then we went wine tasting. We got to tour the winery and taste pretty much the whole selection of wine. I've never been a big fan of wine before, but we definitely found some wine the we enjoyed. All in all we had a great weekend it was a lot of fun to just get away and relax and not really have to worry about anything.</span><br />
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-44737479058535959772010-07-29T18:13:00.000-07:002011-09-29T00:16:14.370-07:00Every weekend is a busy weekend!<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's almost the weekend and looking at these next 6 weekends to come we're going to be very busy. Ever since James has gotten home from deployment we really haven't had much time to really relax, and it dosen't look like we'll have a non-busy weekend until we get to Hawaii. But thats ok, we want to spend as much time with everyone that we can before we have to leave. It seems like time was going by so slow just waiting for James to come home and now time feels like its going in fast forward. </span><br />
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Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-16005729680492002302010-07-28T19:35:00.000-07:002011-09-29T00:16:35.485-07:00Roller Skating with the Kids . . .<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like every week at summer camp we always go on a field trip, to a place that the kids don't usually get a chance to go to. Today we went to the Roller Rink. Which was so much fun... getting there on the other hand was a bit of a pain. We have over 70 kids that come to camp each day, and when we go on field trips we normally have two buses that come to transport us. While today none of the buses showed up which meant that we had to call the bus people and beg them to find us a bus. Luckily we were able to get one bus, we had to pack all of the kids onto the bus and we were off about and hour late. It all ended up being ok because by the time we got there and the kids got a chance to skate around and our session was over the kids were dead tired. I love going to the Roller Rink cause it just reminds me of going as a kid and skating with my friends. But I was so surprised that most of these kids didn't know how to skate at all. Many of them had just put their skates on and loosely tied them (thank God no one twisted their ankles). So I went around the rink a few times and then spent the rest of the time re-tieing the kid's skates. The kids were so tired that the bus ride home was pretty quiet and many of them had fallen asleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11718790836801350295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4113799756776141694.post-51712353415269404892010-07-27T23:08:00.000-07:002011-01-28T20:55:11.430-08:00Family Dinner . . .<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Family time! James decided to cook dinner tonight and invite everyone over. We have little over a month left in Seattle, so getting to spend time with family is pretty important. It's was to have everyone over and sit around and talk. James grilled some amazing stake and we made tacos. I'm going to miss getting to sit around and spend time with my family when we leave. I love them!</span><br />
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