Spring fever

I am so excited for Spring to be here! I haven't ever really decorated for Easter before besides the baskets the girls get that morning. I decided this year to try to decorate our home more for the holidays to enjoy them longer. Alot of my siblings are very talented with arts and crafts, I somehow didn't inheriate any of that. Today I threw together a couple for Easter decorations and most of the stuff to make them I got at the dollar store. I know this is nothing compared to what others can do but I had fun and wanted to show what I did. I did this one for about $6.00. I got the flowers, basket, grass, and eggs from the dollar store and the foam block the flowers are in i got at Walmart. This wreath only cost me $7.00 to make and it was fun. The eggs and wood wreath from the dollar store and the ribbon wrapped around the wreath and for the bow, Walmart. This one only cost me $2.00, the eggs...that already came glued on the stick and the bag of grass at the dollar store. I already had the vase from flowers I got one year from a friend.

Another Tim Burton movie

We saw Alice in Wonderland. It was typical Tim Burton, who we usually enjoy his films and this one I really liked.

More yard makeover

I don't have any pictures but this weekend we spent Friday and Saturday digging trenches and laying pipe for sprinklers and drip system. And when I say "we", I mean Kip did most of the work of course. It is even set up with an automatice timer so I don't have to worry about remembering to water the grass and plants. I grew up with weeds for a lawn and desert landscaping, literally. I am so lucky to have a husband who knows how to do landscaping!

Yard Makeover phase 1

Kip took several pictures of our yard with dimensions and he sent it out to his dad for him to design landscaping for the front and the back yard. Kip was so excited about the plan his dad proposed that he had to start on it. This weekend we did one part of the back yard. I am not experienced at all with plants and landscaping so I had a hard time envisioning what the finished product would look like. But the small section we worked on turned out really good. I now have a good idea and am very excited for the rest of the yard to be finished. Here's the before and after pictures.

First Visitors

Hi, I know it has been a while. I finally feel like have of the craziness is over but the other half to come. We have yet to recieve our housegoods. And we still have to go to New Orleans to pick up our other car....sigh. But we had our first visitors, Kip's parents came to visit and we had a fun weekend with them. The girls had a great time with their grandparents and Maylani got to meet her grandpa in person for the first time. We really enjoyed their visit and hope to see them again soon. Here's some pics of our fun-filled weekend. Kip and his dad at the USS Alabama Kip and his mom at the USS Alabama All of us on the USS Alabama Jenna and grandpa at the Naval Aviaion Museum Lani at the Aviation Museum Lani warming up to grandpa looking at the fish All of the girls at the museum Kip trying to sneak on an exhibit Fort Pickens We showed his parents one of our favorite restraunts in Mobile, The Oyster House They took us to a couple of awsome restraunts, this one is Flounders

A million year old update...

Okay, many changes have happened since our last post. We moved out of our apartment for reasons we have no control over and moved in with some wonderful friends who were willing to rent out their extra room. We put all our stuff in storage and is waiting for the moving company to come pick it up next week. I am shipping one of our cars Friday to LA and other on the 30th to Florida. The Air Force has decided to send Kip to combat weather school at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS enroute to our next base. This is a 3 month school. They will not let him leave Hawaii till the first of January he has to report to school by the 5th leaving him no time to drive with his family from Ca to Ms. So I am left to picking up the car in CA and driving across the US with two children by myself. I am recruiting a couple of people to help and awaiting their decision. Did I mention that I will be alone in Florida for the first three months of living there, in a new place? Crazy, huh. Oh well, this will be another opportunity to be strong and to grow. Will update later pictures.

Laie Lady

We love to celebrate Halloween and in our house, we start planning in July. But this year we haven't done much for Halloween between closing on our house and making arrangements to move, we have been busy. But last night we finally scheduled in some Halloween fun and went to the Haunted Lagoon at the PCC in Laie. Last year was the first year they put on the canoe ride and it was pretty good, this year was even better. It is pretty creepy to be out on the water at night, it's really dark and works well for a haunted house. If only Tempe Town Lakes back home did something as cool as this.