Saying Goodbye to Hawaii

Aloha friends/family,
Sorry for the delay but wanted to know our destination before I gave my final goodbye to Hawaii! Jeff has been hired by King Aerospace in Dallas, Tx. We are flying out of Hawaii on the 11th of June, arriving at DFW on the 12th. We are homeless until August 1st where we will be moving into a lease home in Frisco. We will continue to lease out our home in Fort Worth and eventually sell it, as the commute would be way too much. For those I told we would have a pool in the backyard, I apologize, the AHole owner decided to raise amount of rent after we applied, Jiffy sayed "Hell No", so we found another house that has community pool. The boys and I will be travelling down the east coast during the month of July. Jiffy (hopefully) will fly into Pa to join us for the 4th of July weekend for his retirement party.

Hawaii has been many things for me in these past 3 years, and I cannot honestly say I regret it, but I am truly happy to be going home! Hawaiins are true thrill seekers living on the edge. From the die hard surfers, surfing when the "No surfing flags" are up to a no helmet law, so seeing a motorcycle go flying past you at 80+ MPH not wearing a helmet is a common occurance. You will also see many trucks pass you with whole families lounging in the back, as seen in the picture with the 3 HUGE Hawaiins riding in chairs, all scarfing food! On the island they have very large, very creepy looking centipedes so the locals keep chickens in their yards to eat them, well sometimes these chickens venture onto roads and highways as seen in picture below taken on the Pali. Then there is my alltime favorite, of the dog sporting better sunglasses than I have, that was taken New Year's day at the lighthouse hike. The views here are amazing, and we have tons of pictures and memories.

Hawaiian words:
Aloha ~ hello, goodbye & endearment
Mahalo ~ thank you
'Ohana ~ family
Keiki ~ child
'Ilio ~ dog
Honu ~ sea turtle
Hale ~ house
Moana ~ ocean
Kai ~ sea
Hana ~ to work
Haole ~ white people - foreigners
pupule ~ crazy
Ono ~ delicious
Lu ' au ~ hawaiian feast
Honi ~ kiss
Kane ~ man
Wahine ~ woman
Wikiwiki ~ quick/fast
Lolo ~ stupid

Birthday shout-outs go to Jiffy , my brother-in-law Ron and myself.
~Aloha~ See ya soon!

The good, the bad and the WTF...Hawaii

Happy Easter

Whew! It's April already! I would love to say time is flying for me, but I'd be lying. We still do not know where we are going and I'm sorry to say it is stressing my poor husband out. I wish I could wave a wand and give him the job, and location of his dreams, but of course I can't. He starts his terminal leave the end of this month and will be looking nonstop for a position for us. We truly want to move close to family, may it be Texas or back to Maryland, yes we are still considering Maryland. The boys are easy, they will go anywhere as long as it's off this island. I don't know if our negativity towards Hawaii rubbed off on them or they truly hate it as much as us, but it will be a move we all want!!!! I just want to begin our summer where I can load the boys up and hit the road to visiting everyone (hopefully), if not a half-way point where people can come visit us.

Birthday shout -outs go to Pam (my BFF) she is a beautiful 30 something! Most importantly my baby girl turns 23 on the 24th, everyone sing "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU". And last but not least my dad has a birthday at the end of the month, dad I truly do not know how young you are, but that's ok.....Happy Birthday!

Springtime

March has brought us an early spring, with very unusual weather in paradise. It has been soupy clouds for about six months, so you never know when or if the sun will shine through. Chase competed in Kaiser at the beginning of the month and did the best he could, but was against some seriously tough 5th graders, he had fun and was cheered on by his peers. Jeff flew to Dallas and interviewed for a company that does military contracts in the area my husband is trained (my bullshit way of saying "not sure what he does") their home base is Dallas, but Jeff interviewed for either El Paso, Tx or Ardmore, Ok. We will know our outcome next month. The boys are on spring break. We went to diamond Head over the weekend, and it was a refreshingly easy hike, with beautiful views of Wikiki. We probably wont do much more this spring, as we are watching every penny for retirement. Maddie finally got the shock collar we have been threatening, and I think we see it as more of entertainment than training (we are probably going to hell for it). I am sure most of ya'll has seen Chase and his extremely long hair, something he was proud of. The rule in our home is, you can grow your hair as long as you like as long as it is washed and combed everyday...... Chase pushed the limit! Three days of not combing his hair resulted in long hair no more!!!!!!

Birthday shout-outs go to my nephew Josh who turned 23, and Austin Croucher who turned 12.

2009 Mokapu Fitness Team - Skyler

2009 Mokapu Fitness Team - Chase