Updates galore!

Both me and Baby Biggie as we call "it" are healthy and growing! We had our second Dr. appointment at 14 weeks and Dez got to come along this time. We did see the baby (the picture wasn't worth posting as all you can is the big head and a spine the way it was positioned) and heard the heart beat for the first time! I looked over at Dez and I could tell he was excited by the gloss over his eyes. He tried to man up, but I saw right through him! Next month we get to find out if its a boy or girl.


I'm so grateful to be in good health and feeling pretty awesome considering the double time my body is working from the inside out. I've had no morning sickness or symptoms beyond the hyper smell, and some tiredness.  I've started working for the Operating Engineers J.A.C. which is the office for apprentice programs and classes for the construction union.  Besides one of the key players in the office leaving for maternity leave (whose spot I took) there are 2 other new people replacing critical office players who left or were transferred within the last month. Under a new boss, with changes on multiple levels from structure to staff, it's always interesting.  One thing I struggle with is understanding people when they have thick local accents or speak pidgin to me on the phone( everyone else I work with was born and raised in Hawaii). I'll be fluent in pidgin after this job I think. =) 

Speaking of the Union.... Dez got pulled in a lottery for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to be a stevedore(ILWU)....IN WASHINGTON.  Out of 14,000 names Dez was the 800th of the 2,100 selected.  So within the year (probably sometime after the baby is born) we will be packing up and starting over in the Seattle area.  Dez will stay in school until it's time to go.  We're both excited and a little nervous to see how this all pans out but we hope the future is bright! Once your in, put in your hours and work your way up I hear it's a pretty solid job.

Dez decided his new hobby is photography and invested in a legit camera, so look for lots of photos coming up!

Christmas is coming, guess who's getting fat?

 Dez is bigger than the tree

 Me and my Father-in Law decorating the tree

 wow, real cute huh

 Our niece that dez likes to take pictures of and say is his daughter. haha

Thanks to Jamie Santa can come down a chimney

 The Christmas ornaments we brought home from Germany last year

Oh yeah and to top it all off.... WE'RE HAVING A BABY! (no we didn't hang the test on the tree)

Netflix this: FOOD MATTERS

So I watched this the other day and think everyone should too. Its been a struggle to find something to cook every night, let alone something that wont end up killing us in the not so long run.  I want to buy local food but its so dang expensive. I'm making Dez take me to the farm and teach me his ways.  (he says he grew up on the farm and so I need to make him teach me!) I'm going to try and grow whatever I can at the ward farm (if they let me).  Out here is cool because they have plots of land that they let people grow food for their families. My dream list for my future house keeps getting longer and longer.  So far I want a garden, a compost bin, nice washers and dryers(that are not communal and do not have other people's POOP in them. GAG), a laundry line for the sunny days, solar panels... and that's it so far.

Lean and Mean

Due to our limited pan situation, Brinner (breakfast for dinner) has become a trial and error process.  Bacon on the Forman grill was Dez's idea. (didn't do it for me) I later adapted the idea to accommodate french toast and pancakes. They turned out pretty dope looking and I deem a success. hey a grillz a grill!

He gets it

So naturally we have all had to do some(ok ALOT) of adjusting the past couple months since marriage.  I'd been missing the bay a lot and feeling kinda down. I'm real good at holding things in, until I hit my limit and need to vent and shed some tears.  Today was that day, and after Dez survived the melt down, I came home to this.  He may not understand why I do the things I do, but at least he wont stop trying to make me smile. He even used 4 colors, whatta swell guy.

I deactivated my Facebook today for some time so I can focus on who I am with and where I am now rather than the things going on that I feel like I'm missing.  So we'll see how life is with that book closed.  I think this will be good for me and help me get more active and involved here in my new life in Hawaii. So if you need something, email me or call me! (I have a new 808 number now btw) Hopefully I'll be writing a lot more here and in general, starve my gossip desire and focus on more important things...like Thank you cards for all our wedding gifts.

And for the record I have started my Thank you notes from the wedding festivities... and they ARE coming.  Between island time and adjusting to married life, I'll be lucky to have them out by Christmas... haha the thought counts even if its a little later than ideal right?

Schoolin' Em

This week Dez made the decision to go back to school to get his degree. He walked over to campus, talk to a few people and walked home practically a new student. It's true when they say "Its all about who you know" out here. We still have a few details to work out but he should be starting in January. This is important for several reasons. First of all a degree will be an awesome accomplishment and also we get to stay in campus housing after I graduate in December eliminating a lot of questions that we would have to answer in the next 3 months. Although it seems like it costs bouk-o bucks to go to school, it costs even more to live in Hawaii, off campus and not be in school.  So come December I get to be the suga mama and work while Dez studies. It'll be yet another adjustment but a great opportunity! 

 

Wednesday I start my final semester at BYUH and will be glad to hand the pencil off to Dez.   

 

After almost 2 months, we finally got our official marriage certificate so I get to go into town and stand in line at the Social Security office, DMV, bank and then back to school to change my name.  The new glorious beginning of married hassels.

Happily so far after...

July 17, 2010, Kona,HI