Trouble in paradise.

Today Ryan and I went to enjoy our complimentary lunch from Chili's for Ryan's service.
Afterward we walked over to Wally World and looked through the garden center.
We found a DVD/CD combo that makes your TV into a "fireplace" and plays Christmas music.
We both looked at it and then grabbed it.
The downside of living in paradise, is that there are no indicators that it is the holiday season.
It's 80 degrees outside, that doesn't exactly bring up thoughts of turkey and ornaments.
So we bought ourselves a little Christmas spirit.
I closed all of the curtains and now we have a cozy little fireplace scene and Christmas carols playing.
I am thinking of making some hot apple cider and turning the AC on full blast.

I can't wait to come home and have a legitimate reason to put on a sweater.
I am soooo excited about seeing the family in Decemeber!
Love you guys!

Filed a claim.

Okay, since everyone seems to believe that the woman who hurt Milly needs to fix her (and so do I)
I called and filed a claim with my insurance this morning.
David, the very nice claims guy, said he would take care of it.
So we will see what happens.
I am just praying that the woman has insurance.

Also, my dad went by my house last night to put out the trash cans and he ran into my property manager.
He said three people were coming to view it last night so hopefully we will find a renter soon!
I really don't want to carry the mortgage, especially not this time of year.
So everyone just say a prayer that someone will love the place and make it theirs.

Oh and one more important announcement.
I am now the "secretary" for the FRG here.
I have no idea what my duties are but apparently I am qualified.
So this should be interesting.
Wish me luck!!

What's up?

So I thought I should make a post about what ELSE is going on in my life besides pictures of fun adventures.
Here is a breakdown of the highlights (or lowlights).

-Currently taking 18 hours at OU.
-Just got an acceptance letter from University of Hawaii to take classes concurrently.
-Got approved to use Ryan's GI Bill so college is covered except books.
-Finally got the house completely done, including art hung.
-Started eating healthier after reading studies on nutrition (thanks Claire!).
-Taking yoga twice a week and running in between.
-Fertility business is on hold until the new year.
-Murphy & Duke can finally play in the backyard, the housing removed their super sprinklers.
-We got a ticket in the mail for Ryan's Jeep that happened before we owned it.
-Milly is a damaged woman but she is sparkly clean inside because I gave her a vacuum yesterday.
-Got our Christmas airline tickets booked, finally.
-Doctor told me I have asthma, started using an inhaler.
-Got my skin screening for the year, no skin cancer for me.
-Ryan still hasn't flown a helicopter since we have been here :(
-Someone stole his GPS out of his Jeep.
-The renters moved out of my house.
-Here is the link to my craigslist post if you know anyone interested in a rental.

I think that pretty much covers it.
Love you guys!

Well, poop.

I am sure all of you know this but back in May, Ryan bought me my very first brand new car.
I love it very much and I try to take good care of it.
I always park in the back of the parking lot or in corner spots so no one will ding me.
Today we drove to church and Ryan picked out a corner spot and parked far enough away from the car beside it that Milly (that's my cars name) would be out of harms way.
We come out of church and there is this really old dinged up car in the parking lot RIGHT next to my car.
Inches, literally.
Where this car is parked is not a parking spot but I guess they decided that it was.
You would think if you were creating your own parking stall you would make it as big as you wanted but no.
Milly now has a quarter size chip of paint missing in her door.
The paint was still hanging off of the other persons door.
It was a sad sight.
So Ryan and I decided to wait and just bring it to the other persons attention.
I know from shipping the car here that a ding like that is going to cost at least 100 to repair.
So we think, oh it happened at church, of course this person will offer to repair it for us.
NOPE!
She comes out and Ryan points the spot out and she says "oh i see. I'm sorry about that but you are parked very close to the line so.."
Ryan didn't know what to say to her at that point so he just said okaaaaaay and walked away.
I don't really know what to do about it now.
I mean do we press the issue or just suck it up and pay for it?
It's a big bummer.

Flowers of Hawaii

While the Murphy's were here we visited a waterfall that is located inside of a botanical garden.

I put pictures of the waterfall in my last post but I didn't get a chance to include the flowers.

So that's what I'm going to do now.

Cassie did a really good job on these pictures so I have to share them.

Testing.

I tried something new.
I think I may have found a way to send an automated email when I update my blog.
So I am updating and we will see if it works.
Also, I changed my settings a while ago so that you don't have to have a blogger login to leave a comment.
You should be able to just type away.
You know, just in case anyone wants to leave me a comment (hint, hint).

Love you guys!

Last day with the Murphys :(

Well, our two weeks are over.

I think Cassie is pretty excited about that (she REALLY wants to get home to her baby) but the rest of us aren't as happy.

It has been really nice having them around.

Like the good old days.. but in paradise.

I have some more pictures to share.

Wednesday we went up to see Ryan at work and he let us play in one of the helos.

Friday we went to a cookout with Ryan's work friends and afterward we headed out to look for the "Dragon's Nostrils". On the way we found this lookout point. Ryan decided to once again put his life in danger by hanging over the cliff. 

We eventually did find the "Dragon's Nostrils". It is a double blow hole that sends water shooting into the air and makes a very realistic dragon noise (assuming there were really dragons). Anyway we had to climb down the side of a mountain and once we got there we found some tide pools to swim in.

Here is Ryan standing between the "nostrils".

 Ryan and Andrew playing in the waves.

 View from the tide pools.

 There is a light house up on the mountain.

 Yep, we climbed all the way down from the top.

On Saturday we stopped by Waimea Bay to jump off the big rock.

That's Andrew.

 That's Ryan.

Here are the sharks we got to swim with!!!

This is before we got in the cage.

 That is my back, look how close I am!

 View from inside the cage.

 It was really hard to take pictures and keep your limbs inside the cage.

Cassie did a really good job on getting these shots.

 This one is looking down.

After our shark cage adventure we went to find a waterfall.

If you watch Lost, this is the fall where Kate found the briefcase!

 We got to swim in the falls but it was really cold so we didn't stay long.

The waterfall is located in a botanical garden.
Cassie took some really pretty flower pictures.
I think I will save those for my next post though.
I have to go get ready for our goodbye dinner.

Love you guys!