Looking forward to Halloween

Well this Sunday was the primary program. This was Gracie's first year participating. Deven had to work and he was really sad he missed it. I wish I could have recorded it. Of course I thought Gracie did a great job. She said her part without any hesitation and was so proud of herself. She tried to sing every song I saw her lips moving throughout. She kept waving to me and of course I was so proud, yet at the same time she is growing up and it is so crazy to see how grown up she has become. On a fun note, Gracie and I have been counting down the days till High School Musical 3 came out. I am not sure how she came to like it ( I am sure we can thank the older cousins) None the less we went to see it and had so much fun. She was so entertained and couldn't stop talking about how much she loved it. Deven came with us and he even admitted it was a pretty good show.

For Halloween Gracie wanted to be a dalmation puppy. I looked all over and I all I could find was hot furry costumes. She would melt here in Hawaii, so we decided to make her a girlie dalmation. She has already got to wear her costume once to a Halloween Birthday party and can't wait for Halloween to wear it again.

A Guilty Confession

Well this weekend was Deven's 4 day weekend. I had been counting it down since the rotation started. I was only seeing Deven for about 2 hours a day and I kept telling myself just hold on till his 4 day weekend. Well the weekend came and unfortunately he had a PT test Friday morning so it was at 5:30 a.m. so naturally when he came home he wanted to sleep for a little while, we had a late start but finally ventured out for the afternoon and went to Kailua to check out that side of the island. I couldn't help but notice he just wasn't feeling like himself, he was really tired and he was starting to develop a cough. Well the next day Gracie was so excited for him to come to her gymnastics class and then the rest of the day was going to be so fun.... or so I thought. He was not doing well and after gymnastics we ended up coming home and he slept the rest of the day. I was trying so hard to be understanding but by the night, I must admit I was really disappointed. I went to bed crying. Sunday he tried to go to church and he didn't even make it through sacrament meeting he went home early. He thought he was feeling better that night as we had invited some friends over for dinner, but by the end of the night he was having high fever and his cough picked up. He didn't even make it work on Monday. Finally Tuesday we decided he needed to go get something for his cough. He stopped in to talk to the ER doctors about what he should do for work that night and they told him he had been exposed to microplasm (or something like that) apparently it is a really bad bacteria and it causes pneumonia. So they had him get a chest X ray and sure enough he has pneumonia. Now I feel a little bit better not that I didn't believe him when he said he didn't feel well I was just feeling sorry for myself and thinking why now why this weekend. They now have him on antibiotics and other things so hopefully he will get feeling better. He kept saying he didn't feel good and I kept thinking I have been sick for the past 14 weeks and I just keep getting told to hang in there it will pass (so part of me was thinking the same thing. Suck it up.) I told him I felt really bad and I really do hope he gets feeling better.

A Little Miracle....and other fun stuff

Well a lot has been going on in our lives lately. I have only seen Deven one day in the last two weeks. He has had to work every weekend and today is the 2nd day he has had off. I have been trying not to complain but we have been lonely without him. He works 12 hour shifts right now so he gets up at 4 a.m. and gets home around 7 p.m. Just in time to help put Gracie to bed and then he is fast asleep on the couch so I have to wake him up to go to bed. He starts nights tomorrow we will see how that goes. I think this would all be easier on me but we are letting everybody know we are expecting baby #2. It has all come as a shock and as a miracle in our lives. We have been trying for years and were finally told our best shot would be invitro. So we started all the lab work and testing and as soon as we got here we started going to an infertility specialist. I had just finished up all the lab work and was actually going in to set up an invitro date when we found out I was pregnant. Then we went through and ectopic scare as I was having a lot of cramping and with my history the doctor wasn't convinced and told us not to get our hopes up. But after a week of blood work and ultra sounds they were convinced everything looked good and that this is nothing short of a miracle in our life. So we were excited but I have been sick pretty much ever since the beginning. Nothing like with Gracie (so may be it's a boy). I had nausea and vomiting 24 hours a day and it got to where I wasn't sleeping at night so then I wasn't functioning during the day. Thank you to drugs. Deven talked to the doctor and with the help of anti nausea medication I am doing much better. Food doesn't always taste or sound good but I feel like I am getting my life back. So for such a long story we are excited and that is why it has been so hard to have Deven gone so much. But we are now hoping for an Easter Baby. And with that will come visitors so we are excited. Gracie can hardly wait. I just posted a few pictures below of things we have been up to. So I am a little behind with everything right now in my life. I am hoping for a good week and can start to catch up. Our carpet finally came so they will putting it in this week. Also I am trying to up date my blog but I am so computer iliterate, (I don't know what happened to me) I call Lisa all the time to walk me through things so slow but surely I am trying to up date it.
Thanks to Aunt Lisa for Gracie's new pink shirt. The funny thing is she just picked out new pink shoes and thought it was so exciting that it matched.

Gracie has started a gymnastics class on Saturday mornings. She loves it and counts down all week till next time.

On Deven's last day off we tried Kayaking. Gracie was never so sure and clung to me so tight the entire time and kept saying that is enough please don't tip us over. We kept trying to tell her she was safe but she couldn't wait to get out when we got back to shore.

We visited the Honolulu aquarium. This picture was taken in front of the jelly fish. Deven has now decided one day he is going to have an aquarium of just jelly fish. He thinks they are so cool. too bad you can't see them in the picture.

Our little princess... every picture has to be an ordeal. She strikes any pose she can but normal.

The Floating Hospital

Well this has been a long week I will not lie. We figured this week Deven put in close to 100 hours. He got lucky and got the weekend call so we didn't get to see him this whole weekend. He finally got home Sunday about noon, but now he is sleeping soundly poor guy he is tired and gets to start all over tomorrow Thanks goodness he switches rotations this Thursday. I will not miss this one. He had one afternoon off this week and he had heard at the hospital that The Mercy Ship was at Pearl Harbor apparently it only docks here about once every 2 years The doctors told him he should go check it out. It was amazing. It is literally a hospital on the water. Right now it was returning from a humanitarian mission, but in war times it acts as a rescue ship on the water. It is capable of staffing up to 900 people. We got a tour and and it was amazing. The Mercy Ship

This is up in the captains bridge. The guy was so awesome and he showed us all of the new GPS technology they have on board. They were in the process of mapping their route home to San Diego. They were leaving the next morning.

He let Gracie and Deven touch the captains wheel. Gracie was a little nervous she didn't want us to really go out to see. We tried to assure her it would take a lot of effort to get that ship out of the harbor.

This is on top of the flight deck. The sheds is where they store their two choppers when they are not on a mission. They said the wings fold up and they fit inside. On their last mission one of their helicopters got 4 bullet holes in it. I think is is so sad people attacked a ship that was coming to help them. They said it was a little scary as they have very little fighting power on this ship. They take with them a small security force.

This is the CAT Scan machine on the boat. Deven was amazed at all the radiology technology. They usually have 2 radiologist on board. This boat had 12 Operating rooms, and ICU, a huge pre op room. A full Dental and eye clinic. It was amazing.

Deven Gracie and I walking up the dock to get on the Mercy Ship

This is a picture of just how big this ship is. We had just parked our car and couldn't believe how big this ship was. It towered over all the other ships in the harbor. They usually go out for 4 month missions at a time. Deven thought one day he would like to have the opportunity to do this. This time they visited Guam, Vietnam, and a whole bunch of other tiny islands between Hawaii and Australia. I can't remember all the names. Anyways they told us of all the people they helped. In each island they will do surgery on up to 50 people a day. I just forget sometimes how lucky we are to have good medical care and access to it.

More Family Fun

Well one more week down of Deven doing his pediatric rotation. I will admit this is not my favorite. Plus I hate hearing about all of the sad things that can happen to kids. He has been busy but he has been trying hard to come home and have fun with the family even though he has been on call all night and hasn't had any sleep. I really appreciate it and so does Gracie. Deven and I have found our favorite beach on the North Shore. We go there almost every week. Unfortunately the waves are starting to pick up and they say in a week or two they will be getting big. But we will just have to find another beach until next May when the North shore calms down again. But we are excited to see just how big the waves get. Just a little scenery from our favorite beach.

Gracie is following in her dad's foot steps she has really taken up boogie boarding. Even though she doesn't take on the really big waves she has figured out how to ride the waves into the shore. We can't get her out of the water.

As you can see it is now evening and she is still going. She also put on her goggles by this time. She decided she had enough water in her eyes. We thought it was cute.

Well Deven came home after being on call one day and decided he would finish painting our room. We were suppose to have our carpet by now but wouldn't you know it got damaged in shipping it. We have to start all over they had to re order it and it could be another 6 weeks. I was pretty down so Deven painted my room for me while I took Gracie to a birthday party. He thought that would help and it did. But that night I couldn't sleep in my room the fumes where to strong so I slept down stairs on a blow up mattress. Well Gracie found me the next morning and couldn't believe I had a slumber party without her so we promised her she could sleep in her pump bed the next night. She finally decided that was ok.

OK so this picture is kind of dark but I hope you can appreciate this outfit as much as we did. Gracie was so insistent on wearing her ballet outfit and I didn't have it in me to fight it so we agreed but when you add bowling shoes to it we had to laugh and I tried to capture it on camera.

Gracie and mommy got new running shoes. She was so excited she decided she was going to go running with mommy and daddy that night. We made a special outing just for her. She did it we kept saying do you want to turn around and she said no I need to run to the park. Well the park is a 1/2 mile up and a 1/2 mile home but she did she wouldn't stop she ran the whole mile. She slept so good that night I think she truly ran herself out. Now she asks me everyday if we can go running.

Family Fun Fest

Well it turns out Deven got Labor Day off!!!! Yeah we loved it and he did so much yard work for me today. I should have taken pictures may be next time. He planted me new plants and trimmed up all the trees and shrubs it looked great. So we had to take some time to celebrate. Today our stake had a what they call Family Fun Fest. It was at the stake center and they had set up carnival rides and all sorts of slides and jumping gadgets. We had a ward pot luck and then of course they had cotton candy and snow cones and popcorn. Gracie thought it was awesome. Her favorite ride was this shark slide. I wish you could have seen her face when she came out the first time we weren't sure if she liked it she looked so unsure until she said "that was so fast I want to do it again." Gracie and mommy in front of her favorite slide "Jaws"

Gracie coming down the slide. Its too bad my camera delayed on taking the picture her face coming down was priceless. She is getting so brave.

Gracie and her friends on the train ride.

Of course on a hot day nothing was more refreshing than a wonderful snow cone.

At the ward picnic Gracie was enjoying her pixie stick.

With Deven being a little more busy this month we spent one evening down at the park we like to take Gracie's car out and let her ride it around the tennis courts. She has so much fun she pretends to go to the store and of course McDonald's. I just enjoy watching her play and we both love a little fresh air.

On Sunday night Deven was desparte to play guitar hero and so he convinced Gracie she wanted to play to she thought it was so neat but was complaining the guitar was to heavy to play standing up so she decided to sit down to jam. I must say she was a natural. Unfortunatley real life starts again tomorrow. Deven is on call again and I need to be prepared for a long day. We will find some way to get out and make the day a little more bearable. I think this week will be long so we are just going to have to have a good attitude, and I guess we'll just have to have fun without Deven.

Fun in the sun and the rain

Sorry to my family I guess I am lagging behind. Thanks for all the text messages to remind me to update the blog. We really have been busy. Of course we have been at the beach again. Gracie had a great time with one of her little friends. They were trying to learn how to boogie board. We went over to bellows beach. This is one of our favorites. The funny thing is Deven got stung by a man of war (they are mini jelly fish) twice. I had no sympathy the second time he knew they were out there yet he still wanted to boogie board. A little spray of vinegar and the burning eased up some. We were trying to enjoy the weekend as Deven starts a new rotation next week and I will have my first taste of being single mom his first weekend he is on call so wish me luck I don't like to sleep by myself in my house alone but I better get use to it this will be the first of many.

Deven giving Gracie a ride on his boogie board. She yells hit it and then has Deven take off like she is knee boarding. It is really cute. On a side note she said the prayer in Sunbeams this last week. Her teacher said she said "thank you that we can go on the house boat at lake Powell and thank you that we can sleep up on top" I thought is was so funny especially because we weren't able to go on the house boat this year.

Our family at Three Tables this has become our favorite beach up on the North Shore. In a couple of weeks the surf is suppose to start to get really big so we are trying to enjoy it as long as we can.

Deven went scuba diving again. I couldn't go this time. I haven't been feeling very well and didn't feel up to the task. But Deven found a friend to go with him. They dove Sharks Cove. I was sad I missed it. It is suppose to be an amazing dive. Deven saw a turtle and a huge eel. I need to get his pictures developed. The said the coral formation was amazing.

Deven getting ready to go into Sharks Cove. This is a great Snorkeling spot as well Some say it is better than Hananamah Bay. Deven thinks it is. It is really rocky to you have to wear reed shoes. But Gracie and I just waded out and fish were swimming all around us.

So I needed to post pictures of more than just the beach. We had a play group scheduled for the park but of course it rained. Well Amanda and I decided we didn't care we wanted to get out of the house. We went to the park and they played on the Tennis court the whole time running in the rain making rain angels in the puddles. They even tried drinking them. It is still warm when it rains so sometimes you do what you got to do They played forever in the rain it was fun.

Gracie finally got Deven to let her bury him in the sand. She worked really hard at getting deven to hold still so she could bury him. (I am not sure how you spell bury anyways as long as everyone gets it)