Good Morning!

Well, its 7:47 am here and I'm already up. Andy had to be at work by 8 today, so no sleeping in this weekend.

Yesterday was a very fun day. We went to the mall. It's the first time I've been. It was amazing! They had all the really fancy stores, you know, the stores that I'm not allowed to go in. Chanel, Fendi, Gucci...it was crazy, and then stores like old navy. I can't wait to go back and really look around. We were limited on time. We had lunch at Bubba Gump's. I don't know how Andy eats so much and where it goes. He had a whole meal (fried chicken with mash potatoes). I only had popcorn shrimp and fries. I couldn't even finish it. But we were going to eat like 3 hours later, but Andy assured me he'd be hungry again. Wow...he can eat!

So by the time we finished eating, the time was short to look around and Andy needed a new pair of shorts. So we were kind of on a mission for him. Don't worry though, in the process I did get to go look too. I got a new summer dress and a pair of sandals. Andy got a new pair of sandals and shorts. But if I had more time and more money, I could get myself in a whole lotta trouble!

After about an hour, we had to get over to Dave and Busters for a going away thing for one Andy's friends. It was nice because I got a chance to talk to the wives. And yes Andy ate again and finished most of his food (chicken and pasta). I had the same thing except with alfredo, but most of it is in the fridge to eat for lunch today. The best part was going upstairs and playing the games. Andy and I really wanted to play this shoot em up game again. The last time we played I beat him. He wanted a rematch. We both did pretty bad though. BUT, I did play nascar racing with him and one other guy...and of course I beat both of them ( a little kid beat all of us though..lol). And, as promised, here's a new pic of us together.

OOOHHHH, I almost forgot. I beat the game Call of Duty 4 the other day. That was exciting. Now Andy just has to show me how to go on-line and play.

Well I better get going. I have to get ready. Andy said he has a surprise for me this morning and to be ready by 10:00. But then changed it to be ready when he gets home from work. He can't keep a surprise from me though. We're going to have breakfast and then watch Wanted. I'm so excited. I've been waiting for this movie since I saw the previews for it at Super Bowl time. I've never went to the movie theater so early to watch a movie before. That statement might sound odd, like you might be thinking, of course to watch a movie. But, I did work at at theater before so I did have to be there that early, but to work, not to watch a movie. Just in case someone had the same thought I had when I wrote that sentence.

Have a good Sunday everyone.

Blah, Blah, Blah...

I need to take care of a few housekeeping things:

1) When I spoke of "everyone having kids", I meant that everyone here on the base has kids. This is just to clarify a previous post.

2)Andy won his softball game last night. They actually run ruled the other team 16-1 in the 5th inning, so the game was called. So after the last two disappointing losses, they got a win. We stayed a while longer and watched the next game.

Now for today...it was pretty uneventful. I did drive to the next town over this evening. We went to have Mexican food. Sergio (our roommate) was excited to go since he's Mexican. It was good and I have leftovers for lunch tomorrow. The traffic to get out of the restaurant was crazy, so I had Andy drive home.

On a sad note, my parent's dog, Liza, was put down tonight. The last few days she has had some medical problems and the vet didn't know what was causing her to have seizures. She was a very loyal companion to my mom. She will be missed and when I go home, it won't be the same.

Other than that, the day has been very blah. I hope all of you have a better day.

Softball, softball, and more softball

I can't believe it's already Wednesday. Andy has had softball Monday, Tuesday, and tonight. He's supposed to have one on Friday too, but I heard a rumor that Friday games got cancelled (keep your fingers crossed for me that they did). His team has lost 2 games in a row, but maybe that will turn around tonight.

One nice thing is, I have made a friend. Her husband is a marine and he plays softball with Andy on his other softball team (yes, he plays for 2 teams). She is very nice. She doesn't have any kids yet, which is nice because EVERYONE has kids. Then, the ladies only talk about their kids. I understand this though, it's what they have in common with one another so they talk about it. But I'm left out of the loop on this one. Anyway, LeAnn, works at the Child Development Center and is an education major.

Well, that's all the news for now. Oh yeah, Andy and I have our wedding rings...lol..now we just need the place, date, Chaplin, and a dress. We'll be working on this next week.

Bye for now.

I love winning!

I did win the bet with Andy! Get Smart was a fabulous (can I borrow this Christine?) movie! I laughed so much and Andy did too. Our roommate, Sergio, says he falls asleep during movies. He didn't this time.



On to more pressing news....GOLF! Where do I start with this story? I'll begin with saying that I am not knowledgable about golf and according to my dad, after you hit the ball 7 or 8 times, you are supposed to pick up the ball and move on. Well I didn't know that. In the first three holes I took 65 strokes! Yes, I did say 65. That isn't including all swings I took where I missed the ball. Its a good thing I know how to laugh at myself. Most importantly though, taking all of those shots, I walked a lot more than I rode on the cart. Exercise! Andy and his friend Ryan did A LOT better than I did. We only played 9 holes. I took two holes off after the first three. But I must say I finished strong with an 8, 15, 13, and 11 in the last four holes. Below are some pictures of what you get to look at when you're golfing in Hawaii.


Andy has just informed me that he and I haven't taken any pictures together yet. So we will try and do that soon.

Oh shucks!

I forgot to tell you guys that Andy and I went to go watch Love Guru. I just can't get into Mike Meyers. The movie was okay and funny. I didn't find it as funny as some other people in the theater. The movie was playing for 2 min. and people were laughing their heads off. Tonight after we play golf, we're going to watch Get Smart. I can't wait, it looks hilarious. Andy and I have a bet. 2 bucks...1 dollar for me if Get Smart is funnier and another buck if its a better movie. I have all the confidence in the world that I'm about to be 2 bucks richer! I'll let you know how it plays out. In about 45 min. we're going to have breakfast and than hit up the driving range. It's going to be an interesting day!

So much to chat about!

Hello again. I have so much to talk about, so lets dive right in.

Andy and I had a few plans before I came out here. They were, get married, go to The Big Island, and go to Maui (not in any particular order). Me being here for only a month and a half though, we didn't really have time to go to the Big Island and Maui. So then we decided we would go to Maui. I looked at the prices and they were reasonable (at the time). By the time Andy's time off got approved the prices went way up. I'm a pretty frugal person with money (true, I wasn't always this way) and it freaked me out to spend that much money. And we would spend that and still have to spend more money to eat and do stuff. You can't go on vacation and not do anything. Sightseeing cost money (around here anyway). Sooo...we have decided to do those two islands when I come back next year. BUT, that being said, we are going to do some stuff around here instead. We are going to swim with the dolphins and (per Christine's suggestion) go on a helicopter ride. I'm very excited!

Speaking of being "excited", today we went snorkeling with one of Andy's friend. This was the first time I had ever went and I was quite nervous. Well for one, I can't swim and you have to breathe through a tube. Well, we went to a beautiful place called Hanauma Bay (sorry, no pics but if you YOUTUBE it, you can see what it looks like) which is a snorkeling wonderland. I failed! I kept freaking out and feeling like I couldn't breathe. So while Andy and Ed snorkeled, I laid on the beach and worked on my tan. While I was working on my tan it started to rain a hard, cold rain. Geezzz...and I hardly got any color! But I did protect the phones from the rain =). I know what's important. I am going to continue to practice snorkeling because I would love to see underwater.

Tomorrow I'm going golfing (okay, okay, TRY to go golfing). You should have heard my dad's reaction when I told him I was going. If you don't know, he's a VERY good golfer. He plays a lot. His advice to me was "go early and go on the driving range". So I will. I told Andy that if I don't do well on the driving range (I'm not fooling myself, there is a very good chance of that happening), that maybe I would just drive the cart while him and his friend played golf. Besides, I would hate to spend so much money renting clubs and the golfing fees to just want to stop playing on hole 2. And that probably would happen. I'll let you know how it goes though. You never know.

Well good night for now.

Apparently, the look was priceless

I must start this blog with saying that I'm very disappointed in the Lakers loss last night to the Celtics. But I have to say, the Celtics deserve the win. The Lakers were playing sloppy and it wasn't their night. Now on to better things!

As I said yesterday, Andy was going to take me to Wal-Mart last night. How odd..."Andy taking me to Wal-Mart". Some of you may not know this, but I really don't like to drive. If I was back home I would love it if someone took me to Wal-Mart, or anywhere else for that matter...LOL. But when the option is taken away, it's hard. Okay...it's not taken away because Andy would gladly hand over the keys, but I'm not sure I can handle driving here very well. The streets are so narrow, the highway is soooo curvey, and there are all kinds of lines on the road that make it hard to figure out. I'm really in no hurry to drive downtown! All that being said, lets get back to Wal-Mart.

In a previous blog I was talking about how expensive my hair products were and that I was dumb not to just bring them with me. Well, I am happy to share that the prices as Wal-Mart are exactly the same as back home! I was so pleased! Andy said my facial expression was funny. How could I not be happy?

We also went and looked at wedding bands and I found the one I want. Andy actually picked it out and after looking at all my options, he was right...as much as I don't want to say it. The one I had originally wanted just didn't look that great on my hand.

Then we went to P.F. Chang's for dinner. It was pretty good and I'll have the left overs for lunch today.

On to other news, Andy has a lot of softball coming up in the next two weeks, which completely caught me off guard to hear (and I might not be very happy about). We made a deal though, softball for 2 weeks and then what ever I want to do in July. Other than that, today will be another laid back day. I think I might finally start watching Sex and the City episodes. There is nothing on T.V. Yesterday I watched Tori and Dean Inn Love marathon. It was very funny. I've been looking at the programing guide this morning and nothing looks interesting.

So with that, I'll let you go now. Please call, text or email me if anyone gets a chance. Bye.

Oh...one more thing. Andy was excited to see the two comments. Thank you ladies!

Things can only get better....right?

Good morning. Well things were pretty tough for me yesterday. I didn't do anything really and watched T.V. all day. I wasn't ready to drive anywhere by myself. Plus, I was sad from being away from everyone.

Last night Andy had a softball game. The other team didn't show up, easy win. Afterwards, Andy, Emil (roommate), and myself went to Cold Stone....yummy! The ice cream was great. The best part was, I drove there. Andy would bring the car to me later today if I wanted, but I'm still not ready.

The greatest thing today is, we're going to WAL-MART! I miss it just being down the road because here, it's far away.

One last thing...Andy isn't feeling any love because no one has left any comments. LOL...so sensitive. I'll talk with everyone again soon.

What's there to complain about?

Hello! Yes, I am in the wonderful paradise of O'ahu or A.K.A. my new home. I landed yesterday at 12:45 PM after 12 hours of traveling. My flight from Houston was 8 hours long! I made it through, although I thought I would toss my cookies at the end when we were landing. Now lets get down to buisness and talk about how...for a lack of a better word...stupid I am. Although, I have to say no one tried to talk me out of out and so I choose to (since this is my blog..LOL) not take full responsibility for my stupidity. With all the changes going on in the airline buisness, you can only check in one bag. Thats fine, I'll pay the 25 bucks for my second bag. I can't downsize that much! But, I didn't really want to pay the 50 dollars for any of the bags weighing over 50 pounds. Sooo...in my grand scheme of trying to be frugal, I thought...hmmm...I just won't take ALL my hair products and I'll just buy them new when I get to Hawaii. WHY oh WHY did no one tell me that was dumb?

Yesterday, after landing, all I wanted to do was take a shower. We stopped at Safeway so I could by the essentials (we all know that a grocery store is more expensive to buy hair stuff than at a regular store like my beloved Wal-Mart). I bought 4 things...4 THINGS! It costed me $37.00. That wasn't what was dumb...I'm still getting to that. We leave Safeway and I think. Why did I not bring my hair stuff and just pay the $50.00 because I only have half of my hair weapons and I've already spend $37.00! What was I thinking!?!?

On the lighter and better sides of things. Andy introduced me to the best pizza. It's thin crust, which I love thin crust...but better than that, it looks like "T.V. Pizza". You know the pizza that is big and gooey and looks yummy. That's what I had for dinner last night and just happen to have for breakfast this morning =).

One more thought. The saying goes "home is where the heart is". I have to say I feel very torn about that saying. While I'm very happy to be here with Andy, I'm so sad that I'm not in Kansas with my family and friends. My heart is there too. So I guess your "home" can be in many places. I miss you guys already!

My summer won't be the same...

Okay, I'm going to make this part short. This past Wednesday I had a little get together with some of my girls...awww. I'll post pics when I get them. It was a fun night although it ended crazy. Five minutes after I got home the tornado sirens went off. Luckily, Junction didn't get hit. Chapman and Manhattan weren't as lucky. Thanks girls for a great night!

The Weekend's Events

WOW! Time is passing by very quickly and before I know it I'll be in Hawaii. I am very busy trying to get everything moved in to my parents house and get packed up. I'm happy to say that I'm almost done. I have hung out with friends...can't have all work and no play. Friday I went to the General's Baseball game with Christine. The best part of the night was seeing and listening to my friend Shawn karaoke. The pictures below are from then.

Andy was active again this weekend. He had softball practice and then went hiking. Andy took pictures of the view from the top. He would like for us to go on the hike...but I almost couldn't do Diamond Head last summer. The truth is, I'll most likely try it out but complain the whole way up.

Crazy Weekend for Andy

Andy had a fun weekend. Saturday he went snorkeling. He hasn't taken any underwater pictures any of the times he went but when I go, I will. This picture is his back. Someone didn't put the sunscreen on very well. On Sunday Andy went paintballing. He got "tore up" (Andy's words about what happened). As you can see from his clothes, he obviously didn't do as well as he did last time he went.