Dogs and Baby Bellys

Went on Waihe'e Falls Hike again, this time with the whole gang. We even took Dorian our neighbors big Weimeraner that never gets out of his Kennel. It was quite the experience.

Baby Griffin Tano and Baby Rose's First real meeting. Baby Rose greeted Griff with a kick. Brett Tano (Dad) is Brett Rose's childhood friend. Summer and I get along great, and managed to conceive 8 weeks apart.

Boys at Pupukea Surfing.

Baby Shower by Kristin Makanoa! Amazing. It is great to resettle in a place with so much love as Hawaii. I've had 4 showers! Church, Friends, Yoga, and Work!

Kado in a typical waiting for food to fall stance. I love his scarf that Dad Rose and Janine gave us.

Yoga Shower

Brett Bullying Kado with a sock on his head. It was super funny.

I gave Brett and Eli (Brett's little bro) tickets to Kapolei Raceway for Christmas. We finally went for Eli's Birthday. I think they had fun.

Work Shower and Crew

Kado on one of our many adventurous walks together.

Belly photo at the Clapper Wedding. Congrats Jared and Erin!!!

Summer and I made these baby slings. Baby Griffin fell asleep in seconds. KEEPER!

Yokohama Japan and Busan I'Park Koreat Professional Soccer game at Aloha Stadium.

The Long awaited tummy timeline. My belly is white!!

The past few days, and past year....

Hey All-

So my best friend Kelsi Remund gets on me about blogging, because hers is beautiful and updated weekly. Mine is obviously not as well attended to. Well I'll give you a little insight into this past year starting with our "lovely" Spring Break. We didn't get out of the house until Wednesday because I had thesis stuff and 10 pager to write... so we finally got on the road, stopped and visited the Leathams (my sis and her fam) and found our beautiful camp site in Red Cliffs Recreation area by St. George, UT.

All went as planned with tin foil dinners, and exploring the reds until we went into town the next morning to break change for our next night's fee, and get gas among other things. Then it happened. Acceleration attempt.... sputter sputter... almost got on the freeway, but luckily we decided to check it out at the Chevron. $1,000, and 2.5 days later we should have our Xterra by tomorrow morning to get us back to SLC. All the fortunate events were:

1. We weren't at the campsite

2. We didn't enter the freeway

3. The Chevron had a full service mechanic that seemed pretty honest.

4. The closest place for lunch was an In-and-Out so we had some grease to wash our sorrows away.

5. It wasn't the head gasket.

6. Our home teacher had mentioned he would be in St.George with a large home for us to stay in... so needless to say we gave him a call. Brent and Coryann have been amazing. We went to Wingers with them and their cousins for dinner, watched the Blindside in the theater room, had blueberry pancakes for breakfast, and went on an awesome hike adventure in snow canyon today. Tonight: Pool and Hot tub.

Though its been awesome to have the comfort of a lovely huge home, I have to say, I think I know why I like to camp. Vacationing in or near a city isn't much of a break for me. The natural escape is so necessary.

Since its been a year since the blog I'll give you the most exciting things of last year:

New Nephew baby Eric in March- I took a trip with Erica and Landy to see him in Oregon.

Went back to Hawaii for about 4 months we both worked and played a lot.

Went to Zions with the Olsens when we got back to UT.

Went to Oregon again to see fam and the scenery for Fall Break.

Went to Death Valley, and So Cal to see nature, and Watts, and Roses for Christmas

Had two Rose arrivals in January for a Ski week.

One (David) Rose stayed for the semester.

Brett did Bahamas and some other cool jobs.

We decided to head back to Hawaii for Brett to try managing at least for a year. (leaving for HI in May)

I will be proposing my thesis next week, gathering data, and defending in the fall. Done with coursework after this semester.

I'm doing a Yoga teacher training that is super exhilarating. Leif is in many of my classes so that makes it all the better.

Thats us... Next time i'll get some pics up here.

the blog is alive...(but we were barely when we went ice fishing)

So the blog is barely alive. Brett and I are living in SLC right by the U. I've decided we are the good luck charm to send university football teams to the sugar bowl cuz last year we were in HI and they went (didn't win) and then this year we were even luckier and people won't stop talking about the 13-0 Utes. Apart from this since we are not the biggest football fans anyhow, we went Ice fishing last saturday. I have only been once before, and it was a distant hazy memory. These boys had obviously not been before, cuz they showed up to go with a hoodies, tennis shoes, and no knife. Some how though we were more successful than all our Hawai'i escapades and Jeremy came home with a Rainbow.

Moving is all Hammajang

So within the first 5 seconds of pulling up at Stairway a cop pulled up. So then we preceded to do a less regulated illegal hike Sacred Falls. Sadly some people got killed in a rock slide, sued the state and the once very popular hike was closed. It is far less physically demanding than Stairway, but was still a good 4 am activity. Mountain Apples, a nice pool, and a message in a bottle made it worth it. That was a couple weeks ago. Life has gotten all crazy since then. Lizzie, Brett's four year old cousin would use the local word, hammajang to describe it. For the Fourth we went prawn fishing on a Kahana Valley hike... quite unsuccessfully...Pretty hike though, and baby Theo did awesome. Then... we kayaked/paddled out to Goat Island. High tide, rains, and ghost baby sounds coming from the birds (the island is a sanctuary) could not keep us from having a good time. The sunset/sunrise was beautiful, and it was a wonderful way to enjoy this beautiful place I am leaving. Watching Brett and his friends catch and cook crabs, hide in caves, make tarp coverings.......it was all that life in Hawai'i should be. We have been hanging out with Brett's family for the past two weeks too. Kayaked to the Mokulua Islands, Hiked Diamond Head, Snorkeled Shark's cove, eating Chantilly and guava cake every night ... its always good when tourists come in :) I really am excited to start something new, to grow with Brett, be back around family and friends, and go back to school, but to really be leaving now has made me think twice. I hope we make it back someday, to live, for a least a little bit. Starting to say good-byes at work, and church is hard. I was bawling through Aloha oi when they sang it to us at church today. Funny the decision is just starting to set in and we leave in 5 days. Anyway this blog it turning journalish. Hope you enjoy the pics!

Kayaking and Stairway

So when I said that I have nothing to post I was refuted by friends telling me to post about my adventures living in Hawaii.

We have a friend who works at Surf and Sea on North Shore. So a Saturday ago we went Kayaking for the morning. Brett and I learned a good lesson in communication and by the end of the morning we weren't completely blaming each other when we hit paddles. We went with two other couples. I found it funny that the couple with the most experience kayaking together (and longest married) opted to go with two separate kayaks. And of course it was the other couples first date so they couldn't get the feelings of fury that Brett and I were experiencing. But it ended well and we were quite fast at the end because of our brute strength. The turtles were out and the water/weather was gorgeous. Surfers hated it. :) (super flat day)

The lovely picture to the right is what we will be experiencing this coming Saturday. Haiku Stairs consist of 4,000 steps constructed for the military watch in WWII. I've done it once with the men's and women's soccer teams after season when I was in good shape. It will be Brett's first time, and we are going with my Coworkers for their first time to. I will report on that later!

Living in Paradise, Waiting for a Desert

Already I know this post is going to be a bit boring. Kelsi I hope you are proud of me for getting a blog up and going. Well the title says it all. Brett and I are trying to make the most of our last few weeks on O'ahu before we make our way to the big UT. Last weekend was my birthday so we went on a boat ride, and to the zoo (a couple things I hadn't done before). Other than that we spend most of our free time hiking, surfing, biking, watching the office, and throwing Frisbee to each other wishing we had a dog. Brett is doing Solar Panel installation and contemplating sustainability, while I print off papers by the dozens being a physical activity counselor/research associate at the Cancer Research Center. As most of you know we are headed to Salt Lake City so I can start my masters in recreational therapy. Brett is going to try to find a job, among his more important venture of trying to snowboard. Ha ha I can't wait to see him get whitewashed(somewhat the equivalent to pearling on a surfboard).