I love you, and I ADORE your "funny faces" (anyone who watches Yo Gabba Gabba will get this). Your going to be a superstar one day... DJ Lance Rock has some serious competition on his hands.
Love,
Mommy
Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
A lesson on tsunami waves...
This weekend we had some unexpected excitement. Saturday 1:45am Inoke called and woke me up to tell me that there was an earthquake in Chile and a "big tsunami" was headed for Hawaii. Honestly after only being asleep for 2 1/2 hours, the first thought wasn't very kind and I just wanted to hang up and roll back to sleep. Let the tsunami come. The next conscious thought was... Dang it I really should have listened and gotten our 72 hour kits finished. I mean seriously how many times do they announce and stress to us at church the importance of food storage and emergency preparedness. Every Sunday in the church program lists one little item to add to your emergency kit... there is NO EXCUSE. The whole "If you are prepared you shall not fear" uh yeah I wasn't on the prepared side of this equation. I didn't have much time to berate myself while frantically dumping out a big Rubbermaid container from the guest closet and gathering in the necessary items. Lucky thing I had the brains to give my sister a call and she didn't mind me waking her in my frantic stressed out to the max state... she calmly read off a list of items that were in a 72 hour kit and walked me through the packing. She didn't even hang up once while I had to put her on hold every 3 minutes to answer Inoke's repeated calls of "Are you packed yet?!? Are you leaving yet?!?" Thanks Kirsten, I love you! I loaded up the back of the car and got Nadia into her car seat and headed down to Kailua so we would be with Inoke if the worst happened. He was stuck at work... no call outs allowed. The few storms and disasters that have hit Hawaii have always come with little to no cell service and the idea of not being together was not a fun thought. Nadia and I safely arrived to Inoke's work about 3:45am and took a much needed nap. After our nap the fun began. We parked the car under a big mango tree in the parking lot and waited... and waited... and waited some more. Family kept calling to check on us and give us updates on what the news was saying about the waves. Nadia was amused with running around picking up mango seeds that fell from the tree for a while. Then Inoke brought out some cereal and milk and that entertained her for a while more... she had a great time. I had a LONG ten hours of waiting and thinking. Like how many times have you been asked the question "If you were stranded on a desert island and only could take three things what would you take?" I was surprised at myself and what I packed in our frantic rush. Our passports, my scriptures, and necessities were there. My make-up, novels, and even my jewelry wasn't there. (Funny side thought... this week I had attended some professional development courses at BYU offered by Barbara Barrington Jones, one of the classes was on appearance and the instructor stressed that it was mandatory for women to look presentable even when going to the grocery store. Hair should be fixed, blush, eyeshadow, and lip gloss were a must and clothes should show people that we care about our appearance. Well I looked down at my rather disheveled appearance on Saturday; hair back in a messy ponytail, ZERO make-up and a pair of baggy basketball shorts, tee-shirt, and sweatshirt rapped around my waste with bright orange flip flops... uh if the instructor of that class saw me I would be MORTIFIED). As the day progressed on I thought, would I really be OK if I lost all of our worldly possessions and all I had was two changes of clothes (not even the cute ones) and what was in the back of the car? And this calm feeling answer of "Yes, you have Nadia and Inoke, the rest doesn't matter." kept washing over me. I know it was right, I would be OK. We would pick up and start again, as long as we were safe that was the only thing that really mattered. Now that we are out of danger, top priority 72 hour kits.
This weekend we had some unexpected excitement. Saturday 1:45am Inoke called and woke me up to tell me that there was an earthquake in Chile and a "big tsunami" was headed for Hawaii. Honestly after only being asleep for 2 1/2 hours, the first thought wasn't very kind and I just wanted to hang up and roll back to sleep. Let the tsunami come. The next conscious thought was... Dang it I really should have listened and gotten our 72 hour kits finished. I mean seriously how many times do they announce and stress to us at church the importance of food storage and emergency preparedness. Every Sunday in the church program lists one little item to add to your emergency kit... there is NO EXCUSE. The whole "If you are prepared you shall not fear" uh yeah I wasn't on the prepared side of this equation. I didn't have much time to berate myself while frantically dumping out a big Rubbermaid container from the guest closet and gathering in the necessary items. Lucky thing I had the brains to give my sister a call and she didn't mind me waking her in my frantic stressed out to the max state... she calmly read off a list of items that were in a 72 hour kit and walked me through the packing. She didn't even hang up once while I had to put her on hold every 3 minutes to answer Inoke's repeated calls of "Are you packed yet?!? Are you leaving yet?!?" Thanks Kirsten, I love you! I loaded up the back of the car and got Nadia into her car seat and headed down to Kailua so we would be with Inoke if the worst happened. He was stuck at work... no call outs allowed. The few storms and disasters that have hit Hawaii have always come with little to no cell service and the idea of not being together was not a fun thought. Nadia and I safely arrived to Inoke's work about 3:45am and took a much needed nap. After our nap the fun began. We parked the car under a big mango tree in the parking lot and waited... and waited... and waited some more. Family kept calling to check on us and give us updates on what the news was saying about the waves. Nadia was amused with running around picking up mango seeds that fell from the tree for a while. Then Inoke brought out some cereal and milk and that entertained her for a while more... she had a great time. I had a LONG ten hours of waiting and thinking. Like how many times have you been asked the question "If you were stranded on a desert island and only could take three things what would you take?" I was surprised at myself and what I packed in our frantic rush. Our passports, my scriptures, and necessities were there. My make-up, novels, and even my jewelry wasn't there. (Funny side thought... this week I had attended some professional development courses at BYU offered by Barbara Barrington Jones, one of the classes was on appearance and the instructor stressed that it was mandatory for women to look presentable even when going to the grocery store. Hair should be fixed, blush, eyeshadow, and lip gloss were a must and clothes should show people that we care about our appearance. Well I looked down at my rather disheveled appearance on Saturday; hair back in a messy ponytail, ZERO make-up and a pair of baggy basketball shorts, tee-shirt, and sweatshirt rapped around my waste with bright orange flip flops... uh if the instructor of that class saw me I would be MORTIFIED). As the day progressed on I thought, would I really be OK if I lost all of our worldly possessions and all I had was two changes of clothes (not even the cute ones) and what was in the back of the car? And this calm feeling answer of "Yes, you have Nadia and Inoke, the rest doesn't matter." kept washing over me. I know it was right, I would be OK. We would pick up and start again, as long as we were safe that was the only thing that really mattered. Now that we are out of danger, top priority 72 hour kits.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Girls Only Weekend...
Inoke flew up to the IRB Rugby Seven's Tournament in Las Vegas last weekend. So the little princess and I had a nice long girls only weekend together. It was a blast. Here is a brief synapses of our exciting adventures. We hung out and fed the chickens in the yard, ate popcicles, went to the beach (for some odd reason Nadia is now deathly afraid of sand and ocean, hmm), and watched our new favorite DVD (Leapfrog's Letter Factory) with her best buddy Mr. Turtle. What more can a girl ask for? (some chocolates for Valentine's Day might be nice... next year)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A Visit From Grandma...
My mom came down for a visit last week to meet Nadia for the first time. It wasn't exactly the picture perfect week of sunshine; but I think she enjoyed her relaxing all the same. Nadia had a fun time meeting Grandma Gloria and Grandma Gloria couldn't leave without buying Nadia a few presents. We did a lot of shopping while Grandma was in town. While shopping at the BX we kept seeing all these little kids with balloons tied to their wrists... of course Nadia HAD to have a balloon. She kept reaching and sqeeking everytime she saw one. Luckily we found the source of the free balloons and were able to get her Nadia a red one. She hugged that ballon like it was her new best freind... next to the new pink plushy turtle that Grandma also bought her...
Grandma got Nadia this cool new riding toy... Nadia has been playing on it pretty much non-stop the last few days.
Friday, January 15, 2010
My Little Mommy...
Remember that adorable little baby doll that we got Nadia for Christmas? She has finally warmed up to her...
She gives her kisses...
She finds her bottle every morning and gives her some milk...
Hmm, sometimes she wants in on the milk action too...
Cutest little mommy ever!
Excuse the lack of clothing... that is a story for another day. :)
She gives her kisses...
She finds her bottle every morning and gives her some milk...
Hmm, sometimes she wants in on the milk action too...Cutest little mommy ever!Excuse the lack of clothing... that is a story for another day. :)
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Merry Christmas!
The smile says it all. I love this picture of Nadia. We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Very quiet, but very nice. Nadia was thrilled to get a baby doll, until we opened the package and tried to hand her her new little dolly. She pushed it away and jumped back in a panic. It was quite entertaining to see her reaction. If I was holding her new doll she would come up and give her kisses and pat her on the head, but try to give that doll to her to hold and she didn't want anything to do with it. A couple days later and she is warming up to her new dolly. The highlight of the year was her baby's stroller and diaper bag. Nadia LOVES her new little stroller. She has been walking around the house from room to room picking up odds and ends to place in the stroller and push around. This morning she had one of my socks, a lip gloss, and some hair spray... Other than an enjoyable four day weekend and lovely holiday; Nadia is also getting EIGHT molar teeth all at once. She has been a trooper the last few days. It breaks my heart to see her sit on my lap with her finger pushing her gums crying... poor thing. Lots of baby Tylenol and Orajel and all the mango smoothies she wants is helping, but she is just not quite herself. Hopefully they will come in soon and she will be back to her smiles.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Happy Holidays
I had the best of intentions to send out a fabulous Christmas card this year to everyone. But, lets face it we are already on December 15th and it isn't going to happen this year. For starters I have family pictures already scheduled for January because the photographer that I want to do the pictures is on maternity leave and I want to wait for her; she is totally worth the wait her pictures are amazing (Can you tell I am super excited about taking family pictures?) So I had my friend Adrian take a few shots of us at the annual church Christmas Party in our matching aloha wear... (Inoke totally complained about the matching thing, but I think it looks cute). Then I played around in publisher and made the card, but that is as far as she goes; it isn't printed or mailed. So to all the half dozen people who read this blog... Happy Holidays from our house to yours. Next year will be more organized...
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