Some more Hawaii

Watching the waves...

Jace just hanging at the beach...

He loves it!

Stacey and the kids at the beach at Turtle Bay

Stacey and the kids in front of the temple

All of us infront of the temple

Now on to Sunset beach. Anniston loves playing in the sand.

Adam relaxing in the ocean...does it get any better than this?

Always part of the water fun...

Anniston getting sand off her towel

Did I mention Anniston likes the sand? She likes to be buried in it. 

Jace and his first time at Sunset beach. This was Anniston's first beach she came to. 

Of course we had to go see the turtles!

Anniston would not look at the camera she was too distracted by the turtles. 

Ahhhhhhh....Hawaii.

Some beach pictures

So here is a handful of pictures from our first time to actually play in the water at the beach on this trip.

Here is our little mermaid Anniston

 So here is Jace...there is a story with this picture and the next...

Here we have rigged up our little umbrella for Jace. The chair he is on is tied to the umbrella to keep it from blowing away. Jace had been sleeping in here as you see it for about 45 minutes. Stacey and I were throwing a ball when a gust of wind came and lifted the umbrella, the chair, and thus Jace and dumped the chair and the car seat upside down...Stacey was closer and went running to him. I could see him with his little arm and head just hanging upside down as the handle held him suspended above the sand. Stacey turned him over and he was startled for a few seconds and then was laughing. Since no harm was done it was pretty funny. I wish we had a video or at least a picture of him hanging there. Needless to say we didn't keep him in that same arrangement after that.

(I maybe should add that he didn't go flying high in the air or anything it just was enough to tip everything over)

 My beautiful beach girls...

Anniston loves the water. She calls the ocean/beach "Hawaii" We will be sitting at home and she will say "I want to go to Hawaii" we tell her we are in Hawaii, but she says "No, Hawaii by the water"

Just hanging in the sun

Adam's sand castle that he started, but had to cut short because we had to leave.

King Kong crushing the castle...

Jace was hilarious...He LOVED the water and sand. We put his feet on the sand and the water would come wash up on his feet and legs and he just started smiling and laughing SO hard. He went on for about 3 or 4 minutes just laughing.

More of Jace with his feet in the water...

Daddy and the kids in Hawaii

OH how WE LOVE HAWAII. I thought it when I landed here and Stacey said it when she walked out to the beach the first day... "It feels like I just came home..."

General Conference

I love General Conference! It is a time when the prophet of God along with other people called of God speak the word of God to a world wide audience. It takes place this Saturday and Sunday. The first session was this morning and the second will be starting shortly. Again on Sunday there are two sessions. The sessions are 2 hours each starting at 10 am Mountain daylight time and 2 pm MDT. It is a great time to feel the love and peace that God has to offer and to let Him guide you in your life.

If anyone is interested in hearing this wonderful conference you can CLICK HERE to listen or to watch live the proceedings. Even if you can tune into it for a part of it, it will touch your life. If you catch this post after this weekend the link will still link you to the conference reports and you will be able to watch, read or listen to them.

In Galatians 5:22 it says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith" I invite you to pay attention to those "fruits" as you may listen to the messages so that you may know they come from God.

Hawaii

The Laie Hawaii temple has been closed for some major work, but it will be open soon. We will have to opportunity to attend the open house just before we leave the island!

Getting behind....

I really don't like getting behind on the blog. I feel like I have to cover everything between then and now before I can post current things.

For now all you get is a tiny update. We moved to Utah...I had a rotation in Nephi and Gunnison with a General Surgeon...I am now in Hawaii at a different rotation. Stacey and the kids will be coming out next week. We will be here until the end of October.

I will try to post pictures within a week or so...but the beach may call louder than the blog so we will see.

I don't have the camera with me so I pulled an old picture off the blog, you will just have to imagine that I am in the same place 2 years later...I assure you it looks the same...(minus the baby until Stacey gets here with the kids).

Just another day in paradise. 

Lately in Life...

I decided that I better play the "catch-up" game now because next week is going to get a little crazy --- Wanna know why??? We are moving to......UTAH!!! WaaaWhooo! I am super excited - we will finally be with family for a little while instead of just little vacations here and there. I am sad though to leave Pennsylvania. We have had such a great time here and met some of the BEST people and friends. Moving always has that bitter-sweet feeling to me.

So, why are we moving to Utah NOW? NO, Adam did NOT get kicked out of the PA program - He is actually doing GREAT in it and Loving his rotations. The last 6 weeks he has been in the ER and has had some pretty exciting and interesting moments. Anyways, the next 3 of 4 rotations that he has is in Utah! How great is that - and do you know what's even better? Guess where the 1 rotation is that is not in Utah? HAWAII - and even better - it's at the BYUH health center! So, he will be on his way back to Laie for 6 weeks --- I'm hoping that we can all go, but we're still trying to figure that one out. If anyone wants to give us poor college students some free money donations to aid in the cause that would be GREAT! Ha,ha,ha!

Life has been great the last two months since we have had Jace here with us! He is such a good baby and blessing to all of us. Anniston had a difficult time adjusting at first, but is now doing great and the biggest helper I could ever ask for. It's really cute to see her with her little brother - she really LOVES him so much.

We have had lots of visitors -- first, my Mom came out for a week - it was great having her here with me that first week -- I think I might have gone crazy without the extra help.

Then a week later Adam's parents came to visit! They are so much fun and helped out so much as well! We were able to go to Gettysburg and Washington DC with them....it was great!

Now, we have Adam's sister Rachel with us and I don't know what I would do without her! She keeps Anniston entertained all day while I pack, watches Jace and is going to be flying back with me when we go to Utah.

This was our last goodbye party with our friends the Nickle's and the Harris's - we're sure going to miss them!

The girls!

Anniston and her BFF Chloe!

Our Bald (well in the front) Cutie Patootie Jacers! (Adam wants to cut all of his hair in the back. I'm undecided - What do you think?)

I almost forgot - I had a birthday! I'm in my last year of the 20's - Wow I can't believe it! I use to think that was old - it's funny how time changes your perspective on things! It was a great day! Adam got up with Jace at 3:00am - and let me sleep through the night! Then I got breakfast in bed, had a pedicure (my first one ever - Adam won a gift card to a spa and it was heavenly!), went to Olive Garden for dinner, played tennis with my hubby, and ended the night at our neighbors with brownies and homemade icecream! Yummy, Yummy!

For all of you who wanted to know Jace's delivery story - you'll have to wait - I've taken too much time blogging today, but it will suffice me to say that I went ALL NATURAL! I thought I was going to die, but I survived it all and in the end I'm glad that I did it (we'll Jace didn't leave me many options!).

Have a great day!!!

Anniston and 1 month old Jace

The first picture here is Anniston last night. She lately has been skipping her nap time. Yesterday she missed her nap and about 6:00 in the evening she was playing in the living room with a laundry basket, well the next time we looked at her she was sitting as you see her fast asleep!!! She slept like that for over an hour before laying on the floor. We didn't think she would sleep that long so finally we moved her to her bed and she slept until this morning.

The other pictures are of Jace today! He is 41 days old. He has grown so much, he is really filling out and loosing the newborn look. We are all adjusting to the new life with a new baby boy. Anniston had some time adjusting, but I think she is pretty well adjusted now and we have to make sure she doesn't love her little brother to death with too hard and too many hugs.

Some have asked for the labor and delivery story....well you have to get Stacey on here to do that.