Day- Numero Uno

Day 1- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts...(this will be tough, i'm not very interesting...)

(Taken today)

1- I can do weird things with my eyes; like wiggle them fast, keep one looking straight while the other moves around, turn my eyelids inside out...

2- I grew up on a little island in Washington state.

3- I love the smell of fresh rain on the asphalt

I told you this would be hard... ugh... what else...

4- I talk ALOT! I'm not kidding, it's hard to shut me up

5- I love playing sports and I REALLY REALLY miss playing.

6- I'm very competitive and I hate losing. This goes for whether I'm playing a sport myself, playing a board game, or even watching football on tv and my team is losing. I HATE it!

7- I love to sing.

8- I have two beautiful children who never fail to make me smile.

9- My husband is a hot & sexy man who I cannot imagine being without.

10- I've worked at the same company for 10 years!!!!!! WOW! Crazy.

11- I tried to make a big deal out of turning 30, but in reality, it wasn't that big of a deal.

12- I held a baby alligator once at an alligator farm in Colorado- it rocked :) I think reptiles are cool

13- I went to 4 different colleges before completing my Associates degree...lol (if you're curious; Orange County Community College, Bellevue Community College, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, UVSC (now UVU))

14- I've never been hospitalized except when i had my kids

15- I'm a paranoid schizophrenic


Ok, I threw that last one in there just for fun. I thought I was too boring. ;)

Namaste

I signed up for a yoga class Tuesday/Thursday mornings at our Community Center (all you locals who read this- you NEED to sign up!). It's at 6:00am which is perfect for me and I really loved the teacher! I'm very excited to have committed myself to a class. I've dabbled in yoga practice over the years, but mainly just dvd's at home or a class here or there. I've now committed to a steady schedule and I'm very excited!

Hunting?

I don't think I ever posted pictures of this year's deer hunt... So I shall now :)

Here is Cole with his Uncle Lance, checking out a nearby hill...I believe this is when we spotted a cow elk and watched her for a little while.

Myself and Cole's cousin, Adam. Adam was Cole's "official" videographer/photographer for the hunts this year. :) They got some amazing video on Cole's Elk hunt.
Cole and Adam- Cousins up to no good, I'm sure.

Myself and Cole, posing...oy

I had a shot this year, but missed. That's ok, I don't really like deer meat anyway.. hahaha

More pictures from our Hawaii trip...

I finally got the pictures from Cole's camera...

These "pine" trees were so neat!

Sitting on the beach watching surfers on the North Shore... I'm not pissed off, just look like it. Ha
My hot hubby

Cole took a pic of this dude wearing a raincoat, while out paddle surfing...

The sunset from Cole's Aunt and Uncle's deck

This is me surfing for the first time. ;)

(If you really believed this was me- I love you.. haha)

I love this picture- my hair was CRAZY in the wind... Really though- the humidity was hell for my hair- which is why it looks awful in ALL of our pics :)

Cole and I on the Army Base standing where they filmed a few scenes in "Pearl Harbor"

This is a park we went to see some HUGE monkey-pod trees.

This is the "Hibatchi Tree" (monkey-pod). Named by the owner of Hibachi- and their company's logo. Cole's uncle told us that tours bring buses of Japanese tourists to see this tree, they all want to see the Hibatchi tree. These things are MASSIVE! I wish one of us would have stood underneath to show the scale! A beach we passed driving up to the North Shore

Cole and I after snorkeling in Hanauma Bay. See what I mean about my hair! Ha!

I'm not sure where we took this...maybe Waikiki?

Me on the Battleship Missouri

Cole and I on the USS Arizona memorial

This is the Battleship Missouri, picture taken while we were on the boat tour of Pearl Harbor.

Crazy Snow storm

We got so much snow yesterday, that school was cancelled! I decided not to go to work, since reports were that the roads were nasty. We hung out at home, baked, watched movies, played in the snow... We even lost power during the night from the storm, but it was back on so I could bake during the day. :)

Cute story: When I told Shyler school was cancelled, she put her head down, walked down to her bedroom and said she was going to watch tv. I heard her sniffling so I went downstairs to investigate. I found her standing by her tv crying! Broke my heart. I said, "Honey, it's ok, they'll do the Polar Express when you get back to school". She sobbed, "that's not why i'm crying...I just really want to go to school!"...

Snow Bear

A day or two after our Hawaiian vacation, Cole went out with the kids to make a snow-bear. :)

Tan in the Winter

Cole and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary in Hawaii (our anniversary isn't actually until June, but we needed to use the tickets.) Plus his Uncle Ron and Aunt Vickie live on Oahu and are only there for a few more weeks, so we jumped at the chance while we could, to stay with them. They were awesome and helpful and we had an incredible time!

Cole's uncle Ron picked us up from the airport with Lei's- It was perfect :)

Swimming with sharks on the North Shore

Snorkeling at Hanauma Bay

Battleship Missouri

USS Arizona Memorial

Because Cole's uncle is in the military, he was able to get us a special tour of Pearl Harbor- here we are on the boat before heading out around Ford Island.

The day I got back to work, I had a fortune cookie after lunch, and it told me this...

I still haven't gotten all the pictures off Cole's camera- there will be more posts.... ;)