Still Waiting...

So...I am still waiting to hear about the job. :( It's been a week now since they have closed the announcement, and momma said it can take a while with the government jobs, but I'm still hopeful! :) I finished the photo album and it is in the mail along with my zumba dvds! Still working on the quilt! Tyler and I bought Dakota food and toys over the weekend. She will be here in less than a week and then I definately won't be bored anymore! For the rest of the week I will either be at the beach, reading, or working out! I love the gym here! Tyler and I are going to see Eclipse Thursday night and he might be off on Friday! :)

Waiting...

So Hawaii is still great, but I am starting to get restless! I should know about the job sometime this week which is good! We had to move Kota's flight back a week :( so now its 2 weeks from tomorrow till she gets here! still not long at all! I have skyped with momma so I get to see kota too! I bought a cheap nightstand and chest of drawers from K-Mart for the spare bedroom and we put them together. Once we get the bed we will be ready for visitors! :) I have been working on my wedding quilt and photo album and they are both coming along...slowly...lol! I get easily distracted...but I am going to finish the album this week! Tyler had staff duty this weekend so I was pretty bored. I have been laying out at North Shore so I did that yesterday and last night we went out to eat while Tyler was on his break! This morning I went to the church on Schofield and really enjoyed it! I will def continue to go there!

New home!!

So it has been a while since I have posted anything on here! We are finally settled in our new house! :) It is way more roomy than I thought it would be! We have 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, and tons of storage and closet space! I have the walk-in closet in the bedroom all to myself and Tyler has one that is in the hallway. His has tons of shelf space and he made his own clothes rack! We have a linen closet, coat closet, pantry, and shelves in the garage! :) It's pretty awesome! Our house is an older style and it is not remodeled, but we have the garage and fenced in backyard that some of the other houses don't have! We lived in the house for almost 2 weeks I think with loaner furniture before our stuff could be delivered. Not the most fun time but it was a lot better than the hotel! :) Getting our stuff really was like Christmas! I loved unpacking everything! We are now finally getting to use our wedding presents which has been fun!! We got our stuff on a Thursday and Tyler got to take a 10 day permissive leave starting that next Monday! It has been a great little vacation! We went snorkeling and he is teaching me to golf! We have gotten everything organized and I bought lots of plants for our yard and I got a small desk for the spare bedroom where I can sew! Oh, and Tyler planted grass twice and it is starting to look pretty good! (We had some bare spots and the birds like to eat our grass seed!!) We have made some new friends too! Tomorrow we are going to see Pearl Harbor and go to the beach! I applied for a job at the Army Medical Center today and it would be pretty perfect if I could get it! Kota's flight is booked for August 16th! :) Once she gets here, everything to do with the move will pretty much be done! We still have to buy mattresses and maybe a chest of drawers and nightstand for the spare bedroom, a dining room table and hutch, and I want to get a couple small palm trees and make a flower bed by the front door! Oh, and I have to put up some curtains! I am very happy in our new home and am ready to get back into a routine and have Kota here! :)

Starting month 2!

So it has almost been a month that we have been here in Hawaii! We get to go look at the house tomorrow afternoon and if we like it we can move in on Thursday! I am so freakin excited!! I called about our household items and it will probably be next week before we can get them... oh well! After we get the house Tyler has a 4 day weekend so I'm pumped about that as well! This past week I have tried to keep busy to help the time go by but there is not a whole lot for me to do right now. I went shopping some and saw a movie and ran some errands for Tyler. We had to go to the first FRG meeting last Friday (Family Readiness Group) and it was at the bowling alley, so I bowled for the first time in about 2 years! I met another Army wife, Andrea, who is awesome! :) We ate out Friday night with Andrea and her husband Jordan, and we went to Wal-Mart so the guys could buy their spear fishing supplies! We went snorkling/spearfishing Saturday morning and grilled out for lunch! It was a ton of fun! Saturday night Tyler bought a truck! It's a 1996 Chevy Blazer with only 64,000 miles! He got a great deal and it runs good! So we are turning in the rental tomorrow night! :) Sunday we ate lunch at a place called Maui Mikes in Wahiawa which is the town right beside the base and it was amazing!! I love that place now! Yesterday and today have been pretty boring...just waiting on the house!! I had to go pick up our insurance card for the new truck, and today I drove it to the NEX! I can't wait to have the Rav4 here too and be able to drive wherever I want when I want to!!! Only one more week and it should all come together! Oh, Tyler gets like 10 days off when our stuff gets here too! :) So that will be a great time to do some fun stuff together! :)

Big News...

I was waiting to say this until Tyler told all his family, but by the time he had done that then the news changed! The day we moved to the island they told us that the unit that Tyler had been assigned to was getting deployed. :( The unit left the week after we arrived. Tyler and all the guys that were coming over from his class were going to be sent over the end of July. I was not happy about this at all of course, so it put a damper on our first days here because instead of just enjoying everything, we were preparing for a deployment. But, Friday they told them that they are not getting deployed! yay!!!!!! The Army is so last minute and I am adjusting! The news could change again tomorrow but for now he will not be deployed.

We're getting a house!!!

I am so very excited!! We will be moving into a house July 1st!! Only 9 more days at the hotel!!! We won't get to look at it until June 30th but if we like it (which I already know we will) then we can sign the lease that day and move in the next! I am so ready to have my own space! It has 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, a garage with storage, and a fenced in backyard. It's a two story townhome in a duplex! I cannot wait!

We also had another fun weekend that had a little excitement as well! Friday night we went to eat in Honolulu at Outback which was awesome! Saturday we went snorkeling at the Turtle Bay beach resort! There is a public beach right beside it that has reefs that you can swim over. It was neat to finally see some fish in the water! We got ready to leave and the jeep would not crank!! We had to get it jumped off by a guy from the hotel twice...something wasn't right about it...I don't really know what. Anyway, we called the rental place and they said we could bring it back but we needed to clean it out and fill it up with gas first or we would be charged fees...we took it back to the hotel to unload it first (we still had the grill in the back!) and then it wouldn't crank again! Our hotel did not have jumper cables so I rode the bus to the NEX to get some. I got back and we got a guy to try to jump it off...but it did not work. So, we ended up getting it towed through our insurance company. We finally got it back to the rental company around 8:30 and they were very nice about everything and waived any extra fees and gave us a nice car. (that gets better gas mileage!! lol! Sunday we went shopping for a few things we needed and then we looked at fishing stuff and golf clubs. Tyler want's a new set and he is going to teach me how to play! I also bought a new camera!! I haven't getten to use it yet but I have been practicing in the room! We rode around Hickam Air Force Base which is very nice! It was landscaped very well and had some great beaches! We saw a bunch of dogs and cannot wait to take Kota!!

Feeling like Home

We have now been living in Oahu for over 2 weeks now! It really is starting to feel like home! (the island, not the hotel...lol) I am not a fan of living in a hotel at all! It just lacks that home feel...but not having to make the bed, cook, or clean is pretty nice...but also boring... at least it gives me time for other fun stuff! I am working on a wedding album on Shutterfly which is coming along great, getting my I-pod organized into folders, and getting out to see the sights while I do have the time...oh and I can't forget the pool! I forgot how much I liked to swim...in clear water... not as big of a fan of swimming in the ocean! I have also read a ton of books which I really enjoy!
Today it is actually cloudy and raining off and on...usually the clouds roll through and it only sprinkles. I did have enough time between showers to jog! I realized that the Navy Housing across the street had access to where I could get in, so I jogged around there for a little while.
The beginning of this week I went to a mall that is near Pearl Harbor. I had a book that I wanted to buy at Borders. I got to eat lunch at Moe's (Welcome to Moe's!) and it was awesome!!! I loved it! They also had a monorail at this mall...lol! Oh and a used bookstore with books for a dollar! So yea, I went a little crazy with the books. :)
Tuesday Tyler had to do a 24 hour duty thing at headquarters so I watched movies that night.
Wednesday he got home at 0900 from his duty so we went by the bank and to look for him some sunglasses. We had lunch and then he got tired so it was pool time for me! Yesterday I was feeling adventurous so I took the bus to Waikiki! I walked along the beach, looked in some shops and just walked around the streets! It was pretty neat and helped me to figure out where things were! I will try to go back to one of the beaches next week! Tyler got off aroun 3:30 so we went by Best Buy and Sams to shop a little! Overall it's been a really good week and I'm looking foward to a great weekend! :)