The graduate

June 18th was one glorious day, a day I thought we might never see. After 5 years of a super tough residency Jared finally graduated!!
Woohoo!

We are so excited to be done with that part of our lives. Residency is tough and I didn't even have to do it!! There were definitely a few bumps along the way and times where I didn't think we would make it here but we did.

Definitely excited to be done!!

It was so great to have Jared's parents there. That was probably one of the busiest, stressful weeks of my life and it was nice to have them there. They helped out with so much from cleaning the apt to watching Kailie for us. Thank You both so much, there is no way we would have gotten everything done with out you both!

Our dear friend Mike! He has had a really rough residency and we are so proud that he graduated as well. He was a member of our ward and came over every Monday for FHE, it helped us to actually do FHE and Kailie loved him!

This is Dr. Roofe who we love and was a huge influence on Jared. He was such a great mentor and supporter all the way through. He is one of the main reasons Jared decided to do facial plastics. We love him!!

Mark and Lei. Mark was Jared's partner at work and it was so nice having him there. He was such a huge support to Jared in all things from work stuff to Bishop stuff to family life. We definitely would not have made it through with out Mark. He definitely sacrificed a lot to help Jared fulfill all of his duties and we are grateful to him!

This is all the residents in the ENT program right now. They have all been so supportive and great to us, from lifting some of the burdens for Jared and stepping in when Kai was diagnosed so Jared could stay home and help. They were all so amazing and we are grateful for all their support.


I am so proud of Jared! He worked his butt off literally and finished with flying colors. When he was called as the Bishop he received a lot of opposition from a few of his bosses and I loved that he proved them wrong. He put the Lord first and was blessed by it. That definitely doesn't mean that it was easy by any means, in fact the months where he was Bishop were probably the hardest months of his whole five years but he made it.

P.S. Just gotta add that I love fellowship, sooo much better than residency!!

Military tour of Pearl Harbor

Being in the Military definitely has it perks and this tour is one of them. Not only do you not have to wait forever to do the tour, you get to see the whole harbor and learn a lot more about other parts of the attack not just the Arizona. It is a private tour that they do for military and there guests. It was cool to see everything.

I am glad Jack and Carolyn could do the tour with us, Carolyn has been wanting to do it forever but the hard part is Jared has to be there and it is offered only during the week, making it hard of course for Jared to be there!

On the USS Arizona Memorial! It had been about 4 years since I had been at the memorial.

The Mighty Mo aka the USS Missouri where the Japanese signed the surrender.

The list of the men who died on the Arizona.

This was my favorite part. Most visitors to Hawaii don't even know this is here because you have to be military to have access to it. It is the Battleship USS Utah. It was sunk during the attack as well and still has men in it as well. I loved getting to see it from this side and was amazed how much of it is out of water! Pretty cool to see!

Home Sweet Home

As I sit here in this dark and dreary hotel room well only dark because the Kaister is taking a nap I wish I was back here at home. This will always be our first home, where Jared and I first hung out and where we had our first child. We loved our apt and miss it alot. I have been wondering if Kailie remembers living here and wonders why we haven't gone home in awhile? What do you think, do you think babies remember that kind of stuff?

While we lived there I always wanted to do a post to show our home since most of our friends and family were never able to come visit us so I guess late is better than never!!
(Oh and I miss Rainbows, did you know that you really do see rainbows all the time in Hawaii, hence the cool license plates)

(The living room Before)

We put a lot of time and energy into remodeling the whole apt. and so it was really hard for us to move out and have renters come in. Jared did a lot of the remodeling before I met him so I never saw the place when it looked like this. So weird to think that it is the same place.Living room after sans all of Kailie's toys which are everywhere most of the time

One of my favorite things about this room was all the light. Most of the year I kept the door open and let the wind blow through, it was so nice to have that open feeling!

The Kitchen before

The Kitchen After!
Doesn't it seem like a totally different place. I loved this kitchen, even though it was small it never felt crowded.
The dining area, with Kailie on theTable of course!!

Kai's room/slash guest room. This room was definitely tight quarters. That is one thing I am excited about in our new place, more space and a third bedroom!

Our Room!
Yeah we don't have any nice bedding. It is way too hot in Hawaii for bedding, this quilt made by Jared's mom was perfect!

Before

Now on to the bathrooms. Jared and I remodeled both of them after we were married and did everything 100 % ourselves except installing the granite counter tops.

The counter part of our bathroom!

After

The guest bathroom. I love how this one turned out! I have decided that I am a light wood kind of girl. It just lightens the whole room up.

The above picture is the main reason we redid the bathrooms along with the fact that we wanted the whole apt. updated not just half. Isn't this shower door disgusting? Yes and we couldn't get it clean so we just tour it all out and built a new shower. It was ALOT of work, and took us a lot longer than we expected but in the end we loved it. We designed it all ourselves which is pretty amazing since neither of us are super good at that kind of thing.

This was the last thing that we did and by the end we were so so done remodeling and swore that we would never do it ourselves again but now we love that we built it and would do it again.

Oh I miss that shower!!
Well there you have it our home for the past 5 years.

We had a lot of great memories there and will always hold it dear to our hearts.
Some of the things I won't miss about this place are, the horribly annoying speedbumps, having to call the guard shack anytime friends where coming over and just not having more space and a yard for Kai to play in!!

One of the things I will miss the most is this view.

As I would drive up I could see Kai's little head sitting in her highchair. It was so cute, sometimes I would leave on purpose right around meal time just so I could drive up and see her cute little head!!

The Perfect Flower

My goal this week is to finish all the Hawaii posts that I never got including Our Hawaiian Adventure Ending.

I have to say that I am really missing all the pretty flowers in Hawaii. This place is really green and pretty but there is no color besides green.

This is the first Plumeria flower that I had ever seen and I fell in love with them. They are so perfect and smell so good and come in all different colors.

When I first moved to Hawaii, I saw Plumeria's here and there but could not figure out where they grew until a few months later when they started to blossom again. This is the tree that I first discovered plumerias on.
On one of mine and Kai's last run/walk in Hawaii we went around and gathered all the different plumeria's we could find.

Sure are a ton of different ones. This is how the trees look in full bloom and they are like this most of the year. Now do you see what I mean by missing color out here??

What can you do with plumerias?
You make leis for your friends of course. Here Jared and Kai are making some for our dear friends the Bruderer's for their Aloha Oe at church!!

We're moving in!!!

At least that is what the maid, hotel staff and other guests here must think when they see us hauling in dressers, kitchen table, chairs and a play kitchen for Kailie. It feels as though we will be here forever. We have been doing lots of craigslist shopping since we are in need of a few new things and have absolutely nothing else to do.

Hopefully we get in to our place soon cause we are running out of room here!Kitchen table against the wall, chairs in corner and at table. Aren't they ugly? Jared loved the table and chairs. I told them I would give them a year but if I still hate them then it is on to a new set. We are definitely going to reupholster them.

Kai's play kitchen $40, you gotta love craigslist. I know this will get our money's worth over the years!! She loves it already and she doesn't even know what it is really!
Hiding in the closet is a new small dresser we got at an antique fest over the weekend. I am not really an antique person but it is nice and will come in handy!!

In other news we just found out that apparently all of our stuff has not arrived yet even though they said two weeks ago that it had. Even our unaccompanied baggage isn't here yet. Military friends is that common for the UB to take so long. We shipped it on June 14th. So even though we can move into our place this Sunday we will have nothing so we can't really move in. Sooo Frustrating, we are ready to be out of this place!!!!

We have arrived!!

Well after leaving Hawaii, going on a cruise to Mexico, spending a week in Utah, Kai and I have finally arrived in the great state of New York. I must say that this place is completely different from anywhere I have ever lived! We don't have a whole lot to show yet since we are still living in a hotel until next weekend when we can finally move into our new place. And no we haven't gone to the Big Apple yet I just thought this shot was two funny to pass up, it is in the Joseph Smith building in SLC.

Honestly we have been kind of bored just because we don't really know anyone and we live in a tiny little room but we have done a few fun things. Last week we went to the Hill Cumorah Pageant and met up with some great friends. It was so weird to be back there. I was a cast member in the pageant back in 2002 so it was fun to actually get to see it. Ironically, I ran into my companion Amber from when I was in it. Crazy small world.

It was so great to see our dear friends the Taylor's from Hawaii. They live in Maryland now and came up to visit all the sites. Crazy that they only had two kidlets when we first met them and now they will have five.

My old roommate and good friend Teana who is from the area was in town at pageant the same night for her wedding open house so we had a big group. Kailie loved Teana and sat with her half the show.

Saturday we drove up to Teana's parents house 2 hours away for her open house party. It was fun and nice to be around people we know. The drive was really pretty, she lives in the middle of nowhere. The drive home was crazy, there was lightening and crazy rain, it was fun and spooky all at the same time.

We have been trying to figure out what people do for fun around here and definitely one of the the most popular things seems to be eating ice cream. There is literally ice cream stands/shacks on every couple of blocks. Kailie got her very own cone for the first time and loved it, Of course!


Teana taught Kailie a new trick on the swings, she kept doing it all night, You would think she would get sick. Now we need to get a swing set!!!

Kailie 20 months

I have been wanting to do a post on Kai forever but just never got around to it! We have really been loving this fun stage

Funny Stories. Prayer Amen!, getting the diaper

 

 

 Words:

Mommy

Daddy

Thank You

Doggy

Birdy

Cow and Moo

Tick Tock

Uh-ohh

Shh- puts her finger to her mouth

Ouch

More

Wa-wa: Water

One(Fun)-Two-Three

No and Yes

Mine

Cheese

Shoes

sorry

Bubbles

night night

bye bye

ball

amen

Hot

Papa

Nana

Favorite activities:

Takes apart moms wallet and putting it back together

Glucometer

Baby Doll Stroller

Cheerleader

Swimming

Slides

Swinging

Buckles

eat your toes

Sumersault

loves her building cups.

Dance-goes in circles

Folding arms and bowing head for prayer-reminds me sometimes

bath times

loves her blankie-that used to be my baby blanket

climb on everything,

loves to play in car

open and close most doors,

loves stairs

Coloring

Walking on the treadmill

Foods:

Baby food- Peas, squash Sweet pot and corn, any fruit. Cheese, puffs, raisins, No milk, Loves: Strawberries, grapes, clementines sometimes, no juice, yogurt,

Songs:

Head shoulder knees and toes, if your happy and you know it clap your hands, kick feet, hit head.

Working on patty cake almost got the rolling,

Can find:

Head, Hair, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, Shoulder??, knees, toes, hands,tongue, belly button, bum, fingers, hands, arms, legs, teeth, cheeks, chin,

Will help clean things up, and brings things to us. Love to sweep and will clean up water when spilled all on her own

If we say time to eat or bath she will start to try and take off her shirt

Know when poopy, loves when daddy comes home but won't cuddle with him. Every night gives kisses to mom and dad back and forth.

We read a book and then sing 4 songs to her, Jesus wants me for a sun beam, give said the little stream, love at home and lead kindly light. Also loves Aloha oe song.

Has to feed herself and makes huge mess but always cleans up at then end.

Shakes head for yes and no understands us really well!

Diabetes, knows when low and will try to get in diabetes bag.

bad things: bites me- hits and pinchs, throws tantrums:stomps her feet and then walks backwards

Copies everything we do, our little mini me.