A Slight Dilemma ...

      So as some of you may know, our family is waiting to get into a three bedroom house before this next baby comes. The leasing office called me yesterday saying that they had a house available, but it's not one of the nicer ones. Currently we are number 51 on the waiting list and it keeps jumping up and down according to people's rank and need to be moved. But we're staying in the fifties so far. And I guess my question is, is it worth it to live in a house that's not your favorite, but you have the necessary space for the family...should I go for it or should I wait?....

      The new house would be three bed, two and a half bath. The closets look way smaller than the ones we have now, same amount of storage (we'd probably purchase a shed anyway), the master bedroom is slightly smaller (which is where the new little one will be in a pack and play for the first few months until he sleeps through the night then he'll be placed with Lillie), and the living area is smaller as well, but the perk is that the dining area is by the kitchen and is separate than the living room. The back yard is already fenced so we wouldn't have to pay for a fence for rex. (That saves us quite a bit of moola)

       And right now we are currently in a two bed, one and a half bath. No fence, Lillie is sleeping in the storage room, and shares our closet. No dining room, but a slightly larger kitchen. Anyways you get the idea, basically going for something that's not the best and having it now or waiting (probably until the baby is born to move) for a nicer home?

       Please let me know what you think....Here's the apt we'd be moving to, it wouldn't let me show you the floor plans, but anyways you can tell it's a little older on the outside, the inside looks kept up well.

Here's the current house we are living in....and the nicer one would look similar to this..

Anyways thanks....I'd love the input. :) :) Love you all!!!

Ok let's just face it I'm a horrible blogger....but here's updates :)

Aloha everyone!!

Happy New Year!!! We sure hope you had a great year! We did and are excited for the new year to come. So we had a great Christmas, we had a little Christmas Eve get together with friends and had a great time playing Pictionary Man! Instead of just drawing on a white board, we drew on a little man haha! It was pretty fun. Lillie really was a lot of fun this Christmas, finally realizing that presents were fun, she never touched a present or would let us touch them until Christmas. She loves her new baby doll, and trike.

Lillie's new words: "santa buckle", Nana, papa, ollie (Hollie), Emma. And she'll always be using her little phones asking where they all are. We miss being away from family, but makes it all the more special being together.

The new baby is growing up, and I'm getting bigger. Love it! But can't wait for him to just be here so I can hold him hehe. :) Everything is going great with him. So we're always grateful about that.

Daniel is in school again, very speedy classes, which has its ups and downs. He's currently taking a speech class that is only twelve days!!! It's seems like it's been forever since he's had the holidays off, but I barely see him nights, and can't wait for him to be done. But we are glad he's finishing up. :) Keep it up honey!!

Life has been fantastic and I shouldn't complain, just the other night Daniel and I were coming out of a movie, and just talking about dreams and wants. Then we both look over and saw dozens of people just sleeping on the sidewalk with nothing but a tarp to lay over them to keep them out of the rain. We both just got really quiet after that, realizing that we have so much. It was just a big eye opener, I knew that there were homeless, but I haven't really seen them sleeping out on the sidewalk. And lately I've just been having a hard time, just complaining and things (I blame on the pregnancy hehe) so I just felt horrible about all the things that had been bothering me, and then seeing that these people had nothing. Just brought a new perspective to life and I hope that I can try to be a little more grateful each day. Life is amazing! We love you all, and hope you each have a wonderful year!!

So excited about Christmas! 

Smile Lillie

After a week of rain we needed to get outside! Beach DAY!!

Holidays in Hawaii...Hmmm...

CURLY SUE!

having fun on mom and dads bed, before sleepy time.

So tired. :)

Are you guys coming?

Camera! Hello!

I love Hawaii and all, but this time of year makes it a little tough, its beautiful here, but I really really want snow, and to be cold when I walk outside. It's hard to get into the holidays while you're in the heat, he he. I need a little weather change here. :) So we are headed to Utah in a week!!!! So excited to see family and enjoy being together and away from the heat. We are just hoping that it will snow. So right now I'm listening to Christmas music, trying to picture the cold, and thinking of all the fun memories about this time of year. So don't hate the people who love Christmas music before Thanksgiving. :) 

Just a little update though, life has been pretty good. Had a fun Halloween, went to a ward potluck and had a trunk or treat the night before. And again this year no one came to our house so we have a huge stash of candy and it's horrible for me. :) Daniel dressed up like an old man, I was an 80's girl, and Lillie was a lady bug. But of course we forgot to take pictures of us. I'm starting to now feel the baby, which makes me getting fat a whole lot more worth it. I can't wait until Daniel can feel the baby kick, its probably my favorite part of pregnancy. 

Oh dear, where has the year gone?

I can't believe it's getting to be the holidays already! October is almost over! I still haven't gotten any costumes yet for Halloween, I usually have everything planned out by now, I love Halloween. This year Daniel will be here for it, so we're pretty excited and Lillie is going out to trick-or-treat. We'll see how it goes. :) We are super excited for the holidays, for Thanksgiving we're going to Utah!! I was trying to keep it a surprise for my family, but it didn't last long, I was too excited. It'll be nice to have our whole family all together again. It's been a while.
So now I'm 15 weeks preggo and finally had my first appointment and got to hear the heartbeat, it was so much fun, Lillie didn't like it though so I had to bring her up on the table with me. :) Anyways, I totally think it's a boy. I don't know why but I just feel like it's a boy. I get to find out in about a month. whoo! This pregnancy has gone by so fast for me. I love it!! I can't wait until I just have the baby already and I'm only at 15 weeks ahh haha. I thought I wasn't supposed to feel this way until a lot later when I'm huge! Oh well. I just hope things go smoothly, I get a little worried from having a previous C-section. Even though it's pretty rare something will go wrong, it's still a pretty big worry. But besides that it's been a pretty good pregnancy. And you guessed it, I'm excited! :)
Well here's some recent pictures,

Lillie at the park! Little dare devil! 

Waimea Beach! It was a gorgeous day! Lillie had a blast in the water and loved covering Daddy in the sand.

Crazyness...

Hey everyone! Well this past week has been crazy! We finally moved! It's such a long process, but we're glad we are done! haha! for now, in a few months we will be moving to a bigger home on base, shouldn't be too hard of a move, but still stressful. We are in a two bedroom right now, and with M-I-L's and baby coming it's going to get crowded,  but they won't let us move to a three bedroom until I'm in my third trimester. So we've got a ways to go. But we are grateful to be back on base, everything is so much closer. No more traffic YAY!! So a little less crazyness on that end. Which gives us more time to be together. :)
Tonight we had a BBQ and invited some friends over, and we all  hung out and played games and things. Totally did the Dance Dance Revolution game! haha! Haven't done that in forever, but it was great fun!
Today was kind of a hard day, I'm starting to feel more and more pregnant as I start to get the sick. Bleh, no fun, but I'm glad it's not too bad. I was reading in some of the pregnancy books today that some women go through morning sickness the entire nine months!!! Bless their hearts! That's rough stuff. So it gave me some perspective. :)
Anyways just thought I'd update, since I promised I would try to be better hehe. Love you all! Miss you tons!! Can't wait to visit soon!

Video :)

Hello everyone! Just decided to post this video of Lillie. If you listen closely she'll say "oh man" haha I was trying to catch it on video. Here you go! Enjoy hehe!

FINALLY!!! :) I posted.

Hello everyone, I know I know, I've been a bad blogger. But today I made a goal that I would try to update atleast once a week. So you might get some random just thoughts in the future so just bare with me. :)

Well the updates since last blog....hmmm well we are moving once again. So that's been on my mind. We're hoping to get into a three bedroom apt on base again. We aren't saving any money (which we thought we would) they actually bumped up the prices here in Kapolei. :( So we're sad to leave the ward. But we'll probably be in the same ward as before, so atleast we'll know some people hehe. Anyway, so I've just been slowly getting things packed to make it easier, I've done some priming on the walls and am so sad that I have to paint over the lovely green walls. I don't know if I will paint again in our next place, I'll just be decorating the walls. I'll put pics once we get all settled.
Lillie has been growing up so fast, just these past few months she's so different. We're just trying to soak her all up each moment. ;) She's just now getting to saying a few words, like "ball, dog, daddy, mama, Jesus, car...and all her other jibberish hehe. If it's quiet in the house I know she's getting into something. Just the other day I was washing dishes and in the middle (noticing it was oddly quiet) of it I turned around and she was on the table just standing there!!! Gave me a little heart attack. She's just climbing everywhere. Luckily we have some gates up to keep her out of a lot of stuff, but they won't last much longer. But she's been doing so great and she's so stinking funny. I'll have to post some pics of her silly faces. (I know I'm totally bragging by the way..Shhh she's my life so deal. :))
Daniel has been back and forth from travels, so we cherish all the time we have together. I'm sometimes so jealous he gets to go all around the world. Someday we'll get to travel and explore together. It's one of my dreams. Anyway he's been doing very well.
I'm doing pretty good. Just ready to be settled in where ever we're going to be at. :) Hopefully a three bedroom soon. (needing a little space at times) :) But it's good, and I'm so happy with what we have. So if you haven't heard.....we are expecting our second baby hehe!!! Yay!! We're so excited!! Should be due around May. Haven't seen the doc yet. So I'll let you all know on a due date when I can.
Well that's bascially the news up to now. Life's good, we miss you all and wish we could be closer. Someday someday. :)

Lillie comin' with us on our date night. Smiling for the camera.

Hats....

She finally let me put her hair up and kept it in for me to take pics.

Daniel surprised me for our anniversary, I just got home from Utah and he took me straight to waikiki. It was so nice to act like a tourist and just play. :)

We're bad at taking pics, but every now and again we'll get a couple in. Waikiki

Took Lillie to her first Carnival and there was a bright rainbow! It was gorgeous. The pic doesn't do it justice

Daniel was able to go to Austrailia! Beautiful Sydney Opera House.

And he got to fly home with some Dolphins. So sweet. :) We all went to visit them once they were settled from their travels.

Love you all!!