Time Flies.........

Wow. How our lives hve changed in the past six months. I no longer am working for my buddy Katie. Her kids are now old enough to go to preschool; so this means I have had to drudge back into the real working world. With the economy the way it is I feel grateful to have a job. I amworking at Wells Fargo as a phone banker. They have been amazing to me with a rather large trial my family has been through. I love the people there and havemade alot of good friends. It can be a very difficult job. I have atleast 6 criers a day. People are loosing their homes, cars and spouses. It's really hard to not feel sorry for the majority of these people. Sometimes I feel so helpless and get overly frustrated at my lack of being able to do ANYTHING to help them.

My favorite customers are the yellers. I find they a challenge. I guess it's the whole kill them with kindness philosophy. I have been called about every name you could possibly think of. One thing I've learned is that people are passionate about their money!

Gary is still working for t-mobile. He has been on a medical leave for almost 2 months. I think he is getting really bored. He always said he wanted to be a stay at dad, but I think this has cleared that up for him!

Taylor is huge! He comes up to my chin. He is still as skinny as ever. Lucky kid! He is doing well in school, but was really disappointed when he found out he now only gets 1 recess instead of 3! Oh, the challenges of growing up!

Mikayla is sassier than ever! She is such a loving and tender hearted kid, but boy is she a sassy pants! She is getting so big as well. It makes mekinda sad to realize they are growing up!

Mikenzy is crazy! She is in Kindergarten and loving it! We were lucky enought to get her into the spanish emerssion program. She learns everything in spanish 4 days of her school week and then Friday is english only. I am not looking forward to the day she tells me off and I won't know what she's saying!

2008 was a very long year at our house! We are glad to see it go and looking forward to a bright and happy 2009!

Here is beautiful Mikayla in her dance outfits. She still loves to dance and perform! Her black outfit is for Jazz and the yellow is for ballet. She did a great job at recital and we couldn't have been prouder! She is a star! She has made a special performing team for her studio for the next year. She was picked out of 100 girls to be on a team of 12! Go Mikayla!! We love you and are so proud of your achievements!

Happy Birthday Mikenzy!!!!!

5 Years ago today I was in the worst pain of my life! Giving birth to my 9lbs 12 oz Buddha! Now look at her today, 5 years old and one of the great joys of our lives! We are so blessed and truly greatful to have our Mikenzy!!! Happy Birthday to our favorite "Rockstar!"

This was such a sombering experience. We stood in line for an hour to get a ticket just to come back 2 hours later. There were alot of people who came to Pearl Harbor. It was so sad to go and stand out and look down and still see parts of the boat sticking above of water. This was one of my favorite stops on the trip.

Pearl Harbor

Diamond Head National Park

Well, this was one of the most beautiful views of our entrie trip to Oahu. Yes, I hiked it. I only complained once at the top. My hair was totally frizzy for this picture and that was only complaint. Not too bad for an indoor girl! On the was up there were over 50 Japenese people hiking up at the same time. It was pretty funny because they all were wearing shirts that said I Love Amway

Dinner Cruise off Waikiki

This dinner cruise was amazing! The food was okay, but the view was beautiful. I got really sea sick though. Gary was a trooper and mingled with all the other love birds on the boat!