Are we there yet?!

Well, It's down to just 2 more weeks of Jimmy's final internship! Then we have a week of vacation time (i told Jimmy he can't even think about anything school related during that week, he really needs a break!) and then we are headed back to the mainland to start another chapter in our lives! It's all so exciting and scary at the same time!


This past week and 1/2 to 2 weeks has been a little crazy and just frustrating, to the point that i decided i am ready to go home, don't get me wrong...i have really enjoyed Hawaii, it's been an incredible experience and opportunity for our little family and i'm grateful we were able to come but i think we're ready for a bit more stability in our lives. The frustrations have come from Jimmy not being able to find many jobs to interview with because we are in Hawaii and pretty much everyone wants to meet with him right away, which isn't possible. Then i have been dealing with kidney stones and Taylor got pretty sick with an ear infection. I think the thing that put me over the top was Taylor being sick! She's had ear infections before but this one really hit her hard! The Saturday before easter she had a fever of 102 (she's NEVER had a fever before) we took her to the Dr. and they gave her amoxicillin (which she ended up being allergic to). We did everything we could think of to get her fever to break, finally after the 3rd day after a blessing and lots of prayers and crying (from mommy and Taylor) and sleepless nights her fever broke! It took awhile for her to get back to herself but i finally have my active, happy little girl back! :) In all of the stress and sickness though we have found opportunities to smile and have some fun!
Anyway, the purpose of that long story was to explain why i'm ready to GO HOME!!!




This is Taylor's new favorite spot to watch her cartoons, it's a
magazine/newspaper holder.


This is right before she got sick, doesn't she look like a little tourist!



There was an easter egg hunt on saturday at Gunstock Ranch,
this was before we realized she was sick, now i feel bad for taking
her!


She had fun though and caught on to the picking up eggs and
putting them in your bucket idea!


she found 5 eggs!

Got to see the easter bunny...

a cow....

AND.....Ride a horse!


After her nap that day is when we realized she was sick! :(
Poor baby!


But even with being sick, she was still trying to be her silly self!


when she was feeling a bit better we took her to the Temple for
fresh air. she loves coming here to see all the flowers and Jesus!




she's such a social butterfly! she saw this little girl sitting there
and went and sat by her and "talked" to her!


After we found out she was allergic to amoxicillin and they gave
her a shot at the hospital daddy felt bad and bought her a kids meal
and a juice.


She doesn't go anywhere without eeyore, and she definitely won't
sleep without him!


talking on the phone...probably to grandma!


Taylor, Eeyore and Daddy taking a sunday afternoon nap!


she's obviously feeling better! She was playing with this plastic
eggs in the tub and trying to stack them inside of eachother one
shot off and flew across the tub, she started laughing and said "fuh'ee"
(funny). Now she says it all the time when something makes her laugh!

so happy!

Just being silly! I'm glad she's feeling better!