celebration dinner + Blue Angels

Two colleges, three states, and two years later, I've finished grad school! I just got the official word that I'm an August 2010 graduate and will receive my diploma in early November. My degree is a Master's in Education Leadership from Indiana University. Elliott took me to a special dinner this weekend to celebrate! 

He's currently working on his MBA at the University of Hawaii, so at the end of next year, we'll have another degree to celebrate! Also, I'm way proud of my hubby for running his 25k on Saturday morning (about 15.5 miles). He finished in the top seventh of all runners!!

dinner on Saturday night at 'the beachhouse at the moana'

35 weeks!

on Sunday, we went to the Marine Corps Base for the Blue Angels airshow with our friends Tracey and Rahul. We think this baby might want to be a pilot... he was dancing on my ribs the whole time during the show!

here are two videos of the awesome (and a little scary) stunts:

kailua baby shower + 35 weeks

my amazing girlfriends here hosted a beautiful baby shower for baby H and me on Sunday at our friend Erin's home. we were outside and had delicious pupus, decorated onesies, opened some gifts, and had a wonderful time hanging out. 

the girls gave us this diaper bag and lots of 'essentials' to go in it! our first pack of diapers (yes, we really need to stock up), wipes, burp clothes, a "hooter hider" (nursing cover), and a few other things. we also got a beautiful beach blanket, some baby socks and a few cute outfits!

I think that Tammy will be dressing baby H in this one quite often :)

Sarah made this Kailua boy onesie with an "eastside" symbol on the bum!

Sarah also made this pretty aloha one

Mina started out making a fruit salad onesie (??)

but decided instead to make this. haha!

cute little slippers & Kailua boy from Heather

Heart sunrise over the Mokulua islands (here) by Erin. Erin + Harkaitz are expecting a little baby in January!

shooting star onesie by Mina

"life is tough" onesie by Tracey

aloha onesie by me :)

Elliott had to take some pictures at the beach for a project yesterday, and he took a few of me in front of the Mokes. I know my (non-maternity) roxy tshirt doesn't quite cover the 35 week belly but i was comfortable! :)

new (to us) car!

well, we became a little more grown-up this past week and bought a new-to-us car! The Jimmy has died several times and we've gotten it towed & fixed several times. It was becoming more and more unreliable ~ as in, it didn't start most of the the time. We had researched cars and knew that what we really wanted was a new or certified pre-owned Honda CRV. After searching the dealerships here and online, we came to the realization that Hawaii dealerships don't have 4-wheel-drive cars! No one here needs or wants a 4 wheel drive, so we were a bit stuck. We continued to call the dealership in town and when they got a CPO 4wd in, we went down right away to look at it. It's a little fancier than we needed but we got it for below the price we'd pay for a brand new in the lower model, so we were happy (and so is our budget). We got a 2007 cr-v, ex-l. It has a/c (yay!!), a sunroof, always starts :), and most importantly, is super safe for our little baby boy, who will be here in a few weeks!!

say aloha to the Jimster. here he is at

North Shore last year when Dad visited:

movie star!

Elliott is going to be a movie star! the movie Battleship is filming here in Hawaii and Elliott was selected as an extra. his costars include Rihanna and Riggins from Friday Night Lights. he was on the news (click to watch) this summer in an interview about the movie as well!

33 weeks in front of our house

happy Labor Day weekend!

we're getting so excited to meet our son :)

woooo hoooo I still fit in my Navy football tshirt!

here's a hat from Kyle + Anne for our baby boy.