Three crazy awesome weeks!

In a nutshell, this is what we've been doing over the last three weeks: We've driven to California, Flown to Hawaii (had the time of our lives), flown back, driven back to AZ, graduated from Med school, driven to Utah then back to California where we moved in to our new house just this last weekend. It's been the craziest three weeks of our lives! After living out of suitcases for that long, you really come to appreciate your own stuff- your pwn bed is suddenly the most comfortable bed in the whole world!! We're SOOO glad to finally be here and we're working hard at getting settled.

I could really say so much but first I want to thank everyone who helped us out during the whole process. MOM - you first. Thanks for taking such amazing care of the boys (they're still talking about all the fun they had with you guys). BETH - you totally saved me that night watching the boys during graduation banquet. Mathews family - thanks for showing up en mass to support us during that most proudest of days. You made it all the more special and memorable. I am going to be spiritual for a minute and thank Heavenly Father because without his help, several times this last few weeks I would have completely cracked. Plus, we made it to this point safe and sound and without incident. (Huge grateful sigh)

OK - on to the good stuff PICTURES!!!!!

Hawaii was THE funnest week of my entire life. I will just say this: You know how at the end of a vacation you start to feel ready to go home and get back into the routine etc? NOT EVEN CLOSE! I could've spent another week there and been fine! My boys were having fun, my Mom was enjoying them and we were just basking in the joy of being in the most beautiful place on earth, with some of our funnest friends, without the kids (sorry guys), done with school, all of it. It was like a dream come true.



Here's us just off the plane - thought we'd do a before and after... the after was just too sad!



The first night... after a refreshing dip in the ocean. This beach was right behind our cottage.



Our favorite activity was snorkeling. We snorkeled at least once four out of the six days! One day, we snorkeled three different places!



The first day we met up with our friends, we went surfing. Well, I basically watched, but had myself a few great laughs! Oh, and a killer sunburn!



This was our cute little cottage at KeIki beach. Uh, the Jeep was ours for the week too ;)



If you've been to Oahu and seen the Temple, you know that NO PHOTO could ever do that sight justice. Its too amazing. If there are places on EARTH this beautiful, heaven is going to be quite a trip.



Here's James boogie boarding. This was the one time I really wished I wasn't pregnant (just for a milisecond).. these guys looked like they were having WAY TOO MUCH FUN!



Hukilau Beach (us and the Brizzees)



Hanauma Bay. My belly dragged along the reef while we were snorkeling here, but we still loved it! We saw some amazing and HUGE tropical fish!



Blowhole. Can you believe the color of the water?????? Here we also watched a huge sea turtle swimming down below... they're so magnificent.



Later that same day at the International Marketplace for some good ol' SHOPPING! James was quite the negotiater and got us some pretty great deals.



We made time at the Polynesian Cultural Center for this romantic shot - Yes, I'm fishy kissing him... not sure why, but I do know that this next picture may very well be too sexy for public viewing. Grrrrrrrr!! ;)



So, now that you're all sufficiently jealous and it's 11:00 PM, I may have to call it quits for tonight and resume the post tomorrow. Aloha.