Moving Day

We are finally going to move into our new home in Atlanta! As a result, we may not have great internet service for a few days. The place is pretty empty since our furniture won't arrive until August. Thankfully it is an older home with quite a bit of character so it will be ok. We are the first renters that this owner has had. She has lived in the house for 20 years and she's very attached to the house, understandably. Kate and I have discussed that renting is difficult for "nesters" like us because you can't ever feel really good about making significant changes because you worry about what the owner might think. For example, the walls throughout the downstairs living area are all very goldenrod yellow. Not a bad color, but too much for the whole house. I REALLY want to paint at least one of the rooms. I'm going to talk with her tomorrow so we'll see how it goes. Either way, we are going to be in a house starting tomorrow! Yay...no more hotel!

It's no Hotel Hana!

Daddy and Jake in a new park we discovered.

Mr. Blue Eyes playing on the bouncing bridge.

Mommy and Jake watching Cars for the 30th time in the hotel room.

It's no Hotel Hana, but our home away from home, The University Inn at Emory, has been really nice. Very homey, friendly staff, and great breakfast, coffee, and snacks. We've found and signed for a rental home in Virginia Highlands that we're pretty excited about. We don't move in until July 10th, though! We moved the cats into a kennel called Kamp Kitty. They are the only guests currently so are very happily the center of the owner's attention. At first I felt guilty about putting them there, but they are on Kitty Vacation, especially Hobbes from Jake. Scott has already started work. Long days, but off on most weekends, and no home call!!! What a huge improvement to residency life! I start this Tuesday and Jake starts in his new daycare, which is on post. This is the first time we've decided to go with the post day care option and we'll see how it goes, but they seem very nice and professional. I think it will be ok for now. We've been enjoying the nice weather in Atlanta. It was hot initially, but now much better. We're very grateful for the birth of our most recent nephew, Milo Patrick. Congrats Meg and Mike! We'll post some pictures when we have them of the new house. Our furniture won't arrive until August so we'll be in an empty house for a little while, but no worries, we can still take visitors!

Goodbye Hawaii and Aloha Atlanta!

Scott, Jake, Kili, Hobbes, and I took a red-eye flight on Tuesday night to arrive here in Atlanta, our new home, early Wednesday morning. We were able to pick up the Xterra right away so that was nice. I checked into my new unit and we visited a house we are thinking of renting. Wednesday was actually pretty productive! We are staying in a very nice little Inn/B&B just outside of Emory. It is small, but they have breakfast every morning, snacks and drinks every evening, and allow the kitties to join us! It's a good deal. Thursday and Friday, we've spent running various errands, getting paperwork done for work, and just resting. Jake has been sick today, which hasn't been easy, but he's ok and we're ok, too. Things are looking good for the house we looked at on Wednesday. For those of you who know Atlanta, it is located in Virginia Highlands, steps away from Piedmont Park and lots of cute shops/restaraunts. I will be sending out address change information as soon as everything is official.

Promotion and Graduation

You are seeing some pictures from our promotion and Scott's graduation. We are at the tail end of a busy week. We packed up the house, cleaned it thoroughly, have had Grammy Barb visiting, both got promoted, Scott graduated, had two big parties, and are now relaxing on Father's Day. Phew!

Visit to the Mainland

Auntie Heather and Jake at Aunt Barb's. They are watching fireflies!

Grandpa Tom Tom and Jake at a farm visit with Uncle Dan, Aunt Renita, and Grandma Weezie:

Visit at Aunt Barb and Uncle Marv's with second cousins, Jacob and Ava:

I can't believe how long it's been since we blogged! The last few weeks have definitely flown by as we've traveled around the midwest to visit family, to Atlanta to look for a new home, and back to Hawaii to outprocess and move our stuff. Even as we speak, the movers are packing up our entire house. The cats and Jake are a little mystified by the whole thing. Good news is, we've found a house! It's a long story, but we decided to rent for the short time that we'll be in Atlanta. We'll be moving to the Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta. It's a good, central location to all our work places and is a cute city neighborhood with parks, trendy shops, and hopefully nice neighbors! Best news for me...it's only about a mile from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and a Caribou Coffee! I'll write more in the next few days as we prepare to leave our beautiful home in Hawaii and start our new adventure. In the meantime, here are some pictures of our travels.

Party Days!

Adam had his promotion ceremony this weekend and we celebrated with him. Scott and I were promoted to Major as of yesterday (Sunday), but we haven't officially "pinned" on so we aren't wearing the rank yet. Our ceremony will be 19 June. Here's a picture:

Thanks to Heather, Adam's mom, Nancy, Melissa, and Malia, Jake and I were able to throw a really fancy tea for our friend, Callie's, baby shower. It was a lot of fun and I think everyone really enjoyed themselves. I am going to miss living in this house with all the entertaining amenities. Jake is a great sport and enjoyed his first taste of sherbet punch, angel food cake, and brownies (at least that I know of!) He loved all of the attention. Here a couple of pictures:

Jake is saying a new word: tiger! In honor of his lunch box, which is in the shape of a tiger. Scott is traveling to Palau and we miss being there with him. We'll get a fun trip soon! We're looking forward to seeing everyone soon in order to continue the Party Days!

Happy Mothers day

Heather, Mandy jake and I went to the botanical gardens in Kaneohe today for lunch to celebrate mommy day. I grabbed some takeout from Boots and Kimo in Kailua to bring along. Kate and James can appreciate the macadamia nut pancakes that we all are so fond of. It was a really nice day with plenty of ducks for jake to terrorize and feed as well as many other new things to get into. Jake decided to start jumpimg off of things recently as you will see with one of the videos. The other pictures are of us in the park.

The first video is Jake jumping off the park bench (no I didn't push him)

This video is of Jake feeding the duck the leftover macadamia nut pancakes he seems to love all animals especially birds, dogs and cats.



Jake also now has a favorite activity in the pool. Sometimes he leisurely steps out off the edge and sometimes he is able to actually jump. The good thing is he does it over and over until he gets worn out which is good for us.