So we went to two of those presentations while in Hawaii....

Given that we had six days in Hawaii, we felt we could give a few minutes of our time for a few hundred bucks. So the first one was a vacation discount club. It was kind of expensive considering you had limited discounts. Basically they bought from hotels/airlines in their less busier times in bulk, and sold them for cheap to their vacation club people. But we only considered it if it gave us good discounts to place we were already going like Canada, Montana, Washington and California. Of course it wasn't a huge discount at those places and we said no. So we paid $25 for a night cruise along the coast of Oahu. It is usually around $180 for two. Then we did the Wyndham resort timeshare presentation. This was only for $100. But it was interesting. Really expensive but interesting. Paid for some things and I still have some of the gift card...maybe $5 of it.

Anyway, that took about 4 hours of our time, but it seemed worth it. We were already going to do the cruise anyway, so it saved us $150 for the buffet cruise. It was decent food, nothing too exciting. Great view from the water and nice fireworks from one of the hotels at the end. We met a nice couple from Chicago. Both had immigrated from South Korea. Nice people. Said they were advised to stay away from the Polynesian cultural center because there was no drinking there...pretty funny as they planned away from it because they couldn't drink that day.

Haven't downloaded pictures...we have a ton from our hikes and adventures. Had some fun parasailing...it was much easier than expected and not too rocky of a ride.

Cockroaches with my pizza please...

I will blog a few stories about our fun trip to Hawaii. This story involves us sitting at this Deli type place that served Roundtable Pizza. I had missed roundtable, so I had to order some. We shared a pizza and the server left to get a box for the leftovers. Anna left to go get some things at the small store down the street, so I was chilling in the booth. The box came and I boxed up the pizza to my right. I put my hand down to my left to clean up my area. I felt this weird sensation on my left hand. Then as I raised it a cockroach began climbing up my arm and on the table to the left. It flew across the booth and then to the table next to me. It was absolutely disgusting and brought back some nasty memories from Brasil.

BYU football sucks this year...

My excitement for college football has gone to virtually nothing. How lame is that.

Sheesh, it's been awhile.

I guess I am using facebook a lot more than I used to for interesting things going on in our lives. It has been quite the interesting summer with the move and all. Anna has gone on a few work trips and took the kids down to So Cal for some time on the beach.

It has been a slow process in getting our house in order...we seem to lack time. And now we are throwing another wrench into things by having our basement started by Anna's cousin Todd. A few weeks ago we had some cement poured in our backyard for a nice patio, shed and bike areas. But the patio ended up having some issues and they have to tear it up. It looks okay, but the guy spilled some coke on it while drying and it left huge spots where the soda acid ate away at the color/texture. So they will begin that part tomorrow.

The family is doing well. N will probably get his license soon. We had some doubts if he could handle the stress/responsibility. But he has his good moments and I think we'll probably do it soon. Damon didn't have any lineman to have a ninth grade team, so he is playing on the sophmore team this year. He may not play too much, but hopefully he learns how things work and gets better. G is doing really well on his 7th grade team. He seems to understand things better and reacts much quicker. Yesenia is going to the new elementary school starting tomorrow. She is excited. Bekah continues to be the cutest little girl ever.

Anna and I will be going on a 10 year anniversary trip in October to Hawaii. Using my parents timeshare. It should be nice to relax.

And we are all moved in....

Moving is about as fun as it gets. The past month has been crazy. Getting ready for the move...stressing about the house getting done..moving mostly on our own. Now the sealing is happening this weekend. Wow, our life is crazy!!! I think in the middle of July things will finally start to slow down.

4 kids were adopted today...

Pics to come. Here is one recent one of Bekah

Is it really that hard to follow plans to build a house?

We have had so many problems while our home is being built. It is stressing out big time as we are going to be delayed at least another week or two because of some cabinetry issues. Then we have shelving issues. Then vanity issues. Then brick issues. Anyway, we want to get the heck out of this piece of crap rental asap, and these issues are just making things worse. I guess we don't have to worry about moving while Anna is at her conference anymore. We are waiting with the manager tomorrow to hopefully get things figured out.