Maui Pictures!

A Palm Tree sunset to start....... Cool flowers EVERYWHERE!

One of the many sea turtles we saw

Me swimming with him!

Molokini Island

Crystal Clear water and lots of coral

The whole group!

Boogie Boarding! We loved the water camera, we took pictures as if we were professional water sportsman, haha

The waves at Big Beach got dangerously big! They were calling people in but our boys are the ones you see inside the wave



Girls Night

Cool Coral

Kinda a cool picture! Adam coming in on his boogie board, again another pro sportman picture!

Shark bait whoo-haha!

Honolua Bay, good snorkeling, as you can tell by the transparent water. This is where we saw a lot of turltes

The coolest large vines -you could swing from them like Tarzan!

The sunset at the place that tried to kill Adam

Out on our condo patio, not a bad place to relax

Us with Terra and Brandon, late night beach escapade

At Spago (Emeril Lagasses's place!) Nice View

Us at the Luau

Old Lahaina Luau

The boys: Kyle, Adam and Brandon

Brittany and I Snorkeling

Us three girls, best friends for 16years!

Sunsets from our back patio

Ahhhhhh!

Oh, and a few other things...

-Right before Maui I passed my CCRN. It is a critical care certification for RN's. It's not required but makes you look cool! :)
-Adam is getting A's in his online classes!
-I started a new quilt and have only 5-6 others planned after this one
-Adam has started a new project: Beer making. Pretty cool, a friend of ours does it and its delicious! So now were BBQ sauce canners, picklers, meat smokers, and brewers. We will have our own restaraunt soon!
-Its sunny! which means more biking to work, swimming, trips to Lake Tahoe and long romantic summer night walks! Two days ago I got on my bike and rode over to my friends house in my bathing suit to go swimming, just had to be back before dinner. Felt like middle school all over again!

Maui- with no pictures

Our internet is down so I am unable to download all of our marvelous pictures from Maui. But I will give a brief and then post picture when the good ole internet is working.

So, we had a blast! We were there for 10days and went with my two closest childhood friends, Brittany and Terra and their husbands/boyfriend. We stayed in Kihei the first couple nights and then in Wailea the rest of the time. We snorkeled lots, boogie boarded, swam, shopped, wave jumped, took a boat out to Molekini (a small island off Maui), went to a luau, and didn't do half the things we planned because we were too busy relaxing! :) The flowers there are unreal and scent the entire atmosphere! And we got to swim with turtles which was one thing I would have been really disappointed about if I didn't get to do! But we swam next to about 6 or 7 total. Saw lots of pretty colorful fish. Ate at Tommy Bahamas, Cheeseburger in Paradise, etc and at Spago- Emeril Lagasse's restaraunt, we ate a few tabels away from Anthony Hopkins (I didn't know who he was, but apparently hes a pretty big deal). The food was amazing and the cocktails were just as fantastic! Without pictures, this is just another boring blog! But since we have no pictures of the following event, I suppose now would be a good time to mention Adam's scare. Sorry for those who already know the story. Here's a quick version:

We were out to dinner with the group and after appetizers Adam started to not feel well, describing what felt like really bad heart burn and chest pains. I was off taking pictures, Terra alerted me that Adam was leaving to get antacids. He looked very uncomfortable so I left with him. But before we left we asked the waitress if anything we ate had shellfish, since Adam has an anaphylactic reaction to it, the waitress quickly replied no. Terra told me to grab my phone when we got back to the condo. On the way to the condo Adam was having a hard time driving because the pain was so bad. We go to the condo, couldn't find antacids but I told him to take a benedryl just in case, because at this point something wasn't matching up with just "heartburn". I grabbed my phone and on the way to the car I saw Adam spitting and drooling. He looked at me and his face was very swollen and eyes were blood shot. He was having a reaction- no doubt! We quickly got in the car and headed down the "freeway". I got on the phone with 911, they directed me to an urgent care. I had Adam take a deep breath and heard him wheeze. Moments later they called back saying that one was closed and gave me the name of the street for another urgent care. Hawaiin names are hard to grasp but right as the lady was spelling it I looked up and there was the street. I had been going 90-95mph laying on my horn and running lights. By the time we got to urgent care, Adam was just hanging in there. We rushed in and because of the 911 call they knew we were coming and had epi ready to give. Adam was wheezing, dry heeving, and drooling. His face was so swollen and his eyes watering. Within minutes of the epi he looked and felt better. I knew the wheezing was a sure sign of impending doom, but I asked the Doc how much time we had before he would have had to do an emergency tracheotomy(hole in throat), his response was "2-3 minutes". The things that would have delayed us by 2-3 minutes were numerous!
-If Terra wouldnt have told me Adam was leaving
-If Terra wouldnt have told me to grab my phone (I wouldnt have normally, I never have it on me)
-If the waitress actually would have known that the food had crab in it, we would have called an ambulance and since the nearest medical center/dispatcher for ambulances is 25 minutes away, they probably wouldnt have made it in time
-If I hadnt have sped and ran redlights
-If 911 hadnt called back in time and if I hadnt have picked up my phone (random number calling while my husband was dying-not a time I would usually pick up)
Theres so many things........
I don't really want to go into detail but the restaraunt had added crab into ther "spinach and artichoke dip"and nobody knew but the Head Chef and Manager.

Were just thanking God that he provided those 2-3 minutes. Reaction time shortens by almost half each time you are exposed/have a reaction. So we are working on quick Epi pen access if it ever happens again.

Pictures of the fun stuff to come!

Sweet Remarks

I got this from a patient I extensively took care of and grew to really care for,
Attached to a vase of flowers read a card:
"We believe that God sends angels in our time of need. We know that you were that angel He sent to take care of Ron."
I almost cried!
They called me a few days later from home and had me tracked down (I was working in the other ICU) to ask me questions about some symptoms he was having. Of course I couldn't give them medical advice but his wife said she wanted to talk to me because "I knew Ron so well". :) I knew there was a reason I put up with bodily fluids of all natures, disrespect and name calling, stupid people, and overall frequent feelings of frustration.

Are You Ready for the Summer?!?!

(note new sunglasses)

This weekend was busy! I am kind of a loner and dont ever think twice about hanging out by myself. But this weekend was very fun and friend filled! Friday night was a going away party for a friend at work. So after work, Adam met me and a bunch of my co-workers at a mexican restaraunt. We had a good time and ended up staying until they basically did the old - slow music, sweep next to you- bit. Then saturday we watched the MMA fight with some other friends and ate steak and potatoes! Sunday after church was the Aces baseball game with our new neighbor friends, Chelsea and Brandon. We ended up making a night of it to, doing dinner together as well. Tuesday we did dinner with them again too, and watched "The Voice" (not that cool of a show, not a big Christina Aguelara fan). So all, in all a busy and fun weekend! I have to mention a conversation I had with a friend during this weekend. He had mentioned to me before that he had been in prison, but never said for what. I never got nosey with him about it and a part of me thought he was joking. Well, this weekend he shares with Adam and I that he use to have a heroin addiction, along with an alcohol and "anything he could get his hands on" problem. He got put in prision for it and had to go through 4 years of treatment. He has also been divorced more than a couple times, and in general has been through a lot more than I ever realized. I have been thinking about that a lot latley. He is now a Christian and it is so cool to hear his story because he and those like him truly understand God's Grace and NEED it. They wake up everyday humble and knowing that if they don't walk with Christ every step of their day, they are putting themselves at huge risk. The same is true for everyone, it's just harder for an average joe to really live it and NEED that grace and life-line. He is now desperate for something outside of himself or anyone/anything else in this world, only what God can provide. Those are my favorite kind of people. When they talk, they actually know what they are talking about.

Adam got me a sun tea jar! I have been looking for one forever. They make a plastic one at Costco that Adam kept telling me to get but everyone knows that a sun tea jar needs to be glass! (insert here, laughing at me, I know) It's suppose to get up to 80 degrees, good day for tea!

Ace is working on licking Momma, not biting. I love this pic!

My pickels I jarred a few weeks back, kinda pretty

Ace must have had a busy weekend too! :)

Easter

Our Easter weekend was very relaxed. Friday night we went to Good Friday service after we did some fun sunglass shopping for our upcoming Maui trip. On the way to the church we pulled over to help a guy who ran out of gas, and small world.... he was from Mount Vernon, WA!

Saturday was work for us both, but we had dinner together that night at our favorite Thai place. Then we went and watched karyoke at local bar down the street. Always entertaining to watch people karayoke!

Sunday we got up early, went to a great service at church, then took Ace to the dog park. That was a lot of fun! It was really sunny but really windy, so we didn't stay for too long. Then we hit the stores to pick up canning supplies. Adam canned his homemade BBQ sauce and I tried a pickle recipe. Although I put more in my jars than just cucumbers. I added green beans, bell pepper, and in one, radishes. So we'll see. We had a delicious pulled pork sandwhich with coleslaw dinner. It was a nice Easter!

Fishing

We went fishing the other day, just thought I would post a few pictures. We got skunked but it was still fun!

Half the lake had snow on the bank and the other half was dry. Supposidly the fish liked the side with snow, of course! Adam was in shorts, so I was dying laughing when we both kept falling through.

PS: My pickeled asaparagus sell is blowing up! I've made over 50 jars for orders from people at work. But I know realize that I priced them too low, and if I'm not careful, I could actually lose money. Live and Learn