Fun visit from my parents and Halloween!! TONS of pictures!

We had a very busy and exciting October. We had to move out of our luxurious apartment because our landlord sold it. So we packed and said goodbye to our dishwasher, washer and dryer, swimming pool, bbq area, workout facilities, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, gated parking, a/c, and moved into a tiny one bedroom apartment. We did say goodbye to the expensive rent though and are now saving almost $600 a month!! We are VERY excited about that. Good trade I think. Honolulu's rent is out of control. But we've really enjoyed are new apartment. We're very close to a couple of parks and it's a much quieter apartment. Anyway, We moved into our new apartment October 19-20th about...and my parents came from Idaho to visit on the 22nd. We were so excited to have them. Here are some pictures of our outings with them. Nate had 2 tests that week so wasn't able to come to everything, but came when he could which always made the outings even better! All these pictures are WAY out of order and some of the captions might be misplaced as well. That's why I'm not such a great blogger I don't wanna take the time to put it all in order. The locations of pictures are: Waikiki Beach, Waikiki Board Walk, Aloha Stadium, Yogurtland, ToDai, Waimanalo Beach, Pearl Harbor, Hanauma Bay, Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC), North Shore, Haunted Lagoon, and I think that's all. There may not be pics of all these things either but we'll see...

Zak LOVED sharing the backseat with Grandma

A lady was teaching Zak how to hold still to feed the birds. She took pictures of my mom doing it with us, but none of those ones turned out.

Waikiki Beach

He and Grandma were couldn't stop taking pictures together

Taco's El Ray all the Way from Caldwell! There's NO Mexican food in Hawaii! Thanks Mom and Dad! =)

Grandma showing Zak the light with some BBQ chips after snorkeling at Hanauma Bay

Had a Sunday picnic at Waimanalo

Just pretty

Hawaii vs. BSU

I LOVE this picture my mom got of Nate and Zak! Both have eyes open and are lookin too dang cute.

To Dai, a Japanese and Seafood buffet

Yogurtland. All kinds of different soft serve, self-serve frozen yogurts and TONS of toppings. Serve yourself as much as you'd like and they charge you by the ounce.

Japanese students on a field trip to Pearl Harbor couldn't get enough of Zak. They were chasing him all over the place. I'd never seen anything quite like it!

Me and my dad at Pearl Harbor

Zak and Grandpa Berg at Pearl Harbor

At the Polynesian Cultural Center

From the village of Fiji at the PCC

Zak looking so pretty with a flower in his hair like mom

At Dad's birthday dinner. He was trying to get my mom to try baby octopus salad. ewww

While walking through the mall, the Dairy Queen girls came up to Zak and just gave him a free ice cream cone. Blonde hair and blue eyes goes a long way in this environment =)

Our star enjoying a sucker

Zak going trick or treating with his cute turtle of a friend Julien. Zak was a basketball player..or NBA Star I mean. Due to our busy month, we forgot to get him a costume. At about 5 pm on Halloween we went costume searching but nothing was anywhere, so we came up with this and thought he looked dang cute!

I know we have more family pictures from this night...and better ones, but I'm not sure where, so this will have to do.

Zak after a long night of trick or treating

Shrimp Shack on the North Shore..Giovonni's. Our friends the Greens let us stay at their BEAUTIFUL home up there and joined us for lunch

Samoan dancers

Samoan village and holy crap he climbed a coconut tree!
I apologize for the crazy order of these pictures, but you get the idea! ...I hope. And sorry for the spell of small pictures in there. I forgot to make them bigger...don't be mad at me Jill! Our other exciting new is....Nate's experiments are working and his research is progressing more and more and he gets to start doing some brand new stuff he's excited about. I can't give you all the info because it's top secret...and I just don't understand it all. But it's exciting! =) Zak is talking like a crazy man these days. He just busts out new words all the time like he's known the word for years and has just decided to start using it. It's a lot of fun. That's it for us for now. We're loving being together here in Hawaii!

Random happenings of the last little while

I've been getting asked to post pictures of my arms for an update. I keep forgetting to take pictures of them. I finally remembered but it happens to be night and the lighting isn't great, but you get the idea. They're WAY better! Good as new, practically!



We bought a family pass to the Honolulu Zoo. It was only $20 for the whole family! It gives Zak and I something to do on those days where we need to spice up our life. One Wednesday, Nate got out of class early so we all decided to go to the zoo. It was so much fun having him go with us!




This is Zak's new favorite past time. He likes to take weird things out of the cupboard and just move them from place to place. He can do this for hours. Put them all on the couch and then the entertainment center then the floor then who knows...




Day at Ala Moana Beach playing with Uncle Jeff. It was soooo rocky! And I fell right on me knees on the rocks. It killed walking into the ocean too. I'd never been on a beach that rocky before! It was still rocky until you were like in to your neck!




After a busy week at work/school, Nate's boss gave him the day off today. In the morning we went apartment hunting because our landlord has put this apartment up for sale officially. For the rest the day we drove to the North Shore and wanted to go to Waimea Bay. Little did we know there would be no swimming signs EVERYWHERE because the waves were so freakin' huge! It was way fun to watch the body boarders and surfers though. Even funner to watch the people who didn't know what they were doing and would be told to get out of the ocean over the loud speaker because the life guards didn't want to have to go rescue them. I was thinking that'd be way embarrassing! Anyway here are a few pics of the waves there. We also went to Turtle Bay and were planning on going to Shark's Cove but passed it and didn't really feel like looking for it. It was a fun day though!



Zak's 1st dentist appointment!

Fun at Honolulu Zoo!

These are the last pictures taken of the good 'ol days when I still had normal arms/hand. Later that even is when that fateful burning pot happened.






Zak loved these fish at the Keiki(child) area of the zoo!

Haunuma Bay for Snorkeling!

A few weekends ago we went with some friends to Haunuma Bay for snorkeling. We saw lots of cool fish. Nate even saw an eel. It was kind of a hike down to get there but was a beautiful view on the way down. It was a lot of fun. Zak was plum tuckered out on the drive home. I think he was out before we even got the car on! =)