2011

Reflecting on the year: we experienced a lot of changes and blessings in 2010. Starting a juice business. Quitting it to move to Hawaii. Learning to grow as a family during difficult times. Learning to mother my boys without the help of my mom, but by learning to lean more on the Lord. And Tekoa's eczema has completely cleared since moving here in August! Drew loves Hawaii and has worked (and continues to work) hard for us to be here.

For the new year: January will be filled with family visits. Keoni and Jessica came to visit and have been here for a few days. The boys love to play with Jessica and we've been able to get out of Honolulu since they've been here. Today's trip looked like this: Honolulu, Mililani,  Haleiwa, North Shore, Foodland, Laie, gas station, Kailua (beach), Honolulu. We traveled about 100 miles and our trip was about 6-7 hours including the stop at the beach. Keoni hasn't been back to Hawaii in over 16 years! So I'm sure he's enjoying the visit :) After KO and Jess leave, we'll be traveling to Oregon to visit for a week. I'm excited to visit, I've been missing Oregon. Jessica has told me a few times that she misses us living in Oregon and, "Why don't you live in Oregon?" On Jan 19th my mom will fly back with us to Honolulu to visit for 10 days!

This year will be filled with more exciting changes and decisions. I'm just looking forward to leaning on the Lord, being filled with joy and peace and spending time with our family!

Lord willing, some new adventures/decisions this year will include:

-Starting a juice truck business
-Deciding where and what to study for school
-Deciding on whether or not to add baby #3 to the fam
-What to do when our lease is up in Apr/May (Sign a new lease? Find a new apt? Move back to OR? who knows)
-Convincing my mom to retire early and move here with us (just kidding... kind of)

The things that will be least expected will make for an even more exciting and blessed year. A year ago we would have never thought we'd be moving to Hawaii, and we didn't even know we were going to move to Hawaii two months before we actually made the move. Sometimes that's how the big decisions are made, there's only so much you can plan and talk about it. There comes a point when you actually have to do it!

I'm also hoping to take more pictures this year, at LEAST once a WEEK! Not only to share with you on here but to better document my two handsomes growing up.

Praise the Lord! Here's to another amazing year!

Love,

Anna