Hello everyone! We are finally starting to become settled. Since October is our pumpkin's birthday, I am dedicating this blog to her. Hailey Lynn Sobek born October 29, 2000. Weighing in at 7lbs. 9 oz. at 5:04a.m. She is turning eight this month! I thought it would be a cool idea if I put some pictures of her up and see if you guys can guess which order they go in! Some are easy and some will be harder than you think! She is starting school on Monday, and it is called Hale Kula Elementary School. It is bright blue (kind of hard to miss) and has 5 3rd grade classrooms. She is a little disapppointed about the fact that there are no playgrounds for the upper grades, so she will have to learn how to play handball, jump rope, basketball, etc. She is looking forward to High School Musical 3 coming out, and wants to see it for her birthday! We miss everyone terribly, and hope everyone is loving your cold weather that I am envious of!


For anyone of you who watch thursday night T.V. this is a question for you. Who is Joe the Plummer?? Can Dwight really call himself an expert on babies? Oh! and F.Y. in your eye, Kath and Kim is too predictable.

ALOHA!

We have finally arrived to our first duty station on the "gathering isle" of Oahu. We had quite a wild time on arrival with three sick kids (all the young ones). All is not so bad anymore. Hailey, Josh, and David have become regulars at the Ko'olina beach lagoons on the west end of the island. They are beautiful. The water is perfect and very relaxing. We also just found a house at the Schofield Barracks. We're in the middle of the island and less than 30 minutes from most everything.

David also took all four kids up to the north shore to waimea bay. It was intense and Josh almost got washed out sea if it was not for the help of a nice lady who grabbed him at the last second. Josh's pride was hurt a little and he pouted but the next day he asked about the lady who helped him, so I know he appreciated her help.

Mahalos!

Hello everybody! I am pleased to let you all know that the training at the Officer Basic Leaders Course that I am in is coming to a close. It has been full of countless days of boredom and niches of excitement. I have learned a lot about being an Officer and there is so much more I need to learn, but the familiarization was good. I think it would equate to the MTC when I couldn't wait to get out but I will have some good memories. Perhaps the best part of this whole ordeal (besides the weapons training) would be that I am getting back in shape to where I was long ago, even better in some cases than I was in my old football days. I have met plenty of people and made many friends. I am thankful for all of your support especially those that aided Brandi with the children while I have been away. She has grown and demonstrated more strength than she ever knew she had. I miss them so much and can't wait to get home to the chaos.

On the more exciting note, we will be moving to Hawaii on October 10th! Here is a picture of Tripler Army Medical Center will I will be working. We don't know where we will be living yet so we're a bit nervous. I hope that we can stay in touch and I will keep the pictures coming. Aloha!

Easter 2008

May is alomst gone and there are so many things going on. I'm finally graduating and preparing for the boards and the Army. Brandi is preparing for tons of changes with moving and organizing our crazy future. Hailey is doing great and looks to be on the honor roll. Josh is getting better at using the potty and keeping us busy. The twins are growing and crawling everywhere, Avery is a bundle of joy, completely content by herself and Audrey is our little princess, and always needs to be in the center of attention. These two are so different its hard to tell that they are sisters.