we placed an offer on a house today – very momentous occasion for us since it’s our first home purchase. cross your fingers and say a few prayers they accept! we’re excited either way 🙂

We were looking at homes in Kailua and came back to find Caffrey missing! While Dave was out driving around looking for her, I got a call from a local vet who had scanned her microchip and found us.

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Dave checked into his first day of work yesterday (see nice new outfit above!) and really enjoyed meeting everyone in the office. He is excited to be involved in important, challenging work.

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Sammy has really enjoyed hanging out with the youngest Uherek – David. They read together in Sam’s pigpen, and David helped friend Sheena babysit today while Dave and I went running. We came back to find them all sprawled on the bed reading.

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this was note handwritten with a sharpie on the back of a van parked at the beach today. angel and i wanted to fix the typo 🙂

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we had a relaxing day today with the Uherek’s and are getting immersed in the island lifestyle 🙂

[photopress:IMGP7439.JPG,thumb,thumb] we arrived about 6 hours ago to the warm welcome of our friends, Mike and Angel and their three boys, one of whom is camping out with friends so we can have his room 🙂

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yesterday i went over to mom and pete’s to have dinner and play with sam before doing more cleaning here. i sat down to read with him and he couldn’t seem to get comfortable – then he had his first puke all over me!! did I say ALL OVER?! he is better today…

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This first day is going so well! Jerry and Spring from Mayflower Moving are here packing and they really are very professional,

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We had a great time celebrating Ang’s birthday at Tizley’s Euro Pub in Poulsbo. It was supposed to be a surprise,

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I finally sifted through all 467 (!) pictures from our amazing 19 day trip through MA, CT, RI and NY. We had so much fun seeing our family and friends. Sammy and I miss everyone, but are so glad we came back to see you before moving to Hawaii. We sure hope you’ll allow us to return the favor of spoiling you in paradise sometime! Enjoy the photos and captions 🙂 Despite spending hours going through the pictures and picking only the best ones, there are still over 200. So grab a cup of coffee (or dessert!) and enjoy reminiscing. I did 🙂

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I had to run a bunch of errands early in the morning, so mom came over to greet Sammy when he woke up. She went in with camera in hand, of course, so I’m totally drowning in pictures and can hardly keep up. He was so photogenic this particular morning that they seemed worthy of posting 🙂

After a long day of dropping off the GTI for shipment to Hawaii, doctor appt, errands, etc. we went to dinner downtown at a new pub with great German food. Afterwards we went to the marina to listen to a great band play salsa and other music. Sam really enjoyed working on going up stairs! Enjoy the video 🙂 Salsa stairs

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Sammy had such a fantastic time – we went to Westport WA with a couple girlfriends. It was nice because they cooked great meals for us since I was pretty busy managing mister. I did get to build the fires, though – something I relish! It was pretty crowded (sold out, actually) and sites were very close together in our area, but we still felt pretty unplugged and were able to recharge a bit. Sammy somehow slept through fireworks, barking dogs, kids screaming after ghost stories in the next site…I even heard a guy talking in his sleep! Enjoy!