Daddy in training

Why hellooooooo!

Things have finally come to a tinsy bit of a calm. We're back from  Kona and Zach's parents just left to go back to Texas. The last week has been too much fun...seriously. I'm going to post more pictures from Kona as soon as I get some of that stuff called Sleep tonight.

In the meantime...Zach and Taya are finally used to each other which means Taya is completely obsessed with Uncle Zach....given the choice it was him over me all trip long :) It didn't bother me too much since they had so much fun...She seriously asked Uncle Zach to show her a shark...no better person to ask really- too cute. He didn't get her a shark but he found her a honu (green sea turtle), an a'ama crab, an eel, and a whole lotta fish at a friend's aquarium store.

I've known Zach is going to be an awesome dad but it was just freaking rad seeing him take care of Taya and just totally go into her crazy little 4 year old world with her...I loved every second of it.

1: taya refusing to let go of uncle's leg 2: going to look for sharks on the sea wall on alii drive 3&4: finding a honu & a'ama crap 5&6: cruising alii drive 7-8-9: Nap time. They watched planet earth's jungle and made bird noises for oh, about a half an hour until they both PASSED out :)

Holy Chaos Batman!!

Holy moly. So much, no, too much going on it seems like. First off, I'm quite narcoleptic these days falling asleep in chairs, in the car, in the shower...pretty much anywhere when that overwhelming exhaustion rains down on me.

Things have been a bit nuts lately and I've felt way too adult like (yuck) taking care of not only our family but our friend, and all of his finances etc, as well while he's in the hospital (poor guy, its been a few months but he's on the path to recovery!).

My mom's surgery went well and she's getting her stitches out, woohoo.

The assistant head coach of the team I coach for fell out of a tree and broke his leg in four places so I've been pulling super coaching duties these last few weeks and by god it's like the whole team decided to come back since school is over so I've got A LOT of swimmers everyday...somehow Reef stops kicking and just lets me coach for 5 hours which is nice.

My in-laws will be here in 4 days and then its off to Kona for a small family vaca meeting up with my mom & dad. The vaca includes diving, snorkeling, vow renewals for the mama & pops, baby shower, and plain ol Kona town goodness- not too mention my best friend and her daughter!!!! I'm so damn excited I can't wait!

In other news: Zach totally bought me an adult size inflatable pool!!!!! The thing holds 1,000 Gallons (sorry mama earth) of water and is utterly perfect. I came home after a long day of coaching last night to a pool on our lanai!! It was super cold but my preggo butt jumped right in and stayed in for a good hour! Floating is seriously the greatest gift to me right now. My husband is a smart man, as long as I have water to float in I am a happy camper ( I will upload pics once the sun comes out, its yucky right now).

Two more reasons why going home to Kona ROCKS:

I get to hang out with "The Rascal" and lie in bed with my battle buddy Zontar (she was with me through deployment).

kissing eels

I've been doing beach patrol since I found out Reef was going to be debuting in August but Zach still dives about every weekend and is training to do his Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver certifications this weekend [can't lie, i'm slightly jealous just because the rescue diver test seems epically fun...I mean, navigating underwater, recovering a diver, swimming them back to shore while removing their gear and doing cpr?! HECK YES...I love doing open water rescues...can't help it, its the beach lifeguard in me].

In remembrance of my epically awesome diving days....here's a youtube of us in Kona at Manta Heaven diving with Manta Rays and Frank The Eel...at about 16 seconds he decides to make out with me...its awesome. He's really docile and I've been lucky enough to dive with him since I was 15 :)

Happy Monday...