rain::hotmamas::childbirthing classes::

The weather has been yuck yuck yuck...BUT it was perfect for a Mother's Day nice long sleep in while Zach finished up his advanced open water diver course- so awesome. Once he got home we watched Pretty In Pink and The Breakfast Club and just chilled & got all cabin fever loopy. We headed down to the beach for a bit when it stopped raining and it was dark and beautiful.

On another note- Happy Mother's Day to all of you hot mama's and future hot mama's. I hope you had a fabulous day!

Also- I'm trying to schedule child birthing classes since I'm STILL having nightmares. Anyone have suggestions or what their favorite class(es) are/were?! I'm looking for all of the input I can get.

Thank You's

Zach and I have been receiving some crazy awesome gifts for Reef the last few weeks and I've been bumming around doing everything but making Thank You cards.

I spent all day designing little robots in paint because well, its the only program I have on my laptop. Unfortunately my paper cutter is broken and I went extremely OCD. I made one with scissors but it came out epically terrible...

puppy love

Today was spent at Tripler Army Hospital visiting an ol' friend...Pretty speechless today, just one of those kind of days.

But...I did wake up to a puppy passed out in the bed..I sleep so terrible at night that after Zach leaves at 5:30am I pass out, and when I sleep..I sleep hard and can't feel the dogs jump up on the bed, gotta love the memory foam mattress.

And yes...I'm completely obsessed with my dogs...I know, I know...

Why I love my swimmers #789

Coach Joyce "Lil C you have to streamline on your back as SOON as you push off, not when you float up...You want to be like a..rrrrrocket!!"

Lil C "But Rockets have engines, I don't have engines"

Coach Joyce "That's why you have to use your feet and your fins! Those are your manual engines!"

Lil C "But Coach Joyce, rockets have THREE engines"

Coach Joyce "[insert pause] that's why we tell you to kick extra hard, you only get TWO."

I was schooled on rockets by a seven year old today...but, in the end, telling him to streamline like a rocket gave him the correct visual because he was flying through the water!

Random photo of a Honu (green sea turtle) that Zach took on his most recent dive at Three Tables on the North Shore of Oahu.

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...

Say Whaaaaat?!

Yep, "I'm sorry" are the words coming out of my mouth most these past 72 hours. I hate to say it people but I'm finally getting SUPER hormonal...just ask Zach. I freaked out for about three hours last night until I realized that I was completely being a witch. WOW. I hope it's normal to be this crazy when you're preggo and to cry as much as I do. My husband is seriously being so gracious and patient. I keep praying that these nasty mood swings disappear along with my throbbing back and legs.

Here's a little from our weekend (you know, when I wasn't yelling at Zach & crying).

1: the doooogs got a new king size floofy bed
2: delicious grinds at loco moco
3:ewa sunshine
4:home depot
5: preggo joyce super exhausted being tortured at home depot
6: boy scout makahiki [we helped get kids stoked on scuba]
7:early am sunshine
8: huge belly
9: Diesel diesel diesel 

In other news:

as all of you, I'm sure, have heard Osama Bin Laden is finally dead and gone. I can't help but feel extremely relieved. It also really makes me feel like the last few years and Zach's deployment and all that we've been through has not been in vain.

Zach in Iraq.

What can I say...

It's been a rough few days. And this song by 1997 aka The Sevens pretty much sums it up for me.