Hawaii

I posted all of my pictures on picasa since there were too many to post. I only posted very few on facebook. The link is www.picasaweb.google.com/karleebateman to see my pictures. There are some videos too. It was a great and well needed trip. The pictures tell the story.

New add to our family: Piggy, the bunny

I don't know how it happened, since it happened so quickly, but we ended up with a new little bunny. Not a pet I ever thought I would ever own, and not something I ever really wanted. Our neighbor that also has PTSD talks about his bunny all the time, and how it is therapeutic. He showed up with bunny babies today, and Chris instantly took to the one we now own. The guy was giving them away. We gave it back, saying we will talk about it. Well, I knew that Chris had his heart set on it. He wanted a dog, I wanted a cat. I guess it's meeting in the middle. It is low maintenance, doesn't make noise, poos and pees in the same exact spot, easy to train, and will be therapeutic to Chris. We bought a little starter kit with a cage, food, bedding, dish, toys and water bottle. We named her Piggy because Chris always says she looks like a piggy bank with the stripe on her back. She has a little stripe of black down the back of her.
Chris and I are ready to take care of a little animal.

Piggy the baby bunny

Chris excited and ready to go pick up the bunny

Stripe down the back

Today; the cold, Tomorrow; PARADISE!!!

Chris and I are totally excited for tomorrow. We are going to Kauai from the 2nd - 14th. We will be home early on the 14th. We never went on a honeymoon, so we call it our official honeymoon. Well, that, and I have always wanted to go there, because it's Hawaii! We are really excited. Packing has not been that fun, but we are stoked. I will have a huge post and tons of pictures when I get home. Hopefully I get home with a tan, because Chris and I went tanning a few times, so we will have a base tan, and not get very burnt. Chris tanned right up, and I have stayed as white as a ghost.

Happy Easter Time

Me & the Easter Bunny

I had planned on doing something cute for Chris for Easter. I waited until he was going to do his homework to slip out and grab something. I decided that since we live right next to a store, I would just walk over there, and grab a few things. I guess Chris had the same idea. He kept looking out to see when my car would leave, and it never did. He decided I was probably over at Rite-Aid, and wanted to come scare me. I was looking at some Easter stuff, when I heard "What are you going to get him?" It scared me, because I whipped around and it was Chris. We ended up just shopping for things together. We got home, and dyed some eggs. We bought some Paas kit to decorate the eggs with, but we never got that far, so we gave it to our neighbors to decorate with her little girl.
We went to a park with Chris's family to eat yummy food. We brought our neighbors with us. Chris got surprised by being asked if he could play the Easter Bunny for all the little kids there. It was hilarious indeed. We finished up the night by going to my parents to see Buddy, Tiffany and Kids. We went up to the "Wooden House" to see the progress. Eric actually let me tote him around for a bit. He has started to mumble a few words I don't understand, but it is so cute! Caden had fun picking up the never-ending nails. It was fun to see them.

Easter Bunny Chris, our neighbor Christine, and Enslea

Our neighbors Tydus & Christine

Back view of the Easter Bunny suit

The Easter Bunny was walking around by himself, and looked so sad.....

Our nephew Max with Chris

Sealing

Chris and I went to our Bishop's appointment last night for our Living Ordinance Recommend. Our next step is to go to the Stake President, and we are all good to go to be able to get sealed together for all time and eternity. We are waiting for Chris's brother to come home from his mission since he will be the only family member besides his parents that will be able to attend and it will mean a lot to him to have him there. We are tossing around August 6th, 13th or the 20th. We will let you know when we have decided for sure. We are extremely excited to get sealed to each other.

There are not many updates on our house. We just submitted all of the paperwork to the loan officer. It was fairly easy to round up everything, and we got everything we needed. We are just waiting to hear back. Underwriters always seem to want an arm and a leg though. We are trying to round up boxes. It was nice when I worked at NPS because I got all the boxes I could ever need. Funny story about boxes......... Chris and I went to pick up the Bountiful Basket last Saturday, when Chris decided that he is out of cereal. We just went to the Dick's in Centerville. We had a few groceries in the bottom of the cart, and got a huge stack of boxes from the produce people. I told Chris to put the boxes in the cart so he didn't have to carry them around. We were down the cereal aisle, and I was waiting for Chris to pick out some cereal, when a woman walked by me, and leaned over and said in a really snide tone "Hmmmm.... That sure looks ominous!" I kind of laughed and smiled, because it didn't hit me what she was saying yet, and I thought she was joking. I turned around and she was muttering down the whole aisle "Those kids, hiding their groceries under those boxes....." She thought we were planning on stealing the groceries! I wanted to go up to her and tap her on the shoulder and say "Thanks for assuming!" but I just let it go. I couldn't believe that people will just walk right up and state their assumptions straight out like that. I was already having a bad day, and it was just weird. I laugh now though.