Thanksgiving 2009

Hello Everyone,

So here's pictures from Thanksgiving where we all made stuff for dinner. But of course the day had to start off with breakfast and this was mine. :)

Here's the turkey in the oven cooking away. Alex was in charge of this and the potatoes.

It was a beautiful day in Hawaii of course.

We were watching the Thanksgiving day parade and I just happened to get a picture of my turkeys and Tom Turkey on the TV.

Here's the turkey all carved up.

Here's the rest of the food. There's scalloped corn, green bean casserole, yams, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. We also had apple pie and pumpkin pie.

Tami and I waiting until Jon got there so he wouldn't have to eat alone. We were really excited to dig in.

Here's our feast and yes mom that's milk at my place. ;)

The next day Tami and I went shopping and when I got home I decorated for Christmas. This is the decorations on mine and Tami's door to our room.

I got these window clings that had a tree and decorations to put on it so I decided to put them on our big mirror in the dining room.Here's my little tinsel tree that I put on top of the TV.

Here's the window clings that I put on our big windows. I also decorated the lanai with garland, lights and bows.

Here's our lanai all lit up.

Here's one of the bows that I worked so very hard on.

Here's another picture from our lanai of the lights.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures. It was definitely a different Thanksgiving even compared to the one last year. I can't wait to be home for Christmas. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses.

Veteran's Day

Hello Again,
So for the first time since school started we actually went to North Shore. It took us until November to make the journey. We woke up to this beautiful morning and our awesome view. Its okay to be jealous because Hawaii is definitely a beautiful place. ;)
We got on the bus at the mall and met Jon downtown. This picture is of on the bus before Jon got on. We were so excited. Afterall for all of us we can count the amount of times we've been to the beach this semester on one hand. Its so much different from the amount of times we went to the beach last year.

Since we were heading to the North Shore of course we had to stop for shave ice. I always think that its funny because everyone else will get a large and I get a small and I'm always the last to finish. Its because I provide entertainment and usually don't shut up so it takes me longer. We were really excited can't you tell?

We decided to go to Waimea bay.

There were signs posted about the dangerous shore break for that day and the lifeguards kept anouncing that. But Tami, Jon and I all went for a swim and let me tell you it was intense but so much fun. We each ended up with like a pound of sand in our bottoms by the end. Then we went and laid down to soak up the sun for the rest of the day.

See the shorebreak was pretty crazy and that wasn't even the worst of it.

We had to get a good group shot since we haven't had one in a while. This was the best picture of the day.

We decided in an effort to save money we'd pack a lunch for the day. We had sandwiches, chips and granola bars for our lunch. We were all thinking that we should have done it last year since it was a lot of fun and we didn't have to leave after we got to the beach. For all of us it was a much needed break from school. We all didn't want to leave the beach since it was so nice not to have to worry about school and other stuff. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses.

Lots of Cookies!!!!

Hello,
So I decided back in September that I was going to make sugar cookies for Halloween. The Monday before Halloween and right after my first onsite clinical I took over the kitchen and made 10 dozen sugar cookies. It was a few more than I planned to make and I still had left over dough that I froze so I can make cookies for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the pictures of my day of baking.
My spot for rolling and cutting the cookies.

Alex came home while I was in the middle of baking so she was taking pictures.

While the cookies were cooling I mixed the colors in the frosting.

I took over the table to frost the cookies. I had 4 different cookie cutters so I had 30 cookies of each shape.

Here's the view from the other side of the table.

I did the base layer of frosting on the cookies before we ate dinner.

While Tami and Alex had some fun with the frosting.

Alex decorated 3 cats.

But when it got to the fine details I had to put my headphones in to block out their silliness so I wouldn't screw up. I was serious about my cookies.

Here's some of the pumpkins and cats before the details.

Here's cats and ghosts after details were added.

The happy pumpkins.

The finished bats and some more cats.

More pumpkins and ghosts. I took some of the cookies to work for our Halloween potluck on the Friday before Halloween. Making all these cookies was a much needed stress reliever for myself. I had a lot of fun plus everyone loved them. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses. :) Jessica

Carving Pumpkins

Hello Everyone,

So I finally got time to write my blogs about Halloween and it's almost Thanksgiving :D. Oh well at least I got it up here. So Tami, Alex and I decided that we were going to carve pumpkins the weekend before Halloween. This was Alex's first time carving a pumpkin so we were definitely excited for her. I hope you enjoy the pictures.



We're all ready to go.

Alex was so excited she was going to eat her pumpkin.

Or at least the pumpkin guts.

This was our fantastic view while we carved pumpkins.

We got all the guts out and then it was time to actually start carving.

After almost 5 hours we finally finished the carving. Here's my pumpkin. Since we have no lights out on the lanais we had to improvise and put desk lamps outside so we could finish after the sun went down.

Here's all 3 of our pumpkins. Tami's is the house and Alex's is Glee because she absolutely loves the show Glee as do we all.

Sadly we found out pumpkins don't last very long in Hawaii. These were our pumpkins after 2 days.

These were our pumpkins 4 days after carving them when we threw them away. They didn't even make it to Halloween but we still had a lot of fun. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses. :) Jessica

Scrubs and President's Host

Hello,
I know its been a while since I wrote a blog but I really haven't done much except school this year. These pictures are kind of out of order but that's ok. I figured you all would like to hear about the President's Host induction reception and see a picture of me in my scrubs for school. Well the induction reception was Wednesday night on the Hawaii Loa campus. My boss, Noe was there along with the Registrar of the university, Richard and Ashley who is also works in the Registrar's office. She does petitions for graduation. First off I have to tell you about the killer deal I got on my dress and shoes from Sears. I had spent like 2 hours at Ross trying on dresses and didn't find anything that I liked so I decided to go to Sears and I tried on a few dresses and found the one I bought and it was originally $95 but it was on sale for $50 but then when I took it to the cash register it rang up as $15 so I got a super good deal on it and the heels I bought were only $10. I met Noe, Ashley, and Richard at the other campus because I went home after my diet and nutrition class to get ready. They had leis for all the new inductees plus Noe got me one and then everyone else in the Registrar's office put money in to get me one so I had 3. A few people from the Student Life office spoke along with President Wright. Then we got to eat and mingle. I met all kinds of people and had my picture taken with several. This has definitely added some extra fun to my already busy schedule but I'm looking forward to all I get to do. I hope you enjoy the pictures. :)

This is me in my scrubs that I'll be wearing for the next 5 semesters. They have the School of Nursing seal on the top and pants. The seal is also on the nametag and the patch that is on our labcoat. I can't remember if I told you but I got of course a pink stethoscope and pink blood pressure cuff.

Here's a close up of me in my scrubs.
This is my new dress and shoes for President's Host along with all my leis.

All President's Hosts get this same sweatshirt and certificate. There were 58 new inductees for this semester and since they started the program 24 years ago there is a total of over 1200 HPU President's Hosts.

This is my boss, Noe, the one who nominated me.

This is Richard, the Registrar.

This is President Chatt Wright.

I'll hopefully get to write another blog soon. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses. :) Jessica