Greetings from Leeward Oahu

Hello to family and friends, thanks for taking a look. I’ve started a blog to try to correct some of my wrongs in terms of keeping in touch with folks and letting all know what we are up to out here. One of my biggest sins…not letting a fair number of you know that our family will be increasing by one little boy on or around October 12, 2007. For those keeping score, that will be two adults, two boys, and two dogs, all of which this blog will heavily rotate around! Robbie will be 2 1/2 years older than the coming attraction, and outside of the fun he is having rubbing my expanding belly, he really doesn’t know what’s going on just yet. I may not be giving him enough credit though. Just the other night after his bath, I caught him in front of the mirror sticking his belly out, just like me!

Noel has also resigned from his job effective later this fall, so he’ll be a civilian no later than January 1, 2008. I’m still working a contract here – when October rolls around, it will be one solid year with the gig to add to the resume - but I plan to take time off after the baby arrives. At this point, we think we’ll be leaving Oahu in early 2008, so I thought I’d also let you know a little bit more about our life here before we move back to the Mainland.

I pledge as a new blogger to try to as best as I can, keep the narrative short edited, inform, and make you laugh. But in reality this is for the extended family to get the latest scoop on our activities here and show what Robbie and (soon-to-be) Boy #2 are up to, so my posts will get boring! I also promise the stories will be clean and family-friendly (i.e., OK to check from work!), and you won’t be subjected to an overdose of YouTube links unless I someone I know is in it. Or that darn cute Panda sneezes again…I loved him!