Laie Lake.

Recently we have had a lot of rain. 

A lot a lot.

On Friday, most of the town flooded, including our yard. We were lucky enough that the hard rain stopped just as it would have flooded our apartment.

There was an e-mail sent out that classes were cancelled "at the discretion of your professor".

Of course I got an e-mail from my professor 10 minutes before class started and I was already waded my way to the school.

NO class today.

Begin building your ark!!!!

See you in class on Monday.

Campus Road

GCB computer lab. The floor is usually blue carpet.

Road to our apartment building.

This is after the water actually went down. This is a big field of grass in front of campus.

This picture is taken from our door. That water is the overflow of the irrigation river. You usually can't even see the river water and here it has way overflown!

This is what we woke up to Friday morning! I really wish you could see how hard the raining is falling.

Rock Climbers

Over Christmas break, Jake and I went to a rock climbing gym with my big sis, Di, and little bro-ski, Scotty. It was really fun and I could not believe how wussy my forearms were! After just a few climbs I could not hold onto the wall anymore and could barely make it halfway up.

Scuba Steve

Jake recently got his scuba certification and went out on a dive at Shark's Cove. Here is the footage by my very own Scuba Steve.

Birthday Man.

This year for Jake's birthday we went shark diving with a group of people. We have been wanting to go for a while and so we made it his birthday celebration. That night we went to Dave and Buster's with some friends where we played games and had dinner.

Please ignore the half of my butt cheek... my computer wouldn't let me crop it.
Seriously.

Our group at 6am.

For birthdays we have also started a new tradition here at the Lyle-Hansen residence. The birthday-er gets to choose dinner for their entire birthday week. So for that week we had Jake's favorites.

V.Day.

In my family, we don't really do a whole lot for Valentine's Day. I would go to school and kids would tell about all the stuff they got for the holiday. 

Whaaa...?

This year, I came home from class and Jake had cleaned the apartment, and got me chocolate and a couple roses.

Aawh!

That afternoon, we went to a wedding reception/ring ceremony, and then headed to town to run some errands.

On the way back, we stopped in Kaneohe and saw The Vow. I thought it was really cute, but sad that it was actually a true story.

Millionaires on the beach

Last weekend, Jake and I had the opportunity to stay at a house the company represents for the weekend.

We felt so cool staying in a $4 million house! It was so nice! We invited a few friends to stay with us the first night, and then we stayed for a couple more nights.

We had fun pretending we were tourists on the North Shore and having a fancy place.

Click here to drool over pictures of the house.

Pictures really don't do it justice.

And of course, there is always a video.

Team Mom.

Yup.

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I'm the Team Mom.

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And by that I mean I am the snack-packer, cell phone/wallet holder, sunscreen rememberer (but not so much of a user), picture taker, video taper to Jake's surfer buddies.

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Lots of thanks to big bags, especially the new one my mom got me.

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It can keep things hot OR cold.

And someday I'll be a real Team Mom.

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The one that brings the cool snacks for our boys at half-time or after the game.

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And it's gonna be great.