Our last days in Hawaii:(

Well all good things must come to an end. Nathan and I are packing up the last couple of itens to move back to Chicago. We both feel very blessed and fortunate to have been able to live in Hawaii for about a year. We have done most everything that we wanted to do. We spent long days in the sun, swam with sharks, parasailed, surfed and just lived the Hawaiian life style. We have met so many new people that we really become close friends with. We will always have great memories when we look back on our life in Hawaii. But now we have decided to close this chapter in our lives as we open many more. The wedding is coming up on 2 months, we are very excited about starting new. The best thing about that is that Nathan and I are doing to together. By the grace of God we have found each other at just the right time in our lives. I have made my career and Nathan is just starting his long journey of college. His dreams of becoming a vet will take a while to achieve but without a doubt he will get there. My dreams are coming true everyday, I am marring the man of my dreams and moveing forward to starting a family. I never could have imagined that I would be living in Hawaii with Nathan but we have. I wonder what is in store for us next. As our lives evolve we will keep you updated. The next time we update we will be liveing back in Chicago and staying in our new apartment right downtown again. We plan on staying in Chicago for 6 months then moveing to NC. We will keep you todated on our lives. Please keep in touch with us, see you soon:)P.S. Nathan will have the web came back up and running when we get to Chicago, it wont be sheila cam but family cam...Maybe....

Just a quick update:)

Well not much as changed since I last blogged. Nathan and I are finding out everyday how truly blessed we are. Our lives are only getting better. As you know we are planning on moving back to the mainland. That means everything that does not fit into a box must go. Craigslist has been our new best friend. We or should I say Nathan has been able to sell mostly everything that needed to go. We are holding off on selling the bed and couch until the last min. We have sold the Harley!!!!We are sad and happy at the same time. Sad to see it go, it was passed down from Nathan's dad to Nathan, we would have loved to have kept it in the family. We were very fortunate to be able to get a good price for it. We can now ship the Jeep and pay off some other things, this is a blessing. The latest excitement for us, we had our engagement photos done! Let me tell you, we love photo shop!! Nikki our friend and photographer is just starting her business up and she did an amazing job. We took about 700 photos but kept 106 of them. We are very happy to have these done, we wanted something to remember Hawaii from. Now my favorite, the wedding! 3 MONTHS away, can you believe it, I will soon be Mrs. Rachel Riddell:):):):):) The invites are done and sent, they turned out really good dispite the glass or glasses of wine I had. I typed everything out for the second time, spell check saved me. Now we just wait for my parents to get bombarded with RSVP's. Well as usual I am blogging your ear off. We have 4 weeks until we arrive back in Chicago. Our newest stress is getting Sheila home. She is too big for the cage that we bought to ship her in and to fit into the plane. We don't really know what we are going to do yet, I trust that it will all work out. We will keep you updated, and I called it, I found the web cam in the living room!!!!!