OK people I need some feedback

Wow, I am really addicted to all the newest features to add to the blog. The most recent addition to the blog is a webcam. It is live streaming video of our front room where we keep Sheila when we're not home. This is basically just a trial run, the camera we are using is the webcam on my laptop. So it will be hit or miss if I have it set up or if I'm using my computer for something else. If you get a chance to see it when it is set up thats great and I would like EVERYONE's opinion if possible. Right now I have the feed from the streaming video in two places. The first place is front and center above the most recent post. The socond place is all the way down at the bottom of the page under the posts. I tried putting it off to the left in a smaller format, but it wouldn't stay small so it just blocked the posts. I want to know where you guys like it better, or if I should just keep them both. Just post your replies in the guestbook. Mahalo!!

p.s. if the feed isn't broadcasting live, here is a sample video of what it will basically look like.

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Good Bye Hawaii

I totally forgot some big news. Rachel and I are moving back to the mainland this June. As everyone knows we are getting married in about 5 months (OMG!!). We both want to start a family pretty soon after that, but we don't want to be 4000 miles away from our families when we do so. Also we want to start thinking about buying a house and that is just not an option if we stay out here. So here's the plan as of right now. Basically when I'm done with this semester of school we are going to move to Chicago where we can both work and get things ready for the wedding. When we get back from our honeymoon we will then move down to North Carlina. Where exactly we move to in NC depends on which school I transfer to, but it will most likely be either Raleigh or Wilmington. I know it's hard to believe that we are leaving paradise, and Rachel and I are both sad we are leaving, but we both realize there are more important things that we want. Thanks for your support. Aloha!!

Jen is here!!

Hi everyone. I've added yet another little feature to the blog called "twitter". It is a nice feature that allows Rachel and I to send small messages to the blog from our cell phones and they are automatically added to the blog. It only shows the most recent one but there are arrows at the bottom of the box for you to scroll through the twitter messages. Also Rachel's Maid of Honor Jen just arrived, she is here visiting with one of her friends. They flew into Oahu and went to a wedding on Maui. Rachel has been really busy with work, working mostly night shifts, so she has been really tired lately. I am on my last week of school before spring break starts, I am looking forward catching up on some sleep and not doing any homework!! One thing I promise to do this spring break is finish putting together video and pics from when our foreign friends visited. Tonight we are going to a LUA'U!! Aloha.

Updates on Our Life and Blog

Aloha everyone. For those of you who haven't heard our dryer has been out of commission for a little over a month and we have been going to the laundromat to do our laundry (15 min drive $2.75/wash) and that was getting annoying. Well my neighbor Damien, who we share a washer and dryer with, found one the other day for only 50 bucks and I installed it over the weekend. So now we have an almost new dryer!! As most of you know we are coming back to the mainland for the summer before we get married and we have been looking into shipping Sheila, who now weighs around 80 pounds. The estimates we have been given were around $1600 dollars ONE-WAY! That was obviously way more than we could afford, but not to worry. Rachel found out yesterday that Continental Airlines will ship Sheila for $850 ROUNDTRIP!! Thats awesome. We were getting really worried because we did not want to leave Sheila here for 2 whole months without us, nor did we want to have to ask any of our friends to take on such a huge task. Nothing has been finalized yet, but its looking a little better than before. Now for the blog itself. I have added 2 new features to the blog which I mentioned in the Updates list. The first feature is the blog Archive, which is a little navigating tool you can use to go to any blog post in the past by clicking on the year and month. The second feature is a Guestbook which is located at the top of the blog, right above the latest blog post. I decided to put in a Guestbook because it was getting hard for me to keep up with new comments, and I thought it would be a easier for everyone to leave and respond to messages.

Random collection of stuff

Here is another collection of videos of Rachel, Cloye, Sheila, and I all made into one. Rachel and I bringing our huge couch home with Rachel's jeep, Cloye getting a mohawk, all of us going on a hike, and a couple of other things.

Today is the last full day our visitors are here. Nathalie leaves first thing tomorrow morning and Helene leaves tomorrow night. The video will be done soon and we have lots of pictures to put up too. Enjoy!

Christmas in March?????

We're baaaack!! Well I finally finished the Christmas video. I had to edit about 2 hours worth of video so it's down to about 20 min. As far as updates are concerned...where do I begin? Sheila is now 78 pounds, and is getting so big. We just took her to the vet a couple of days ago for a rabies booster and the vet said she is going through a growth spurt right now. Cloye is doing well, she was throwing up for a couple of days so we took her to the vet as well. The vet said it might have been because of an obstruction, but after taking some antibiotics and spending some time in the vet she's all better. We never found out exactly what the problem was, but she's happy and healthy now. For me school is keeping me busy as usual, although I seem to have alot more homework this semester than I did last semester. The good news is my grades are all good so far. Rachel is keeping busy with work and continuing on planning the wedding. She has also made some improvements around the house. She sanded down and painted our shower floor, made a nice cover for our couch, and made curtains for the office and a matching cushion for my computer chair.
Right now we have 2 visitors here staying with us. Helene and Nathalie are two of our very good friends. Helene is from France and Nathalie is from Germany. Helene was there when Rachel and I met for the first time. And we met Nathalie a few weeks later and we've all been close ever since. Helene has a blog of her own so in keeping with tradition I am going to copy and paste what she writes on her blog onto our blog so you can have a perspective from our visitors. Now, speaking of visitors we have Rachel's Maid of Honor, Jenn, and one of Jenn's friends coming to visit about 2 weeks after our foreign friends leave. Then one of my friends Dan aka broom is visiting March 23-29th which is also my spring break. I will be adding a video to the blog post from Helene, which I am working on now, and I'll get some more updated pictures up ASAP. Sorry for neglecting the blog. I am going to try giving more frequent updates. ALOOOOOOHA!!

Sheila beating up everyone

Wow, it has been a long time since we have updated out blog. I am working on our christmas video, but until then here is a little something that made us laugh, and we hope it will make you laugh too. :)

...no animals were harmed in the making of this video.

SHEILA!!!

well here she finally is. The video is , again, a little long. It's about 20 min. but it is worth watching all the way through....obviously :) And don't worry we didn't leave cloye out, she's in the video too. As an update, Sheila is about 40 lbs and 18 weeks old. She is currently going to puppy classes and absolutely loves it and is definitely the smartest and most well behaved dog there. hehe. Not much else to say, Rachel and I are doing great, both staying busy. Rachel has been doing lots of crafty things around the house, making things, decorating, making things to decorate with. hope you all enjoy. ALOHA!!

THE SHARK ENCOUNTER!!!

Here it is, finally. Let me start by thanking everyone for your patience, for some reason everything went wrong while trying to finish this video. It is finally done!! So Rachel and I went swimming with sharks with Hawaii Shark Encounters here on Oahu. It was awesome to say the least. The sharks you will see on the video are Sandbar Sharks and Galapagos Sharks. The group that went out before us saw 2 tiger sharks, which is a real treat and apparently very rare. Oh well maybe we'll see one next time. As for watching the video, if you are prone to motion sickness you might want to take some dramamine....seriously it was really rough out there on the north shore and just watching the video might make you queezy, but suprisingly Rachel didn't get the least bit sick the entire time. The video is kind of long, but there are some pretty sweet shots. ENJOY!!!!!

Rachel's weekend trip to Maui!!!!

The first part of our weekend we spent just seeing the island, snorkeling, swimming and just relaxing on the beaches. Day 2 is when we planned to go on the Road to Hana. This is a famous drive that goes by the breathtaking waterfalls and gorgeous landscapes. Well unforunately it was the dry season, we only saw one!!!! Most of the 52 mile journey was winding, one laned and next to the drop off into the ocean. As you will see in the video, I come face to face with a truck on a oneway bridge. He won, I had to back up off the bridge. The one waterfall that we did see, we were able to go swimming, well thought about swimming, the water was very very cold. ( as cold as the water in feb. in the swimming pool back home, dad dared me 20$ to jump in...... of course I did it. Dad stopped playing that game, I charge too much now:):) Ok back to Hana, the day was planned to only take "a couple of hours", well we arrived back at our hotel 12hours later!! I couldn't help but to be a little disappointed and very tired. Overall I 'm glad that I went and did experience the one waterfall that Hana had to offer us.