Family & Food + My Birthday part II

After picking up our food from Applebee's I HAD to have Jamba Juice. I haven't been to Jamba Juice since before we left Hawaii. So, I got me a Peanut Butter Moo'd, which is the only thing I get from there lol.
Then we stopped at 711 to grab some shrimp chips and Hawaiian Sun juice.

When we got to 711, we grabbed the juice but couldn't find the shrimp chips. When we got to the register, I asked the guy cashier if they had run out of the shrimp chips and he said no "the Hawaii section was in the back." So, I walked behind the cashier area and OMG I was ecstatic! They had everything I've been craving since we moved here except for teri patties. They had mochi crunch, li hing mui candies, the Hawaii diamond crackers, laulau. kalua pig, manapua, portuguese sausage, and redondo's red hot dogs!!! That made my night! We landed up going back to the motel, working on some homework, watching TV, and then going to bed. 

This morning we checked out, went to 711 and grabbed some Hawaii grindz! 

Then we drove back home. 

Just because.. here are some pictures of the boys in the hotel room.

Family & Food + My Birthday part I

Our original plans were to go to Vegas, but due to a few different reasons, we decided not to travel that far. Instead, we drove up to Provo. One reason was to use our gift cards and the other was to spend some time out of our little town and sort of celebrate my birthday. Here are some pictures on our way up there:

we rented a motel room for the night, took our bags to the room, and looked up where Olive Garden was (where one of our gift cards were for).

Here's the motel room. 

 I've always wanted to eat at Olive Garden. In Hawaii, I would see commercials and I would drool! It was such a tease since Hawaii doesn't have an Olive Garden! 

This is my ziti! It was sooo yummy!!

After eating, we drove around and looked at what kind of stores and restaurants there were (for future trips) and then we hung out in the room and watched TV. 

For dinner we ordered Apple Bee's Carside to go (another of the gift cards were for here). I got the Philly Burger 

Continued in next post..

Yesterday was a crazy day!

It was the day of my husband's surgery.

We got up at 5:45 am and got ready. Reisa and Devon got here and I told them where everything was, what to do, etc. Then our ride got here and we left at about 6:45. Got to Provo at 8am, checked in, and then he got prepped in the pre-op. Surgery started at around 10:30. Claudia, Titan, and I had breakfast, I finally got to look at D.I., and then we stopped at Pet Smart. It was nice to be in a city!! lol

I kept thinking about the boys all day; hoping they weren't driving Reisa and Devon crazy.

When we got back to the surgical center, The doctor came out and said the surgery went well. However, he said that he had to see him again at 5pm. I was stressing because I had the boys at home and would have been gone pretty much all day. "/ I talked to Reisa and her job let her get off so she was able to watch them.. I was so glad and that was one less thing to worry about. If we left and didn't stay until 5, then we would have had to find a ride back up there on Saturday.

Anyway, so I finally got to see him. Then he was able to get his IV out, change his clothes, and then we could leave. We ate lunch at L & L, and we saw a guy that the hubby knew from back home. I heard pidgin and was like oh wow makes me feel at home. :P Then he kept looking at my hubby and finally they shook hands and were talking.

Then we went to the eye clinic to see the doctor. He said hubby's eye looks great and gave him some drops. As we were leaving, a guy nurse asked hubby what his last name was. Come to find out, that guy has family in Maui but grew up in Provo. He had a Hawaiian first name and is going to be leaving to work at Waianae Comp lol. It was crazy.

After we left the clinic, we stopped at Walmart to pick up his pain meds. There was a complication and the Pharmacy was busy so we were there for like 45 minutes more. At the point we just wanted to get home to the boys already. Then we were off to head back home. We finally arrived at around 8pm. Man, it was a long day!!!

The boys acted weird when we got home. They weren't excited; they just smiled but were acting silly. Then Trenton started being a brat and whining. I guess it was his way of getting our attention. I think he was mad that we left him and he woke up to us being gone. "/ The hubby went to sleep and I tended to the boys. Then I finally got to catch up on sleep!