35 weeks and growing

Baby is really active these days. His favorite thing to do is hang out under my ribs and play. I just love that. He still has his sweet cravings and needs his bowl of ice cream every night. I do what I can do for him. Countdown is on. Getting a little nervous. We can't wait to meet the little guy!

arkotec featured

Arkotec was recently featured on Hapa Hale, a local design blog. They said some nice stuff about us :) Check out the article here: www.hapahale.com.

we're pretty much famous...(at least our dresser is)

We recently bought this dresser from craigslist for $25 (+$5 tip) and had some ideas about how to fix it up. We want to use it for baby's room. I knew there was potential to be a cool piece. We wanted to get more input so emailed Apartment Therapy with a couple pics and asked for their advice...That was a week or two ago and I was starting to think they were over helping us, then Shandra was browsing today and noticed our dresser and my email on their site! So we're pretty much famous by now. I've begun work on it and will post again next week with the final outcome. Get ready, it should be sweet...

check it out here.

We really like AT, it's a cool & free way to get advice for home design stuff like this, or just get inspired.

Christmas on the Big Island

Surprise baby shower at Merrimans. Thanks everyone for the fun gifts! And yummy lunch!


Christmas morning. Opening presents by the huge Christmas tree. Prelude music by Bill.


New back road to Waipio Valley. It cut about 10 minutes off the drive. Unfortunately this nice paved road ended quickly and became a nice off road adventure.


Waipio Valley. Christian and Jim (those tiny little surfers on the right side) are about to get slammed by the massive close outs.


Waipio on a clear day. Beautiful.


The island was so green from the rain the weeks before.


Check out that putt stance.





Searching for one of Christian's many lost balls.


Snuggle bug.


Happy New Years! We spent the evening with Brian and Jenn (aka - Bringina) at the Mauna Kea Hotel. Thanks for the fun night guys! It was a grand reunion.




Wasting time while we waited for the midnight countdown and fireworks on the beach.


Just enough time to get high together (high on life).


Christian's so proud of the baby bump, and the maternity high wasted elastic waste band jeans.


3-2-1...Happy New Year!


Christian and Ian L. headed out to A-Bay on New Years Day. He said that the conditions were as good as it gets there.




Christian laying down the law.


Mauna Kea got so much snow this winter!


We decided to head up there to play in the snow. It was freezing! A little over 13,000 ft., I was gasping for oxygen. Lots of snowboarders up there, with no lifts. They get dropped off at the top of the hills in their cars, or they have to climb up to the top and ride down.





We were so glad that we were able to spend the holidays with Christian's whole family this year. Thanks for the good times. We look forward to an exciting new year ahead of us.

Christmas Work Party

A couple of weeks before Christmas was the Mason Architects Christmas work party. We rode on the back of a fire truck while we toured the historical sites of downtown Honolulu. Our driver was a cute fireman who was very entertaining. Then we were dropped off at the Mission Houses Museum where the party was at. Yummy food, the dessert was catered by Hokulani Bakery, amazing cupcakes. All of Christian's co-workers were pretty shocked to see my big belly, since he never told anyone that I was pregnant. It was the talk of the party.







The lights downtown are always fun during Christmas. The tree trunks are wrapped up with Christmas lights. Very cool looking.