Milkshake Night

When little Bon first came into our family and I would take her everywhere with me because I couldn't trust her to stay home alone for more than 10 minutes without peeing everywhere and she was still small enough to slip through the fences, she always rode shot gun. My mom made a comment about "please don't become one of those crazy dog people..." Mom. come on. have a little faith in me. I'm not a crazy dog person.

A few months later I posted a picture of her riding on my lap... "uhg! you ARE one of those dog owners!"  ...well! She was so little that she was just slipping around every where! She needed to sit on my lap for her own safety. I'm not a crazy person. And she's not even spoiled... not even thaat spoiled.

One time I gave us matching pedicures.

Sometimes she sleeps in our bed with us.

I only get a little bit annoyed now when she jumps on the couches

right. after I vacuum her fur off them.

So I have to admit, she's gotten kind of spoiled.

Well tonight we made her a milkshake. And after that I can't even deny it anymore- Bonnie is the most spoiled dog in the world. And I'm not even very embarrassed... I mean, a little bit.. but not that much.

that's dog ice cream, with dog cookies.

And she loved it!

we just made our dog a milkshake.. it's kind of shameful.. but kind of happy..
it's not even shameful! there is nothing wrong with loving our baby!!

Catching Up

so... it's been awhile
here's what you've missed (sans pictures for most, cause i suck)

For halloween I decorated the house with voodoo dolls, cause I'm creepy

Also I got a biiiit of a scratch from a wolverine

Probably about the first weekend in November we went shopping for our Christmas tree and our decorations. The next weekend we got a little anxious and put the tree up (sorry Thanksgiving... #notsorry)

November 7th was the Marine Corps Ball. I meant to take lots of pictures of the day, but also knew I'd fail. So of course we ended up buying the picture set again. Cause we had to have some sort of documentation of the ball!

Allan and the guys at his shop built the cake.

yes, "built"

apparently it's just a wooden form that then gets covered in frosting...

which I thought was pretty interesting.

except for this tiiiny corner which is a little slice of actual cake that they cut as part of the ceremony.

With their swords ?!

yup. with their swords.

Thanksgiving I cooked my first feast for eight of allan's buddies. Allan deep fried the turkey (which was freakin delicious and I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever thought about trying it) I made a ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, deviled eggs (because it doesn't count as thanksgiving unless there's deviled eggs), potato salad, rolls with honey butter, spinach and artichoke dip, a double layer pumpkin pie, gram's famous buttercake... and then there was the green bean casserole. I've never eaten nor cooked one before. But two days before thanksgiving allan says you're making green bean casserole, right? um.... it's not thanksgiving without green bean casserole!! okay! just know I've never made that before! needless to say it was a disaster. I wish I'd thought to take a picture of it, but also I'm glad I didn't because it looked like someone ate green bean casserole, then threw it back up into my dish. It was the saddest thing I've ever cooked... By the time I finished cooking everything, I (&I'm sure everyone else) was so hungry we dug in before I got a picture of the feast. I almost took a picture of the remains after everyone finished, but no one wants to look at pictures of kitchens that look like a tornado blew threw it.

I think we were in a Thanksgiving food coma for about a month after that. It took us until maybe a week and a half before Christmas before we put up our lights and decorations outside. People probably thought we were the biggest scrooges. Allan decided two days before that he wanted to do a dinner with a fried turkey again, so I went to the store and...

we were terribly sad. So we ended up getting a chicken instead. The next morning we opened presents and called families. It was a great day, but again I didn't get any pictures cause I'm the worst at that. That night we had a few friends over to join us for our Christmas dinner. And guess what? the chicken turned out even BETTER than the turkey!

For New Years Eve we talked about going to Waikiki to watch some fireworks, but I worked the next morning so that plan didn't make it very far past the "planning" stage. We turned on the tv and watched the ball drop in New York (at 7:00. it was a little weird). the TV stayed on as me& jenn chatted in the living room and the boys hung out outside. So we watched the ball drop again at 8:00... and again at 9:00... then I got too tired and went up to bed. Because apparently I'm getting too old for this "stay up till midnight nonsense"

For Christmas Allan's dad sent us this cute little sign.

excuse it's crooked hanging.

just don't even go there.

At first we didn't know where we were going to put it, as we don't have anything on the walls yet and it'd look funny hanging all by it's lonesome.... so we decided we would just have to make a Bonnie Themed picture wall!

Allan is too grumpy and say's it looks like she died& we haven't gotten over it yet. I say she's our baby and people always have pictures of their babies up in their house so get over it.

And that pretty much gets us all caught up. I promise to try to take more pictures for next time. Also to update more often so you guys don't get to missing us toooo terribly much.

Sea Life Park

This past weekend we went to the Sea Life Park (aka: tiny SeaWorld).
I went in determined to take lots of pictures of our adventure (obviously I didn't do so great) so I guess these are the highlights you get

 these little lovebirds couldn't stop smoochin' on each other

 he kept trying to eat my ring

specifically taken so you can see his creepy tongue

itchin his back

also we got to feed the sea lions, and since no one else signed up for the feeding it was just us two for a super exclusive, private feeding. We're so cool.

"mhm. yupp. that's the good stuff"

Not pictured: my first funnel cake and fried ice cream. Or our resulting diabeetus.

Dole Plantation

This weekend we went to the Dole Pineapple Plantation, cause we're pretty touristy. 

crossed paths with my spirit animal

First we went on a train tour, the Pineapple Express.

Before we got on, they took a picture of us with our new pineapple baby... because why not, I guess...

 It went through parts of the plantation and talked about the history and whatnot, I'm sure it was super educational...  but mostly I just took pictures of the plants and old farming machines

 All the machines had name signs, and for the most part I guess that was called for because they had weird random names. Except this one, the "Wheeled Tractor".

 Obviously I was born to hula

The Dole Plantation boasts 2008 Guinness Book of World Records "World's Largest Maze". So of course we had to do that.

"Created in 1997. Expanded in 2007. Area: 3.15 acres. 2.46 miles of pathway. Made of 14,000 local Hawaiian plants"

There are 8 stations inside the maze that the map helps you find. When you get there you trace the stencil from the station onto your ticket. Once you get them all, you head back out. Apparently if you do it super fast you also get your picture taken and hung up and get to sign your name on maze entrance sign.

We finished in a little less than an hour, but that wasn't fast enough to be cool... Last time Allan was there (like 8th grade I think he said) they didn't have maps to help you find your way, so it took them like 3 hours to finish!

We took turns leading the way between stations and I only got us turned around like twice and not even for very long. So I'm pretty good at this maze business I think.

After the maze we were pretty hot, so we took an ice cream break. They have a Pineapple Split that uses a pineapple cut lengthwise as a bowl with three towers of ice cream, chunks of pineapple, and strawberry, chocolate and caramel sauces drizzled on top. it was like $25.00 so we didn't get that.

 That is a "Dole Whip", aka pineapple ice cream that tastes approximately 700% stronger of pineapple than the fresh pineapple chunks around it. It was pretty intense. Allan couldn't finish his cone cause it was so pineapple-y. (I, however, am a champion and devoured mine.) 

 Allan refused to pose in this giant pineapple, despite my warning him if he didn't I was going to photoshop him into it. You can see what he chose... Or maybe not, on account of my skills being quite exceptional.

Then we went on a self guided tour through their gardens. They had audio wands, but I didn't care about listening to those

 This is a... uhm... min-DON-ohh... tree... "meen-da-NOW" that's a Filipino word 

Mindanoa gum tree. Probably my new favorite tree because it doesn't even look real. It looks painted and its bark peels like plastic wrap. So weird. I Love it.

 I think these are ti plants

wussup little frog

papaya

kukui tree

bananas

bananas with... I don't know what that purple thing is

On the way home I was finally able to get a good picture of one of my most favorite views.

These are my favorite mountains ever, but only from this side. From the other side they are much more "rolling, hills" rounded type mountains, not so intimidating at all. But from this side they are so sharp and mysterious. Every time I see them I can't help but think King Kong is on the other side doing giant gorilla things.

Also this weekend I finally got my library card! so I guess you could say it was a pretty good one :)