Monday May 7, 2012
Well… Today was Josh’s Orientation day! I was so excited for
him this morning and he was just as mellow as could be. He took the Hippocratic
oath today, and received his ‘white coat’ at the White Coat ceremony. Josh is
uber relieved that the school is air-conditioned. Hurray for him.
We spent the evening at Todd and Tiffany Ericksen’s house.
It is beautiful! They’ve done work on the house in lou of paying rent. Their
back yard is immaculate. We had yummy burritos and had fun visiting. They have
a lot of fruit trees in their yard, including coconut trees, mango trees, a
lime tree, a sour-sap tree, almond tree, pin-cherry tree, star fruit tree... we
had a mango fresh off the tree that was tasty. Todd also machete-d a coconut
open and I tried fresh coconut milk and meat for the first time. The milk was
more watery than I’d imagined. The coconut meat was yummy!
I went to ZUMBA tonight! Holy FUN! Highly recommended!
We’ve had a few boo-boos over here. Fay and Eden were
playing outside with Josh and Fay pushed Eden head first down a step and poor
little Eden got a bump and scrape
on her little forehead. Eden is also getting a top tooth coming in! (No wonder
she’s been such a mommy’s girl the last couple of days) Fay and Eden are both
getting a wee bit more adventurous with taking a few steps here and there. The
next boo-boo belongs to me. I stubbed by toe on a door stop thing at Duggins
(the local grocery store) this morning. Not only did I stub it, but I cut it
open AND split my toe nail L Sad day.
Food. I’ve been eating like a man lately. Josh says he
thinks it’s a symptom of culture shock. Some of the food we’ve been enjoying
lately include golden delicious apples with cream cheese/brown sugar/skor bar
dip, chocolate & peanut butter puffed wheat squares, home made by Josh pina coladas, pizza on these
rectangle flat bread things. Yum. I’ve been enjoying yogurt with soda crackers.
Tastey tastey!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Today Josh had his first day of classes. It was a bit
mumbo-jumbo as they are juggling some classes around… But Josh did get a taste
of what’s in store for him. I see many many grueling hours of study time. Oy
vey. The girls were good for me today. They are just way too cute.
The Shoe Thief
Lately, a rather strange and frustrating phenomenon has
taken place. That is that one day Josh’s shoes (Reef flip-flops) were no where
to be found. He recalled that he had left them outside the back door and of
course found it troubling that they had disappeared. We mentioned the loss to our
neighbors and to their astonishment were perplexed as a pair of Dustin’s shoes
(Rainbow flip-flops) had also gone
missing a while before and they thought that perhaps a dog took them as the
shoes were the only missing things and they had their snorkel gear and other
things outside. Now that Josh had also experienced mission shoes it seemed a
little odd that that would reoccur. To everyone’s disbelief a couple days later
ANOTHER pair of Dustin’s beach sandals went missing. So now that is three pairs
of shoes stolen, there’s no way this is a dog. So as you could imagine… this
was a little unnerving for myself thinking that someone is lurking around our
house at night and has the nerve to steal shoes.
Today, after Josh got home from school, him, the girls and
myself were situated nicely on our couch in front of our sliding glass door
when I noticed our across-the-street-neighbor’s dog on our back balcony. Josh
chased him away and thought ..’ hmmm perhaps I’ll go talk to that neighbor and
see if that dog has been stealing our shoes.’ I thought it was a lost cause,
wouldn’t you?
I looked across the street out our bathroom window and saw
Josh holding 3 shoes! He came home with 5! His pair and one of Dustin’s pairs
and some random shoe that someone, somewhere is missing. SOOO relieved that it
was a dog and some crazy person!
By the way… I am currently drinking a homemade pina colada.
You should be jealous. I’ll tell you what. You come visit, and I’ll have Josh
make one for youJ
Glitch
Well… I must say things have been going ever so smoothly
since Josh put his application in. Wednesday morning, however, crap hit the
fan. Not actually, but something rather inconvenient and horrid occurred. The
laptop keyboard would only type crazy math symbols. I tried a few things to fix
it but couldn’t figure it out so I restarted it and… nothing. Still typing
craziness. So we restarted it and still nothing. Keep in mind Josh is needing
the laptop for school :S So … Josh gets on the phone with apple to try to
figure this out and long story short … something must have happened to they
keyboard that wrecked it…? Hmmmm so anyhoo… luckily Josh got the inspired idea
to plug they keyboard from the desktop into the laptop so he could at least use
it. So at this point we might have to take the laptop to an apple store in St.
Maarten. :S GAH!
Fetch
Wednesday, May 10, 2012
So today was a pretty good day! The girls and I had a lot of
fun this afternoon. It’s kind of hard to explain the fun we were having but we
were playing fetch. The girls would chase the ball all over the place. It was
just so much fun to watch them figure out things like how to get the ball out
from under the coffee table ect. I’ll post pictures so you can see. J
Fay. Eden and myself also went to the park with Tolman’s this afternoon. The
girls love the swings. Lyndsay has a natural knack for photography and she took
some AMAZING pictures of the girls.. will post soon.
Zumba again tonight! So fun. Seriously.
Lately
Sunday, May 13, 2012
So today is Mothers Day! <3 I’ve really missed my mom
today. This is our first mother’s day apart EVER! I look up to her so much and
admire her zest for life and her sincerity for people. Also my Grandma Reagh, a
very special woman in my life whom I adore. Also my mother-in-law Marianne, who
has a generous and helpful heart. A special Mother’s Day shout out to my
wonderful friends and neighbors and my visiting teachers. I love and miss you
all. My neighbor here, Lynds, gave a really great talk at church today on
mothers. I’ve been thinking about a comment she made about how motherhood is a
daunting task and we often times feel overwhelmed and need to plea to Heavenly
Father for help. She said that she thinks Heavenly Father intended it to be
that way so that we would do exactly that, reach out to Him for help and parent
along side Him. Another thing she mentioned was from a talk given by Elder
Ballard, I think, and he said that we need to try to live in the moment more
with our children instead of focusing on what’s next, what’s next, what’s next.
So far I think that I’ve been doing pretty well with that. Of course there are
moments of frustration and feeling inadequate and overwhelmed, but those
precious moments of pure joy definitely out weigh those things. Their little
smiles, big smiles, giggles, kisses, watching them figure out something new,
learn new words, give cuddles, look up at you with that most perfect look of
love- it’s all such a blessing and such a sacred trust that I will always be
indebted to my Father for. I am so blessed and am so grateful and want to do
the best I can together with Josh and with Heavenly Father. I love the primary
song, I am a Child of God. We sing it to the girls as part of their bed time
routine, which is going very well by the way. The words are simple and true. ‘I
am a Child of God and He has sent me here. Has given me an earthly home with
parents kind and dear. Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do, to live with Him some day.’ |
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OK so THE GIRLS!!! Eden is getting a top tooth in, you can
see it and feel it. Fay is getting one too! They are walking a little
sporadically, but more and more everyday. It’s nuts. Eden has developed this
little scream. Oy. If she doesn’t get her way, ‘AHHHHH!’ Ha. I think she’s going
to be a singer, not only cause of her lungs, but because she will switch to a
different tone and seems like she’s trying to sing. So cute. Fay, I may have
mentioned this earlier, but she has a new word! ‘Ball!” She doesn’t quite have
the “L” sound down, but she knows what a ball is and loves to play fetch. We go to the park with our neighbors some times and the girls LOVE the swings :)
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JOSHY-POOH so Josh has a week of school under his belt. It’s
definitely not going to be a walk in the park. How ever, Josh had a pop quiz in
one of his chem classes on Friday and…. DUN dun DUN.. He got 100%!!! WAHOO!
Our evenings thus far, consist of dinner, playing with the girls, the girls going to bed at
7, Josh making pina coladas, and us watching an episode of ‘House.’
Love and miss you all! Thanks for your love and support!
LOVE, The Farrells :)
May 25, 2012
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| Fay in Daddy's shirt. |
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| Fay in Mommy's shorts. She looks like a little Jedi! |
Well, well, well. It’s been a while. I’ll bring you up to
speed on things… So Fay and Eden are BOTH screaming for fun now… Fay’s is more
high pitched than Eden’s. Eden’s top front teeth and an eye tooth are coming
in, and Fay’s top front teeth are coming in as well. They choose walking over
crawling now and are getting better and better at it! They are beginning to
have a fascination with shoes. They bring me my flip-flops and try to put them
on. Yesterday I put their little flip-flops on them in the house and it was so
funny watching them walk in them. They did pretty good, surprisingly. They also
bring me their clothes, or anyones clothes really, to put on them. So funny! Definitely
girls! Last week we were singing ‘na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey,
good-bye’ you know that song? Ha… well anyways Eden started going, “na na na
na.” She has sung the whole thing a few times and it is soooo cute! Fay started
doing it too! They are still enjoying playing fetch.
Last week, the waves at the beach were pretty big every once
and a while. Josh and I took the girls out to rinse the sand off before we left
and a big wave attacked us! I’m super glad that we had a good hold on the
girls! The water went over all of our heads. Luckily the girls weren’t really
traumatized by it too much. Fay is still working on getting used to the sand.
Eden is walking at the beach now. You can imagine how interesting that makes
things… oh boy! It’ll be really hectic when Fay starts wondering around too!
Eden loves exploring the water that comes up the beach after a wave crashes so
that’s where she heads-straight to the water. Life jackets? Check!
Josh has his first block exam today. Dun dun dun. He has
another one on Monday. Aint no walk in the park, that’s for sure! He is
enjoying his professors and is trying to get a study schedule down pat.
One would think that picking up and moving to a tiny little
island would be quite daunting. Especially not really knowing what to expect.
But I have to say that it has been quite the adventure so far! Something that
has been an incredible blessing for us has been the built in, effortless
friendships that were here when we arrived. Especially our neighbors the Tolman
family. They are so kind and so helpful and make everything seem so effortless
and like it’s no big deal. They are so happy and willing to help us out.
Lydnsey has 2 little boys Bekham age 3 and Maddox, almost 2. She is also
pregnant. She helps me with my girls and takes us grocery shopping, to the
park, to the beach, and anywhere else we need to go. She’s been an angel and
it’s been so nice to have an instant, effortless friendship.
Keeping you posted!
The Farrells :)
Sunday, May 27th
Maggots
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On a less maggoty note... Josh had his first block final in organic chem on Friday. Can you say 95%? Yes sir! One proud wife over here! That test is worth 45% of his final grade in that class. He's doing well. Two more block finals coming up this week, Physics and inorganic chem.
Eden has another bottom tooth coming in! BAH! Fay is now playing in the sand. Success!
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Happy Birthday to my Grandma Reagh this Tuesday! She's a very special woman and we look up to her a lot and admire her amazingness. Love you Grandma!!! |
| Fay and Eden! "Happy Birthday Great Grandma Reagh!" Well, that's all for now!Love you all! The Farrells |
This was so fun to read!!! What an adventure! We miss you here, but glad you are doing good!
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