I want your hair man

Conversation with Dave tonight:

Me: "Your hair is really straight. It just sticks out."

Dave: "Ya, I know. But I've had people tell me before that they'd love to have my hair."

Me: "Ya? Like who?"

Dave: "Oh, this guy from ASU named Dave Leechie. Did you know him? Well anyway, he was red-head fro' guy that said he'd love to have my hair."

Me: "uhhhmmmm..." [uncontrollable laughter]

Dave: "Ya, never thought of that. I guess that would make sense, huh?"

The end.

p.s. come on...no offense to red heads, fro's, or even asians for that matter. all in good fun...

It begins...

Okay a few things come to mind here:

1. Brand new chair, not ours...we've lived here for 3 weeks...pen marks...white fabric...not coming out

2. First offense

3. At first she was totally busted, and I thought of shipping her home to be with her friend Chloe

4. Alright...get it together, Becky

5. Hey! She doesn't even care...she's talking on a cell phone!!!??!!

6. Guess my days of re upholstery are back sooner than I wanted them to be

7. Good thing we're going home in a couple of weeks and I can get some fabric to fix this

8. I'll wait until the day before we move to re upholster anything around here.

9. I am continuing to discover what unconditional love means... I do love my Mimi!!

Caribbean Thanksgiving

For being our first Thanksgiving away from family...we were sure lucky to have family come to US! My late-eighty-year-old grandparents from Arizona made the long two-day trek down to St. Kitts to spend a few days with us over Thanksgiving. I couldn't believe they did it, and I was so happy to know that the 3:00 pm American Flight that flies over my house everyday actually had someone on it that was coming to see ME!

Above is Nana and Grandpa with little Mimi on the South Peninsula. They loved this drive and Mimi loved playing games in the back with Nana during our "long" drives around the island.
Here we are at "Bobsy's." It's a bar and grill in Frigate Bay that Nana and Grandpa treated us to. Life here is pretty nice when you're a tourist...experiencing the island not on a student budget! Hahahaha...
We spent the actual Thanksgiving dinner with good American friends from church. (Didn't get any pics...sad). The kind Allred family opened their house at the Marriott Resort to a wild bunch of Mormons and we chowed down! It was a very special day, and we felt lucky to have been included when we are such newbies to this island! The food was incredible, the company was enjoyable, and all-in-all, it was a great day that we will remember with fondness...our First Caribbean Thanksgiving!

It's been a while...

Yes...life got really busy, and the blog didn't...which is unfortunate because we want our little blog to document life, and it has really slowed down. So here's some of our news as of late:

Dave transferred schools. The University of Medicine and Health Sciences (UMHS) is a school right across the ocean in St. Kitts, and we felt like it was a much better school, so we went for it, and Dave is very happy and doing well, so it was a great move. Yay.

At first, we decided to stay living on Nevis and have Dave commute by ferry everyday. We did this for two months, and it was a lot to handle. It was an hour and a half each way and very expensive...so we moved to St. Kitts as soon as I got back from my brother's funeral.

St. Kitts is nice...and we really love it! It's a lot bigger, there is more shopping, produce is fresher...and there's even a movie theater here (gasp). The pace is faster, the people are friendlier, and we can see the cruise ships coming in and out everyday from our house. It's kind of fun and exciting. (hint, hint: if you come on a cruise that stops in St. Kitts...you BETTER let us know! This pic is taken from our balcony...I'm serious...the port is 5 minutes away!)

Mia is hilarious and very girlie. She is obsessed with watching Mary Poppins, has to carry her pink purse around all day, and must wear her sunglasses...even if we're in the house. She is still incredibly shy around strangers, and loves to "cluck" at the chickens outside our house every time we go in or out. Everything is a "puppy" (pronounced "poppi"), and popcorn is her favorite treat by far. She is the highlight of our lives...yes we've turned into "those people" that gush over our little one, but we both waited so long for her, so why not?

I'm still working on my master's online, Dave's doing great in school, Mia's getting cuter by the minute, so life is wonderful. Our big family Christmas present is to go home for the Holidays, which we can't wait for.

That's all for now...hopefully I'll be better from now on, but we'll see about that.