Hilo Hospital

To all of our bloggers out there-I'm sorry it has been a while since our last update. This past week has been a little hectic to say the least.

Last Wednesday I was feeling some slight back pain. I rubbed my favorite remedy (icyhot) on and headed to work Thursday morning. Unfortunately, Thursday night turned in to an all night affair with excruciating back pain and discomfort. I was taken out of the field and spent the next few days at base sleeping and trying to rest up to head back to work.
Unfortunately, that plan didn't quite work out as planned and Tommy took me to Hilo Hospital Monday morning. After a ton of tests including MRI's and CAT scans, I was diagnosed with a kidney infection and lesions on my kidneys.

For the next 4 days Tommy and I cuddled up in a hospital bed watching non-stop cable tv and having nurses poke me all day to take my blood, vitals and IV's. Not to mention, listen to our old Hawaiian roomate who had some serious issues with her bowels. We won't go in to detail there.

After some extensive antibiotics the doctors released me on Thursday saying I was healthy enough to go home. Days later I felt phenomenally better-almost like nothing had happened. I am still on antibiotics but am feeling immensely better. Despite being on an island what feels like millions of miles away, I am so grateful for our supportive friends and family who sent warm wishes along the way. In addition to wonderful doctors and nurses who treated me with such care.

It seems like it should be illegal to have a dog in Hawaii that doesn't like the ocean. But surprisingly...we have one. She doesn't hate it. But she doesn't love it. This past week was dedicated solely to Munson loving the ocean. Code name "Doggy Diving".

We have found the dog beach which helps Miss Munson not only make friends but also play in the water. It is official-Munson has more friends than we do. So that was a success (I guess). Her loving the ocean as much as we

do though... we're working on it. She's not quite there yet.

She flops and flails and doggy paddles here way back to shore but my god is she cute when she does it. Here are a few pictures to prove it...

A new pup and a new home.

With a new addition to our family it has become quite necessary that we move out of our teeny tiny studio apartment. The three of us in one room and hardly any yard just wasn't going to cut it anymore. Before we went to work last week we began looking in to some other houses in the area. The only requirements were that it had a yard and was walking distance to the beach. Little did we know that we were going to land the perfect beach bungalow.

We found a house on Plumeria Street (how Hawaiian) that we were a little hesitant about at first. It resembled somewhat of a shanty town with hardly any lights, tarps used as roofs and trash everywhere. But with a little elbow grease, some bleach and new lumber we were able to make this house a beautiful home. Tommy has been working diligently with his fancy new tools to make a fence and gate for Munson, a kitchen table and knick knacks for the home. While I have been busy gardening, painting any piece of furniture I can get my hands on bright colors and cleaning.

Our new home is a 2 bedroom house. Though one of the rooms is more like a bonus room that we like to call the Kapua Suite for our guests. (Consider this the formal invite). It has hardwood floors throughout the house, french doors that open up on to our deck, a beautiful stained glass window, a big yard for the pup and a backyard full of papaya and banana trees. (Note: the banana trees will be ready in about 3 weeks!) Not to mention, it's a 5 minute walk to a beautiful secluded black and white sand beach.

We've turned our backyard in to an island getaway with hanging lights, lounge chairs, candles and plenty of flowers and herbs. I feel very at home in our new place and am looking forward to another new beginning and adventure in Hawaii. We hope to see you here soon.

Love, Dani, Tommy and little Miss Munson

Miss Munson

A few more pics of our adorable pooch...Miss Munson.

A new addition

We would like to now introduce the newest member of our family...Miss Munson Goodley!

Yes folks, the rumors are true...we got a dog. We went all over the island and found the most perfect fur tube you could ever imagine. She is a 9 month collie mix but we think she's more of a fawn/crack fox mix.

She has a little bit of a retard cross-eye and recently had surgery so having her wear the cone is the icing on the cake. It's a little frankenstein-esque.

But we love her so much and are very proud parents

xo

d, t & m

Big Things

Hello out there to all of our friends, family and those of you who heard of our blog on last week's Access Hollywood. The biggest news in the world of the Big Island Power Couple (us) was my new position at our job. Tomorrow I start as a Field Supervisor. This was a surprise happening so early, but we feel really good about it. What were most excited about are the new possibilities available to us. As field instructors we were not able to have a dog. But now with my position we might be able to have an addition to our family. We've begun the interview process, holding numerous appointments at the Hawaii Humane Society. Hopefully in the near future we can find a suitable candidate. Its just like hiring some one, just fuzzier.

Although, this means having to look for a new place to live being that our current home is not as dog friendly as we are looking for. We do love our little beach studio but we're thinking that some more room would be nice. So we are starting that process also. We did find a cute trailer-like home for sale on the right on the water. And at 1.2 million how can we pass it up? So we're holding a bake sale soon to get a down payment. Wish us luck.

Well thats what you get for now. I hope you all are living life well.

We miss and love you all.

d & t

The most beautiful place on earth.

In our last post we talked about the most beautiful place on earth (to us)-Waipi'o Valley. Here are a few pictures from this magical place.

all our love-dani & tommy (power couple)