Getting to Know You

Basics

1. Who is your man? David Thomas Eastman

2. How long have you been together? We met spring of 1997, kind of dated on and off for 5 years and have been married for almost six. Wow it's been so long, it's hard to imagine eternity (in a good way).

3. How old is your man? 32

You or your man?

1. Who eats more? Probably me, I love to eat. Where Dave forgets to eat lunch a lot of days. I would never "forget" to eat.

2. Who said "I love you" first? This is a little foggy. I think he did, he thinks I did. He chased after me for 4 years then finally gave up and said forget it, then I had to beg him to come back and marry me the last year that we dated. (you always want what you can't have)

3. Who weighs more? Dave, just barely though, which is sad since he's about 7 inches taller than me.

4. Who sings better? Definitely Dave, I can't carry a tune for the life of me.

5. Who's older? Dave by a year and 4 months.

6. Who's smarter? Well I like to think I am in most things, but Dave was in school for almost 30 years so book wise he probably is:)

7. Who's temper is worse? It's about equal, neither one of us have bad tempers. Dave can definitely lose it every now and then and I'm all about just being emotional.

8. Who does the laundry? I do. Dave will help fold every so often.

9. Who does the dishes? I do mostly, Dave helps quite often. To be fare to Dave he does clean all the bathrooms every week and dusts. (I don't think I've cleaned a bathroom since we've been married)

10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me. Dave tries to sometimes because it's closer to the TV, but I have to. In hotels I have to sleep on which ever side is closer to the bathroom.

11. Who's feet are bigger? Dave's! He has a gigantic big toe!, which unfortunately our girls have inherited

12. Who hair is longer? Mine, although Dave did have hair down to his shoulders the first year we were married.

13. Who's better with the computer? Dave, I'm not very good.

14. Who mows the lawn? Dave. I did once thought when Dave hurt his back. He didn't think I could do it and it was a peice of cake.

15. Who pays the bills? I do, I'm more on top of it and like to know how much money we have, or don't.

16. Who cooks dinner? Me. Dave will every blue moon. Neither of us enjoy cooking.

17. Who drives when you are together? Mostly Dave, but I like to drive a lot too.

18. Who pays when you go out to dinner? Whoever feels like getting their wallet out. I usaully always leave the tip though.

19. Who's the most stubborn? Dave would say me, but we are both very stubborn. Not a good thing and does not make for a fast make up when we get in a fight.

20. Who is the first to admit when they're wrong? We both think we're right most the time so it's just whoever gets sick of not talking first.

21. Who's parents do you see more? Mine, almost every week. Dave's live in Oregon.

22. Who named your dog? Dave. He first named her Makita then that too long to say so we changed to to Meeka.

23. Who kissed who first? Dave kissed me, on our couch in Hawaii.

24. Who asked who out? We didn't really go on a "date" for a long time, we always just "hung out" with a bunch of friends.

25. What did you do? Well the first time we actually hung out, was in Hawaii, me, Dawn and Nancy were out on the town and decided we didn't want to drive back to the north shore so we got a hotel room. Four guys decided to come and join us, one of them being Dave. So all seven of us slept in one bed (2 queens pushed together), and the next day we rented mopeds and went to Hanama Bay. Awesome first date, if you can call it that.

26. Who's more sensitive? For sure me!! Maybe a bit too much.

27. Who's taller? Dave's 6'4", I'm 5'9"

28. Who has more friends? I do. Dave's not very social. He wouln't mind if he sat at home by himself every weekend.

29. Who has more siblings? Dave has 6, I have 4

30. Who wears the pants in the relationship? That's a hard one, we're pretty equal.

It would be interesting to have Dave fill out the same questions and see how he would answer them. We have our hard times, but I wouldn't trade Dave for the world. He is seriously the best husband ever and is always trying so hard. We have our differences but thats what makes our family perfect.

Beloved Church President, Gordon B. Hinkley, Dies at 97

We will miss him sooo much, he will always be one of my favorite Presidents, what a great example to the world he's been.

What a wonderful reunion it must have been back with his sweet wife.

SALT LAKE CITY 27 January 2008 President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.
President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.
The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from causes incident to age. Members of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/

Sick Sick Sick

Poor little Madix

As if we haven't had enough sickness this winter now Madix has RSV (a respiratory virus). Poor baby has RSV, a double ear infection and her 4 top teeth coming in!! Man can you imagine. Still as long as someone is in the room with her she is always smiling. We will be sooo glad when this winter is over and pray we never have another one like it. We pretty much have been stuck in our house the whole time (or in the hospital with Tyler for 9 days), you can't do too much with really sick kids:(

On The News

Here I am on TV! You can click and see the video of me that they aired. I was famous for 2 minutes, kind of fun.

http://www.azfamily.com/video/index.html?nvid=210358&shu=1

She Does Love Meeka

Tyler 15 mo's

Ty 12 mo's

Ty 4 mo's

Ty 16 mo's

Ty 12 mo's

Ty 2 yrs



You know I'm not a dog person and I've tried to get rid of Meeka a few times but I have to give some props to our dog Meeka. Besides her hair everywhere she really is the best dog. She'll never go near the baby (or when they were "babies") but once they start moving Meeka is their best friend. I don't understand why Tyler doesn't like playing with Madix but adores Meeka. She is always cuddling with Meeka and whe will bring all her toys and sit right next to Meeka and just play. She sometimes likes to poke Meeka's eyes and nose and jump on her and pull her tail, but Meeka will never move she just lays there and takes it. Even Madix is always trying to get her and nothing will make Madix smile more than Meeka.

Potty Training

I decided to give potty training a try last night and oh boy, do you need a lot of patience. I had Tyler drink 2 full cups of juice then sat her on her little toilet in front of a movie and told her "don't get up until you go potty". And I expected her to listen and understand?, what was I thinking, she's not even 2 yet. So anyways, I leave her there and go down stairs to start dinner and about 5 minutes later she comes walking down the stairs and pees all over the tile. So I yell at her and say "no on the toilet". I sit with her on the toilet for a couple minutes, nothing. So I sit her on her chair to feed her diner and she pees everywhere. Again I yell at her, sit her on the toilet and nothing. Back to her chair to finish dinner and pees everwhere again!! I'm about ready to loose it, so no more dinner, upstairs to sit on her little toilet and "not get up". So I go down stairs to clean up more pee and I hear her upstairs saying,"on toilet". She had stood up off the toilet to go pee on the carpet!! So then I do loose it. Put her back on her toilet and I start scrubbing the carpet, the whole time yelling at her, then all the sudden I hear her peeing in the toilet!! So I go from totally yelling at her to totally praising her!! Poor Tyler probably had no idea what was going on, but I was soooo excited she finally went in the toilet after all of that.

Then she woke up this morning with the worst diarhea and diaper rash, I think I gave her too much juice :( I am so horrible for yelling at her so much when she didn't even know what she was doing, I definently need to learn more patience. So maybe I'll let her rash go away and try again, with more understanding this time. She'll be 2 next month, so my goal is to have her potty trained sometime around then.

On the News

Gary Harper
3 On Your Side
3TV
Gary Harper heads up 3 On Your Side, the investigative unit of 3TV.
I'm gonna be on the news next week. Gary Harper from 3 on your side came to my house this morning to do a story. We're thinking about renting our house for the superbowl so I listed it on craigs list yesterday just to see what would come from it and my first call was Gary Harper. They're doing a story on renting your house out, what all needs to be done, what you should think about and different tips. He thinks he'll air the story next Mon. around 5:30 pm, watch for me.

Ty and Mads

Give me that! And don't touch me!

Madix just turned six months and is starting to army crawl and get all over the place. She has 2 bottom teeth and the doctor just said all top 4 are starting to come in, oh man. Still she is just as sweet as can be. Tyler on the other hand is also very sweet, but not so much when it comes to her sister. She most the time doesn't want anything to do with or, unless it's trying to stand ontop of her, or flicking her in the face, or taking toys away from her, or if she sees Madix trying so hard just to scoot to a toy, Tyler will go and take that toy and move it really far away and set it down! Stinker! She gets really mad if Madix even tries to touch her. I was so happy to hear I was having another girl so they could be best friends, am I doomed for a life of fighting?
Tyler is so funny though and cracks us up everyday. Her knewest thing is singing, she loves to sing. As soon as we get in the car she yells "singing" and I have to turn on her little kids song tape where she bobs her head and tries to sing every word. And of course we think she is the smartest kid in the world. Not even 2 yet and she counts to ten and knows most her ABC's and is talking in full sentences- genious:)
And yes I love to dress them alike. Dave thinks it's so cheesy and why can't they have their own cloths. I guess to bad for him I'm the one who does the shopping.

MY KIDS

Crazy, traumatic, December

The day Ty came home from the hospital, she was so happy to be home.

In the crib she was in for 9 days!

Hawaii-
December started out wonderful. The day after Thanksgiving we left for for what we like to call our hometown of Hawaii for 9 days!! Dave's parents came to stay with our kids so no kids on top of that. We went with all the adults in my family, minus Mel & Kev. We of course had a blast, went to the Big Island for the 1st few days, then to Oahu the rest. I really wouldn't recommend the Big Island to anyone. It was fun but not a whole bunch to do unless you want to drive for 5 hours. Oahu is the place to be. We did all the touristy things- mopeds, diamand head, snorkeled hanama bay, pcc, the temple, surfed waikiki, it was all a blast. Me and Dave went off one night to reminisce our old stomping grounds. We walked around byuh and then up on the point where we used to live and met, man so many memories, living there with Dawn and Nancy. So we had a blast and everything went well back home. Tyler absolutely loves her "mama" (Dave's mom). And it was nice for Michelle and Maile to come keep them company.

Hospital-
Tyler had a little cough and runny nose while we were in Hawaii, nothing serious, and about a week after we got home she got a really bad fever one night. The next day was Sunday, she continued to have a really bad fever all day, was throwing up, and was grunting while she was breathing. We had called nurses and they said just take her to the doctor the next day. Again she was up all night, I took her in first thing Monday morning and almost as soon as the doctor saw her, she said we need to go to the hospital. Of course I freak out and just start crying, the doctor couldn't really tell me what was wrong, just that her oxygen level was low and she wasn't breathing good. She gave her a breathing treatment and some steroids to help open up her lungs then sent us to the hospital.

We go right to the hospital where they check her right in and do an x-ray. They see it's pneoumonia and say they have to do some blood work and tests. They hook her up to an IV for antibiotics and fluids. They said we should be in the hospital 2-3 days. Getting the IV in her was the most traumatic part of the whole experience. They had to poke her and dig in her vien 5, yes 5 different places before they could get a "good" one. I left the room after they couldn't get the 1st one in and let Dave try and hold her. Poor, Tyler, she's not even 2 and doesn't have the slightest idea what's happening to her. The next few days any time a nurse or anyone came into our room she would start to shake and stress out. (You could just tell from her heart rate machines hooked up to her) They would come in every couple hours and give her breathing treatments and do percussions (pounding on her back), and check her vitals and more meds., yes all night long too. So we never got to rest much.

Wed. comes and after not eating or drinking for 4 days she actually woke up and asked for fishies and juice!! I was so excited she was getting better. Then they did another x-ray on her and when the doctor came back in to showed me the results my heart sank. She had gotten alot worse! She was developing fluids all around her lung (essentially pushing her lung in so it can't expand to let her breath). She would have to have surgery to drain all the fluids. That was the last thing in the world we wanted to hear, that our baby was gonna have surgery.
They put us in an ambulance and transferred us to Phoenix Childrens Hospital where they would do the surgery. Thursday they performed the operation where they drained the fluids. They then had to leave the tube in her to continue to drain. The surgery went well but the next few days were not fun. It hurts to have that tube in you, she was hooked up to oxygen tubes in her nose, couldn't really move much, but did get alot of morphine. We pretty much just sat there and watched Wiggles and Doodlebops all day. She always wanted me right by her side. They told us we would probably be in the hospital for Christmas!! So devistating.

They took the tube out 3 days after her surgery and she was doing pretty good with her breathing and her fevers going down, so they gave us the option to take her home with her IV still in and do antibiotics. At first I was really nervous (what if something went wrong), but they told me it was safer for her to be at home away from all the other sick people and that way we could be home for Christmas.

Coming home: it was sooo nice to come home but Tyler was in the hospital for 9 days, laying in a crib and hardly eating her drinking anything. So you could imagine how week she was. I set her down and she tried to walk and she totally fell on her face. So sad! I had to hold her had most of the first day. The next day she was sitting in the middle of the room and tried to stand up and her legs weren't strong enough. Her bottom lip totally started quivering and she was about to cry until I ran over there. She didn't understand why her legs weren't working. She had to keep the Iv in for 7 days where we had to give her her antibiotics every 8 hours. Yes waking her up in the middle of the night.

By Christmas she was running around happy and we had a wonderful Christmas. Of course our best gift was having Tyler back home.

Like I said before, be so thankful for your health and the health of your kids because without that nothing else matters. I just got a small taste of what it was like having a really really sick kid in the hospital. I couldn't imagine being one of the parents in there of kids with more serious problems (like cancer). Me and Dave said we couldn't do it, but like the Doctor told us, you find a way and just do it.

I thank my Heavenly Father everyday that Tyler is healthy again and for our wonderful family and the blessings we have. Although we go through trials that we hate more than anything (like watching little Tyler suffer) I know we can always overcome them becoming stronger in the process.

My Ohana

So me and Dave met in Hawaii, Dave wants to move there, I love everything about there (except it's too far) so we sometimes think we are Hawaiian, hence the blog name, (ohana means family in Hawaiian). We met in 1997, in Hawaii where we were both "kind of " going to school. We "kind of " dated for 5 years before I finally gave in :) and we have now been married for 6 years, (crazy how time fly's). We have 2 extremely beautiful girls!! Tyler will be 2 on Valentines Day and Madix was born 7-7-07 (my goal is to have all fun birthdays).

Here I go with blogging!!

I've thought about making my own blog on and off for the last few months. Then I think I am so uncreative and my life is pretty boring, my blog is just gonna be BLAH. So more than anything I've decided I'll do it for the sake of keeping a family journal. My kids are so dang cute, I want them to be able to go back and read about our family and the major events that happen. So here I go!!! Be patient with me, I'll get better and more fun as I get going.