Aloha kakahiaka!

well its been a good month for us, and a month of blog silence (sorry.) Life has been good, we are pretty much in a routine, Steph's job has very long hours and of right now she never gets a day off, but soon she will be done with longs and have a typical 9-5 Mon- Fri. I have been doing good, just working and trying to get freelance graphic work were i can find it.  

Some of the exiting things you may have missed in hilo:

The Merrie Monarch Festival, this pretty much the biggest thing in hilo, 7 days of arts, crafts, music, and most importantly (and for around 5 hours a night) Hula!

here is Wikipedias take : "The Merrie Monarch Festival is dedicated to the memory of King David Kalakaua, known as the Merrie Monarch. King Kalakaua, the second (and last) elected king of Hawai'i, came to the throne in 1874 and reigned until his death in 1891. He was a patron of the arts, especially music and dance. Kalakaua almost single-handedly restored many of the nearly extinct cultural traditions of the Hawaiian people. These included myths and legends, and the hula, which had been forbidden -- due to the influence of Protestant missionaries"

It really looked like a fun event, hopefully next year we can plan out a better time and actually go. (I guess the reason that hula was forbidden was the hole topless thing) 

The other interesting note is i found out about our Big Island Hawaii monk seal, 

I was walking along one of our close black sand beach when i saw a large section was taped off, as a got  a little higher i saw a large blob on the beach and immediately thought that it was some sort of sad animal that had washed up. Thankfully i was wrong, it was non other than our very own monk seal mother. I went over and talked to the volunteer, who incidentally was from Traverse city originally, and she told me that this seal was one of 4 that frequents this island and the other 3 were all her offspring.

For all you sports fans, i'm sure you have been dying to know how the Elevate basket ball team is doing, last night we had a game against New Hope Pride, and let me tell you it was a close close game, but in the end Elevate pulled off the win. This puts us at something like 4 wind to 1 loss or something. But all gears up in two weeks when we have the tournament. (and no i'm not playing)

When thats about all from us, We are exited about coming home  in may (from around the 7th to the 24th or so) hopefully well get to see you all soon....

LAVA!!!!!

Well, we finaly saw lava yesterday, It was kinda exiting, alitle disapointing, but well worth the trip. They opended it up to the public last weekend but our first chance was on  tuesday, it was a fun time, we went with a couple we met a few weeks ago. It was about a hour and so drive then a 10 minuite walk to get there, we were around allitle less than a mile (complete guess) from the lava, so needless to say the sights wern't to spectacular. but you could see the lava swirling around and steam from the ocean.

In other news Stephs Dr. office moved last week, so it was a busy stressful time, Its looking good at the office, he is gone this week but called her to come in and work on scanning and doing fallow up reports, I've been working as normal we are winding down on the easter season and then thats it till Halloween. In realy exiting news we finaly got a TV!! movies on the big screen definitely on of lifes litle pleasures. i'll leave you with some video of the lava, its about as exiting as the top picture.

Miller trip redux

More pictures soon, tying to re-upload so you can enlarge.....

Hawaii trip with the Millers!!

Big post comming soon

Sorry for the lack of post soon (hopefully tomorow) we will be posting a huge picto-blog, The miller are flying out tonight :( but its been a wonderful vacation, and will be sad to see them go. 

I need your help!

This is a common spider around here as far as i can tell its called a "crab spider"

puss got his first hair cut!

And so did I! (well my first Hawaii haircut, it was weird cause it was done by a Hawaiian with tourch)


Hurray a new used futon for cheap!


Here is were i need you help, I've designed these for a logo contest and i need help picking a winner. please click to enlarge and leave a comment on which is your favorite.

Well Mom and Dad Miller are in the air flying as i type. Were not sure if they will be in Hilo today or tomorrow depending on if they spend the night in in Oahu. they will be here till feb. the 19th. Steph and I are very exited for there stay.
In job news Aaron started a job at Kawili Dental as a receptionist, and steph didn't quit but is only going to work the weekends and hopefully either find a second part time or a good full time job.
All else has been going well, shy of a few car not starting issues and alike, its getting colder here but don't worry about us we will make it somehow (in fact up in a town called volcano they actually got Hail on Tuesday). thats it for now, don't feel shy about calling or commenting...
All our new found Hawaiian Aloha (in this case we mean love, not hello or goodbye) back to you all on the Mainland.
zane

happy new Year!

one and a half weeks later!!

Well if you haven't heard mom and dad miller are flying to hilo the first weeks of February, that very exiting for us, In preperation I requested my vacation time and stephanie put in her final notice. Yup on the 30th stephanie will oficialy unemployed, (i'd be lying if i said that didn't make me nervous) oh well i'm sure something will come through. Aaron had 2 realy promesing interviews at a dental office so we will keep the old fingers crossed on that, and stephs puting out as many resume's and applications as we can find. 

The weather here has been amaizing the last two weeks, we went from seing the sun for about 5 minuites a day to almost full days of sun (now i know what the dry side of the island must feel like) although the nice thing about living on the rainy side is you definitely learn to apreciate the sunshine (kinda like a sunny day in wintery michigan). 

well i hope this finds you well, Thanks for the continued prayers and comments. 

love steph & zane