Goodbye Gold Bullet, Hello Green Lightning

Yesterday afternoon Darrick and I went on a date. The plan was go out for a late lunch and then see an early movie. We had a super yummy dinner. We tried a new place called "Diego's Taco Shop". Darrick had carne asada fries-which he heard he had to try-and I had hard tacos with rice and beans. We will definitly go there again.

We had some time before the movie so we stopped at Cutter car dealership to look at the new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. It was sweet but a red Compass caught my eye. Let me just say that our gold minivan aka: Gold Bullet has been a great car for us but every couple of months it seems to have something going wrong. The newest is a clicking sound and a leak in the radiator. So we test drove the Compass but knowing we still owe $5700 on the van we didn't think they could work a deal for us but the salesman was willing to try. They came out with: If you put $8000 down your payments will be 844 a month. When we told him there was no way we could do that he wanted to know how close we could to that. We said we couldn't and we told them what we could pay and the guy couldn't believe how low we wanted our payments.

So we were planning on leaving when another guy came in and said he understands our situation since we was former military. He said that they have a nice 2006 Liberty, with 3000 miles, that they could probably work it out with year end deals so it would be closer to the payment we wanted. So we test drove it and loved it but when we got back found out that other people were looking at it before us and they wanted it. So the dealership said they had something else for us and brought out a dark green 2006 Liberty with only 79 miles. They offered to pay off our van and give us a nicer car then the Compass for a much smaller payment-it didn't make sense-but that is how God works.

Scary Night

Hello everyone, Jenn and I are sorry we have not been good about posting. I have been on vacation and we have been busy. As you can see Micah got a new bike. It was not for Christmas it was because he rode his bike to school on Friday morning December 15th and when I picked him up I loaded him in the car and forgot his bike. Well when we remembered it on Tuesday the next week it was gone. Jenn and I felt like we should get him a new one because I forgot it and he needed a larger one anyway and they were 20% off and the exchange. So now he has a full size bike and he loves it and does very well on it.

So what was the scary night about?

Last night, Tuesday night, Jacob was playing at a friends house with Micah and they suddenly came home with Jacob crying and him throwing up on our porch. We took his temperature and it was 102.4 so we gave him Tylenol and a warm bath and that seemed to bring it down some but we kept him on the couch by us so we could watch him. So we were watching TV when Jenn looked at Jacob and said "Darrick Jacob is shaking" so I looked at him and jump up shouting "He's having a seizure!" So we tried to talk to him when he stopped (about 30 seconds, an eternity) and he was really unresponsive so I said we should call 911. Then we got our neighbor Wil to see what he thought and he agreed so we called 911 and they sent an ambulance. They gave him an IV and took him to Tripler Army Medical Center. Then Margaret came over to stay with Micah, who was sleeping and unaware of this, and I drove to Tripler. About two hours after his seizure Jacob finally snapped out of it and became himself again. They did some blood test, urine test and took some x-rays and said that everything was fine and that he had a Fever Seizure. So we were home by midnight and today he had a little fever still but was in pretty good spirits. He doesn't remember much about last night which is probably good so he is not scared. He was such a trooper though and we are so thankful to God that He was taking care of Jacob. So that was our scary night.

There is a lot more we can share about our Holidays. We will be sure to write about them later. Check out the present Elijah gave to Jacob for Christmas. It is on his head in case you didn't figure that out.

Darrick

The Gang at the Pearl City Christmas Parade

Jennifer, Brayden, Deja, Jenn, Margaret, Loretta

Jalen, Jacob, Micah, Tayveon, Tonya

taking pictures: Darrick and Jeremy

Brothers

"It's my brothers fault" and "I didn't do it"

Getting out there with the other crazy people

Today we went out with all the other people in Hawaii and shopped 'til we dropped. Micah played at his friend Jalen's house and Jacob, Darrick and I went out. Our first stop was Costco! We found a few items and crossed some people off our list. Then we stopped at the Waikele Outlets to go to the Children's Place to look for Christmas pajamas. We had great success and found some super cute things for the little ones on our list. Then we stopped into the store next to Children's Place called "Crazy shirts" they were having a 50% of everything sale-it was awesome. Then we we got home we hung up some Christmas lights. Tonight we are babysitting Loretta so her parents could go to a holiday party!