love'n life

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Finally!!! They changed the way I sign into my blog and forever I couldn't sign in. What a pain in the ****. With Kristie's help I got it!!!

Anyway, more pictures of the 66th Engineers "Sappers" preparing for deployment. They will be leaving December 10th.









Thursday, April 05, 2007

This is a picture from the Hawaii Army Weekly. It was taken in the field when they all spent a week out there. All in the picture are Sappers from the Mobility Support Platoon, 66th Engineering Company. This is Kenny's platoon. I like the picture because Kristen is right in the middle of it. (Cpl. Kristen Badeaux) If you can't tell, she is the 2nd one from your left.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Yesterday we were suppose to do a club boat dive. The dive was cancelled because of bad weather. So a group of us decided we would do a shore dive somewhere. About 12 of us headed out to a place called Pray For Sex Beach. This is mainly a local beach on the Waianae side of the island. The real name of the beach is Yokohama Bay. We had people to watch our vehicles for the first dive. Everything went great. There was a few people that stuck around for a second dive. I decided not to do a second dive because on the first one I got rolled up in the surf. Was not fun. I took a nap in the car. Was woke up with Kenny knocking on the window of the car. The guy Kenny was diving with, Steve, is here for a couple of months on vacation. Steve had a rental car parked about 50 feet from our car. His car was gone!! Some one had been watching and as soon as these guys got in the water, stole the car. I felt so bad for him. He had his wallet in the car and about $800 in diving equipment. We waited almost 2 hours for a police officer to show up!!! His response was, they are very busy. Couldn't believe it!! Sure glad it wasn't a real emergency!! Of course no one saw anything, not even the guy right next to Steve's car. All Hawaiian locals at this spot. Needless to say, we won't be going back out there to dive. Kenny and I took Steve back to Bellows where he is staying and fed him dinner. Told him if he needed something to let us know. If I would have went on that 2nd dive, I think we would have been in the same situation.

Friday, March 09, 2007

Had to post more diving pictures. Don't know if you can tell but these are pictures of a shark I took. He was in a cave. At one point we thought he was coming out....scared me to death for a moment there. It was pretty cool seeing him this close.




















Then always love the turtles. They are just so cool! I love how they swim around ya like they are waiting to be feed. Every once in awhile they get close enough that I can rub the back or touch thier belly. Awesome!

Monday, March 05, 2007

A couple of pictures from our wreck dive. Can't tell by looking at this but I am between the props of a huge ship.


This other picture you can just about see the sub behind me. Not a very good picture.



















This is a picture of Natasha. She is 10 years old and a certified scuba diver. She saved cans and bottles to save up for her diving lessons. She now has 7 dives in and goes with us on the weekends. Her mother has been diving for years.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Awesome!!! Kenny bought me a new camera for diving. It's digital!!!! It takes such great pictures. Had to post a few of them. This is a Puffer fish. Kenny actually caught him by the tail and made him puff up. The picture of him all puffed up wasn't very good because the fish kept moving around. They say that a Puffer fish can take your finger off with one bite but this one just wanted to get away.

My favorite.....turtles. This is just a small one but he kept swimming all around me. Think he was waiting for me to feed him. Not suppose to feed but I see people doing it every once in awhile. A Star in the sand at about 30 feet.
This is Kenny on the right, holding the bag and Glenn on the left, putting a Parrott fish in the bag.
This is an eel. Can't tell by this picture but he is a spotted Moray Eel.

This was taken at about 87 feet at a place called the Diner.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Here are a few pictures from the Pro Bowl 2007.

We started off with the usual tail gate barbecue before the game and agian after the game. Didn't get a picture of Jacoby because he was sleeping in the car. He had duty all night.

Here is most of the group....John and Kristin. Lacey. Kenny cooking our food. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Garrett and Gary went with me to find some hats and shirts. Along the way we met this guy with a parrott and he let us take a picture with it.

Then of course a few pictures of the game! Can't wait for next year!