Febrero con los Denney

Adam wanted to post the first picture for his brother, Nathan.

February was kind of a busy month. Adam and I just had quite a bit of work along with school, softball, and keeping ourselves busy anyway we can. Adam has been wanting to go hiking all the time, but since I can't go on the kind of hikes he likes (because the arthritis in my knees has been getting worse) he has been going alone, with friends, or with his classes and enjoying it a lot. He wanted to go at least every Saturday, but things always come up. Here are pictures from a couple of his hikes:



For Valentine's Day, we went the day before and took some studio pictures at the Army base. They were having a really good deal, and we haven't had any professional pictures since our wedding. Unfortunately, we couldn't afford to buy very many, but it's still nice to have them and I think they turned out great. I don't have a functioning scanner, so these are pictures of pictures. The quality is the better on the real pictures.



As many of you know, my 30th birthday was on the 26th. We started the day by going out to lunch at Todai; it's a Japanese buffet. I've been wanting to go there for years, but it's pretty expensive. Fortunately, you get a free meal on your birthday, lunch is half the price of dinner, and you get a discount if you have a Hawaii ID (the Kama'aina rate). We went with some of our friends and had a good time eating plenty of sushi.



After Todai, we went to the mall and went clothing shopping with some birthday money I received. I ended up getting a couple of shirts and talked him into getting a much needed new pair of pants, tie, and belt as part of my gift. We found a Banana Republic Outlet here that I love! We got him some really nice BR slacks in the clearance section for like $16.



The day after my birthday, I got a phone call at 4:30am. It was somebody on the mainland trying to get a hold of their family here to warn them of what they saw on the news. As some of you may have heard, there was an earthquake in Chile. The earthquake caused a tsunami that looked like it was headed straight toward Hawaii. At about 5am, we heard the Elder's Quorum Presidency coming around knocking on everybody's doors telling them about it and making sure they had somewhere safe to go. We ended up hanging out at a friend's upstairs apartment. Apparently, BYUH is the evacuation site for this area anyway, so we were told to either go to the Stake Center or go upstairs somewhere. After watching the news for a couple of hours, it turned out that the brunt of the wave passed just south of us. Many people were annoyed at the fact that their lives were disrupted for the day, but since the tsunami could have very well taken out much of our community like the one in the 60's, it's better to be safe. It was exciting to go through that anyway, and it let us know what we were lacking in emergency preparedness.

Other than that, we may have another change of plans for our lives after we finish up here. For the last week or so, Adam has been considering joining the Air Force. It is something he has talked about on and off for about a year, but it has never felt right. Over the last couple of months, I have been feeling like our lives were not headed in the direction we are supposed to be going. Ever since he brought up the Air Force again, we have both felt really good about it and everything seems to be falling into place. We are obviously going to ponder and pray about it more, but as of now, he is planning on talking to a recruiter next month when the semester is over. We'll keep you all posted on how that goes.