Cake, Presents and Fireworks?

Today we finally celebrated my 26th birthday! You wouldn't know it from my cake because Kasala made the candles out to say 27 but he had Terina distracting him... right? Anyways.. today was a huge day.

It was my first day as a substitute here in Hawaii. I worked in a 6th grade classroom at Laie Elementary. It was GREAT! I was really nervous for some reason but I had so much fun. The kids were great too. I quit my job as a part time teacher at Kahuku. I was doing a lot of work that I shouldn't have been doing and finally got tired of it. It's all politics I've come to find out anyways. My new rule... stay out of it! Mind my own business, do my job, and get out.

Today was also Terina's last day at her daycare. She's starting at Rainbow School on Monday and going until 3:30 everyday. They take naps there... I'm a little worried about that part. I took her over there on Thursday so that she could play a little and get a feel for it. SHE LOVED IT!! She was running all over the place exploring and playing with her friends. I just hope we get enough funding from our Child Care grant to cover it. It's $600.00 a month! If we don't get enough we'll have to figure something out... like maybe picking up another job or something I don't know.

My birthday..... we had pizza for dinner on Wednesday and I took a nap. That's it! Oh and I spent about 3 hours outside at the playground. Today we went and I got a new phone. I don't know if it was really needed but it's a nice blackberry. I'm thinking about taking it back though just because I can't believe that I spent so much money on a phone upgrade. Anyways.. we came home and had a nice dinner and I made myself a birthday cake. I frosted it and started to put my own candles on it when Terina came in so I left it up to her and her father. Hence why I had 27 candles on the cake and I'm only 26. They sang Happy Birthday and Terina helped me blow out my candles. It's getting a lot harder to get them all out... even with help!

We then started to watch a movie when I heard fireworks going off. Kasala told us to run outside, which we did, and we stood at the end of our building watching a beautiful fireworks show that lasted a good 5-10 minutes. Was it just for me? I like to think so! But no.. there was a Japanese company that rented out the whole Polynesian Culture Center and part of their evening included a fireworks display. But I still like to think that Kasala planned it just for me :)

Jared and Ashlee sent me a super cool poster picture of Terina. It's huge! Well... it's just long but it's so amazing and cute and I just love it. It's going to be a pain to find a frame for it but I can look and save up for a nice frame. Jeff and Bree called and I got to talk to the for a little while, of course I talked to Phebe and Anthony, Mom and Dad and Jake too. Mike must have been either busy, or he forgot, or he just didn't care.... any of the above would fit Mike but that's alright. I did accidentally call him that morning at 6am when I was jumping out of bed so I did talk to him I guess.

Overall it was a very relaxing 26th birthday. I spent the evening with my husband watching movies and the day with my crazy daughter playing outside.