She is our sweety,and she turned eight years old today! Happy Birthday sweet Pascaline! The one thing and ONLY thing that made Pascaline nervous about this trip was she would turn eight years old while we were in Thailand. Eight years old in Thailand…what would that look like? Pascaline was convinced it wouldn’t feel like […]

Since Safeway isn’t down the street, and we are in a somewhat remote area, we’ve got three options for eating; 1. We can eat out! But as we all know, that gets old after awhile–even when it’s only $2 a plate. 🙂 2. We can have a local woman go to the open market for […]

After a twelve hour day filled with dives, swimming with more sea turtles, chapter quizzes and a final exam…It’s OFFICIAL! Brian and I are now PADI Certified Open Water SCUBA DIVERS!! Hooray!!! I’ve got a handful of more stories to share, but I’ll have to post more later. I think the anxiety over the test […]

In a crazy nutshell…the kids are playing at the beach while monkeys ransack our kitchen while I’m 45 ft. under being circled by two sharks! If you believe that this could really happen all at once, keep reading! This is what happened… My cousin, Gina, showed up this week! Gina is like a little sister […]

In the late afternoons when the heat isn’t as intense, or at night when Buddy and Dori are hanging out on the ceiling above me, I’m working away on a couple new book projects. Yep, a couple! I’m so excited! The contracts have not been finalized so I can’t say much more than that right […]

It’s 9:30pm here, and I just got back from a full day of scuba diving off the reefs of Koh Phi Phi (an island that is one of the top ten places in the world to scuba dive). Brian and I are going through the scuba certification process, and today was my turn to leave […]