Most day i wake up thanking God that i live in Hawaii. I've always wanted to live here and i cant believe i'm blessed enough to live exactly where i want to be. 

yesterday was one of those days. I woke up next to my amazing family. Jovi in my arms and Jesse by my side. I'm sure Rosie was somewhere on my feet. 

We got dressed and ran a few errands before heading out to the beach. I've been trying to go to the beach later in the day when the sun isn't as strong. So far jovi has never gotten sun burnt and i want to keep it that way.  I cover her in the most sun block and we hide in this big tent most of the time to protect us from the sun. 

 I felt like this was the first beach trip with her where she really understood that the beach was for fun times. she was all giggles the whole time. she loved trying to grab the water and trying to figure out where it went when she closed her hand. every time a little wave would come in she would crack up! adorable. I think we are going to have a beach bum on our hands. 

Nerdy fact number 4 about me.

I am a huge sucker for categorizing things. If I had more time and lived alone everything from my clothing to my nail polish would be in color order. 

I dont know why I like it so much. it just makes more sense to me that way, and it looks pretty.  A few years ago we had some friends over for a movie or something and I was sitting facing the movie shelf and i remember thinking red is the most dominate color of dvd cases. Next thing you know I was color coordinating all our movies.  I keep all my ink at work in rainbow order too.  In fact as Im typing this I want to organize my closet 

But it doesn't have to refer only to color it can be anything of similar traits. When I was a kid and would come home from a very successful night of tricker-treating. I would have to organize my candy before eating it. Any other kid would think i was nuts but not me. It was more fun to organize then to eat the candy.  I would put all fruity hard candy together, chocolates, gum, lolly pops, and then i'd put them in color order. 

All I need to stay busy is a bucket of markers that I can put in order. 

Little Jovi James scared me and Jesse to death last night. Our roommate Danielle watches Jovi on tuesday nights while me and Jesse are working. Around 8 o'clock I noticed that she had called twice and texted like 3 times. I called her  right away. She told me that Jovi stopped breathing 3 times over the past few hours. The first time was the worst she couldn't breath for like 10 secs. and she started freaking out but couldn't make any noise. The other two times weren't as long but equally as scary. I rushed home calling Jesse to meet me there.  Thank God Hawaii is so small and I live like 5 mins from my work.

When I got home Jovi seemed totally fine. She was all smiles and laughs. Jesse and I were both still worried that it would happen again and that it would last longer next time so we rushed out the door to the hospital.Again thanking God that Hawaii is small and that we pretty much live across the street from a children's hospital. When we got to the emergency room they saw us right away. The nurse gave us this tiny little baby gown to put on and it nearly made me cry.  Then they did a full screening on Jovi. They were so incredible to us and were super kind and caring. It's so scary not knowing and not being able to talk to you daughter to find out what happened. They asked a ton of questions and decided to do a full chest and neck X-ray just to make sure nothing was blocking her airway. 

Hello guys, I've had a really awesome week. Some times i just cant believe that I'm a tattoo artist. I'm lucky enough to have my art work walking around on people all over the world. I've gotten to tattoo people from all over the place and i'm honored that people choose me to do their work. 

here are some of my favs from this week. 

So as stated before I am a nerd. there is no way to sugar coat it. I'm a full blown dork. I'm coming to terms with it. My husband is constantly berated by me joking that he is a nerd but in reality I'm the level 500 geek. 

here is some of the ways i love to geek out. (please do not judge me as these are not the typical cool nerdy things) 

1. I love to watch people play video games. I say watch because I like to navigate. I'm not good at controlling the character but I love to be a helper. I'm the perfect match for Jesse because he is great at controlling but not so good at solving riddles and remembering where to go.  We have recently played Fable 1 & 2 (we have 3 but i'm kinda board with it), Assassin creed, Castlevainia, and we are currently on Darksiders. 

2. ok, this is my most recent nerdy hobby but i'm in love with it. Magic the Gathering!!

it's a strategy card game. I remembered kids playing this in middle school but I probably just made fun of them instead of giving it a chance.  Well it's the most fun. it was a little rough trying to learn the rules but after a night of fighting with jesse over the difference of flying attacks vs vigilance attacks and what power and strength meant I was hooked. It wasn't hard to hook our roommate and a visiting friend Wendy too. Magic is like Twilight you make the most fun of it until you secretly give it a try then you're hooked and there is no way out. 

3. I love to do math. Almost at anytime i'm doing math problems in my head. I have no idea where this comes from but i've always enjoyed it. I got a email from a friend sending me a link to this awesome tutorial web site where you can learn pretty much anything. On the site they have math tests and i spent hours the other night doing them for fun. Jesse is still making fun of me. Who does that!?!? If you do please let me know i'm not alone!

So i think i better end there in risk of losing the few followers i have!