The Brady Bunch: We did it!

Graduation August 10th & 11th, 2012

We have been waiting for this for a long time! I mean a long, long, time! 8 to 9 years of full time school, full time work, and raising a family in all the mix. We have been anticipating this day for a long time. It has finally come and we can now stop to breath and take it all in. We are so proud of our daddy for all the hard work he has done for the last decade. He has always put family, school and work as his top priorities. He has worked so hard for this we can't be more proud of him! This program nearly killed the both of us. We made it more challenging by adding two more children to our family. I was pretty much a single parent the past two years with Brady in class full time and studying until midnight during the first didactic year. Then the second year he was away from us the whole half of the year. He came to visit maybe once a month, the longest he was away was 6 straight weeks which was his trauma rotation and could not get away. Although it was tough it brought us to appreciate each other and made us work harder to keep our family together. Whatever time we had together we cherished. Meilia had the hardest time whenever Brady would leave. She would give him the death stare then when he would leave she would cry. She would always ask where daddy was and when she saw an airplane she would point to it and say "daddy airplane." We are so glad we can now be together and have a normal family life. Lets just hope with all the time, effort, sacrifices, and debt we have endured it will all be worth it! For now we will celebrate this big accomplishment!

On Friday they were presented with their PA certificate acknowledging them for graduating the PA program.

Brady's closest friends in his class. Brady, Blair, Jason, and Anthony. They helped him through it when he was missing us! He's going to miss them but they've had him long enough! He's coming home to stay! Yay!

We were the biggest family in his class and one out of 5 families out of the whole class that even had a family. Most were either single or married with no children. Everyone couldn't believe we had another baby during the program.

Graduation day

I had the kids "lei" daddy with candy and flower leis.

"We did it!"

Kuulei can finally get to know her daddy! He hasn't been around ever since she was born.

We couldn't have done this without our family. Thank you tutu for taking care of me and the kids while Brady was away. I couldn't have done it without you! And thank you Brent and Robin for always being there for us and making it possible for Brady to fly home and see us every chance he could. We are so grateful for our supportive family! We love you guys!