Mortensen Family Blog

Mele Kalikimaka and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!

We're having fun in Kona with Mom and Dad but we sure are missing you guys.

Carter just wanted to thank everyone for wishing him a Happy 1st Birthday!!

He had tons of fun and loves all his new things!

Hopefully, I'll be able to put up video soon.

Thanks again!

Carter loved his mane!

















Rylan's mask was just a little too small. It kinda squished his eyes, making him look like some other kind of Asian!

Happy Halloween! We hope you had fun tonight. Can't wait to see the pics of the kiddies!

Love,
TJ and Shelly

Carter is growing up so fast. He's already walking around a lot. As you can see, he's not totally expert yet, but very soon we won't be able to keep him out of anything!

Here is a video that Shelly and I made to show everybody our new place.

Enjoy!!

Aloha
Justin and Shelly

Aloha family,

Good news! TJ and I sign papers tomorrow for our new condo. We are super excited about it. Check out the photos, more to come when we move in. Best part about it - a guest room, so come on over!

Love,
Justin and Shelly

http://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/apa/814377565.html

Kyle went to see Chandler give his Vice Presidential election speech on Thursday, and he videotaped it for everyone. I apologize for not editing it; none of the software on my mom's laptop edits '.mod' files. I'm in the market for a good one.


Anyway, enjoy!

Aloha family,

We hope the school year is going great for all of you! Just a heads up, Donda's birthday is on September 3rd. She'll be 98!! If you want to send her a card, her address is:

Berniece "Donda" Russell
310 E 10600 S #127
Sandy, UT 84070

Talk to you soon,
Justin and Shelly

Please excuse the lack of creativity in the title and video editing. It's really late, but I wanted to share the video we took of Rylan's last day of swim lessons. He was scared the first day; he cried for the first 15 minuntes, but we just dropped him in anyway. By the third day, he wasn't scared anymore.



More updates later. ;o)

Hey guys,
My malpractice insurance was effective as of 12:01am this morning, making it possible for me to get to work, and as Jen said, I saw my 1st patient under my own license at 3pm today! It ended up being an emergency surgical extraction. It took a while with having to grind away bone and tie a suture and all, but I got it done and we got out of the office on time! Pretty exciting - now to set up the business account tomorrow so I can put the money somewhere besides my sock drawer :)
Kyle

Just wanted to record that today at 3pm, Kyle will work on his first patient as an official dentist.

Exciting stuff!

It's probably already old news by now, even though it only happened just half an hour ago. Kyle talked with a doctor who is looking to retire soonish. His name is Dr. James Kirkpatrick. Kyle interviewed with him on Tuesday, and it must have really excited Dr. Kirkpatrick because he really got on the ball talking with his friend who has done the associateship/partnership thing and talked with that guy's accountant who has gone through the whole process. He'll be getting 70% with no overhead, which will be really helpful while Kyle has only a few patients.

Anyway, it's exciting times. Kyle is meeting him on Monday to iron out the smaller details, but he finally has a place to work, so you all should stop brushing your teeth, so Kyle has lots of work to do. ;o)

Here's a picture of Kyle telling your mom. You can pretend that it is when he is sealing the deal with Kirkpatrick. I didn't want to distract him while he was talking with him.

Just setting up a test run.

More meaningful posts ahead!

Here are a couple of pictures from when we took Eric and Nicole to the top of Manua Kea. The first picture is of the Silversword a very rare plant that only grows on the side of the volcano. The rest of the pictures are of us playing around on top of the mountain. It was very very cold.

Aloha,

Justin.

This is awesome, just hope that the fam can keep up with it.

E&N

I figured I would just join my name with Kyle's since I'll likely be the only of us to update. This should be fun!

Unfortunately, we have nothing to report of the job hunt, but soon, I'm sure.

Anyway, hope everyone is having fun.

Aloha Mortensen family,

We thought this blog could help us stay close as we go about life. Feel free to share anything: thoughts, questions, news, upcoming events, pictures, etc. We love you!

Love,
Justin and Shelly