Big Splash for Trace's 30th!

Trace turned the big 3-0 on Saturday, October 27th. Unfortunately Trace was scheduled to work at a different office in Kailua that day and I wasn't thinking about dates when I told them to sign me up for every Saturday night at work. But the awesome dad that he is got up that morning with his baby at 6AM then got ready for work leaving at 7:30. He got home a little after 2:30. We went to the pool for a bit then got ready for the ward Halloween party and for me to go to work that evening.

Shortly after I arrived at work there was a tsunami warning due to a 7.7 earthquake in Canada. They put the entire coastline in a red zone, evacuating our apartment. I tried calling Trace but the phones lines were busy so I texted him. He had already heard the tsunami alarms at our place requiring him to wake up his sleeping baby in order to evacuate. He caught a ride with our neighbors to stay at the Moss's apartment (friends in our ward) for the night who live out of the red and yellow zone.

The entire island became a parking lot, water was being sold at $30 a pack, and gas stations went empty and closed down. The waves were schedule to hit on 10/27 at 10:27PM- what a lucky 30th birthday! Fortunately the warning ended a little after midnight and Trace was able to come home to sleep. 

It was a good 30th year as we got to live in Hawaii, visited 5 of the Hawaiian islands, went sailing, learned to surf, lots of sunbathing and snorkeling, celebrated our 3rd anniversary of marriage and 7th anniversary of dating, had a beautiful baby girl, completed the dental residency program in Hawaii, traveled to mainland with an infant for 2 months, and got to start earning actual money as a dentist at two different locations here in Hawaii. Trace you are my very best friend and I'm so grateful I get to spend my life with you. I'm looking forward to many more fun years.