01-17-2008, 05:11 AM
So here it goes, my introduction...
My name is Tom and I am married for 12 years to my Highschool Sweetheart, Pam. We have 2 beautiful Daughters, Sally 10 and Hayley 7. I am born and raised in Southern California and my wife is from Northern California. If you had ever asked me a couple of years ago if I would every leave Cali I would have told you that it would take an "act of God". My family is all here and it is my home. And then I went to Hawaii...
Last year, I began to feel the urge to start living my dreams, and not letting life live me. I told my wife that I wanted to move to Hawaii. She, at first, thoguht I was crazy, but smiled and supported me as she always does. As we began to research, we realized that Oahu was not where we wanted to be. I had thought that it would be easy to find a job there, because it is the big city. I work in Retail and there are lots of Malls on Oahu. But again, it was just like here, in our minds. And so we began to look at other Islands. And then we found the Big Island. And then we found Puna, and it was like our home calling us.
As we talked and prayed about it, we relized that it was where we want to be, living life to the fullest with our girls. I actually got a job offer in October which I ended up turning down because it just wasn't right. We talked, prayed, and waited some more which brings us to today. We are now listing our house for sale in So. Cal. and moving to the Big Island. I think we want to move to HPP, but we will rent for a while once we get there to look around and make sure that we are where we want to be before we buy. I have to say that the Lava zone thing freaks me out a little. HPP is in Lava zone 3, and we are feeling pretty secure about that.
We want to be an contributing part of the community that we live in as we are now. We are very involved in our Church and School. I thought I may as well get started early! and am so excited to have found this forum to meet people and learn new things about the place that we will call home.
My name is Tom and I am married for 12 years to my Highschool Sweetheart, Pam. We have 2 beautiful Daughters, Sally 10 and Hayley 7. I am born and raised in Southern California and my wife is from Northern California. If you had ever asked me a couple of years ago if I would every leave Cali I would have told you that it would take an "act of God". My family is all here and it is my home. And then I went to Hawaii...
Last year, I began to feel the urge to start living my dreams, and not letting life live me. I told my wife that I wanted to move to Hawaii. She, at first, thoguht I was crazy, but smiled and supported me as she always does. As we began to research, we realized that Oahu was not where we wanted to be. I had thought that it would be easy to find a job there, because it is the big city. I work in Retail and there are lots of Malls on Oahu. But again, it was just like here, in our minds. And so we began to look at other Islands. And then we found the Big Island. And then we found Puna, and it was like our home calling us.
As we talked and prayed about it, we relized that it was where we want to be, living life to the fullest with our girls. I actually got a job offer in October which I ended up turning down because it just wasn't right. We talked, prayed, and waited some more which brings us to today. We are now listing our house for sale in So. Cal. and moving to the Big Island. I think we want to move to HPP, but we will rent for a while once we get there to look around and make sure that we are where we want to be before we buy. I have to say that the Lava zone thing freaks me out a little. HPP is in Lava zone 3, and we are feeling pretty secure about that.
We want to be an contributing part of the community that we live in as we are now. We are very involved in our Church and School. I thought I may as well get started early! and am so excited to have found this forum to meet people and learn new things about the place that we will call home.