Thursday, July 15, 2010

what to say.....

Well i am bad at this! We went home to Arizona for 2 months and it was so much fun, and it was nice to have a break from work/school...and to see family. When we were in Arizona we were super lazy and we were able to be there for a lot of neat things. In Lamar's home town they got a new beautiful temple so we saw the celebration, the open house, and the prophet!! It was such a sweet experience to see the town change and grow! Another thing we got to go to was Matthew and Danielle's wedding, Matt and Lamar are good friends from growing up. It was cute to see all "the bros" together for the wedding. It was my first time going to someone elses sealing so it was awesome to be able to go. And our friends Brian and allison had their first baby, little ruby, she is sooo cute. We keep telling them that were the "godparents" haha, but they just laugh at us! They are actually coming to hawaii next month so we get to spend some time with them :) But seeing family was the best part of the whole thing, i love them soo much. Its hard being far away from them but Hawaii makes up for it.
But since we've been back there has been a couple changes in our ward and stuff, we just realized that we have less then a year here so we better start doing tourist stuff or just extend our time here....hmmm haha we will see what happens! We got an xbox 360 with netflix which we love at night, we rearranged our apartment so we have space for people and to stay with us..hint hint! But we had a good 4th of july, we had an amazing bbq with friends, then fireworks at turtle bay. But besides that i work and lamar goes to school, same old stuff. We can't wait til byuh volleyball games start up, we miss the sports!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Birthday and Random days

I was looking at the pictures in our camara and thought i should blog about them!!

On Thanksgiving we went to our friend Clayton's house... It was the coolest thanksgiving ever cause we ate our dinner on a surfboard! haha We were so grateful for claytons family for welcoming us to their home.
Last weekend we went downtown in Ala Moana Beach Park cause they had a little carnival, it was funny cause all the long lines were for the kiddy rides!






Our Favorite..... the zipper!



These next pictures were taken on Feb 27, 2010, my 21st birthday and the tusnami warning...
Haha everyone was getting gas, but its an island where were we gonna go?!?


We went up on this hill called temple hill it was right behind the temple.... and we waited..


The view of the ocean, thank goodness nothing bad happened!


The temple is still under construction and the guys that usually work on it, probably not members, were up on top throwing a football....interesting.
We are going to Arizona for a couple months and were super excited to see family and friends!! So i should have more to blog about!











Thursday, January 14, 2010

photo shoot

Right before christmas our wonderful friend crystal did a little photo shoot for us!! The beach is the best background for any photo!







































Ok so lots has happened over the last couple months....sorry friends! I am still working at a local hair salon and Lamar is still in school at BYUH. Today was his first day in the training room, right now he's just getting hours there and next semester hopefully he can get a scholorship for being there... So everyone asks us what we do here and how many times we go to the beach..ha! We never had time before to do anything! But our new years goal is to try and do as much fun things as we can. Our first week back from christmas in Arizona we did the craziest hike with some friends. It's called the stairway to heaven, it goes to the highest point on the island!! We were in the clouds..we have some pictures of it on facebook :) We were so glad we got to go home and see everyone, especially Abby my new niece!! But its good to be back here to be responsible, and back to getting on with our lives. We finally got into on campus housing, its a cute little place but perfect for the 2 of us. It is the first place we've had together with an oven!! So i am gonna start trying to cook more. Our living room is our bedroom haha so we don't really want to invite people over..but we can't wait to have people from arizona come see us! We want to show friends and family our place and share some of our everyday life with them.
We had our one year anniversary when we were back home, we just spent it with the family, maybe we'll still do something crazy fun here! I can't believe it's been a year already,we've done so much together so far...I can tell our lives are gonna be crazy and full of excitment!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

You will laugh.....our funny/crazy Hawaii stories

This is some of our funny stories that we've created since we've been here! Some stories have pictures others don't, sorry. If they don't have a picture just be glad, they wouldn't be pretty anyways.....lets begin. Ok this one was random but cool, behind our apartment there is a banana tree. So Lamar climbed up and grabbed some...were trying to look like monkeys. Ha but after we took them home our landlord went and cut the whole bunch down, we didn't know if it was so we didn't take anymore but they were yummy!


First of all we got to use this board for free cause the owner of the surf shop went to EAC. It was sweet, but those things make you so tried....Lamar being the only man around got to carry it to the beach and back, it's tricky to get use to at first but you stand up and paddle. Almost impossible for me to do against the wind.....me and Leisel had this great idea to snorkel to another beach, around this big rock thing, while Lamar paddled over there. I was so tried, and I got creeped out with how deep the water got and ya lets just say I am not doing that again..but then Me and Lamar switched and that's when the wind started and ya we slept good that night.















These lovely pictures were taken while waiting for the bus to come take us home, it takes a long time sometimes and we get a little crazy.....we went to walmart to get some things and Lamar took a big bag and so we just stuffed everything into the bag. We also got a box fan, so we were walking down to the bus stop and noticed the bus was stopped at a red light...so we start running to the bus stop, I have a backpack on and the box fan in my hands, and Lamar had the huge black bag.....the bus stopped sooner to get me, and then Lamar got on too. We probably looked like idiots runny down the street....just picture it, haha.



This is at the top of Diamond Head. I think I was the only one that thought they were gonna die before I made it to the top. They had some crazy steep stairs, there was like 100 in a row...but we did it!!


Last but not least....this one doesn't have a picture thank goodness. We ate at taco bell one day cause we didn't go grocery shopping yet and later that night i paid for it. I woke up around 3 with these painful cramps and our apartment was so hot...so I went outside to get fresh air....I was cooled off some and I had to go to the bathroom, I believe I had food poisoning. I was going to the bathroom and i felt my stomach doing something, I had to barf too....so it went all over my lap...worse night of my life, but luckily my husband woke up right then and helped me clean up my mess... I know it's gross.


Hopefully there will be more stories to come!!

Monday, August 17, 2009

So we are finally feeling settled in and comfortable here, even though we'll be moving for fall semester into another apartment that we be better for us. But I found two jobs, I am gonna be working at McDonalds and a salon. I start at the salon tomorrow, that job kinda feel into my arms-I went and talked to them a while back and never did anything about it. Then we walked right by it and one of the other girls that works there told me that I could have a job right there. A huge blessing right there, something where I know what I am doing and really nice people work there. So we'll see who it goes, I am gonna start out w orking for a girl that is going on vacation so I think it's gonna be a temperary job, or they'll just call me when they need me kinda thing. McDonalds was the only place i town that we knew was hiring so I gave it a shot and they hired me, I miss the last orientation so I just have to wait til the next one some time this week. It is the coolest McDonalds I have even seen, haha they have a waterfall in the eating place, come on that is pretty sweet! But we have been so blessed here so far and we're starting to figure how things work around here....we love being able to walk 5 minutes to the beach and enjoy the view!

I am all finished appling for school, ya I am gonna try to go to BYUH.....I was thinking about going into something with art, they have photography classes and lots of hands on classes. It looks like fun and it's something to look forward to! So if you can tell our lives are kinda crazy exciting at the same time. Since Leisel left we haven't done very much site seeing but we plan to when we have a little more time!

Lamar is doing great in his classes and he's working hard but he knows how to fit in all the fun into his schedule!

We are starting to get use to our ward now, it has families with lots of kids, there is just a few couples without kids so it's fun to see all the different families there. It a married/student ward. The bishop might give us callings before we move, were not sure if we'll be in the same ward, but everything is great so far!

Monday, July 27, 2009

We made it!!! We have been so busy the minute we got off the plane, so now i have internet and time to blog! The guy that drove us here gave us a little tour of Laie so we knew how to get places. BYU has been loads of help too the people here know everything and they are the nicest here. We've gone to beaches, memorials, tours, and stores.......Our second day we went on a tour around the island with a group of new BYU students...we saw the Valley of Temples, which is a chinese looking place and a cemitary together....there was a buddist temple too. Then we went to this point were you can look down on half of the island, it was windy and beautiful up there. Next was the swap meet, it was neat to see all the different things there, it was a the Aloha Stadium in Honoulu. Then we went to the USS Arizona Memorial, there was a video then we went out by the ship. Then the next was my all time favorite....Walmart, we got all the little things we needed to go around the house, and a pillow!! We just share a big king size pillow its nice...ha. Then we went back up around by the Dole Plantation and up to North Shore, where they have the best shaved ice. The line was so long that we decided to wait til another time. By the time we got home we were so tired, but we went and got some food for our apartment.......This is a funny story, we didn't have a car or anything to move our stuff the apartment so we just rolled it down for the hotel all the way to our new place.....it sucked so bad I hated it. It had to be at least a mile long and we looked silly! My shoulder blades hurt....I'm glad its over now...But the beaches are Beautiful and lamar likes school so far, were trying to figure things out still...church is cool its just married couples and some of the have kids...it looks fun so far!

The Dole Plantation.......

The Tour

The Temple