This last Tuesday Maikeli had his 26th birthday! It kinda sucked because he had an early morning class and was at school until 9:30 pm and I got home about the same time. I woke up early with him so he could open his presents and I could give him his yummy sugar cookies. I just love him so much. I can't believe how fast time has gone by. He is such a big boy and graduating in April. I am so proud of him and all his hard work in school. I have to brag about him and his school for a second... he has gotten practically straight A's since we got here. He is in the top 10% and has been on the Dean's List. He also is going to be apart of The National Honor's Society. I feel like a mom that is proud of her third grader but I can't help it. He is great! Happy Birthday Maikeli!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Happy Birthday Maikeli
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Baby shower and Halloween
Summer's Shower
This last Sunday Jen and I (along with help from a ton of wonderful people) had the great opportunity of throwing Summer (my neighbor and great friend) and baby shower. She is due at the end of the month and we wanted to have it while her mom and aunt were in town. It was a little difficult keeping it a secret but I still think she was surprised...kinda. She lives right above me so we had to be quiet while setting up and we had a great time putting this together. Thanks to everyone that helped bring food and decorate!
Here she is at the big surprise! She thought she was on her way to the temple with her family but I stopped her on the way.
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Changing times
I was going through some pictures that I never posted and came across these. We miss having Whitney and Leland and the kids around. I loved hanging out with them on the weekends and staying over there during the week sometimes. Watching Biggest Loser, Bachelorette, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars...and much more. We had so much fun with them and I am so glad we were able to have that time together. I feel like our time in Hawaii has been split into two sections. The times when Leland and Whitney were here and after they left. I am so glad that we live in TVA (student housing) now because we have been able to make some great friends. But we still miss these kidos sometimes.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
A vacation day...kinda
Last Saturday Maikeli and I had a pretty good day. Lately the 1 1/2 hour drive each way to work every single day (3 hours round trip) has really been getting to me. To be honest I am so sick of driving. I do like my job, but sometimes I wish I could just stay in Laie everyday. But anyway, there is nothing I can do about that because the only job I could get in Laie pays $7.50 and that is just not going to work for us. So, on Saturdays I really like to enjoy myself on the north side of the island. We went boogie boarding at Pounders Beach and it was a blast. The waves started getting really big after a while so I got out. Sometimes they scar me.
We also went to Turtle Bay Resort and used their hot tub. We find ourselves doing this a lot. It makes us feel like we are on vacation for a little bit because we are at a resort! We have to kinda sneak in but it's so worth it. There was this little kid that was so cute sitting up in this tree watching the sunset. I couldn't help but take a picture of him. It was just a perfect picture!!! I wish I could say this was Maikeli but he did go surfing at this same beach a few days earlier. This is just a surfer that happened to be out while we were watching the sunset at Turtle Bay.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
More beach time!
Last Saturday we wanted to go somewhere we haven't been so we went to the China Man's Hat Beach! It actually wasn't that great of a beach to be honest. Not very good for swimming so we ended up going somewhere else to swim. But it's always good to try new places. It's really easy here to just keep going to the same places you like when there are so many new places to try!
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
I love my mom and dad!



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Thursday, September 10, 2009
What we have been up to...
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