rain rain go away.

So i woke up this morning excited to head to the beach. Well i opened up the curtains and the sky was full of dark clouds!! No fair. Its not supposed to rain when you come to hawaii. Ha ha. Well i decided to be productive and get things done that i need to do indoors. I really needed to get some tan capris that i have to have for EFY. I took the bus. Oh the bus. Last year it was oh so entertaining and i couldn't wait to see what was in store this year. It all started at the bus stop. This guy was sitting in the middle of the bench so i decided to stand. I thought he was talking on the phone, but no he was talking to himself. Not that thats wrong or anything but he was mumbling weird quotes to himself... Then he started singing that song "only fools rush in..." after that verse he didn't know any other words so he mumbled some and then started making up his own words. I think i heard the word pee. hmmm. Oh and then he starts doing the air guitar but as if its a ukelele! Ha ha it was so entertaining!!! Finally the bus came. This guy, no lie, changed seats on the bus probably 10 times on the 20 minute bus ride to windward mall. Then he sat directly across from me and just stared at me for the longest time... awkward! I set off into the mall and went in everystore possible looking for capris. Only one store left, sears. Ha ha oh and this sears is sooo ghetto. Welp perfect place for capris because there were lots! I found a pair that was the best looking of the bunch and bought them. They were 1/2 off and came with a freakin sweet belt WHAT A DEAL!!! I bought some flip flops at macys and then walked across the street and got some pesto pasta at Abargio's pasta. It was yum. I have plenty of leftovers for tomorrow.
After i grabbed a few things at safeway and ran to the bus stop because it started raining! I got on the bus and was enjoying the scenery when we came to a stop sign, the bus turned left when i needed to go right... crap. I took the wrong bus. Ha ha i talked to the bus driver he left me off and i had to take another bus to a stop where i could catch the right bus to take me home. I hadn't taken the bus here in a year ok. I thought they all went over to the north shore. Easy mistake. Ha well that wasted a lot of time. I got home and started planning my devotional i will give on monday night. I finished that and saw it kind of cleared up outside so i walked down the road aways to take some pictures. Mom i know you are probably wanting to see pictures of me and such so i took some just for you. ha ha. After that kali said if i took her to her ward camp i could use the car for the night. I dropped her off and decided to go get my camera back at the house. I stopped at this little store along the way. The guy who owns it is such a sweetie. He gave me a cute little beaded necklace (i remember he gave some to us last year) and played some songs for me on the guitar. I bought one of those bracelets that have the colored beads that stand for something. Mine are clear beads which mean peace! Oh and i bought some violet mints mmmmmmm. :)
I grabbed my camera and headed to sunset beach to watch the sunset. I love sunsets. Especially in hawaii. So so so pretty. Well im just snapping pictures of the sunset and cute kids playing in the waves and then i met this sweet lady named Birgit from Washington DC. She was telling me how her camera died and she was so sad she didn't have pictures of this amazing beach! I said hey if you want i could email you some, and im sure i have your kids in some of my pictures. She was thrilled!! I snapped a few more before she got them out of the water and then i asked if she wanted a picture of the three of them. She sure did. In between photos a huge wave came and almost took them down. Ha it was pretty funny. She was just the nicest lady ever. I headed back but stopped at foodland for some maui babe, because i will get sun tomorrow. Ha please don't rain! Now i am home and i was going to go running but its raining again! I like to run in the rain but when its raining and its really dark outside, i don't know. I think i'll get up early and go. I miss our little route we ran last year! Welp im going to do some reading of the scripts and head to bed. nighty night!

Thoughts:
*Kelsey gets here tomorrow! YEA!!
*syb, nice chatting with you darlin, can't wait for you to get here in two days!
*ali i want to see pictures of these cute little foster kids your family took in. Thats way sweet of them do to!
*fam- wish you were here!
*i want to eat at hukilau cafe for breakfast yummmmm
*hey mark, you should call me. ok thanks.
*kali treats me too well here. i owe her big time!
*kccn fm equals best radio station ever!
*cass i wish you would have come. :(
*trist i think you should go hang out with ross. ha ha and then call me.
*i wish i would have brought another lens. and the flash.
*syb and kels be prepared to be my little models when you get here :)
*im sending postcards soon. i need your address if you would like a postcard. ha ha
*i wish i had another camera here, i smaller one so i could take it with me when i run and such!

crazy guy on the bus! snapped this with my phone.
playing on the beach... by myself.
shadow.


my studying gear!

oh hey its me.
i loved watching the waves splash over this random rock.

Birgit and her two cute kids!

my sweet sears capris. if only you could see how ghetto the belt really is.

i made it!!!

i am back to this paradise at last! Hooray!

So this morning when i got on the plane i found my seat and sat down. This lady and her 3 year old son got split up , one was supposed to sit next to me and the other one was the row in front of that seat. She looked so frustrated that their seats weren't next to eachother so i say... hey do you want me to sit up there so you can sit with your son? She said oh if you don't mind... so i moved. I got no thank you. Kinda weird. But little did i know i would be stuck in the middle of two men , one smelled like smoke. Anyone who knows me knows i cannot stand the smell of smoke and hold my breath everytime i pass someone smoking. I was about to pass out. But then he turned on the air and i guess that circulated the stench or something because i didn't smell it the rest of the flight. He was funny though, he rambled on about how he has partied with jack johnson a few times. Says he is a way chill guy. I slept most of the plane ride which was good, it was just so boring to be awake with no one there i knew. We landed on time and the shuttle showed up not long after i got outside. Its crazy how fast the humidity hits you. Its like as soon as i stepped out the door my hair went all frizzy. But gotta love it.
The shuttle driver was freakin awesome! Ha ha he was this big poly and just so sweet! We had to pick up his wife and make a pit stop at the UPS store so it took awhile to get over to Hau'ula. Its the prettiest drive over to the north shore. You are just surrounded by huge green mountains and huge green trees! Its green everywhere i love it! They were so sweet to drop me off at kali's home. (they were supposed to take me to byu and kali was going to pick me up from there) I made it to kali's, its so fun to see her again! She has added so many new perks to her house! She added a separate entrance for the boys that live upstairs, she added an island with a stove and oven, a new guest bedroom, and some rooms down by her garage for storage and a future work out room! But after i got settled in, i ran with kali to pick up a girl in her ward that she had to take to her ward camp. She had to check on one of her cute little foster girls and then we grabbed a couple things at the grocery store. I started working on making name tags for efy and realized it was sunset! I hurry and grabbed my camera and ran down the road a little to take some pictures, i kinda missed the sunset though. I sat down there for awhile and now here i am... its been a long day and im exhausted. I'll probably go to bed very early (for hawaii time)
Oh kali is so funny though, she is so sweet she thinks since i paid for a plane ticket i should not pay for anything else. She has offered to let me use the car whenever and refuses to let me go buy groceries. I was just going to take the bus and get some but she said if i did she would be very mad! Ha she is so sweet i cannot thank her enough for everything! Im sad that sheldon is in utah while im here, kali said that she told his roommates i was coming and they said they want to take me surfing! That would be a blast! But im excited to see sterling again. Ha gotta love him! Sterl is kali's husband and i just love his voice. I will try and take a video to post on here. Its just the best! alrighty roo im going to some studyin but im stoked for an all day trip to the beach tomorrow!! YEA! night night. miss and love you all! call me, im already getting lonely!

Best swing ever!

remains of the beautiful sunset!

I don't ever want to leave this place!!!

the countdown is on

ALOHA!

Its offical. I have my plane ticket and everything!

i added a countdown timer so you can see how soon i leave! ---------->

Wow only 9 days away i cannot believe it! I've been preparing for efy, there is just so much i don't know i hope i don't make a fool of myself. Ha ha we have to learn the efy line dances before we go and so i was watching the video and following along when my dad walks by and was like... what are you doing??? Ha ha i felt like napaoleon dynamite when he watches that tape to learn dance moves. Well i leave the 30th, kels gets there the 2nd and syb gets there the 3rd. Im going to have a couple days just chillin by myself. Ha ha. Well the lady me and tanner stayed with last year Kali, she has been so nice and insists i stay with her for a couple days! So that will be so much fun! I have missed her sterl and sheldon! They are my hawaiian family.

this is where i will be - kali's house in Hau'ula

Things i am NOT excited for:
*my family is going to lake powell while i am gone :(
*missing another utah 4th of july.
*missing robyns birthday... AGAIN. sorry rob. i will bring you back something extra special!
*going without my 3 hawaii buddies: tan, kars, ash :(

Things i am SO excited for:

*VIOLET MINTS, my favorite!!! i bought a huge box of them last year,
oh how i ate every single one!

*PIPELINE BEACH! best sand, best waves, best everything.
*MATSUMOTOS best shave ice on the island.

*JUMPING OFF THE ROCK at waimea beach.

*SUNSET AT SUNSET BEACH*7/11 - FREE SLURPEE DAY

*THE SWING. there is this cute little swing just right down the beach from kali's house. Its just a fun thing to go sit at that swing at night and listen to the waves crash.

Oh with a bag of popcorn of course!*HUKI LAU CAFE. #1 french toast.

*and... taking lots of sweet pics. be prepared i will upload lots so make sure you are checking my blog daily :)
thoughts of the day:
(ali i love how you do thoughts with your posts, i am copying i hope you don't mind)
* i need to find a way to get a few extra bucks before hawaii
*j.p. comes home in 3 days!
*austin is fun to dance in the car with.
*ali i will miss you while you are at your efy type camp. you will do amazing though!
*LOVING this weather.
*thanks brody for letting me take two weeks off work! You are the best!!
*i am really excited right now!
*kars congrats on your new job! you will have so much fun working there.
*cass i am jealous of your cute new boy!
*last night was a fun night :)

*i have been horrible at leaving comments on everyones blogs, i do apologize!
*sar, ab, lou, jill, syb, katie, chels, kellie i loved seeing you all yesterday!
*i love when amy makes up car dances.
*there were no lounge chairs open at the pool today, i couldn't lay out.
*court i am coming to visit you at work... right now!

long post

Overdue post. Sorry. You may have heard, but im going to be having a little niece! YEA! 

I'm so dang excited!

its a GIRL!

such cool plants up in the canyon

a goose

it was so nice to go down to st george for a weekend. It was in the 90s. Perfect. It was fun catching some rays for once!

reading in the pool

three times? NO WAY.

So i went to the orthodontist yesterday to get a new retainer. The guy is looking at my teeth and says you know what i could do to fix these teeth real fast? Braces! .....um no. I've had them on twice and that is twice as many times as i wanted them on! So i told him that, and he gave in and said he would give me those clear retainers that resemble invisaline. So if you see me with shiny teeth and talking like i have a lisp, that is why. Hey its better than a mouth full of metal right???

pedro + zeni

FINALLY i have my pictures up from the wedding i was the second photographer for. It was a very long day but i had so much fun! It was a gorgeous wedding and zeni was such a sweetie! Enjoy :)zeni's dress

zeni and her mom

where the ceremony took place. It was actually at the park right next to my church!

her aisle was over 100 feet long!

this is stacey, the main photographer for the wedding.

zeni and her dad

they loved their drinks!

bride and groom's first dance

cheers!

pedro and his mom

mother of the bride