I LOVE SCHOOL!

I am so sorry I have not posted more yet but I just had to tell you all how much I love school! I love every part about it. The learning, the students, the teachers, and especially getting to go to a school centered around Christ where prayer is given before every class. I am sooo blessed I have a great husband and fantastic kids and am nourishing my self with learning and health and exercise and I feel fantastic! I am taking three classes right now. Biology, Jogging and New Testament. The classes are each six weeks long and it is the best! Today I got to jog my first jog which was a mile and a half and it felt great. It did take me 19 min and 45 sec, but for me that is an awesome time! I am eating raw again and am the lowest weight I have been in over two years! I am felling so much more energy and love being busy busy! I am still in charge of the fruit and veggie co-op too and that is so much fun for me. I have a walking buddy every morning and it is the best way to start the day! Life is truly so amazing here in Hawaii and I can truly say I have never been this happy in my life! I am so thankful to a wonderful family and husband who made it possible for us to be here!

A Night in Waikiki

A few weeks ago Ryan's old missionary companion, Chad was in town on business and we had the pleasure of taking him on our weekly date with us. This particular week we went to Waikiki at night. I happen to love Waikiki at night. It is not at all like Vegas with all the filth and focus of sex. It is so fun to walk up and down the street and see all the different people trying to make money by showing their talents. There are several musical acts, magicians, artists and many more. Here are few of the favorites from the night! (Besides hanging out with Chad which was the best part!)

These pictures were created by spray paint, forks, ripped paper and cups.

That is about is and this man belows talent.

The man below, juggled while doing the whole rubix cube in under five minutes!
This mans entire outfit was made of paper!

And this man was singing in Japanese!

What a fun night!

Fun Videos

When Ryan is at work at night we have some of our best performances. Alissa loves this song and dance that she learned at Downtown Thursday Nights in St. George, Utah.

She even taught it to the boys over the last few months!

Alissa has made some friends in our neighborhood that are a bit older than her, but they all love to dance and made up this dance.

Kenzie likes to sing the same song every time he films a video. He is super silly!

Just thought I would share some of our silly normal day to day things we do!

Question of the Week!

So, I am not exactly computer literate yet. I keep putting my SD card into the computer so I can download all of the fun and exciting pictures of our lives but I can not get it to work. Is it possible to be out of room on my computer? If you know the answer to this question or have any ideas. PLEASE POST HERE.

Calm

On a personal note. I wanted to sit down and write about my feelings. I look at my life and how amazingly blessed I have been and I realize how calm I feel. Even with the craziness of life and small children I just feel calm. School is starting soon for Alissa, Kenzie and Me. I often feel like this is going to be a whole new busy journey for us, but I still feel calm. I feel like the Lord will just guide us and that everything will be all right. I also feel calm because I live in the best place in the world and I have wonderful friends and my children have wonderful friends and my husband is extremely happy. I just think wow, this is truly amazing! And even though, we have moments of hecticness(if that even is a word) I still feel calm. I am so thankful for my Heavenly Father, and everyone else he put into our lives to get us to this point in our journey. I am also thankful to be able to brush things off that used to bother, and to be growing up every year. I am so blessed and I am so grateful!

Ward Camp

Believe it or not after all the fun of Ward Camp these are the only two pictures I came away with. It was well worth it though. We had the most amazing experience at Ward camp. It was five days of pure fun excitement. Ryan had to work through most of it which was sad. The kids and I were entertained every night with games, movies, luaus and all types of activities. Kenzie and his friend Housling spent most nights with flashlights looking for bugs and Alissa and all her girlfriends did hair and swung from tree swings. Ryan got to help out with making the lau lau which is a very traditional Hawaii dish made with pork wrapped in the lau lau leaf. I hope I am correct about this. It was really neat. Ward Camp was seriously amazing experience and I hope they will adopt again next year so we can go again. We will truly miss the Laie 8th Ward and only wish we could have stayed in that ward. We are so thankful though to be meeting new people now and enjoying the strength of our new ward family.

Random Pics

This is what we look like when we eat homemade grape juice Popsicles! This is Alissa's friend Makana. We truly miss having her as a neighbor.

I have to say Kenzie is the most clever little bug. He comes up with the best buildings and tower and toys and concoctions of everyone. The other day Ryan came upstairs and said, "Stac, where's the camera?" He came back with this adorable picture. Since Taft can pedal yet he left Taft on his bike in the back and hooked Taft's bike to the front, so he could pedal for him. What a sweet brother he is! He also loves to help Taft get dressed, brush his teeth and put his shoes on. I love these boys!

This is the apron we made for Ryan for Father's Day. I know I am so behind on pictures. Father's Day was lots of fun and we are so blessed to have such a fun cool Daddy in our family!

Garfield the Butterfly

This is the final result of our caterpillar. If you click on the grass you can see him in the grass. We had so much fun with our Monarch butterfly!

Crazy Busy!

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update until I can find time to post the last few weeks. For those of you who dont't know, we moved. We moved to the next town over call Hauula because we basically had a crazy landlord. The craziest part though, is that we moved with only four days to pack, clean and be out. I am so thankful for wonderful people to help us. The best part is that we also had ward camp for four days and Ryan working all the time all at the same time. Luckily, we got it all done and now just have to find furniture so we can put away our huge mess. We were living in a furnished place and this one is unfurnished so we are just waiting to find the time to go buy furniture. I have been checking on craigslist but no luck yet. Yes, I will admit it makes me crazy living in this mess.

Summer break is going by way too fast. I really don't want Alissa to go back to school but with me starting school that is life for now.

I start school in just a few weeks and I am a bit nervous but hope it goes well.

Ryan is working all the time and we still feel blessed that we have a great job.

The fourth of July was fun. The kids and I went to Turtle Bay to watch all the big fireworks and to play on the bounce houses. We saw lots of our friends there too! Afterwards we met Ryan's sister Aubrey and her husband and our friends The Becar's at our house for more fireworks. Ryan got home at 3:30 in the morning after working a 13 hour shift.

Today we went to our new ward and felt so welcome. Alissa and Kenzie are actually doing really well at the new place and adjusting well to the ward. Taft just keeps growing up. Everywhere I go people ask how old he is because he talks to well. I am always trying to find ways I can stop time and keep them from growing up. I guess I am starting to realize I will not get to keep them with me forever.

We truly love living in Hawaii and feel so blessed for all we have. I can not wait to get organized again and to just relax in our new house on the ocean! Hope you are all great and had a Happy 4th of July. I hope to post pictures soon.