Hawaii 2010

On September 16, 2010, I boarded a plane in the D and headed for Honolulu Hawaii. My first flight was about 5 hours long. I landed in Seattle and had about an hour layover. Then I boarded the plane headed for Hawaii. I was so excited I could hardly stand it. The plane from Seattle to Hawaii was a little over 5 hours and the flights ended up being great. As soon as I stepped off of the plane in Hawaii the humidity and hot weather was amazing. I walked through the airport so excited to see my mom and dad. As I stepped through the doors in theo baggage collection rooms, I saw my mom n dad waiting for me with the cutest purple leigh. I ran over to them and hugged them and started crying. I was so happy to see them and so excited for this trip. We left the airport and loaded in the cute black jeep my parents had rented. We rolled out to Wally World to pick up some goodies and then headed to the condo. The condo was super cute. It was a two bedroom two bathroom beautiful condo in Kahuku, Hawaii. We all went to bed and the next day my dad had to work so my mom and I headed to Sunset Beach. We sat on the beach all day and did a little swimming. We also went to Ted's Bakery where I got the BEST carrot cake ever. The next day my dad only had to work half a day so he met my mom and I at the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was really neat to get to see all of the shows. The Samoa Show was sooooo funny. The guy had me crackin up the whole time. We also saw Tonga that day and then went to the Luau. The Luau was fun. We got to see hula dancing, singing, little kids dancing, ate great food, and I even had a pina colada slushie in a pineapple. My dad bought me a really cute black and white Hawaiian dress at a little shop in there. My mom spoiled me rotten and bought me slushies and some cute Hawaiian Jewelery. The next day we headed to Pearl Harbor. This was one of my fav parts of the trip. It's such a blessing to get to see all of the monuments and read, and hear all about the story that took place. It always brings tears to my eyes when I see the monument but when you step onto the USS Missouri Monument, it took all I had not to break down. The spirit I felt was so strong. It's so strange to think that underneath you lie all of the soliders that were stuck inside the ship. After visiting the monument, we went to the SWAP MEET. It's the biggest swamp meet in Hawaii and takes up a whole stadium parking lot. We did lots of walking and lots of shopping. My parents bought be so much cute stuff and one of my fav things was a BLUE n GOLD Hawaii towel. Had to represent for Michigan. My dad had to work the remaining days of my trip so my mom and I got to spend a lot of much needed time together. We went shopping, swimming at the pool, walked down to Turtle Bay Resort Beach, ate lots of yummy food, and had a BLAST. Everynight I was there, my mom, dad, and I went to dinner at a different little restaurant. One night we went to a steak house down on the golf course and I had the BEST STEAK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We went to the Kahuku Grill one night, Papa Olie's, and Breakers(2x's). Breakers is a cute little burger joint up on the North shore in Haleiwa. I loved loved loved this place. It was started to get crowded with surfers to catch the swell. We got to go to Sunset Beach one night and watch the sunset and it was beautiful and relaxing and something I will never forget. Probably my fav part of the trip was going to the Dole Plantation. I am totally obsessed with pineapples and would love to own my own plantation someday. We had the best pineapple frozen yogurt and did some fun shopping. I wanted to ship pineapples home cuz they were so delicious and fresh and the best ever!! I was able to get a nice tan and spend so much one on one time with my parents, which is super unusual having three sisters. This was a once in a lifetime trip for me. I am so thankful that my parent invited me out to visit them. I had a blast and can't wait to go back someday.Thanks again MOM n DAD!!! Love you both!

Where did SuMMeR Go????

Will, Me, Ash, n Lowell at the concert

At the concert

Amazing Sunset

Detroit Temple

Will ridin' at the track.

Back tothe Future :)

At the Dream Cruise

So I know I have not posted for awhile and a lot has happened. First of all, it's the end of August and I can't believe it. I swear it feels like summer flies by and Fall goes quickly too and then onto winter! Will and I have had a great but really busy summer. We were able to go home to Minersville in May and then we had Darci come live with us for June and most of July. After she headed home we hit the books. I had three finals in the middle of August: Security Regulations, Equities and Remedies and Taxation. They were all pretty tricky but by the time I took them I was just ready for a summer break. I have three weeks until I start another semester which at this point I am about 1/2 through my vacation. Will just took his last two exams at Oakland Community College and handed in his last paper and he is officially graduated and will start at Oakland University in September. He decided to get his degree in psychology and I am happy for him cuz i think he will be able to accomplish a lot in that area. We have had such a beautiful, hot, and humid summer this year. There have been some days it has been 90 degrees with 90% humidity!!! I love the humidity but sometimes it's just tooooo much. We also went to the Kings of Leon Concert with my friend Ashley and her husband Lowell. It was a great show. We have been down to Riverside Park to feed the duckies and Will has spent a lot of time at the track riding his bike. We also went to the Woodward Dream Cruise and saw awesome cars. I loved it. We parked in front of the temple, set up our shade tent, and just watched as all these awesome old cars cruised. We even saw some of them race. I always make such great plans for stuff that I want to accomplish while I am on break from school but what I end up finding out is that spending my time out of school with Will is what makes me the most happy and all of the other stuff will still be there waiting for me when school starts. Will and I usually have a one week time period where both of us are on vacation from school. We usually try to plan stuff everyday together cuz we know that between his work and both of us in school most of our time spent together is while one of us is on the desktop doing homework and the other on the laptop. Will has been able to go out to Lakeville a couple of times, which he LOVES and I am so thankful for friends who let us enjoy their homes and lakes:) We also have found something that both of us love and look forward to every Sunday night::::: SWAMP PEOPLE. It is one of the funniest shows ever and we watch it and just laugh for hours. We are still teaching our Sunday School class and our love for those teenagers grows so much each Sunday we get to teach them. We even went and watched one of them play football yesterday. Nothing like football season!!! We are very blessed for everything and everyone in our lives and we just want you all to know that we love Michigan and have been so blessed out here and in our lives. I read a quote the other day that said, With two people anything is possible as long as one of them is God. I like to think of it as myself and Will as one person and with God in our life we can do anything and can accomplish what has been set before us. Life is GREAT!!!!! :)

ECLIPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So last night Me, Darci, Christina, Julia, Angela,Michele, and Robyne went and saw

the midnight showing of Eclipse. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE It! It was

bar far the best movie in my opinion. Earlier that day, Darci and I went

to the mall and picked out some cute Team Edward and Team Jacob shirts

to wear and we even got some cute little clip in colored hair extensions. We got

to the theater at 10:30 expecting to wait in line like last year for New Moon but

luckily they let our theater be seated right when we got there. We weren't able to get

seates with all of us by each other but it worked out anyways. The movie was awesome.

It was so fun to have Darci out here and be able to see it with her. She is so Team Jacob

and I am so Team Edward and it's fun to argue about why which one is better

than the other. I loved Edward's hair in this movie and it was so awesome to see Bree Tanner in the movie. If you don't know who she is read Stephanie Meyer's new book: the Short Sweet Life of Bree Tanner. It made me have such different feelings toward the newborn.

We had so much fun and I am so blessed to have such an awesome sister and great friends!

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Birrrrrthdays and Backstreet Boys Concert

So this year Will turned 27 and I turned 25!!!! We both had school and were busy but we made sure to make it a special day for each other. It was so fun to have Darci out here with us on our b-days. I made Will this awesome Moto-X cake which I think turned out super cute. He loved it. Will got me a bikini-birthday cake cuz he has been singing that new Katy Perry song that talks about California girls and their bikinis and so he thought it would be funny to get me that cake. Thanks so much to everyone for their b-day wishes and gifts. We both had awesome b-days. Also Darci and I went to DTE Energy Music Theater to see the Backstreet Boys in Concert. It was super fun. We had a blast and it was so fun to see soooo many girls standing up screaming...it reminded me of my *NSYNC days..haha!!! But when the concert was over this crazy rain storm came through and we got stuck in the parking lot for over and hour and there was even a Torndao warning at our house. CRAZY. We made him home safely though. :) Willy's 27th B-day

My 25th B-day

We also went and saw Karate Kid on my b-day and we all LOVED it. I totally recommend it!

At the concert.

Trip to Utah and Davi's Graduation-May 2010

So in May, Will and I went to Utah for a visit. We had a blast and our families were so great to us and pretty mush spoiled us rotten. We also were able to see Davi graduate from Seminary and from BHS. It was awesome awesome awesome and it really makes us realize how blessed we are when we are able to go back and visit our families!!! Me and Davi at Cafe Rio...YUMMY!!!

Me, Nix and Davi after her seminary graduation

Sistas

Me, Dylann and Nix

Some of the fam

The Fam(minus Will...he was taking the picture)

Flexing after our volleyball tournament.

This tournament was the first time that all four of us sisters were able to play with each other. We had a blast. Thanks to my sisters, Kassie, Heidi and Nanette for letting me play v-ball with you. It was one of my favorite parts of this trip home.

Mom, Me, n Dad

DJ, Davi and ME

Me n Nix

Will and Me and Grandpa June and Grandma Carol!!

We had to sneak this picture cuz Dilly Bop doesn't really like her pictures taken.

Will and Skip

Cute!

Dylann and Nix riding the Dumbo at Wally World

Me n Dylann

Me n Drake(he is gettin sooo tall)