Wow and Geez

Geez I just don't know if I will be able to finish posting everything about Hawaii!! It was so amazing! The pillows were really amazing, I know that is a little odd, but they were so so so so soft. I need to find out where they bought them and go buy some for RB and I! That is what I want for Christmas! Those soft soft pillows!! Lets see maybe I will just tell a story at a time.





My dad worked on the island of Lanai ( hopefully that is how you spell it), and I was able to see it from a distance! He picked pineapple there when he was a teenager. We were on Maui. I was actually really close to taking a ferry over there and being able to actually set foot on the island, but time didn't really permit. That is one island I would like to go to if I ever go back to Hawaii. We were at an old whaling port town called Lahaina, but it has basically become a tourist destination. There are a lot of cute little shops. I enjoyed a yummy snow cone and bought a flower to go in my hair. This is where I got some cool pictures of the banai trees (again not sure how it is spelled). I would definately want those in my yard if they could grow here!











So that is all for today on Hawaii. In other news, Halloween has come and gone. We had trick or treaters for the first time in our married life and it was fun. We carved pumpkins with Heidi, Rob, Devon and Angela. It was a fun Halloween week. I didn't dress up as anything but myself :)

More Hawaii Advendtures

LEts see, where did I leave off......ha ha I only finished talking about getting on the plane. The plane ride went well. I took a sleeping pill, but really only slept for like fifteen minutes.There were to many things going on to let myself fall asleep. I watched toy story three, except I don't exactly remember what happens because of taking the sleeping pill... It was a really rough landing in my opinion, even rb said it seemed rough to what he was used to. We got off the plane and took a shuttle over to our hotel. our hotel was litterally across the street from the air port. Dave, Wendy and Baby Jacen came over and brought us pizza. It was really fun to see them, especially baby J because RB and I had never met him.

Not much happens in this video. There is cute baby J, and then Jeff tries to photo bomb, but didn't realize it was a video:)

We actually fell asleep really early, like 6:30pm. In reality it was 9:30 Utah time. We didn't sleep the best because there was a freeway right next to the hotel. I didn't realize how loud cars could be until they kept me up half that night. Jeff and Cindy left with Wendy and Dave to stay at their place for the night. In the morning RB's dad got a rental car and we were off to Pearl Harbor! I had never been to pearl harbor before, it was really cool. We took a ferry over to where the USS Arizona had sunk. I didn't know this, but they didn't ever recover it, they just left it down there. you can see parts of the boat sticking up above the water. There were a lot of interesting things to look at and read about.

After pearl Harbor we were off to the Pier to be dropped off and wait for RB's dad to go pick up the others in Laie. We were actually waiting for a very long time before we got on the cruise ship. I imagined it differently. I thought there would be this nice waiting area, but we were basically just in this big warehouse. When rb's dad had got back from turning the rental car in, we finally got in line to be checked on board. There were security checks just like the airport. We each got our own little card that basically did everything. It was connected to our credit cards, opened our rooms, was used to check us in and out of the boat everyday. You could just walk around with that card and use it for everything. they made it to easy to spend money:) Don't worry I didn't go overboard with spending or anything. I actually didn't buy much at all on the ship. I bought one virgin smoothie, just to try it out, then one night I bought advil because I had a headache. They had many different restaurants to chooose from. Some of them cost extra and we never ended up going to them, because there were plenty that didn't charge any extra. It was really fun to always order appetizers and desert. We were in a fancy restaurant and I order a strawberry soulfle (spelling) with my dinner, and I asked the waiter to bring it with my meal instead of after.....The waiter thought that was funny, but I just told him that I actually wanted to have dessert instead on getting stuffed before I could get any. The soufle was super good, and he served it all fancy!! After I had mine, almost every one at our table ordered one for dessert form themselves:)

Alright I feel like there is so much to tell, but now my fingers are getting tired from typing. So I guess I will have to continue telling you about my vacation later.

bye

The above video is us sitting and waiting in the warehouse looking building

This video is the dancers we watched while we were waiting in line to get our cards for the cruise ship

Baby Jacen

This is my nephew baby Jacen! This is one of the biggest reasons for going to Hawaii!! He is so fun!! He was constantly smiling!!!!

I thought this picture was funny and cute!!!

Not sure what the title of this one should be. I am debating between "physically here, but not mentally" or just plain "ARG".

I am back from Hawaii and survived the plane trip over and back! I did so many things in Hawaii that I don't know if I will get to them in this blog. I would usually write it all, but when I came home I found out that my biology teacher had moved my test up to this week instead of next and I already had a paper due today that I hadn't even started! So the paper is almost done and I have tons of studying to do and it is already 6 at night. I know you are probably thinking "stop writing on your blog and get to work"! I need a break and I am about to through my computer out the window! Microsoft word just froze up on me and I haven't saved in a while and think I just lost the end of my paper...........that was why I wanted to label this blog "ARG"!! The time change from Hawaii to Utah has really thrown me off, I want to sleep in until one, but then my body just doesn't want to go to sleep until 1 am!! My days seem really short! Yes I am complaining a lot..........sorrry!

Hawaii was awesome, and the cruise going to four different islands in Hawaii was Awesome!!RB and I packed up on thursday night and left Friday morning for the airport. Our flight left at around eleven am. We met up with Jeff, Cindy, and RB's parents at the airport. We all had the same flight over to Hawaii. That made me less nervous :) We flew on a 767......I only know that because of RB. I was so nervous before getting on the plane. I was shaking!! SO as we walked passed the flight attendant my mother in law mentioned that this was basically my first time flying. ( yes, it wasn't quite my first time, but I haven't flown since I was way younger and all I remember about it was being scared to death the whole time!). The flight attendant got all excited and pulled out a set of wings and then gave them to me to pin on my jacket. Then she went up to the cockpit and had me follow her to meet the pilot and the copilot! It was fun! I asked if I could take a picture of them and they said that it would be better it I sat in the pilot seat and got one of me!! They even put the pilot hat on me!! It was so fun, and it made me so much less nervous knowing I had such nice and awesome pilots!!!
That is going to be it for now......I have to go and study. I tried to upload some pictures but that will have to wait because it didn't work

Craziness!!

Hello,

So this school semester has been crazy busy for just having two classes. I don't get it! I had two classes in the spring and they did not keep me this busy. I keep getting assignment after assignment in one class, and the other class is crazy hard! I just took a test on monday and have one on this coming Friday! I had a test last week and a paper due on Friday. I got two more assignemts in my class today that adds to the already two assignments that I had! I keep going from "maybe I can do this" to "oh my gosh, I need to drop my classes now!!!!" I really want to be done this semester! So I am pretty sure I am going to just suffer, maybe not the best thing for my chronic mono, but gosh dang it! I want to be done!! :) Ha ha ha, ok enough complaining for me:).......for now....

So This picture is of one of my really cute and small cantalopes I have in my garden! Seriously they are small, but they still taste good! This picture is of a cute kitty my parents got, they actually have three of them. They were so fun to play with when I went over there last saturday! I can't remember what this ones name is, but it loved to be held!
Well that is about all for now

hopefully I can make it through this semester!

Watermelon

It has been three weeks and two days of school and I am still alive. This is a good thing:) I can't believe how much more work this semester is than my last semester. I still only have two classes, but it seems like I am doing some kind of homework everynight. I have a test tomorrow, a paper due on Friday, and then a test on next tuesday. Good thing they are a bit spread out, but it has been stressful.

I have picked my watermelon out of my garden, sorry for the lack of pictures. It was a yummy watermelon! I only had two watermelons grow. I still have the other one in my fridge.



I am going crazy! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha........ok not officially, but I am in a weird mood. Why is it that I always write on my bolg when I am in a weird mood? Now everyone who reads it probably thinks I am crazy. I promise most of my days are normal, at least as normal as they can get with chronic mono :)



I have to identify about fifteen different turfgrass species tomorrow, along with knowing their scientific name (including spelling it right). My favorite of the grasses that I have memorized so far is the Blue Grama Grass -Bouteloua gracilis. This is my favorite, not because it is necessarily a good turfgrass, but because its inflourescence looks like an eyebrow! It is fun to play with it.



This last Saturday, RB's parents came up for Jeffs Birthday ( RB's younger brother). We went to Pounders! It is a yummy yummy place, I especially love their macoroni salad! It was quite fun! We bought a cake and ice cream to have back at our house. I also had them all try some of my watermelon from my garden, because I thought it was to yummy not to share. Anyways the reason I am sharing this is because of this picture:

Jeff got creative and took his cake decorations off the cake and nicely decorated the watermelon! I thought it was funny so I took a picture.

School has begun

School has begun for me! Hopefully I will be able to make it through this semester with out getting majorly sick! The only thing I am worried about is my biology lab. It is at a bad time of day! My schedule has been getting up and going to class, then coming home and taking a nap at about 1 pm to 2:30. Long nap, but apparently my body needs it. I just get so exhausted at about that time, well my lab is at 1:30 on Fridays! I am going to be falling asleep during lab! I checked to see if there was another lab I could attend earlier, but they all start at 1:30! Ugh, I guess I will have to try and take a nap ealier then 1pm.

anyways, off of my school soap box :) I got my flu shot today! Daline called and informed me that it would be better if I had my flu shot in order to see douglass by the end of september :) I bet I surprised her by getting it so fast!! I guess I haven't told her that I got it yet! He is in the NICU right now:) He was born a month and a half early! He is doing really well. He has Jaundice, but is only hooked up to one IV and a feeding tube! He is also under the lights, for the Jaundice. He was 4 lbs and 15 ounces. A pretty good sized premie :)

I am getting rid of all of my inventory from my Mary Kay business. I am still going to sell it, but I am just going to order as needs be. All of my inventory I have is 50% off!!LEt me know if you need anything and I will let you know if I have it in my inventory!

Tomorrow is gonna be a busy day! Devon and Angela are going to be staying with us for a month or two :) They are my cousins and are moving to logan. Devon got a job here in logan. I am excited:)

Well That is about all that is new.

My life is great!