Things to Come!

Today has been a big day of planning...

The next month has a lot of big, life-altering events in it.

And over the course of the next month I get to travel to FOUR different states!  

Naturally, there is quite a bit of planning / brainstorming that has had to happen.

1. MOVING.  We are moving to Aiea to the Franklin Towers!  We get to move in April 9th (I will be out of town so Mike gets to be the lucky guy to deal with all that.  I appreciate all my hardworking man does for us!)  The towers are BEAUTIFUL.. spacious, two bedroom apartment on the 27th floor with a gorgeous view.  And the best part is, it's a little cheaper than what we're paying now!  The sad part is that I will really miss Makiki ward.  

2. SEALING.  We are getting sealed April 28th in the Bountiful, Utah temple!  I am so excited, I think that is one of the most beautiful temples.  We're having a reception afterwards.  Luckily, things have just seemed to fall into place in planning the reception.  I am so excited to go to Utah and visit family and friends!

3. PHOENIX trip!  The first stop of my trip next week.  I'll be staying with some awesome friends there for a few days en route to ...

4. SEATTLE trip.  I'll be visiting my sister up there for a week and helping her settle down in to her new place.  It will be good to have some sister time. :D

5. UTAH... once that's done I'll get to Utah to finalize the details for everything... and finish the remaining tests for the semester at Weber.  

Feeling so excited for all the THINGS TO COME! :D

So much fun, so little time...

So, Mike has been on a TDY to Cambodia this past month.  It has been super hard being apart from him, but luckily we get to do this

ALL THE TIME!  We have it pretty good I think, if I couldn't see that face often I would most definitely go CRAZY!

So this was my first TDY where I stayed in Hawaii and didn't move home with family.  Instead, my family came to me!  It has been so nice to have the support of my in-laws, my best friend, and one of my sisters and her family... and it has made the time FLY by!

Emilie flew in almost two weeks ago!  Sadly, she will be heading home in just a few days but we have had so much fun together.

Paddle Boarding at Electric Beach - we went up here with a fun girl from my ward - Brooke, and her friend Emily.  It was CRAZY!  So a Hawaiian spear fisher guy told us that while we were paddleboarding around this cove he saw a shark in the waters where we were!   He said it was a Galapagos shark, and they come more towards land when the whales are migrating by.  Um, freaky!  Emilie was pro her very first time. :D

We also went to Bellows Beach and soaked in the beauty ... It was a little windy so neither of us felt like getting in the water, but we took some sweet pictures!

FAIL at high fiving, but SUCCESS at being hot.  HA! 

Emilie also went parasailing..  I had already gone before so I just tagged along for the boat ride.  Which, amazingly, did not make me sea sick!  

Gettin' excited for the parasailing adventure.

Emilie was uncertain about this whole parasailing idea for a second....

Emilie and her fun friends from Argentina that she was paired up with... They were kind of awkward, but that's okay.  

The next day, we did the craziest thing I just may have ever done.. WE SWAM WITH SHARKS!  

We boarded a little boat and went about two miles out off the North Shore...  Once we got out there we saw our cage in the water, where we would soon be surrounded by probably around TWENTY GALAPAGOS SHARKS!  

Just seeing the sharks swimming around the boat was enough to throw me into a panic... but then I put my foot into the water and thought I was going to die.  The tour guide told me to stop being dramatic.  He was probably right ... 

Luckily we got back on the boat with all our appendages in tact!  It was a super cool experience, I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Well... too little time means I will have to re - visit this blog and SOON because I have barely scratched the tip of the ice berg on what's been going on lately!  Lovin' every minute!