My First Blog Post: Lier is going to be so proud of me...haha

Good Day for Lier

On a happy note, my amazing wife transitioned into a new job today and I am so happy for her. Her previous working conditions were very sub-par at best but she had freedom with her schedule…We could go on and on about how bad it was for her but on the bright side she in now the Surgical Coordinator for a Plastic Surgeon here in Honolulu and has an intense job description but is eager and willing to take on all the many tasks she has in front of her!

I am proud of you Lier and all of your hard work! You are so deserving of this wonderful opportunity! Thank you for taking care of me while I have been on crutches for the last 4 months, I know it wasn’t easy and you’ll never know how much I appreciate all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and many more sacrifices you made for me. I love you!

Fun with the Jehovah Witnesses

A feeling of emptiness: here I am on my spring break sitting at my computer doing homework when there is a knock at the door. I answer it and it is 2 older guys from the Jehovah Witness church proselytizing to me. They start off telling me they know I am struggling to live in these conditions and I don't have a job because I am home during the day...I laughed and said, "Well I am a college student and this is my spring break-I am actually doing homework right now." They said, "Well you probably won't get a job when you graduate." I thought to myself, "Well thanks Satan you're a nice guy...now how can I help you." They asked me where I was from and I said Utah. They then said oh Mormon country huh. I said, “Yeah, I joined the church when I was 18 and I went on a mission to New York City.”One of the guys said, “I was a member of the Mormon church for 25 years until this guy (his companion) showed up on my doorstep and taught me the truth.” I said, “Oh, well good for you, if that is what you think is right then good for you.” They started teaching me, “When we die our souls die too and it says that right here in the scriptures.” They showed me a verse in Ecclesiastes to back up their statement. I just shrugged my shoulders and said that is sad, but I don't believe our souls die too. They went on to tell me how babies are inherently born with sin because of Adam and we all are sinners because of him. I said, “I’m sorry but I don’t believe that either. I believe we are all sinners because we all have the agency to choose good and evil and we sometimes make the wrong choice. The guy took one step towards me and with much self conviction said, “We are all sinners because Adam couldn’t keep the commandment to not eat the fruit.” I could see this was going nowhere but I like learning about different religions. He kept on pushing the point to me that babies are born sinners and I about lost it…haha. I said, “You really believe that a baby is born a sinner?” He said, “Yeah Chandler-does your church really believe children are innocent until the age of 8.” I said, “Yes we do.” His name is Larry, and I said, “Larry, really try and reflect for a second-do you really think a baby just born…even 2 years old, is a sinner?” He said, “Yes it says so in the scriptures.” I spoke with him for the next couple of minutes about doctrine from the Book of Mormon clarifying these points he is making from his scriptures about infant Baptism Moroni 8 on how “little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; (Christ says) wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them; and the state of Adam and the fall in 2 Nephi 2:23-25 “And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in the state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.” “But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things.” “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.” Larry, looked at me and said, “We don’t respect your Book of Mormon or what it says.” This man was probably 65 years old and I about threw him over the railing of our apartment…which is exactly what Satan wanted me to do. So I said, “I don’t respect your version of the Bible as correct either but I had enough respect to listen to you and hear you out.” You want to have this argument over whether or not we are born sinners and inherently because of Adam our souls are going to die, when you should be teaching people how we can overcome our own mistakes and teach people a joyous message. The term gospel means “good news” if I want to hear of all the terrible things that are going on in the world I can turn on CNN. A religious organization is suppose to prepare its members for the future, helping them acquire faith and virtue in this perilous world we live in. Don’t come knocking at my door trying to give me a spiritual beat down…telling me they know why I don’t have a job, children are sinners, and Adam was a bad man because he partook of the fruit. I feel like such a missionary again right now. If they only knew Adam is Michael the archangel who will be standing at Jesus’ side at the time of their judgment. I think it will be a huge shock to them when they find out the man (Adam) they are blaming for the conditions of this world is the man that stands at the head of this world and reports directly to Christ. . I believe we are all sinners because we choose to sin…I just found it crazy when Larry told me we would have all lived in the Garden of Eden if Adam didn’t eat of the fruit. He doesn’t understand that when they were in a state of innocents they didn’t know how to have sex-so they could multiply and replenish the earth so we all could be born here on this earth.

Anyway, enough about that. I am just grateful to belong to a church that brings tidings of great joy to all men and women everywhere. This man who I opened my door too went on to tell me I am not a Christian and I don’t believe the Bible because I believe the Book of Mormon. I ask myself, “Who…just who is at the head of his church.” I was holding my Bible following along as he read scriptures to me. He said that he recognizes our church’s name has Christ’s name in it but we don’t believe in Him. Wow! Meanwhile, Earnest the shorter guy that was Larry’s companion had his head ducked the whole time. He told me he was Mormon for 25 years and was so happy in the beginning of the conversation but at the end I could see that he felt bad about how Larry was talking to me. Larry looked at his watch and said, “We have to get going we have an appointment in 5 minutes.” I looked at Earnest (who was also probably 65 years old) and said, “Earnest, is this really what you believe now? I know he felt really stupid because of what happened and because being a member of the church for 25 years he knew the doctrine I was telling him…anyway, Larry interrupted me while I was talking to Earnest and walked away. Meanwhile, I saw them knocking on doors in my neighborhood for the next 20 minutes which means he was lying by saying, “We have an appointment in 5 minutes.” Frustrating…. Haha oh yeah, Larry also told me his New Testament portion of the Bible was written before Christ’s time…haha the New Testament starts when Christ was born and continues till after his death. That is one inspired New Testament if it was written before Christ’s time. His argument in telling me this was that his Bible was more correct than The King James Version of the Holy Bible…go figure. If this is what your representatives of your church are teaching people their souls probably will die…along with all their blasphemous teachings. Thank you Heavenly Father for Prophets who you inspire and guide so that we can know the “good news” and know what we need to do to get to heaven. I am so grateful to be a Mormon-a believer of Jesus Christ as my Savior and Redeemer and a believer of The Book of Mormon and the Bible, and I am thankful for Father Adam partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Without him doing so we would not exist and Adam and Eve would still be in the Garden of Eden as innocent children…knowing no good for they knew no evil, hence…to know, they had to Partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” Fascinating huh?

Now that I am done going off I better get back to my homework…

Chaminade Bball!

So let me see if I can keep this all straight and least confusing.... Towards the end of Chaminade's basketball season their last TWO games on the schedule they played DIXIE then BYUH at home. Both games were great games of course- intense, stressful etc. Ha! Dixie beat us by two points! Ergh! Coach Mahar was pretty upset! He did what he could to stick up for his boys and feeling like they got some unfair reffing..They definitely did. Coach had a few words with every person he could the AD, head Official etc. it really is pathetic how differnt the reffing is out here compared to Utah these refs have no idea what they are doing, never have played competitive ball themselves and are just not consistent. They even flew in refs from the mainland for these last few games to get some refs on the court that knew what they were doing. Then a few nights later we played BYU(hawaii) and won that game which was AWESOME- It felt so good! It was Senior night so it was needed and the boys played hard and definitely deserved the win! Chaminade won their conference!!! So the The team went to Regional's in Washington State and got lined up to play Dixie on the bracket. Chandler got his cast off his leg the day before the team flew out. His coach bought Chan a ticket to come along with the team! Chan was pretty excited to finally go on road(flight) trip with the team because you cant fly with a cast so after three months of calf atrophy he managed to go! So Off they went to Washington. Here I am left all alone last min... it was all good. So They get up there and they played Dixie again and just didn't quite pull it off. The boys were back on the plane a few days later. Its too dang bad because Chaminade was such a great team this year and they went to regional's and so did Dixie and BYUH and now BYUH is down to the elite 8 going to Nationals in Massachusetts. Chaminade beat them three times this season but oh well they are off! good for them! ;) I can't believe how fast another basketball season flew by out here in Hawaii. its too dang better Chandler couldn't be on the court helping out and fully being apart of all the excitement. We are still hoping his foot will heal up and he can get his medical Red-shirt and play another year. We are being hopeful things will work out in our favor. Chan will find out more this week after he gets a CT scan and an MRI. Im still trying to get used to it again to have a hubby off of crutches, off of his little chair he would wheel around on in the house, no hoping around, no more handicapped parking...well maybe... I am happy to see him slowly starting to walk again! Awesome job Chaminade! Great year! Until Next year... (So sorry no pitures.. my cell phone will not send them to my email) Chandler even climbed up the latler with his broken foot and fat cast on and managed to cut part of the net along with everyone else one at a time..pretty cool!

Whale Watching

The Powell's, Chandler's really close family friends (childhood neighbors) came out to Hawaii for a week. We met up with them off and on for a few little things. The whales are still here in Hawaii and the Ocean around us is like Whale soup. It really is quite the entertainment! Some days we will just go for a drive along the ocean and you will see whales breaching. It reminds me of the times when we are back home in Utah and Chandler goes out spotlighting to see the deer and elk. We will go sit at the beach and spot for Whales. Pretty Awesome. We went with the Powells' on a Whale watching Catameran. It was two hours long with unlimited drinks. ;) Here is Chandler and I sitting on top of the boat cruising along. Poor Chan in his cast. (It was okay in the meantime we always got extra care from people)
Unfortunately we didn't see that many whales as we had expected... And I never had my camera ready for the their blow hole or tails ;(

I had time to nap in the warm sun though ;)
Here is part of the group too.. Such a fun time! Thanks Powells! (Notice the whale breaching in between Karla and Kacie?) lol
A view of Waikiki...

And my cute hubs looking out for the whales!!!

More J.P.A.

My sister Desiree got Janson's one month pictures taken the other day..and of course there are so many cute ones but here are a few!


Ah I want to munch on him!!!

BJ

My cute little niece got baptized in February.. We were sad that we had to miss another big family celebration. My sister let Brooklyn chose what she wanted at her baptism. My sister has always had private baptisms for her kids so its a great thing for our whole family to gather together and have family members speak straight to the child. Brooklyn chose my dad and my step dad to speak and she chose to sing.

Here is my dad and BJ
Here is Sierra and Brooklyn
And here she is with Kenneth. Everyone told us that Brooklyn did an amazing job singing. They said she literally blew everyone away with her beautiful voice.. Now her Bishop is wanting her to sing in Sacrament. She is looking forward to that!
She is such a little cutie. I can not believe she is 8. She is growing up quick! I am so happy she got baptized and had a great day. Wish we could have been there!

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Please excuse the construction! Blog under going some revamping... I dont think I know how to use blogger..everyone and their cute blogs...

J.P.A. 2-14-11

When Chandler and I found out that my sister was pregnant... we both said it would be a boy (just because she always thought she would have a girl first, and we have lots of nieces already). We both told her he would come late and on Chandler's birthday (v-day). And that he would be tiny! HA! Its a BOY and he was born on V-day, and he was 6 lbs .15 oz! And he is PERFECT! His little features are adorable!

Here is baby Janson
A day old



about a week old


about two weeks oldIt kills me to not be in Utah at this time. It is so dang hard to be all the way in Hawaii and I haven't met him yet ;( I'm patiently waiting to find a flight home to hug and cuddle on him!

B-day | V-day

I have no other excuse other than being busy for not blogging. Unfortunately we did not do too much for Valentines day or for Chandler's Birthday (on Vday). My brother was here in town still and it was just a crazy day for all. Chan had school and I took the day off work to hang out. Thats all I wanted for Vday was a day off work. When Chandler was finished with school we went to one of our favorite beaches Waimanalo and Chandler napped under the umbrella while Jerrel and I played in the 83* water. I have to admit I have not played like that in the waves ever before but it was a blast to body surf. We did get the crap beat out of us and I think I found sand on my scalp for about three days after that! lol! Poor Chan is still dealing with this broken foot. He gets the cast off in 6 days! That evening we went to Dave N Busters with some friends. Thanks Brint and Brea! Had some din din and played some arcade games...


Jerrel and Chan racing! It was a fun chill day. Chandler and I keep telling each other we need to celebrate Valentines Day. We still haven't done much. Oh well. Everyday is Valentines day for us out here together!
Chandler's Family and I went in on a gift together for Chandler. He has been wanting the Ipad for awhile now. He finally has one! He was surprised! He loves it! probably a lil too much! I can hardly keep him off it ;) Its a pretty fun little gadget!
Happy 25th Birthday Baby! I Love you!

PCC

Pearl Country Club hosts' The Hawaii Pearl Open and my brother Jerrel has always been invited to play in the tournament. So Jerrel came out and stayed with us. His excuse to come see us is always for a tournament... He has been out three times- all for golf! I like to believe it's because he wants to stay with us! ;) He played decently well. The tournaments' first round got rained out and so it was cancelled completely for the first day. So the second day he shot a 73 which allowed him to make to cut for the finals. On the final day we went and followed him around and spectated him on all 18 holes. I loved it! We weren't quite sure how Chan was going to get around 18 but it worked out to wear he got to ride with another golfer! And I had an Official drive me around (a friend of ours who was working the tournament anyway)

Here is J on the first hole
This course was amazing! This panoramic picture I took barely even shows the course and it all looks like it runs together anyway! On these upper holes on the back 9 over look Pearl Harbor and the Arizona Memorial- pretty neat!

And here we are on the 9th hole!




It was a good time! Unfortunately Jerrel didn't play his best game. He was making killer shots down the fairway but was struggling on this weird grass out here in Hawaii for his putts! Oh well! We still had a great time and played a lot while he was here!

Jus livin Life with our Hawaiian Ohana

We got a couple of camera's for Christmas...Apparently a few people knew I would need two because I go through them like water? ha! We haven't been up to a whole lot we are still patiently waiting for Chandler's foot to be miraculously healed ;)

We went to the University of Hawaii vs. Utah State Basketball game with our friends. The game was crazy. I usually cheer for UH but sense my home state was here- of course I wanted Utah to win! The gym was very loud and crazy. The game went into double over-time and Utah came out with the win!
This is the gym at the Stan Sherriff Center at UH- ITS HUGE

Brea and I


Relaxing at the Beach any chance we can get!

Went out to dinner and ate yummy food!

Little later into our dinner Gayna and Dom met up with us. Gayna was heading back to Australia the next day so I was sad. She is obviously gone now and I miss her already! She come to the USA for three months and her time her always flies by! Good thing we have Skype now-a-days! She will be back in November!

My poor hubby ;(

Okay the scoop is... We went to a Foot specialist here in Hawaii and we didn't like what we heard but it was reality.. we wanted to get a second opinion on Chandler's foot just to play it safe from a doctor up at the U of U. The Doctor at the U said almost the same thing the Dr. here in Honolulu said. Its a good thing to have two of the same diagnosis but not so good in what they had to say ;( So ever since The Maui Invitational (Nov.) So about three months total my husband has been frustrated with dealing with this bad foot. Three months- that's a LONG time to only be walking on your right foot... and its not over yet. Basically his Navicular bone (in his foot-ankle area) is broken in 5 places. Its a bone that already receives little blood supply- it's shattered. The Dr.'s say it may NEVER heal. Worst case he may never play college ball again. But we are being positive!! First thing they are trying..they have him in a cast for 8 weeks.. It may not work to heal the bone but we are being hopeful and have much faith it will work! We want to avoid surgery at all costs. But Dr.'s may want to do surgery to try to fuse the bone if the casting doesn't give the result they want... the reason in wanting to avoid surgery altogether is because since it receives little blood supply as is they don't want to go in there and mess with the bone and possibly damage all blood supply entirely. We are being patient and waiting to see if this cast has made a difference. Chandler is unsure how he broke the bone, but the show of Xrays the Dr.'s are saying its an old brake. it could be from a yr ago or longer. It has been a HUGE humbling experience for Chandler. Any of you that know Chan at all know that he is so Independent, athletic, and always helping others. This cast has taken all that away temporary. He is very dependent on me and his team mates- classmates, He is on crutches 24-7 so of course absolutely no sports- ;( no more ball for him his senior year. (A HUGE CRUSHER), and he is unable to serve others at this time. Trust me Ill be the first to admit that one. I'm the man of the house- literally. I have been doing so much and working two jobs. Its taking a toll on me too. But I'm okay to do it! I know he would do the same for me in an instant- and will when Im preg ;) I feel so dang bad. Its been a trial for the both of us. But we have one month down and one more to go with this cast on, then he goes to a boot, PT, and slowly will start athletically using it again. In all this time Ive been married to Chan I have rarely seen him mad, frustrated, upset. He is trying to be such a good sport but I can tell its getting to him (especially after a few scary falls- for once in his life he isn't graceful..shhh). I am so glad I can be here for him. He is done playing ball but he is still the captain of his Bball team, so he attends all practices', film, the meetings, weights. etc. He is actually trying to get this year as a Medical Red Shirt- so far it's looking good. He will maybe get to play next year and his scholarship next year will pay for his Master's Degree! I tell him I am so so sorry he is going through this but I really think its meant to be- to teach us patience, and make us take a step back, slow down, and that he is meant to continue school. We would have not paid for the MBA on our own so its good the scholarship will continue! We were only planning on being out here for two years. Well looks like it will be 3 all in all. The Dean of the Masters program see's that he is such a phenomenal student and will let him finish his Master's in one year- take more classes in one term than than the average student. Usually it takes at least two years with Chaminade University's program- but they know he will do just fine next year to complete it in a timely and efficient manner. He is taking 25+ credits or something this semester- he's crazy! But he will have his Bachelors degree in 3 months! Wow! Then he plans to work this summer and thru out next school year since Master classes are at night. I'm hoping he can work in the heart of downtown Honolulu with me and we can go to work together each day ;)
Here is Chan driving in the car- notice our kitchen spoon down his cast. he uses it and its skinny handle to itch with! HA!

Wow- this was hard for him. To be in a wheel chair at Wal-mart. I'm sorry but I was BUSTING UP laughing.. I laughed so hard my laugh was contagious to many Hawaiians around us they started laughing too. Its just uncommon to see a 25 yr old in an automatic wheel-chair.

Thats right- Our car is parked in a handicap stall!
These spots have our names written all over it! We Love them!
And yes that's ours too! This handicap tag is wonderful. Its actually been so AWESOME to have! Especially in Hawaii parking is a joke everywhere you go! In one stop to the mall we moved our car 4 times just to be closer to each store we went in;) I told him next time we go to mall we should try all the handicap stalls ;)

Extras while in Geezy

We managed to go snowboarding...
I look gross...but the Virgin river flooded again.. It was way worse in person. Hard to believe it had tripled in width. Earlier this summer we were skim boarding here with my nieces and the river was way small and shallow. We got more rain and more water coming through St. Geo this year then we did in the 2005 flood but it wasn't as disastrous this yr because they made changes and fixes when they lost homes, boats, cars, parks, roads, etc in '05 so it wouldn't happen again


Don't be grossed out.....We always get to play at The Skin Institute (my moms spa) we do pedicures, facials, lasers... Treat each other! I worked Chan's skin over, my mom Derma-planed his face, then I fired up the laser and we did Laser hair removal all over.. on that unwanted hair! Here is a picture of Chandler's neck during the treatment. Don't worry the goop is just Conductor Gel. Every single red bump you see is a goner! It was a strong treatment. Poor guy was in pain during the zapping. I cannot believe his neck now. He barely grows a SINGLE hair on his neck, chest, hands, arms, and stomach! Its pretty cool! No more fred bumps from shaving or bumps from in grown hairs in the future!

Here is my stinking Cute niece Dawn who is an awesome dancer with her Uncle Zeke playing the XBox kinect Dance game! pretty fun!

A few extras while in Huntington!

Wow! What a difference from Hawaii! I don't mind it when I know I can go back to Paradise Warmth! Christmas was dry and no snow! But a few days later we woke up and we had 8+ inches! I didn't know how to act!
Chandler's parents backyard


Here is Tanner dancing to Michael Jackson
He is obsessed with MJ! He's so Dang cute!

And then we got Chan trying to do the Moon walk
with a broken foot!

New Years!

We celebrated New Years with Chandler's family at Aunt Gaylene's house. We had a wonderful time playing games with his cousins and Grandma and we ate lots of great food! Bring in the New Year 2011!
Its been an awesome one so far!