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We have been busy busy! As always there really is NEVER a dull moment with Chandler and I here in Hawaii. We had some more visitors! We love visitors! I tell who ever...that they need to come out and stay with us before we move off the Islands- Who knows when that will be. When I lived in Provo while Chandler was on his mission I met some awesome and fun people and of course made some great memories. Two in particular that I met while living there- Clint and Craig came out to stay with us for a little over a week. We all had a BLAST! We all took hundreds of photos. Always a photo overload too with my posts'.
All my pictures are out of order but this was Easter Sunday at church. Craig, Clint, me and Chan.
This is a huge Banyan Tree on the church property.
We had a wonderful Easter Sunday! It was a beautiful sunny warm day and we all enjoyed a great day and Dinner.
We of course took them to Hanauma Bay for snorkeling
Clint and Craig with all their snorkel gear on and loving the waterChandler always chasing the turtles
We went to Haiku Botanical Gardens. Messin around taking photos!
They went to the PCC and cruised next door to the temple too.. Here is Craig in front on the temple grounds.
Their favorite Beach.. mine too.. Lani Kai. I think they went to Lani Kai every day to relax on the beach.
Craig on the Pillbox hike above Lani Kai
Clint on the hike..its amazing! It over looks Lani Kai neighborhood and Islands.
The guys came along with me to a going away dinner party of a friend of mine, Brea who I work with and our hubs. (They are moving to Brazil for the summer) We went to Jimmy Buffets. Craig me, Chan, and Clint shared the Volcano Nachos... I wonder why they call them Volcano? Seriously is that mound of grease necessary? They were yum though!
I think we BBQed on the beach every other night! We chose a different beach every time. It was so nice! Here we are at the Hilton Lagoon and Beach. Chan and I were messing around, Or shall I say Chan throws me around like I'm his Basketball!

All four of us during dinner on the beach. Great food! Good times!
Clint took this photo of this Sunset and home in Lani Kai- I LOVE it. I think it looks like a postcard. Simply pleasant!
We went out to Ko' Olina to Paradise cove to see the turtles. You are always guaranteed to see turtles there and they are so friendly. They swim right up to you and want to touch your legs and see whats in your hands.

Their last night we did a BBQ at Magic Island after a day at the beach.
Just all hanging out-relaxing! Thanks for the great times. We love having people come visit- it gets us out to the tourist spots and enjoy the beauty of the island! Miss you guys tons already!

Samadhi

Samadhi (समाधि samādhi, Hindi pronunciation: [səˈmaːd̪ʱi]) is the state of consciousness induced by complete meditation. The term's etymology involves "sam" (together or integrated), "ā" (towards), and "dhā" (to get, to hold). Thus the result might be seen to be "to acquire integration or wholeness, or truth" (samāpatti). Another possible etymological breakdown of "samādhi" is "samā" (even) and "dhi" (intellect), a state of total equilibrium ("samā") of a detached intellect ("dhi"). Samādhi is the main subject of the first part of the Yoga Sūtras called Samādhi-pada. According to Vyāsa, a major figure in Hinduism and one of the traditional authors of the Mahābharata, "yoga is samādhi." This is generally interpreted to mean that samādhi is a state of complete control (samadhana) over the functions and distractions of consciousness.

I wanted to do something for myself. Find something that I could make my own. Something that I could do for a hobby and have fun with it and love it. I found it. I love my Samadhi classes. Samadhi Hawaii is a company here that offers basically aerial acrobatic training. I have always loved watching people fly, wrap, curl, roll, and twist on silks. Whether it be in plays, or Cirque du Soleil. I have always found it amusing and unique. I have attempted to do silks. So far it is amazing! Obviously as you can tell from above I searched the definition. It is a type of meditation and yoga expressed through the silks. It is HARD. A lot harder than it looks. But I will continue my classes and we will see where it goes from here.

Here are a few girls in my class. We have 4 silks and we just rotate thru the movements and learn from each other. Our teacher Nicole is awesome. Maybe some day I will be like her ;)
If I get good at all I will post some more pictures!

A few special visitors for the day!

My 94 year old Grandma and her new husband came to visit. Yes she just got married about a month ago. She met Vern in our ward in St. George. He was a friend of my parents and my grandma and he lost his wife about two years ago. Just before our wedding. He came to our wedding and Chandler met him there. About a year ago my grandma thought she was on her death bed in the hospital when she broke her hip. It was a scary time. But she is a real trooper. She healed up nicely and here she is visiting us in Hawaii on their honeymoon! :) ha! They are both still so healthy and totally with it. They are on a two week cruise in the Hawaiian Islands. Their cruise stopped here for the day in Oahu so we were there to pick them up! We had an afternoon of great shopping, while Chandler and Vern chatted up a storm. My grandma treated me well at the mall ;) and she got herself some beautiful things too! Then they told us that we must take them to a 5 star restaurant so they can treat us. And it sure was a treat. We took them to a 10 star restaurant. My favorite. ROYS! They had never been and they could not believe they hadn't been to a Roy's before. We went to the very first Roy's that it originated here in Hawaii. I'm sure they will be back to the one in Vegas they love Vegas. It is so funny because they have all these trips planned. They went to Phantom of the Opera, They are going to Celine Dion. :( without me. They are going to Mexico, Czech Republic, and a few more I cant remember. I say good for them! They have the time, the energy, now the partner, and the money! I said to my grandma "ugh and why aren't you taken me with you?" and she said "well you didn't ask?" Ha! Geeze wish I would have known sooner ;)!

At Dinner


Chandler and I were making her laugh. I love watching her laugh to where to cant stop!

Date Night

Ah! How I love our date nights! This night I was in charge of date night... I didn't know what to do.. My friend Morgan that I work with at the Dr.'s Office gave me this idea for our date.. We went out to dinner to a place called Haleiwa Jo's In Kaneohe ..it was Great! Here we are eating ;)
This was Chandler's steak dinner...ridiculously huge!
This View was STUNNING! This of course does not do anything for what it was really like. The restaurant is basically a tree house. It sits up on this ledge and its all open to the outside and it over looks the Haiku Botanical Gardens, the pond, and Gazebo. Its right up against the mountains. I was in AWE while eating. I think I almost enjoyed the view better than my food. Ha! Times like these is when I am still asking myself.. " I live in Hawaii? WoW!"

The Misty warm evening was so Romantic! We absolutely enjoyed ourselves!

I took this panoramic shot.. Half of the restaurant and looking down on the gardens.

Later that evening we went to Glow Putt... Miniature golf in the dark! We had never been here either. I didn't even know it existed! We laughed and had so much fun!


We tied! I cant believe it! I should have beat him! Thanks for dating my honey! I have a wonderful time!
Ill post next weekend when Chan is in charge of the date.. I think its a day date! (now that I have my weekends back- and can have a life, not having to work on the wknds anymore! Yay!) Life is Good!

New friends!

My friend Jessica and her husband Aaron came to Oahu for a little vacation from St. George so we got together a few times with them! Jessica and I went to High School together but we never really hung out in High school.. who knows why.. we should have. She called me up one day and said she and her husband was coming out to visit and she knew that I lived here. So we played together through out the week. I Didn't take many pictures but here's a few! We went out to dinner to Cheesecake Factory!

We went to the UH baseball game. Its always a fun game. Awesome stadium and field! L.O.V.E. baseball!
They are such a fun couple! Im so glad we got together! We cant wait to hang out with them more when we live on the mainland!

He said it right....

I was so shocked that he did a blog post! For two years I have been trying to get my husband to blog or even just teach him how to do a post- its so easy! And I guess it took the Jehovah Witness' to be more exciting or eventful than anything Ive ever done or impressed him with enough to blog about it! Ha! Okay but he did bring a sweet tear to my eye about posting about my new job after a TOUGH two weeks for the both of us-busy wise. I was so over my other job and everything that was going on there and working two jobs. Morning and night. Chandler has been so so busy with school its l.i.t.e.r.a.l.l.y. indescribable. Chandler said yesterday " I think today has been ONE of the craziest days of my life" It was a long day too. He stayed awake for 43 hours straight doing homework- no joke, straight! We woke up in the morning he took me to work I came home that night from work at 10pm he was doing HW and had been since the morn., went to bed at midnight he was doing HW, I woke up at 6am and he had NOT MOVED from his computer desk. My poor husband has been working his tail off. No nap. I have never really pulled an all nighter before and if I have then I at least went to bed in the morning.. He was a trooper and happy of course. He didn't even flinch. The next night he finally came to bed and slept! Usually tosses a lot in the middle of the night. I am a very still sleeper. He didn't move once last night! He was zonked out.

Anywho he got his projects done, his papers. and a proposal (research paper) for a local historic tourist place ( Iolani Palace) done! He is such an awesome student. I cant believe the stuff he knows, does, and his delivery of work. It far succeeds I'm sure your average business man after 20 years in the work force! He will be one amazing employee. Speaking of... He has a job opportunity at his finger tips with Kaiser Permanente.  He was told that time was on his side to decide. They really want Chandler to take the position and they are not filling the position until Chandler tells them yes or no. Chandler is waiting to see if he gets a Medical Red shirt or what his plan is with his foot. So we have to be patient. Not too much progress on Chandler's foot as of yet. So we will see if He plays ball and  if he gets scholarship or if he will get this day time job and do the Master's Program at night.

As for me I am content with staying here. I'm okay to stay now for another year and a half while Chandler finishes up school. Its crazy what your working environment can pull you done and reflects through us. I have such a better job that it has been a blessing for sure. Its a Night and Day difference. I felt like I wasn't growing, I wasn't moving up- it wasn't possible at the spa, and I wasnt being challenged. I love the fluff but I missed the Medical side of Aesthetics. My boss at the spa is/was crazy. She was yelling at me one day so I thought to myself as her voice was ringing in my brain "what am I doing here? in these conditions? getting talked to like this? I am better then this!" No one has been happy working there. I haven't been shaky in a long time. I felt bad walking out because I am loyal, I am responsible, not unprofessional but I knew I just needed to stay strong and not allow someone to treat me that way. I didn't want it to end sour but it kinda did, I have never been treated so poorly. I did nothing wrong, It makes me feel better that 7 other people quit this week. An HOUR later I had a new job. It was so hard for me to quit but I needed to do something better for me. I know I was being protected and looked out for. Everything fell into place so I know it was the right thing. Tough but it turned into a blessing. I called up this well known Plastic Surgeons Office here in Honolulu and asked if they were hiring and the girl on the other end of the phone said "no". But she still told me to stop in and drop off my resume. I wanted to meet the Dr, just so it would help my chances. So I did that day. I went in and he hired me right then and there. I started the next day. It happened so quick and right before my eyes. I couldn't keep up. I have been there two weeks now and I LOVE IT! Its a ton of stuff to learn and do. I'm so overwhelmed but its what I wanted- a challenge. And it is, I am his surgical coordinator and more some. I have never had a job where so much is in my hands. Its scares me and intimidates me but the girl that is training me is WONDERFUL. We have become decently close and she is moving back to Utah where she is ironically from (cedar) So weird too. Our office does EVERYTHING. Every cosmetic surgery you can think of -Dr. C does. We have 11 lasers as well. Every laser ever made for the cosmetic world we offer, And all the other medi-spa stuff as well. I got to watch my first surgery with Dr. C. He has his OR right there on the premises. So he allowed me to sit in on the surgery and watch yesterday. It was a coronal. Basically an upper half face lift. He will let me circulate anytime I want in the future. I am already experiencing so much more and will be able to have better opportunities for me in the future. He talked to me about everything he was doing and I asked a bazilliion questions to him thru surg. It was fascinating. I'm surprised I didn't pass out. I was qweezy but I'm getting tougher and will get used to it. There hasn't been a day where Dr. C hasn't told me Thank You. I get paid Hrly. Consistent and Better, I get benefits and my hours are awesome! 715-315 M-F! Love it! And he respects me.

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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