Hawaii 2012

okay so in december I went to Hawaii for my Christmas present from my hubby :)

AMAZING!! such a great time!! so here it is my post about my lovely trip of escaping the -20C some weather and going to the sunny +28 HAWAII!!!!

So we left Dec. 4 and came home Dec. 16

Early morning flight 6:55am but of course whenever I fly with hubby which last time it was our honeymoon something has to go wrong. Plane delayed till 9!! because of maintenance so we missed our connecting flight :'( Instead of spending an afternoon relaxing on the beach I was waiting for the next plane which was 6 hours later!! didn't get to hawaii till about midnight and didn't get to the hotel till about 4am our time. WHAT A LONG DAY! I just like complaining about it forgive me. But the people at the airport were really generous towards us since they didn't want us waiting 6 hours at the gate, they gave us $20 each towards food in the airport and a free hotel room at the Fairmont hotel in the airport. BEAUTIFUL hotel best one I've probably ever stayed in. Shampoo smelled soo good! it was nice even if it was only for a few hours.

Ok so honeymoon time in case your wondering, went to San Juan Peurto Rico and had a layover in Toronto and the airline lost our luggage and didn't get it till 3 days later! but we got a bunch of money from the airline to buy our necessities.

Our hotel was kind of ghetto lol didn't have very good sound proof walls woke up to the neighbors having "fun" in bed. haha,
This was in Waikiki, Oahu.
went to this veteran cemetary that was in a crater it was cool.
A military museum awesome! saw american tanks and japanese tanks.
Went on a tour to Kualoa Ranch where every movie that was ever filmed in Hawaii was filmed there. So Jurassic Park (saw that famous dead tree), You, Me, and Dupree, Mighty Joe Young, 50 First Dates, Journey 2, Godzilla (his footprint had to be filled in with dirt because it is a ranch and cows kept falling into print at night), Pearl Harbour and a bunch of other movies I've never hear of lol.

Later on we went to the Laie LDS Temple so beautiful!! Love the driveway area up to the temple very creative how they did it. If I lived in a mansion I'd want my driveway being that way :) haha
POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTRE!!!! how much fun can you have in one place??
went to the buffet dinner and the show! Wow I was truly amazed of how they did it. I really enjoyed the show and the whole place its great experiencing the different cultures.
One day we drove all around the Island and visited basically all the beaches! haha and there's always surfers at every beach! North Shore Beach people were setting up drum roll!!!! PIPEMASTERS!! AHH! a very popular surfer competition and there was tonnes of surfers there and more were getting in the water. We just sat there and watched surfers biff it (mean to say I know but it's fun to watch) they were all good.
We watched a 2 hour parade! longest parade I've ever been too! the Pearl Harbor Parade. It was ok lots of people cheerleaders, cars, motorcyclists, cloggers, and Miss Teen Hawaii and a bunch of other missies lol
Oh I forgot best part our rental car was a ford taurus! huge car!anyways went to Pearl Harbor before we left the island to go to HAWAII BIG ISLAND! yay! Pearl Harbor was awesome Allan loved it as he likes big ships and submarines. Saw the peace treaties between U.S.A and Japan and the spot it was signed. Plus Hangar 79! that is still damaged from WWII and all the planes that were used. Plus the plane that was sent on the special mission after Hawaii got bombed and it is HUGE!

Then we left the Island :( and went to another one :) YAY! haha, stayed in this townhouse which was awesome because we did laundry for FREE!! but sadest thing I think I forgot my sweater there (it was not a cheap sweater either!! GRRR). It was super fun went to Mount Loa and drove up it in a ford focus haha not a fun drive up in a small vehicle like that. It was COLD! but we saw the world observatories, and the sunset. VOLCANOES! theyre always fun walked on 22yr lava and lava that wasn't even 2 years old! So the lava switched flow directions and wiped out this community and now not even 2 years later they've rebuilt upon the lava. It's an interesting sight seeing all this black and just houses on top of it. We saw lava well the reflection of it wasn't allowed to get closer towards this crater that has lava flow. Still cool.

Then after all that volcano stuff we flew on the smallest plane I've ever been on! one propeller plane fits about 9? I was sitting right behind the co-captain and could see the gizmos they use to fly the plane and we never flew past 8000ft it was like a tour plane. then MAUI!! I loved it not as touristy as Oahu but not as dead as the big island. Did the beach there walked to the mall just down the beach. Saw a magic show it was cool to see. SCUBA DIVING!! what fun! loved it! and I am now a certified diver :) YAY YAY!! it sucked that we had to get salt water in the eyes for the class but everything went good. Last day there we just relaxed on the beach :) and before we left the hotel did a goodbye ceremony for us and gave us laies which I really like.

here are a few pictures of my trip. in no particular order.

 Green sand beach! only accessible one in the world!

 Diamond Head Crater

Only reminder that it is Christmas time

Akaka Falls

 the red is lava

2012 at a glance

Hello!!!!

I saw a blog that did a timeline of 2012 and what they did so I've decided to do it :) so much happened in 2012!!!!!

January 2012

I got my wedding dress!!!!! :D
and did engagement photos!














February

Me and Allan went to Jasper for his birthday

March

nothing exciting really happened lol

April

WEDDING!!
Honeymoon to the Caribbean!

May

nothing exciting either lol

June

just enjoying married life :)

July

went down south to visit my family

went quading too :)

















August

did a triathlon with my siblings
Visited my family :)
did a 40km hike in 3 days

September

Dont remember what happened lol haha

October
Road trip to USA!

November

Was not a fun month, Allan did 11 days on and 2 days home it sucked!!

December
Christmas!!
Hawaii!!!
fun stuff!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful New Years :)

+27degrees on December 4?? YES!!!!!

Well it's been a long time since I last blogged. Oh well I get busy with life sometimes. What better time to blog then 3am since I can't sleep guess I'm too excited to sleep to tonight :) I'm going to Hawaii in like 4 1/2 hours! I'll be landing in Hawaii 2:30pm our time. Understand why I'm so excited now??? Well to catch up on what I've been up to November hubby did the no shave November I was close to shaving that beard off myself.

I just don't like the feeling of being tickled while I kiss him haha. Nothing too exciting that happened in November other then being a dreadful month. Husband was gone 11 days with 2 1/2 days off which totally sucked!!  Plus I was working a whole lot which I'm not so used to anymore. But we got through it in one piece :) oh yes then last week my car, little red, decided to die on mr!! Grrrr thealternator died so hopefully husband just needs to replace it and she will run again *fingers crosed* I won't be out of a vehicle I'll have husbands truck which i only like to drive in the spring.

Then just this weekend me and Allan did a scuba diving course! So much fun and wasn't too hard either. I only had little difficulties because I still had a cold which left me congested. But I'm so much better now just a cough and that will be gone very soon since I'm finally leaving this cold cold weather! And going to +27 weather instead!

My husband is soo sneaky he kept Hawaii as a surprise for me I didn't know till Friday when we started the scuba course a whole month he hid it from me!! Really glad he did so instead of counting down from weeks till I go I only counted down from 4!!!! Oh yes I did pass the scuba course and now I just need to take the open water scuba diving course and I can go scuba diving international!!! Anywhere in the world and won't ever have to renew! So in Hawaii we are taking the open water portion of the course!

I still don't believe I'm going away to warmer weather!! December 4-16!  Visiting 3 islands and going to com back with a tan!!! Never thought this would happen while still in the month of December :)

Anyways scuba diving left massive blisters on my feet! So my opinion is if you ever go scuba diving use open heel flippers so you don't get blistered feet.
For the final exams there were 2 parts written multiple choice and the pool/swimming part. Written part was easy I aced it! The swimming part was more difficult had to do what's called the blindman swim. It wasnt too bad I passed it.

Hmmm thinking now might be a good time to try and sleep again.
Yes I will blog about my Hawaiian adventures :)

Our Story..

For a while now I've just been thinking of the story how me and husband met, how he proposed to me ( I gave him the idea of where to propose I think) and all that jazz stuff. This post is about all that super funny stuff of me and my husband. 

We met at a church potluck back in 2010 and Allan (my husband) was so shy just like me! :) We became friends I asked him out all the time! to preference and he'd invite me to movies fun stuff! Oh ya I moved up to the city to live with my sister and work. Then eventually he got the job up north (right when I really started to like him and was thinking of asking him if he would be my bf) he missed my birthday too :(  I was so sad he couldn't come celebrate it with me. 

Then we started to date finally in May and did long distance over the summer but saw eachother almost every weekend so it wasn't bad at all!! so after 6 months of dating on Nov. 7, 2011 he proposed to me!!! yes I remember the exact date when he proposed to me I just have a good memory about important dates. 

Now the part everybody is probably waiting for 

THE PROPOSAL!!

and just so everyone knows I have what my family calls "blonde moments" 

So I go over to Allans house after a morning shift at work so I was kind of tired, he puts something in his truck and says he found a place we could go explore just of the Whitemud. It was a nature reserve so we parked and walked around for a while it was a chilly morning being Nov and all that. My hands were getting cold so I put my hand in his pocket and felt something "Allan what is that in your pocket? is it your phone?" allan says "No" and I didn't think any of it. So again "Allan what is in your pocket?" Allan says, "dont worry about it" hahahahaha! I should have known something was up! but being me I didn't think anything of it lol 

We continue walking and start heading back to the truck, and again........

Me, "Allan what is in your pocket?"

Him, "Take it out and find out"

So I take it out and can't believe I EVEN SAID THIS! "Why do you have a box in your pocket?" haha wow I do feel so dumb but I guess it makes for a good proposal. lol 

Allan says open it 

AND THERE'S MY RING!! :D the most beautiful piece of jewelry I own. :) and of course I cried the whole water works. haha I still feel so silly/dumb about not knowing what a ring box is!!!! but I guess it makes for a unique proposal. 

Then 5 months later we were married for time and all eternity in the Cardston Alberta Temple. 

Here's some pictures of us in our early dating stage and my engagement ring then of course wedding picture. ENJOY! 

oh yes MY HUSBAND COMES HOME TOMORROW!!!! YIPPEE!!!! 

ROAD TRIP!

I am awful at posting oops. Me and my husband just came back a little while ago from our spontaneous ROAD TRIP!! just had an idea of the city we would stay and find a hotel while we were there. Garbage hotels sometimes and other times just amazing hotels! plus free breakfast at every single one. Drove down and around all western United States super super fun!!! :D

Went to Montana did the bozeman hot springs amazing place loved it! Idaho found a potato museum there, Yellowstone National Park, Utah and toured around Temple Square there so beautiful also found Brigham Young's grave. Then 4 corners! be in 4 places at the same time!! Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Awesome trees call the Petrified Forest! trees that turn into rock mineral kind of stuff. Grand Canyon SOO BIG!! wow! it was very cool! Then Las Vegas baby!! didn't do much there since it was Sunday and we tried not to spend money and all that. Hoover Dam we walked across! it is HUGE! We saw the Giant Redwood trees!!!! biggest trees i've ever seen! we walked through a redwood as well!! then kind of saw Mt St. Helen's didn't really see it due to the weather and drove through clouds! visibility is awful in clouds lol. states we went to are; Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Colorado,, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon. I think we estimated around 8,000kms. Week and a half we drove around didn't stay in one spot for more then a day. SUPER FUN! best places we found was Bed Rock CITY! saw the flinstones Fred and Wilma with little Pebbles. It was AWESOME!

Now my husband is back at work it is hard going from having him everyday to him being gone again. But this time I'm not too bad it gets lonely sometimes though. A recent thought came to mind, how do wives do it when their husband is in the army? They leave for months at a time and come home for maybe a week then leave again for months. I'm lucky in a way my husband only leaves for a week at a time but this time he might be home for only 3 days.  :(  If you see your husband everyday you are one lucky girl! It is great when my husband goes on vacation thats 3 weeks off just us :)  we will probably keep doing stuff like this till we actually settle down with our own house and start having kids. As others say "better to do it now while you can" haha.

It's just a matter of weeks before I am on vacation AGAIN! SO excited!!!! hmmm ya it seems like every other month I am on vacation oh well it is super nice to not worry about anything just leave and enjoy eachothers company. Just have to get through November then vacation no work! then Christmas and Allan gets to spend Christmas night with me :) our first Christmas and he comes on Christmas day. I'm sooooo EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS! first one being married then 4 more months till our 1 year anniversary!!!! and I finally can eat the cake thats been in my freezer since our wedding. here are some pictures of our wonderful road trip enjoy

Sagewea, Lewis and Clark

State of Utah

Summer Vacation

Wow been so long since last time I posted something!!! but last month of summer was crazy busy!! SUMMER VACATION! :) me and my husband had the whole month off to travel and visit family. I did a Triathlon!! the swimming part of it but still did a triathlon as a team! so much fun I was soo nervous waiting for my turn to hop into the pool. I didnt train at all 30 lengths pft no big deal it was kind of hard but even without training my time was still up with those fast people! 17minutes it took me to swim. Not bad at all! : D

so happy my husband came out to cheer me on he's amazing!

Then I did the most exhausting thing mentally and physically ever!! I did a 40km hike in 3 days, 1st day we did half the hike 20km! 2nd day 14, 3rd day 6km! so hard! first night rained all night couple hours of sleep so sore the next morning! 2nd night I couldn't move without being in pain it was awful! Allan (my husband) asks me "why dont you switch to your stomach to sleep?" my response, "I would if I could MOVE!" haha it even snowed a little bit! saw a bear scared the jeebers out of me! it was a great time just me and husband in the wilderness enjoying nature. Great time with him :) after the hike we got to soak in the Miette hot springs felt soo good got a few looks with my limping and cringing at the pain. I am going to do that hike again next summer!

me half way through the hike :)

We went to the calgary zoo waited in line for at least an hour just to see the penguins! but they were pretty cool even if they didn't do anything other then lay on rocks..here's a few pictures...

Visited my family and did tons with them went to Writing on Stone Provincial Park and Waterton National Park and did Bertha Falls hike. 

Recently I just did the Walk for Muscular Dystrophy with my hubby and in laws. Very important to us that we support our families and loved ones. Oh yes and for those who didn't know just yet I recently got called to be Young Womens Beehive Advisor :) I teach girls ages 12 and 13. They are amazing girls not afraid to share experiences they've had it is so nice to have girls talk alot, I know when I was in Y.W. my group either didn't pay attention or just never talked haha. The leaders whom I serve with are amazing women and super nice! 

Not sure what else to talk about?? oh ya I got the opportunity to teach 2 classes of parent & tot. these are parents with their child either 1yrs old or younger. It was hard to teach it but i had alot of fun doing it! plus my boss gave me some advice of how to teach the parents even! I did a very good job teaching my very first parent and tot class. I feel accomplished 

2 more days and my husband will be home. Again he is gone but this time it hasn't been that hard, yes I still miss him so much but guess i'm finally getting used to it. This week I caught a nasty cold spent days taking drugs to help, called in sick to work for a shift which sucked. I'M ALL BETTER NOW! YAY!! 

16 days, 1 more shift for hubby and we are going on another vacation!! :) Going to go hike the grand canyon and probably camp there too. Plus travel around the states and thinking if a place we go to has a temple we will do a session! so that means Salt Lake City Temple, Las Vegas Temple and some other ones as well :) it will be so much fun. I made reservations to the Calgary Temple Open HOUSE!!! sooo excited for it!

I think I've said enough for this post stay tuned I'm going to try and post something at least every couple of weeks and share more pictures too :) hope ya'll enjoy my blog!