A real update will come about us in a few days, but here is the e-card I made for friends and family! (7 pm on Christmas day isn't too late for a Christmas card, right?) The two pictures on the sides are me and Scottie when I made us dress up in Christmas colors and go take a picture at my favorite tree on the beach here, with lots of buoys hanging from it. The middle picture is us making about 3 batches of sugar cookies to deliver. (The tripod has been put to good use- thanks Lisa!)
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Life has been outstanding! We have been living in Hawaii for almost 3 months now.  No trace of island fever! We absolutely love it!  We have both been crazy busy. Kelsey and I are both taking 17 credits. Kelsey is tutoring at the local elementary school on Tuesdays and is staying busy. She is going to graduate with a degree in History, while completing all of the pre-reqs for physical therapy school. I was on the committee that put on the “Great Ideas” competition (students submit business ideas, then discuss them with professionals from different fields).  I also have gotten involved in the group SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise). It does work in international social entrepreneurship. I switched my major to Business-Finance. This moves my graduation back a semester to April of 2013. But lets get real, is another 4 months in Hawaii really that bad?  We are really enjoying it here. Our schedule is basically classes and schoolwork Monday-Friday all day, and most of the evening. We try to squeeze a beach trip in if school isn’t too crazy during the week, but its not quite as frequent. Every Saturday we go play at the beach, all day! Kelsey’s brother Burke, and his family live in Honolulu, so we meet them at beaches around the island, then usually head over to their house for games after a long day at the beach, it is really nice having family here. They have been very welcoming to us, and we have all enjoyed hanging out!  Kelsey and I got surfboards a month or so ago, and we have been practicing, getting a little better each time. Its nice to have something that we can go do together, that we both enjoy. Married life has been fantastic! Two weeks ago we had Kelsey’s parents out here in visiting us from Heber for thanksgiving. We all had a lot of  fun. We played at the pool at their hotel, went to the Polynesian Cultural Center (which was really cool), had out door thanks giving in Burke’s yard, went to the beach, and played Ticket to Ride. We had a blast, and it was really nice to get to spend time with them. Other than that, we haven’t been up to too much! We are looking forward to the Christmas break to play a little bit more, and study less. We hope all of you are doing well. We love you all!



The above post was from my lovely husband, Scott Andrew Stiles. Following are some pictures for everyone to see us in action in paradise:
The private beach at Mom and Dad's hotel in Ko'olina. 

A view of the Marriot Beach Club Hotel where mom and dad stayed. 

Scott's Turkey Bowl, and me taking my first action shots!

Just showing off what a lovely place we live in. 


Another action shot of Scott doing work!

BAM! 

Scott on Thanksgiving day. We had an outdoor feast at Burke and Nancy's with several other families and mom and dad Holbrook there as well!

A shot of the feast table. 

A good portion of the day was take up by the girls insisting that the boys not hurt their "unicorn". The boys wanted the candy and the girls wanted a magical creature. 

Here the girls are, brushing and petting the 'bicorn' as it came to be known. (Created to be a donkey but....) 


This is the climax of the fight. Parents intervened and removed the candy while keeping the bicorn intact. Success! 

Me and Scottie with my Chocolate Haupia pie! 

This is my mother taking the first bite of the first piece of my first pie. 

This is what the said pie looks like! 

Black Friday at our faveorite beach, Little Cockroach. 
If I do say so myself, Scott is looking great. 

Here is Burke taking a test ride on his Christmas present- a ocean kayak!!

The triumphant picture of Burke, Sienna, and Kai riding in their first wave! 

The girl on the left is me! One of my first times 'kind of' standing up while surfing!


Burke and Nancy out on the open sea. 


Scott has been in Hawaii for 2 1/2 weeks, and me for about three days. It is soooo wonderful! Despite searching Craigslist and the BYU-H off campus site for four months we had no place to live when we got out here. There would be an opening and you would call the landlord and they would say, "Well our tenants are actually here until November or December...." We did find two available places- one tiny cottage in the back of someones yard that was about 300 sq feet, and the landlord yelled at us when we tried to send her the $900 deposit, so we exnayed that one. Then we found a beachfront apartment that was only $850 a month but apperantly is referred to as the 'roach motel', that was a no-go too. THEN- Scott was in the Bay area with some of his family before he flew out here, giving them our sob story about how we will end up in some cardboard 200 sq foot box living with the roaches and having nothing to eat. They feel bad for him and put him on the plane. 12 hours later he calls Nana and his aunts, he has found a beachfront house that has a REAL kitchen (most apartments out here use hotplates and microwaves), laundry, is NOT a studio, HAS A FUTON (which I have been offering up to all friends and family willing to come out here), and is as big as our apartment in Austin! Everyone was astounded. Especially me. He called me on my way back from Lake Powell with the family and I pretty much cried. We are so so blessed. What a relief! So this update is pretty much to tell everyone how amazing my/our life is. We live in paradise. You can eat dinner on the deck and get your feet splashed by ocean water, you can walk down two houses to a beautiful and vacant beach. There are mountains, rivers, rain, pretty much any natural thing you could last for. Scott wakes me up in the morning to see the sunrise over the ocean out our bedoom window. For the next week until school starts it is our slightly delayed honeymoon, only even better. And when school starts- we are living in paradise anyways. We are sooo happy! Enjoy the pictures!
So Scott has been out here in Austin (well technically Round Rock) Texas for about three months, and I've been here for a month now. It is HOT. For example, today it was 106, and on Saturday it will be 109! UGH! I always complain about the 8 months of winter we have in Heber but this is crazy!
Anyways- Our Schedules. (Very exciting update, I know)
I stay at our apartment and do a few online classes. I've been known to lay out and read textbooks at the pool, take midday naps, and complete one quilt and two skirts so far. I am becoming the ultimate housewife with all this time. I clean, I sew, I craft, I even cook. And let me say that I am becoming quite the cook- although a huge shout out has to go to the fabulous recipes I have, namely those from: Lisa Stiles, Aunt Laur, Aunt Kelly, Nana, the Martha Stuart cookbook Lisa gave me from Christmas, and the cookbook Karen Wall (Shayla's mom) gave me when I graduate high school. Family cookbooks are the best!
Scott's schedule is a bit more impressive. He works. He works Monday-Saturday from about 12-10 selling security systems with Vivint in his cute bright orange shirt. We do activities (or just watch Psych) in the morning, then he goes to work and comes home at night exhausted and dehydrated and we eat dinner and watch some more Psych.
Future- We are moving to Hawaii soon! I am so excited! I get to meet couples that are our age and go to school and play at the beach and live in a tiny cramped overpriced apartment with bugs and only a partial kitchen! But seriously. We are so so excited! We are looking for apartments currently and having a bit of trouble (the first house didn't know if they were really moving and the second had an awful landlord). And school- aghhhh!
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So I changed my major. Just last night. I know, I know, I know- I've told you all I'm going into "Social Science Education" but now I am a HISTORY MAJOR! Pretty exciting stuff, right? This may or may not be my third major switch since I started college (dance-social science education- history) but this one will stick! Mostly becuase I only have two more semesters of classes and then I am goilng to do pre requisites for Physical Therapy school (crossing my fingers). But they just kept adding on classes to my other one, two more years is when I would graduate with SSE, what?!?!

Well, now I'm frustrated at the school system again with that thought but here are some pictures of our cute apartment in Round Rock to all my faithfull "Followers".










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