Silent but deadly. Usually refers to farts, but today I would like to apply it to West side of Oahu. Me and Scott have traveled about every road on the island, and you will remember I had a post this summer from when we made it the end of the road (literally), where the road ends on the North shore. Well we finally made it full circle! That's right; two weeks ago we made it to the end of the road, on the West shore. The two ends are only a few miles apart, but you have to around the entire island to go from one end to the other because it is a rough dirt road. Shockingly, we decided not to try and drive our 1997 Honda over this area, so it took a while to get there. 
The day we went it was crappy all over the island. Not just where we live, on the windward side, where clouds and wind and rain are not uncommon in winter, but EVERYWHERE. Sandys and Waikiki, which are always sunny, were disasterous. We stayed in the house until I couldn't stand it any longer. Scott has noticed that if I go without sun for too long I get very sad and tired (check Seattle off our list). So we packed up and decided to drive until we found sun. And here it was! 
Another reason we had never gone this end is that the first 3/4 of that side is very misleading. It's dry and sandy like Tucson, and then you pass all of these very.... what's another word for white trash? towns. And everything smells di.sgus.ting. Like sulfur. So you travel this way for about 30 minutes, and then BAM. Everything is green, and sunny, and the beaches have sand and grass dunes. So the pictures below are beautiful, and only indicative of an about 2 mile area on the end of the island. 

Look at those colors!

Can you guess what I was thinking here? A sandy, grassy, romantic beach perfect for a picnic. North Carolina, Nicholas Sparks love story here I come! 








 This is electric beach. We went here a year ago and I was too scared to snorkel (who knew I inherited my mom's claustrophobia- hearing yourself breathe is scary!). So Scott went out with my brother and my cousin, and Scott spotted a shark! So he popped up and yelled "Shark!" then swam as fast as he could in. Of course my cousin and brother didn't see the shark so they swam in very leisurely.  No fatalities though. 
We returned this time and I forced myself to snorkel all the way out to the pipes. This electric beach on the shore has pipes underwater a few hundred yards out that pump out warm water. The water causes more plants and algae to grow, in turn attracting more fish, and thus dolphins and sharks. I was so scared to go out that Scott had to hold my hand the whole time. Luckily for me there weren't any sharks out that day, even though we brought our waterproof camera so Scott could take pictures (while I would simultaneously pee my pants and doggy paddle to shore). 


I am the luckiest. Sweet boy held hands with me and swam slowly for me. We faced my fears head on!




When we saw this weird thing blowing up bubbles I felt like the Little Mermaid. 




PS. I didn't even touch up the color on my hair- I am the little mermaid! 

Thumbs up for facing my fears, with the help of my best friend! 

Since we are leaving the island in April we have been trying to get in everything we wanted to do before then. So here I have some pictures of the boats by Kaneohe that I have been wanting to take pictures of for foreeever. We have done pretty much everything and all that is left on our list is: 
1. See dolphins
2. Hike Stairway to Heaven
3. Go to electric beach and take pictures with the sharks


(Psst.. I have been watching lots of videos here, can you tell?)







Last but not least, the CFA Challenge! On February 15th Scott and the team from BYU-H competed in the CFA Challenge for Hawaii. Basically each college had a team that has been studying the Bank of Hawaii since September. All the last two semester my poor baby has been getting up at 4:30 am, studying the bank until 10, then classes, then he would stay until 5pm or 10 pm. On that Friday the team presented, and I got to watch. 
Scottie is a natural presenter, and the whole team did great! Although they didn't win, they got second place, and a bunch of financial big-wigs told him he was the best presenter of all day! We wished they would have won, but now that the competition is over I get him all to myself again!!!! 


The BYU-H CFA Challenge team!
Despite the fact that it is Valentines day at 10:45 pm (we had our Valentines date the other night because Scott has lots of work tonight) I am sitting on my couch watching 'What not to Wear'. And I just am so proud of myself. Look at the social media buttons I just added to the blog!!!!
They are SPARKLY, and (almost as good) FUNCTIONAL.
I found these cute buttons here.
And the instructions no how to make them funtional here.

It's the little things people.

P.S. My husband is the greatest, we already celebrated V-day on Tuesday, and I can't wait til he gets home again tonight to have another mini celebration. He is my best friend, the love of my life, my role model, and he truly treats me better than anyone ever could. Everyday I love him more, even though I always think it's not possible.

But anywayzz- not to get too muchy, my buttons rock!

Happy Valentine's day all; I hope you feel loved and special and unique, and that you took the time today to share your love with at least one person you care about.

I think having a backyard is very important. Scott hates yard work so sometimes he jokes that we could just live in an apartment/condo forever. I know he is joking, because he wants to stay married to me. And backyards are absolutely irreplaceable for children.
Where else would you jump on the trampoline, practice gymnastics, play night games, have birthday parties, run through the sprinklers....? And backyards aren't just for recreation folks! They are for protection I tell you! Then your kids aren't out in the street all of the time, or in those awful front-yards, where they can have their ball roll into the road, or chase after a stranger with a puppy in their van, or get watched by creepers down the road pretending to read books.
That's also why I don't want to live in cities, because there are no backyards. And consequently, even more creepers (yes, creeper numbers fluctuate in direct negative correlation with backyards).
So while I have a backyard that is, literally, as big as the ocean, I am trying to enjoy it.
Last weeks we had an exceptionally sunny day so I went out to take pictures and read on the beach. These are by the best pictures of our backyard, so I had to post them!



Shadows of a palm tree couple- so cute!



This one is tots my favorite- look at those clouds! And the coloring. 






The water levels are soooo low this winter. The beach was actually FLAT. Usually the water is up to about 7 feet from these bushes. I could go behind our house and walk to the beach on all sand, no rocks- incredible!

Ignore the fact that I was obsessed with red lipstick this week. I also lost my chapstick and thought this would keep my lips from peeling in the sun. 
It did not. 




I have no idea why I am so into updating our blog right now, but in the last month this is the 7th post! Maybe it's because life is just so great I want to document everything, and maybe there are just so many big changes coming up that I want to record it to remember when life was simply?
Well anyways,
I just thought I would share a few of the pictures we have taken recently. I've been working and Scott has been a busy busy bee with school and all of his projects, but whenever we are together we have so much fun and get to enjoy this amazing, gorgeous place we live in.
These first pictures are of the Laie temple. I know, I know, I already posted pictures of the temple, but these are different, I promise! They are at night ;) . I personally think the Laie temple is one of the most beautiful. Maybe not the most beautiful (that would be Salt Lake), but it's up there. It's probably the grounds that make it. What's your favorite temple? Also, is it wierd to put up pictures of temples in your house, other than ones where you have wedding pictures?


This fountain sculpture is entitled, "Maternity". What? Random?








This second set of pictures was taken while driving from Haliewa to Mililani. And I mean literally WHILE driving. I felt like such a ninja (even though the windows were closed and I wasn't leaning our or anything dangerous) I loooove this stretch of road. Gorgeous red dirt, symmetrical pineapple fields, and it has hills in the background. I think other people call them mountains but those things are not mountains. It kind of reminds me of Heber. :)

We've been here a year and a half and I finally remembered to have us pull over and take pictures at the infamous 'Haliewa' sign. I love it! Scott didn't like feeling like a tourist, and I thought we were going to get arrested for being on the highway. But we both survived. 



Isn't it picturesque? 


Thanks for stopping by. I'm thinking of just referring to this as my 'online photo journal' instead of 'Blog', That might be more accurate. I really did try to limit the photos on this one! 


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