Hello! Yes we are still alive! I'd say we have been busy, but we haven't. I guess we have just been enjoying this new place we call home. I'd say we are adjusting well. We enjoy spending most our time at the beach and playing in the waves.

Jared is in school and enjoying being so close to his brothers. He is taking a few fun classes. He is in a photography class and likes photographing the island. He is getting really into spear fishing. He has had two great catches so far. One was a squid, which he gave someone for bait and the other was some sort of fish. He is still practicing his cooking skills. He is trying to figure out how to cook fish PERFECTLY! He is dreaming of opening a smoked fish shop. MMMM!

Kylia loves having so many friends around. She is always keeping busy. She enjoys running around half-naked and is learning to build sand castles. When at the beach, she likes to chase the crabs and trap them. So far, she has almost crushed a few baby ones by chasing them to the water line. Her and her dad like to put them in the sand bucket and play with them before letting them go.

Me? For the most part I am just hanging out and making new friends. I have recently finished the Hunger Game series and was a little disappointed with the final book. I guess I just like endings that are a little more happy. I have been baby swapping and have enjoyed having some time with Jared. We have found our all-time favorite Restaurant. Kahuku Grill. It is a family owned restaurant and it is DELICIOUS! Jared and I eat there about every Wednesday night. Kylia and I usually spend our days at the beach enjoying the sun.

Anyways, life is good and the church is true! Have a great day!

SO, we're moving to Hawaii in about three weeks! Everyone is officially invited RIGHT now to come visit. Please, we probably won't make it back often so come to us!

BUT HAWAII, Crazy huh? I am just trying to wrap up everything down here. We finally sold our car on Friday! Woohoo! I must say that I did an awesome job. We bought it one year ago for $15,000, put about 20,000 miles on it and then sold it for $16,950. That NEVER happens. We almost made $2000 on it. Good bye Highlander AKA Mater!



Jared is getting antsy so we might make it out soonner than later. We are thinking about moving our flight up a week and leaving between the 3rd and 5th. We will keep you updated!

So far, we have had SUCH a fun summer! There has been lots of boating and spending time with family. These are just a few pictures. I am having a hard time up loading pictures, still. Anyways, We are moving to Hawaii in 3 weeks!

Kylia LOVES photo booth. If I need to get something done around the house. I just pull it up and let her play. Her favoirte thing to do is just sing into the camera. I would have uploaded a video, but our internet is really hit and miss.

The Joys of Motherhood

That is pee, but it is not mine.

We attempted to take some family pictures this week. Unfortunately, it was INCREDIBLY windy and Kylia was NOT excited about the situation. We had such a hard time getting her to sit still and look at the camera. We did get a few good ones, so here they are!

TEXAS!

We are finally together in Texas and LOVING IT! Jared surprised me on our anniversary and showed up in Utah to help packup and drive. It really was SUCH a relief.

I am officially done with all my classes. I ended up getting A's in both my classes and am SO grateful for all the wonderful people in Utah who helped me get through. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Our trip down from Utah was quite eventful! We caravanned with Jenna Rasmussen and she helped us out SOO much. We literally stuffed her car with our junk! She was such a life saver. On our trip down, we discovered that sweet little Kylia gets VERY, VERY car sick. Every time she fell asleep, she would wake up puking on EVERYTHING. This was probably one of the worst car trips ever. By the time we actually got to Texas, everything in our car smelt like puke. To top it off, we hit a deer. Luckily, there was only a small dent in the car. We looked for the deer afterwards but never found it.

Now that we are in Texas, we are having a blast! Kylia has turned 2 and we had a lot of fun celebrating it! It is so crazy that she is getting old SOO stinking fast! She is always talking and going on about one thing or another. Her favorite thing to do is grab our hands and say, "come with me." She has recently started potty training. I have a new respect for my mother. I have no idea how she potty trained all NINE of us!! Seriously, it is HARD work. By 3 o'clock yesterday, we were out of panties and I was out of patience. My mom swooped in gave me a good pep talk and brought us more clean panties. By that afternoon, we had a WONDERFUL breakthrough. Kylia came running to me and asked me to go to the bathroom! HALLELUJAH! She is getting better and better. I am still afraid to have her sleep through the night in panties, but it will come!