Tag...I'm it.

(I so love these things)

Here’s how it works: USE ONLY ONE WORD!It’s not as easy as you might think. Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to use only one-word answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? Desk
2. Your hair? Dark
3. Your mother? Cheery
4. Your father? Hardworking
5. Your favorite food? Hawaiian
6. Your dream last night? Scary
7. Your favorite drink? Lemonade
8. Your dream/goal? Degree
9. What room are you in? Family
10. Your hobby? Son
11. Your fear? Mortgage
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Home
13. Where were you last night? Ewa
14. Something that you aren’t? Outgoing
15. Muffins? Nah
16. Wish list item? Money
17. Where did you grow up? Mainland
18. Last thing you did? Talked
19. What are you wearing? P.J.'s
20. Your TV on? Yes (Pre School Prep DVD-does that count?)
21. Your pets? Annoying
22. Friends? Awesome
23. Your life? Good
24. Your mood? Exhausted (emotionally)
25. Missing someone? Husband
26. Vehicle? Honda
27. Something you’re not wearing? Shoes
28. Your favorite store? Aero (right now)
29. Your favorite color? Pink
30. When was the last time you laughed? Now (talking on the phone to sis.)
31. Last time you cried? Now (talking on phone to husband)
32. Your best friend? Gil
33. One place that I go to over and over? Walmart
34. One person who emails me regularly? Kauwe (right now)
35. Favorite place to eat? Olive Garden (not here... :( )



I do realize some have two words but whatever. As for my little side notes if you want to know just ask me on Sunday or when ever you see me, or if you don't see me just call me. I tag Marj, Sonya, Juli, Cami, U'i, Chalei, and Eva. If you've already been tagged then I'll be reading yours soon! Happy blogging!

100 things #73...

73. Perks about being the daughter of the stake president....You get to meet all kinds of people like, I met Pres. Monson and had dinner with him when he was still the 1st counselor, Elder Hales (quorum of the 12) ate at our house. President Uchdorf (when he was in the 12) and his wife ate at our house (Gil and I had to pick them up from the Mandarin in Kahala, boy it's tough for them to travel...Hee hee!) and he ate all the last bit of our kim chee and didn't ask if anyone wanted. LOL!! He LOVES kim chee. Elder Dickson/Dickinson (?) of the 70 ate and stayed at our house (He was the most hilarious out of them all). Many more have stayed in our guest room and ate with us but I can't remember them all. It was such a blessing to have those men come in our home and to talk with them and feel their spirit and love for the gospel but also just to be normal with them. Although we were kind of star struck in a way they are totally cool.

One cool story is that my sister had her wisdom's pulled out but my dad had meetings with Elder Nelson. Well she fainted on the floor so naturally I called my dad and he had just picked up Elder Nelson. I told him the situation and Elder Nelson told me to give her extra strength Tylenol and liquids. It seems so futile and such an easy fix but just because they came from Elder Nelson it was "whoa...okay."

4th of July...

Another late post but thought I would share anyway. For the 4th of July weekend Gil asked
his brother, who works at the Marriott in Waikiki, if he could get us a room where we would

be able to see the fireworks display. He said he also a kind of wanted a romantic weekend with me since we haven't had one in a long while. So I of course I jumped at the opportunity. "Kind of romantic" meaning we had Dezi. I'm not comfortable with my in-laws watching him over night because who knows what they would feed him, and my parents already have 4 grandchildren at their house that they can't get rid of. (Haha! Chalei......you know I love you!) So we did invite my family if they wanted to come. My parents, and sister-in-law and her two kids came. It was nice to have them their because Dezi had playmates until bed time.

This is how the night went. We checked in @ 3-ish and my sister-in-law met us in the lobby a few minutes after. We got to the room on the 24th floor, and oogled at the view we had, then got ready for the pool. We met my parents downstairs and I took my mom to the room to get her ready while everyone else went to the pool. Oogled again at the view then went to the pool. We
swam and had fun in our little corner of the pool for about an hour (which is kinda small I might add), then got ready for dinner. We ate at another hotel across from the Marriott at a restaurant called...?....something 247? 24/7? Oh I can't remember. Anyway the restaurant food was very good. And there was hardly anyone in there so I didn't mind that Dezi was kind of running around. After dinner we went back to the room and saw fireworks. We had a little pre-show too. Before the Magic Island started we saw Kapolei's in the distance and the one by Pearl Harbor somewhere....Hickam? Then our show began, and we had front row seats! Thanks Glen for an awesome night. After the fireworks my family went home, then Gil and I started our own fireworks! Nah just kidding we had Dezi in the room. Or did we? Ha ha!

Awesome view from our balcony.

We were in the corner all the way at the top. The little spots in the water are people
that have been out there all day waiting for fireworks.

Our fun little corner of the pool.

At night. This is a funky shot. I love it!

And this is what we saw from our balcony.

Daddy and Bubby

In the morning we ate breakfast at Burger King, not at B.K. we ate on the beach and walked up Waikiki and back. So much has changed since I was last there.

And this is a cool motorcycle that was made entirely out of wood. Gil thought it was the coolest thing that he ever saw. Dezi kept saying....Car? car? So cute. Happy 4th!

100 things #72...

72. I loved YW growing. I especially loved the camping but as I got older I didn't like sleeping in the tent with like 8 other girls, so being the daughter of the stake president at the time I would sleep with my dad in his tent or next to him on a cot under the stake tarp. I love perks!

100 things #71...

71. I love blogging! Although lately I haven't had the time.

Carnival fun...

I know it's been a while since the carnival happened but I have been quite busy. So, yes we did go to the carnival, yes we did go at 12 noon when they opened, yes it was blazing hot, yes we did sweat so much that we could have filled up a baby pool and yes, we were crazy to do so, but YES, we did have fun!

I must say Gil has been more adventurous lately and I'm loving it. Usually he doesn't do the normal things you would do on a weekend like shopping cause he's just not interested or "there's gonna be too many people there and no parking." He doesn't like going to the beach cause, "It's gonna be too crowded and we're not going to get any shade." So what do we end up

doing? Staying home so daddy can play his video games. Whoopee! So needless to say I am loving that he is getting more in to the "family togetherness" thing.

The fair wasn't bad at all. We went right when they opened cause we already went to the swap meat. When we got inside there was absolutely no one. We got free prizes just for playing even though we didn't win anything. Here's a little recap of our adventurous day...

We saw all the animals at the petting zoo. I think the llama was his favorite cause it was the closest. We did not pay $4 per person to go inside for 15-20 min. I don't even know he would have freaked out being so close or if he really would have enjoyed it. So for now, touching through the fence will have to suffice.

Dezi and daddy rode on the Ferris wheel... he freaked out at first but quickly got used to it. So much so that he wanted to sit by himself which daddy let him do until he stood on the bench and tried to look over the back of the chair. Imagine my angry shock when I saw the pictures later on.

Mommy and Dezi riding the Merry-Go-Round... Yee hee!

This is Dezi with half of his spoils. What a lucky kid.

Daddy trying to show off his baseball skills. To bad he totally missed. Aaaawwww.....maybe next time honey. But look at that form.

Dezi played the ring toss game. He only threw the rings right in front. Oh well, at least he had fun.

Gil kept playing this game because he remembered always going home with one as a kid. He has much determination. To bad it didn't pay off. This guy didn't give us a free prize. Too bad.

Like I said practically no one. The best time to go.

We got on the rides really quick, and even got some free games and prizes. I guess those are perks for being the early birds.

100 things #70...

70. I have this fear that for some reason I might have all boys and I won't have a girl.