Tatoos

Some people say tatoos are an expression of art but seriously what were they really thinking? Have you ever looked at something you drew as a kid? In the moment it was so cool, now you look at it and think wow this sucks! I'm thinking if you want to get a tatoo you should just get the words I'm dumb so that a year later when you ask yourself why did I do this you can just look at it at it and go oh yeah....."me no talking no more!"

Caller #7

So there I was driving to my next Home Visit when what do I hear on the radio?!?! "call in now and the 7th caller will get 4 passes to the premiere of PENELOPE!" well, if you know me at all...then you will know that I have had an itch to see Penelope since they first start advertising it like a year ago! So I did what any sane Christina Ricci fan would do...I started calling my little heart out... and what did I hear on the other line you ask?!?!? "CONGRATULATIONS!!! You are the 7th caller!!! So, I realize that this may not seem like the coolest proze to you, but knowing that I am never win something on the radio ever again...I started screaming my little Head off!!!
So Brandon and I attended the Hawaii premiere of Penelope, I am pretty sure we were the only ones there over the age of 12, but I loved every minute of it!!! Two thumbs way up!!

A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n roll

This Saturday we attended the Kole Kole Jam II a free concert at Scholfield barracks with friends Sam as sen below as the Satanic Rokker and Mathoni who is hard to see because he's wearing his tropical camouflage shirt. I never knew I liked country so much. I felt strangely patriotic being that it was country music and we were on military base surrounded by white overweight people some of which were severely intoxicated. The girl was some up and coming 17 year old country star, the second pic is Bowling for Soup who I was disappointed with for there endless self promotion and attempts at humor, they did play good though and the lead singer sounded like a cartoon character. The last picture is Montgomery Gentry. They were awesome Montgomery was an old fat guy who reminded all of us as Larry the Cable guy, he did some wicked sword fighting with the microphone stand and later he took off his skull and cross bone sequin trench coat to expose his button up tank top. Gentry is the real talent who plays the guitar with the best of them and looks like her could be playing in Weezer. It was a blast!! GOD BLESS AMERICA

Valentines Day

This was our first Valentines Day as a married couple. We chose to spend it with our friends Jeremi, Rebecca, Cierra and Alfredo. Nothing says I love you more than a savory slab of beef... So we all got together and went to The Outback, and it was delicious.. Brandon left this on the bed for me to find when I came home.... you can't really tell but those bears are using a bag of cotton candy for a pillow!! my fave!!

Brandon in a dance off...are you kidding?

We had a married student dinner/dance right before Valentines Day, which Ashley insisted we had to go to. For a price of $5 and the lure of food Brandon concented. Brandon doesn't dance though, not because he doesn't know how its just something about bopping around to the rythm of the music just isn't appealing to him. We had some live bands performing for the dance and we got our boogie on. Later in the dance the MC announced some of the upcoming festivities including a dance off for the 2 best dance couples the judges had voted on previously, little did I know the judge was one of my buddies who thought it would be funny to match us up against a crazy Tongan girl who danced her soul out. I usually don't dance but I do things i don't like to do sometimes if I can get attention and Ashley who does like to dance got a little nervous about being in the spotlight so needless to say the music started and we gave it our best but in the end we couldn't keep up with the other couple but we still got a prize anyway.

Isn't he cute in his little scrubbies?!?!?

This is my Brandon taking his shift at the Pre-med club booth at school!! Brandon is on of the Vice presidents of the club!!! I am so proud of him for putting in the time and working so hard to help bring a Pre-Med club to BYU-Hawaii!! Don't you just want to pinch his little cheeks in this picture?!?!

I don't want brownies I just want President Hinckley back!

This evening I received about 10 text messages telling me the sad news. Ashley has been pretty sick so it was wasn't exactly the ideal time for such bad news but being a loving husband i woke her up from her sick bed and told her that President Hinckley died and she was extremely distraught. After Ashley called her parents she came out of the bedroom half dazed half crying and me trying to cheer her up said I would make her some brownies. That's when my adorable wife said what is the title of this blog "I don't want brownies I just want President Hinckley BACK!" Its hard to say goodbye to the man who has been there for us the last decade. Many of us can hardly remember having a different prophet. Not a good weekend!!

Roughin' It!!

Brandon and I ( mostly Brandon..) decided it would be fun to go camping one night since we had a three day weekend.... We are lucky to be able to go camping anytime here in Hawaii since the weather is pretty nice most of the time... Brandon was very excited because got a Tent for Christmas! Our friends Nick and Alysha decided to brave the outdoors with us, so Alysha and I made Tin-foil dinners, girls camp style and packed up everything but the kitchen sink and headed out to the beach. We knew ahead of time that you needed a permit to camp on the beach in Hawaii, but we figured we would live life on the edge and go without one, but when we got there we saw a sign that said our car would be towed if we did not have a permit....we started to get nervous, but I made Brandon go talk to a camper with me and he ended up being from Germany, and he had a permit that allowed ten campers and it was just him and his girlfriend there, so he agreed to let us claim to be part of his group! (poor guy probably had no idea what we were asking of him, he just kept saying "no problem!"). Long camping story short: Dinner was great! sleeping outside was another story.... It rained all night and we were kinda cramped in our little tent....but all in all It was fun...but I am thinking camping would be more fun if you just did not have to stay there all night.

Sorry it is blurry but this is us cookin' dinner!

The sky!

This is my "I am ready to go" face.

CHOLOS

Cholos is the only Mexican restaurant around besides Taco Bell so I don't have any idea how good the food is because Taco Bell isn't a good bench mark in fine Mexican cuisine so I'm unable to endorse it but it is decorated quite nicely with crucifixes and We thought it would be Virgin Marys and weird demonic heads. Cowdery and I thought it would be funny to use the decorations of the walls as props for some funny pictures but it just made Ashley feel uncomfortable like we were shop lifting or something

So I blessed my enchalada, and it was good.

Ashley kept talking on the phone so I Tried to perform an exercism so that we could just get along with eating our food. Needless to say Ashley resisted me so well and I wasn't strong enough.

More pics of electric beach

I like these pictures because the headless turtle is looking at Ashley

Electric Beach

Excellent day at electric beach we heard whale's making woopie underwater and we saw turtles, a spotted eagel ray, dolphins and tons of fish. All that capped off by a beautiful sunset.