Gobbledegook.

Life Lesson: As soon as Glen got back from his trip to the Marshall's, it seemed like he hadn't ever left. It's weird how that always seems to happen when people are gone. Bruce left on his mission one day and it felt like he was back the next week in my little world. It's extremely annoying and painful for the first couple of days and then they are home again; God is merciful.
There are harder days than most, but the reunion is so joyful that those pains are swallowed up and never looked back on.
I love that about this life. Pain does not last forever and healing can always be found if you're willing to work for it - internally and externally.

Well, it's been forever; in a nutshell the size of my right foot (large-but-not-as-large-as-the-left kind of thing), here's what's been going on.

Saw some local favorites; meet Rocky.

 Spike Ball! This is actually from last Christmas, that is why we're all in pants except Alex, but he would wear shorts in the Arctic.

 This girl!

We had a great time at home with with our ever-expanding family. Love you all :)
A quick trip home and we're back to the daily grind.

The Zimmerman's

These beautiful people let us stay with them for a whole week because our apartment had flooded while we were away and TVA isn't the most reliable place to live when there are problems with your apartment. We are back in our newly carpeted apartment and will be babysitting that handsome babe for the next few Fridays.

Glen and I are taking a Hawaiian language class together this term and we go on field trips every Thursday. We went to a wee island off the coast of La'ie and had some hair-flipping fun trying to talk in Hawaiian to each other. We collected sea salt from the far side of the island and learned a bunch of beach words. It's a beautiful little bird sanctuary with a gorgeous little bay.

Glen's best round at Keiki's the other day because he wanted to have cool hair photos too :)

This is from Sunday afternoon; we went to the temple grounds to watch the sunset and this one flower was on this one stem. They chop plants to the bone here every other day because things grow so fast, which I usually look at with disdain, but I liked this chop job.

Storm Flossie came and went without much more than a couple hours of rain this morning; all good here. Everything else is as usual for now.

A hui hou.

Anniversary: Part Deux.

For those of you who do not know Glen very well, this is where he went on his mission.
The Marshall Islands
A magical place where land doesn't seem extremely necessary for sustainability of life.
This atoll in particular is Kwajalein.
This large part of it is called Kwajalein Island and it's a military base for the U.S.
The next part of the atoll (above the water divider in center-right) is Ebeye.
Glen served there and we just had people come from there to get sealed in the temple for eternity.
It has been awesome to live so near to the temple that the Marshallese people come to.
We have helped and continue to help in and out of the temple on these special trips.
In ultimate-awesome news:
Glen will go to Kwajelin this November!
His research mentor, Dr. Gold, has invited Glen to go with him.
We feel like Steve, "Excited, excited!"
(It's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - watch from 9:20)
BYU-H is studying the migratory patterns of several different kinds of birds.

The Hawaiian Golden Plover
This is the bird that Glen will be chasing across the Pacific Ocean in November.
Added bonus: they just so happen to be one of my favorites to watch because their legs move so fast.
I love it.

In other news:
We love not paying full price for things.
It's an addictive sort of sport that holds you by the bellybutton. Scary, I know.
Our second anniversary celebration was based on a Groupon I bought.
We hadn't had time to use it until we had to make time because it was going to expire.

Hawaiian Parasail.
I would definitely recommend them, but only if you have some sort of coupon to take money off of
ridiculous Waikiki prices.
Honolulu in general is catered for people with stupid-money.
Not for people with no money.

 We got a 600 ft line, nothing fancy (because that costs extra).

And you get to choose to be dipped in the end or not.

Obviously we did it. Who wouldn't?

Oh yeah, everyone else on our boat... lame.

They really weren't lame, they were all super nice and fun.

Well, except for these three ladies from Asia...

I'm sure they are nice, they were just screaming in terror for most of the trip.

So talking was not on the list of things to do for them.

We could hear them screaming from all of the way up in the air!

It was pretty funny... sad too, but still.

I started my job as an assistant accounting teacher.
The people I work with are super awesome and I get free lunch on Fridays if I wear an Aloha Friday shirt!
Which is easy because they gave me one:)
The shirt is completely too large for my smaller-than-the-average-Hawaiian frame.
Again, "excited!"

We hope all is well with you.