Wednesday, December 10, 2008

I AM SO FUNNY






Today I had my first final of the week. I was there in the class waiting for my teacher to arrive and give us the test. I decided that I would look at the news and see what was happening. I came a cross this picture that just upset me a little. It was nice of them to make a cake for my sweet niece, even though her first birthday is still a long way off, but to say that she looks like a dog was just uncalled for. So I decided that I would try to make it right and have seen some of the results before I got it right. We went to the cat because it was cuter that the dog, next came tootsie (it comes from the video I made when she was born), an angel followed because that is what she is and finally I arrived at the picture of her. So if you are already looking for ideas for the cake at her first birthday party I have already submitted my idea. I think that should get bonus points when you are debating the idea because it was put in way ahead of schedule.  I love you Sadie Butt. 

Monday, December 8, 2008

Waterfall 2




 Well as promised I got the rest of the pictures from the hike that I went on a few weeks ago. You can see me coming down the waterfall that we had to climb and also me wading across the little pond there. If you examine closely you can see that I have my camera in my mouth to keep it dry. Next up I will give you all part two from Thanksgiving the last week has been crazy with the semester ending, but for the first semester as a collage student I did not have to pull 3 or 4 all nighters in order to get all my work done. That is definitely a big plus. 

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving Part One!!!!!!!!











Well this day of turkeys and thanking started out just wonderfully. I got up early, I did not plan on it but I forgot to turn off my alarm so starting at 7 it was beeping at me and I finally was awake enough and decided to start the day. After a simple breakfast of yogurt, I was planning ahead wanted to leave enough room for all the turkey and fixings and pie I would eat, I headed down to campus to help set up the room for our lunch. After moving around some very round tables and setting up some very cushioned folding chairs my work was done. It was now time for one of the great highlights of The Great Turkey Day, Turkey Bowl. There I was all decked out in my football attire. I will have to dress up again and put up a picture of how wonderful I looked but for now I will just describe it. I had on my red hat, backwards, my long sleeve HART shirt, I ended up rolling the sleeves up after a while when it started to get hot. When the sleeves came up my orange monkey faced wristband was revealed, a great accessory to any clothing. I had on my green basketball shorts, knee socks and my basketball sneakers. Then finish off the whole outfit you had the knee brace on the left knee, a sign that I am getting attacked by old age, and the patriotic mouth guard. I was hoping that I would be able to play as good as I looked, and yes I was successful. We played against another ward and there was a great turnout of people. We all had a wonderful time. I was able to throw a few touchdowns and even caught some too. I was able to use my long arms to out reach and make some spectacular catches. I had a pretty good highlight film if I may say so. I even caught the game ending and winning touchdown so I was happy about it. Then with about an hour and a half until lunch would start I took the long trip, a few seconds crossing the street, to the beach to cool off. I body surfed a few waves and had a nice time. Just love that ocean it is such a wonderful thing. I am thankful for the ocean. Then I came home showered and got ready for the first meal of turkey and all the fixings that I would have. I put on my shirt that Mom said would be the most Thanksgivingy that I have. Boy did I look good too. :) Then I was off to campus to get the party started. I arrived in the ballroom and made my presence known, doing what I do best, acting like an idiot. There was loud pointless noise, dancing, picture taking and anything else you can thing off that would make me seem weird as can be. It then came to the most awaited moment of the year, time to eat the turkey. There was a blessing and off we went, but of course we all know that it is ladies first. So as all the sisters in the ward swarmed to the food line I noticed that there were all there and no one was at the desert table. I figured it smart of me and alright to go and start with the desert portion of the meal first. I grabbed a bowl and filled it with some pumpkin cake, chocolate haupia pie from Ted's Bakery (the most amazing pie) and some ice cream (my bowl is pictured above). After enjoying the wonderful deserts and working the room some more, taking pictures, dancing and clowning around, the line for food was gone. Now it was my moment to shine, the long anticipated, long awaited turkey time. Would it be a disappointment? Would it end up as an Ode to a Grecian Urn time like the tram ride to Disneyland? I grabbed a plate and with a big smile on my face, as if I were a child swimming in a pool of chocolate milk, started to pile on the food. I started with the turkey and then added just a little more turkey and then to go with all that turkey I put just a little more turkey on the plate. When I moved on to the next items of food I realized that my plate was already full. I did my best possible arranging to put the mashed potatoes and gravy on the plate. I also included a little ham, lots of stuffing and a roll. I walked over to fill my cup with some punch and as I went I passed in front of the bishop who said "Kenny is happy" and I replied smiling from ear to ear "oooooooooooooooo yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" in a voice that was unnecessarily loud. I then commented to him that I thought they should find bigger plates for next year because I had trouble fitting enough food on my plate. I then started into all that wonderful food until it was all gone, every once in a while standing to take a picture or just dance a little. After I and everyone else had gotten their share of food it was time to start a program that had been prepared. As you will see in the short video I made we had some people singing and some people dancing, then we had a fire knife show, without the fire for good reasons, and some games. There was a contest to see who could do the best turkey gobble. Everyone was involved and having a great time. Then I found so time to play with some of the kids of the bishopric. As all was coming to an end I won this sweet hat that you can see and then I headed home. I had an hour or so to prepare of the next meal that I was to eat. We shall all see how that turned out and how Thanksgiving 2008 ended. To Be Continued. 

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Random Pictures











Here are some pictures I found from earlier in the semester. We off of Laie Point and it was fun as always. I went with some of the girls that I home teach and my roommate Tommy (he is the runner). There are also some more random pictures from hanging out at the house. Just look at how I have slimed down since the start of the semester. 

Waterfall










Last week I went with some friends on a hike to Melekahana Falls (not sure on the spelling) that is right behind Laie. It was a perfect day it was cool and cloudy because it had been raining earlier. Because of the rain the waterfalls where really big and beautiful. It was quite the adventure, in order to get to the biggest waterfall we had to wade across a little pool and then climb up the face of another waterfall. I wanted to get a picture when we finally made it so I waded across and climbed up the fall with my camera in a plastic bag in my mouth. It was quite a difficult task but as you can see from that picture of me in front of the big waterfall it was definatly worth it. I do have a picture of me with the camera in my mouth that I will have to post later when I get it off of the other camera. It was a hike filled with great scenery that is not done proper justice to in the pictures. You were looking over green hills down to the ocean where you could see the white water of the breaking waves with a distant view of all of Laie. I just fall more and more in love with Hawaii everyday it is filled with so many beautiful places and fun things to do. Plus on the hike we were able to eat lots and lots of strawberry guava (the little red berry) and they are just wonderful. It was another great adventure and I am looking forward to what is up next. 

Monday, November 24, 2008

MUDDY MUDDY MUDDY



So it was a raining weekend and to have some fun we decided to go mud sliding. We did not take a camera with us because we did not want it to get ruined but here is the end result of our fun. After this picture we all ran to the ocean and there was just brown water surrounding us as we tried to come clean. 


Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Random Pictures






Well it seemed like it was about that time again to put up some more pictures from my life in paradise. I have not yet figured out how to work this blog thing well so I can't do anything cool. Here are some pictures from some adventures that have been happening in the last few weeks. 

Is there a way I can upload more than five pictures on a post? Any one can help me with this? 

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween Treats Me Well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






Aloha followers,

After much disappointment and no posts I am here today. To start it off I went on my first date since I have been home. It was forced on me by my roommates, they decided that it had been long enough and I needed to go out with someone. After two weeks of them bothering about it everyday I finally found someone to ask. It was a great time we carved pumpkins which you can't go wrong doing at this time of the year. Then on Halloween I had a blast once again. After a week of colaberating with the neighbors on ideas for a costume they came up with a great one. I as love to do I pulled off another great original costume that was a hit. We pulled together the most amazing grape costume that has been seen. Headed down to school and off to the dance that they had. As always it started out slow as people don't really show up until later, but in true me fashion I was sure to make it a blast from the start. Anywhere that there was some space to be filled I was there dancing the night away. As always happens with my amazing costumes I think just about every person that had a camera come up requesting a picture with me, and because I just love being in pictures of course I said yes. So it was one more successful halloween.