A place of our own

We finally found a place to move into! We're very excited about it, considering we've seen about 25-30 places (no joke). After a while we got really picky about what we wanted, and in the end we did a pretty good job of finding something that fulfilled our wants and needs, AND within our budget.

We will be able to move in in about a week and a half, which gives us some time to go apartment shopping....for EVERYTHING. I'm planning on scoring on some really great deals. Although, I DID fall in love with a great comfy chair thing the other day that was NOT a great deal....I'm hoping that someday it will be discounted more than what it was.

Part 2: Kauai

So remember when I said that I had an excuse not to post about Kauai (post-graduation/Christmas) because I didn't have WiFi? Well, that was only true for a couple of days, then we got a router.

So here I am finally blogging about Kauai! We had SUCH a great time. Kauai is absolutely beautiful! I wish Wolfgang and I would have gone there more often while we lived in Hawaii. So, to all my Hawaii friends that might be reading this- GO TO KAUAI!!! It's so much more open land and green (believe it or not) and not as crazy as Oahu.

On our trip we just took it easy, enjoyed the beautiful island and each other's company. I do have to say, unfortunately I don't have too many pictures this time. On this trip, I told myself to not take too many pictures, and to just enjoy the moment. I'm SO glad I stuck to that.

In short, this is a few things we did:
-went on beautiful drives
-went on a trek to a beautiful waterfall
-enjoyed the beach...duh
-and best part of it all... went on a catamaran on Christmas Eve and went on the Na Pali coast trip! I do have to say, it was absolutely the best Christmas present.

The weather was perfect, and we saw A LOT of marine activity! The crew even told us how lucky we were to see all that we did. By law, you cannot come within an X amount of yards to whales, but the whales came to us!! Literally, we got so incredibly close to some whales that jumped and breached for us numerous times, and one whale in particular came right up next to the boat, swam under the boat, then came up right next to the boat on the other side and came up to look at us, then disappeared again. Seriously, it was awesome and breathtaking. Such gorgeous and incredible creatures!

We seriously could of not asked for a better Christmas. What I loved is that we didn't really do presents this year, and the little amount we did do, it was so insignificant that it didn't really matter much at all, but what did matter most, was being together with our families and enjoying the moments together at such a great place. I LOVED it.

I could keep going on forever and ever, but I'll spare you. I've got a little bit of pictures for you to enjoy. Please note that in the slide show, starting with the dolphin pictures, that I did NOT take those pictures, but a great photographer that was on our boat took them, and graciously shared them.

Enjoy.

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Let's get this over with.

In case you haven't noticed, "Eat, Pray, Love" has been on my side bar for way too long. --->
I've been reading it on and off for months, between semesters and all...and I've already caved and watched the movie. It's a great book, I'm really enjoying it (it does have a few boring parts, I do have to say) but its about time I finish it.

I think today is the day.

mmmm CAKE.

For weeks at a time, I don't take the time to check out Cake Wrecks even though it is on my blog list. But, on days like today when I actually do go and check it out, I'm never disappointed, and always end up laughing foolishly (a word?) to myself at my laptop.

Go ahead, try it for yourself!

"labor" pains

I may not have any idea what it's like myself,

but this is FUNNY. and very clever.

carless and hungry.

Right about now, I'm really wishin that Cafe Rio delivered.

(Just one more step above your online ordering- you can do it!)

painfully uncreative

I'm constantly inspired by other people's creativity. And by inspired, I don't mean the kind where I jump up and say, "YEAH! I can do that!!" It's the kind of inspired that is like, "woah, that is SO cute!" think of how uncreative I am, then move on in my day and forget about it.

For church activities sometimes, they make and create things...I'm really glad they don't do it as much as they use to anymore, because I really didn't like them, cause it just reminds me of how creative other people are, and how painfully uncreative I am.

Well, hopefully sooner than later, we will be moving into a new apartment. I can't wait to (attempt) to decorate it and make it all cute...yet at the same time because of my awkwardness in creating, I'm scared to death.

I guess we'll just see how it goes when the time comes around!