Talk Story

I just realized that we met most of our good friends here.. in very unique ways.... well because my husband.. he is a very unique person. haha... lets just say im lucky that these people even stuck around to be our friends. We refer to each and every one of them as our Hawaiian Ohana!

Its funny how God brings people together. :)

Our first Sunday in our new ward... a good ol' guy named Wolfgang was giving the closing prayer in sacrament meeting. He had a very european accent and Huston of course was so excited because thats where he had served his mission. Therefore, after church he made it a point to go up to this guy and try to say something in German. I remember being embarassed because we were brand new in the ward and knew NOBODY. but..Sure enough.. Wolfgang understood and could respond because he is from Austria, where Huston actually served almost half of his mission. Small world. Needless to say.. Wolfgang and Jamie were our first real friends in TVA and we loved picking on them in Sunday school, watching "The Hangover"with them, going to China Town, and telling personal stories. The first time we had them over we stayed up really late talking about life and married things. I remember thinking they had an amazing relationship and I was always comparing ours to thiers because when your first married you are trying to figure those kinds of things out. Luckily they didnt think we were too weird, and stayed our friends! :) Sure miss seeing thier faces in Hawaii.

Then.. one day... the Mannings(another couple) were throwing a party, and had opted to inviting us because they felt bad for kindly declining a couple of dinner offers. So it was more of a pitty invite ( haha just kidding, ) but anywho.. We went to thier party, where only 1 other couple came, aside from us. 6 people is a good turnout right? Later the Brunner's(Wolfgang and Jamie) showed up as well, but still.. We were just meeting most of these people for the FIRST time. As we were playing this really fun sheraids game, boys v/s girls of course... the girls thought it would be funny to write on a piece of paper "Gang Bang" (not knowing the real meaning of the word, which is where a gang rapes a woman pretty much) because we wanted to see the boys act "gangster".. but much to our suprise...mostly just my suprise (because it was my husband who had to act it out) ...he took the words into a completely different context and was literally on the floor humping and making all kinds of gestures.

I went red in the face and was trying to figure out what in the world was going on. All the other girls were doing the same. We couldnt believe what he was doing because we didnt understand. Finally after the time was up, and nobody understanding what was going on. When Huston said was he was supposed to be acting out ... "Gang BANG" all the boys went "OHHHH" but all of us girls went "HUH...? How was that a gang bang?"

Put together a bunch of embarassed husbands who had to explain to thier wives what that really was and some vulgur gestures coming from your own husband.. you get a great party right???? ... its a very good thing we all laugh about it now, because the Mannings, and the Smith's who were both in attendance of this party, are now some of our very best friends. (keep in mind, literally this was the first time we had ever hung out with either couple) and we had to attend church the next day with the Mannings. Melissa tells us that she was nervous to see Huston the next day at church because she was not sure if he would feel comfortable around them... If you dont think this story is funny.. its ok.. but truly this was such a bold move for Huston. Nobody knew what to think about him after that.. haha!

Oh Huston, I think i speak for everybody when I say that we all love you. You always bring the entertainment.

And last but certainly not least we have our dear sweet old next door neighbors. I can remember when they first moved in we were not quite sure what to think, but we knew we wanted to have a good relationship with them because we love our community and it would just be nice to be friends with your neighbors. Once again... my awesome husband Huston can take credit for this one... but he used to listen for our neighbors to come up the stairs, and as soon as they were close enough he would screech out the window to scare them. I wont lie, its pretty fun to see Ben jump five feet in the air EVERY single time(this happened, YES multiple times). Having never really talked to this couple before, we decided it was enough torture scaring them, and they probably hated us by now, so we decided to make friends...Only to find out they had been plotting to scare us back the whole entire time. Rachel had been waiting ALL day long for us to close our door, and finally we did so they thought they would be sneaky and hang a spider from our door (close to halloween time) ...but we ended up hearing them so instead Huston listened for a few moments..and then opened the door screaming. This was the best scare of them all, because they both about peed thier pants.

and We have been friends with the Erb's ever since!! ....

When we mentioned to Ben that we were having a hard time getting to know our new neighbors... he said "well did you try scaring them,? That's what did it for us!" 

We get a pretty good laugh from these stories. They are great memories. Thanks Huston for being such a good friend maker, because i have loved and enjoyed getting to know these crazy people who have decided to stay in our lives. :) .... well.. not really stay.. Most of them have moved on from the "Hawaii"  "Shoe box" stages of thier lives and are on to bigger and better things. ... We forgive them for leaving us.