Suprise Date

In honor of all the snow the mainland was getting...we coudlnt help but be a little bit jealous...We decided it would be fun to go to the only place on the island where you can see your breath.

Huston suprised me with a great date. He told me to pack socks, and to wear pants and bring a sweater and off we were to the "ICE PALACE." We were going Ice Skating. I was a little hestitant, seeing how the last time we went ice skating (after his mission), Huston thought he could do this....

and this was the result... literally.. not that dramatic, but pretty much. He had to get stitches above his eyebrow

Anyway...October is kind of a really fun month for us.

Huston took me on our first date the second weekend of October exactly 5 years ago. Yes people. 5 years ago, and about 3 weeks later we shared our first kiss.

Our first kiss was not the most magical. In fact I was so embarassed. We were Ice Skating with some friends on a group date, and we were teasing each other about kissing, and I basically dared him to kiss me in front of everyone, and I thought that I was certain he would NOT do that. But, HE DID. I was caught totally off guard and completely embarrassed or worried that someone might have seen us kiss. Not to mention, it was only our first.

And then....

When we all got back on the ice, I was so twitterpated I fell flat on my rear. Not just gracefully, but head first sliding all over the ice kind of fall. If the embarassment factor had not kicked in yet, it was in full foce by now. I tried really hard to get up before he saw me on the ground, but I was on ice people, give a girl a break. Huston turned around when he noticed I was missing, and I could see his grin from ear to ear. He came and helped me up and broke my fall with a sweet kiss on my forehead and then softly kissed my lips AGAIN. In front of everyone. Such a romantic huh? I think this might of been when I knew I was going to marry him.

and.. Im so glad I did..marry him.

 You could see his breath

So what?..Ice Skating has some sentamental value to us, and it was fun to re-create it. Thanks babe for a great date! We had a great time together. We laughed alot, caught our balance alot, made alot of circles around the ice, danced or attempted to, could see our breath, and enjoyed watching all the teenagers think they were so cool, even though thought we were too. After ice skating there was a small car show we walked around. Huston is obsessed, so it was fun to see him get excited like a little kid too.We finished the night with some RED LOBSTER to eat some crab. Its my favorite, and we dont get to eat it often. My man sure knows how to take care of his girl.

I think I have to add to learn how to do one figure skating stunt to my bucket list. It may not be a triple axle but something really cool would be nice. I always used to watch the Olympics with my grandma Rainey and she always used to ask me if I wanted to be a figure skater. It was a dream, I used to always aspire to be one until I started playing Volleyball. The Ice Skaters were so beautiful and so flawless on the ice. I cant help but think if my grandma whenever I see figure skating or go ice skating.

Nuture

When I was little I used to love playing with dolls, making homes inside a shoe box for rocks, catching bugs and keeping them as pets to "take care of", one time I even made a house for a squirrel outside in an old tree stump thinking the squirrel would become my new pet.

I loved to nurture. I loved to have critters and keep them just so I could feed them, make them a new home, and give them a name. I liked having new friends. We wont talk about how many of my friends survived or my nurturing skills, but you get the picture. I liked to nurture.

Truth is....I still do. And since we cant get a puppy (wouldnt be suitable for the shoe box we live in) and I dont have a baby yet...

I have resorted to this...

I planted myself a little herb garden in these little pots. I water them every day. Keep them inside, and take them out for sun for a couple hours a day. Thier names are rosemary, basil, arugala, spinach, and cilantro. Creative I know. Arugala is already sprouting, along with the spinach.

It brings such a smile to my face to see my little sprouts. I feel like an elementary school student doing a science project, but at least its fun and I can smile.

Is it Christmas Yet?

Costco has out all of thier Christmas items. Including..........

We couldnt resist buying. Its our FAVORITE and its almost gone already. We purchased it on Friday. Yep. You do the Math.

You know how your senses are directly related to your memory, and certain scents and tastes can take you right back to that exact spot? Well Egg Nog does this. Everytime I drink Egg Nog I think of Christmas mornings with my little brother before mom and dad wake up to let us open presents.

We both cant wait to get home for the Holidays.

Happy Birthday

This month there were a million birthday's.

I decided to give a shout out .... if i missed anyone, I am sorry. It is just the most full my calendar has been in a long time.

Katie (2) My friend growing up. I have known her since Kindergarten. Hope she had a great day! :)

Huston(5) My amazing husband had a wonderful birthday. We celebrated by shopping alot and treating ourselves to Outback steakhouse. He was spoiled and got himself a raquetball raquet, and some new shoes and clothes.

Danny(10) My cousin who I grew up with, He is my buddy! I know he celebrated by splitting his leg open with a chain saw by accident, so i really hope he is doing well and knows that we love him!

Kelly (14) My good Hawaiian friend. She is hilarious and can always brighten my day! Happy Birthday girl

Candi (18) Mother-In-Law. We love her very much and hope she had a great day. She is always smiling and one of the strongest people we know. Thanks for being a good example mom.

Wolfgang (21)- Another Hawaiian friend who ditched us for the mainland, but we miss seeing his face around. He has a fun, and exciting personality and can make anyone laugh and feel welcome. He welcomed us warmly to the ward by giving us the hardest calling-Teaching old testament and as you can see we will never let him forget it. We love you buddy and hope you and wifey are doing great in phoenix. Someday we will be neighbors again!

Marlie (27)- Little Sister. Happy Birthday. we love you. My little sister is my best little friend. She will be an empty nester soon and all alone with mom and dad. She claims to hate the idea, but i know secretly she will love it because she will get whatever she wants. yep. Spoiled. but we still love her.

Bradley (27)-Our hawaiian son who lived with us for a little while. He is now serving his mission in California and we miss him. Happy Birthday Buddy!

I hope everyone enjoyed thier birthday's and Halloween!

Whats your Brick Wall?

Whats your brick wall? ...Chose not to cry! Its the better way. 

Aloha fellow bloggers. 

It has been a stressful and busy month. Full of some festive cheap crafts, registering for classes, figuring out work and income and finances, new goals to work towards, working out, planning relief society activities, figuring out when we can come home for the holidays(late notice, i know), adjusting to having opposite schedules, you know... the normal

I have a lot of thoughts. I need to put them somewhere.


Everyone should read D&C 29 46-48

46 But behold, I say unto you, that little ^achildren are redeemed from the foundation of the world through mine Only Begotten;

47 Wherefore, they cannot ^asin, for power is not given unto Satan to ^btempt little children, until t
they ^cbegin to become ^daccountablebefore me;

 48 For it is given unto them even as I will, according to mine own ^apleasure, that great things may be required at the hand of their ^bfathers.

Its a great scripture and my amazing D&C teacher Jerry Wilson, always knows exactly what to say when I need him to say it. Its quite inspirational.

Anyway, the scripture reminded me that even though i am tried and tempted, great things are required at my hand. Even though life is not always easy, and I feel like I am the only one of the planet right now who is not pregnant, Great things are still required of me. I am still accountable for my actions. Which brings me back to the photo above, my brick wall. Which do you choose? Choose not to cry, and move forward. Great things are required at the hand of our father. He is counting on us, to do the right thing and prevail whatever comes our way.


On an even more positive note...Last night, the husband and I were able to go to the Haunted Lagoon. We had so much fun. It sort of felt like Disneyland, waiting in line for an hour. The Haunted Lagoon is a canoe ride through the lagoon at the Polynesian Cultural Center and this year there was even a haunted house before the lagoon. Super props to the PCC it was great and a lot of effort is put forth to make it fantastic. We truly enjoyed spending time together and going out. You would think we had not been out of our house for a while or that we have not been on any dates(even though we have). I guess sometimes its nice to just get out oh and the "Laie lady" gives me the creeps. Hands down a pretty creepy island tale.


That job i recently posted about being grateful to have... well.. I don't have it anymore. ok well not really. I do have the job, I just need a new one. Starting Dec. 18th, I will only be able to work weekends because when the new semester begins i have classes everyday. This has been stressful to figure out what to do because its such a perfect job. I am grateful they will allow me to work weekends, however it is all still in limbo. If they hire someone else, I might lose my hours. So I might ask for a few extra prayers coming our way that we may be able to figure out our financial future for next semester. Granted, we don't have to figure it out until January, but we just don't want to get stuck in a bind.


Guess what else is exciting? January 20th 2012 is the deadline for December graduation. Yep, that means in just three short months our graduation applications will be completed. 


On to new talk... looking into grad schools already, because deadlines for applications will be right after graduation in December 2012. Let me clarify, grad schools for myself...The husband wants to get some work experience first, but if we have no children by then, i might as well jump right into it. BYU Provo. ASU. UVU. are my favorite choices so far. Im sure there will be others. I have started a pros and cons list and we will eventually map out the "Plan" to see if it agrees with Heavenly Fathers as well. Who knows where that could take us. I wish I knew.

Today

Today is one of those days.

The kind where you never want to leave your bed because your so exhausted. Both of us .... The kind where you pantry is empty because you haven't made the hour trip to costco yet because your too busy. The kind where your house is a mess and you just don't want to do anything about it.

This morning though, after sleeping in...Huston and I treated ourselves to a lovely morning date. We had Mcdonald's for breakfast and took it upon ourselves to lay out a blanket and have a morning breakfast on the beach. After which we both came back to take another nap. Ya, its both of us. Not quite sure why, but we are both exhausted from school, work, and stress. It could also be all this rain we are starting to get.

Anywho, this morning might have to count as our "Date" because tonight we will be spending our time at Costco! TGIF!!!

BISCUITS AND GRAVVYY

I wish I had this recipe. Maybe someday my mom will give it to me, but its sort of a secret recipe that has been in our family for years. Theses are not just any biscuits and gravy they are the best!! Maybe I'm a little biased... 

I can't decide if i like these biscuits because they are so good, or its because there are soo many memories enthralled in taking that first bite. Yes people, the taste and smell takes me back to those moments where the entire Gillespie family would re-unite each year and eat the most wonderful food, play the most wonderful games, fight, love, cry, get DIRT-y, go fishing, and spend a full 3 days together. Why don't we do that anymore??????? Its the most amazing thing when 2 parents 9 children and over 60 grandkids and great grandkids can gather in one place and spend that much time together. 

Memories-(Don't judge my family) 

1. Ketchup and Mustard fight in the kitchen(outside, campin kitchen) between all siblings 

2. Playing from dusk till dawn with all my cousins and smelling pretty nasty but never wanting to take a bath because i loved playing so hard. getting up the next day and doing it all over again.

3. playing the quarter game in the middle of the street with all my uncles and crying because i never won all the quarters and dad and mom only gave us so many to play with. 

4. Piñata craziness

5. Karaoke every night and Elvis always making an appearance 

6. Packing at least 30 cousins to a fishing trip at a place where it was guaranteed to catch unlimited amounts of fish, and catching toads, minnows, snakes and all kinds of critters. This was back when i was not a "girl" to my cousins. Somewhere in the teen years i was not quite as cool as i used to be for some reason

7. Playing night games

8. Sleeping in tents in the backyard 

9. My uncle riding a horse into the kitchen and scaring the SH** out of my grandma 

10. Stealing dough to the biscuits with my grandpa. The dough to those biscuits is BOMB. I wish i had the picture, but there is a picture of my cousin danny and I covered head to toe in flour from "helping" grandpa, but really the area around our mouths was pure evidence of what we were really doing

11. Dutch oven cooking. Steak, biscuits and gravy, peach kobbler....Be jealous.

12. camp fires and endless marshmallow roastings

Man o Man, I hope someday my kids get to experience something similar. That was the time of my life. And i can remember holding at least 5 babies each year. All of which those babies are now 16-17 years old. Maybe some of you family members who read this blog will remember too, and get your rears in gear planning another one. 

These biscuits and gravy carry the most wonderful memories and ill never forget my Grandpa Verl. Thanks for leaving something on this earth for us to enjoy from you. Missin' You Grandpa!

Tear Jerker

May or may not have cried a little watching this, this morning. Very empowering and sends a wonderful message!!!! :)

Siri...

I may or may not regret letting my husband get the new I phone.

Its fantastic and I want one too. However my upgrade is not for another 6 months, but seeing how we waited 31/2 hours in the Apple store to get this phone to finally activate for Huston, Apple said they would see what they could do for us. So im banking on them calling me sometime this week telling me I can have one too.

We'll see....

Anywho... technology is soo advanced its scary.

Huston said to the phone "Siri, will you marry me?"

The phone says... "Lets just be friends ok?"

Huston says "Ok"

Siri says "Im ok if you are ok!"

See what i mean by scary!?? ...

Ps. He loves it. And Siri may become his new girlfriend. He stayed up so late playing with her last night while i layed in bed alone. No cuddles for me until this new phase wears off i guess. I may or may not be jealous of a PHONE. haha

At least i downloaded the Pinterest free app on his phone on the way home from town, for when I get bored, and when he is actually ready to share. I dont think he knows I did that yet.. so lets not tell him!

Lucky Day

This morning i had a weird message on my phone from the bank. I was nervous.. thinking about identity theft, overdraft, anything... The possibilities were endless. I had no idea what they would want. They almost NEVER call...

I called the lady back, and she says to me.. "Kilie, You are the winner of a $300 gift card to Apple." Im like WHAT?? haha She asked me if i remembered entering the drawing, and my response was nope! Haha.

Oh well! Looks like its my LUCKY DAY... Now if only this kind of luck could rub off on my ovaries.

Maybe now I can get the iPhone I just posted about.

Im pretty giddy, and excited. This like NEVER happens to me. I never win anything.

Wish List

Last night we played around in a Verizon store for a little bit with the new Iphone 4S.

Verdict: We want it.

Huston could probably hold out for the 5, however I dont care to be a little bit behind. I think the 4S would suit me great for a few years.

Huston was playing with the new capabilities. Our favorite is that you can speak to the phone, and it does what you tell it to. Huston decided to send a message to himself from the I phone in the store and said verbally to the phone:

" I am using the new Iphone 4S and it is awesome, I really want one!"

The Iphone 4S sent the following message to Huston's phone:

" I am using the new Iphone 4 ASS and it is awesome, I really want one!"
Pretty accurate huh?

Not bad! We got a pretty good laugh at that, and decided it was pretty much worth getting! :) Hopefully our Christmas to each other or something.

Thankful Sunday

A good friend of mine does a thankful post every thursday. She calls it "Thankful Thursday"
Im a little early in the week for it to be Thursday, but just wanted to state a few things I am thankful for.

-My parents/family- My mom and dad do so much to help us out, and they do it willingly. They send us fun packages, have helped us out financially when needed, payed to fly us home, gave us our dream wedding, and have encouraged us to finish our education even if it means to do it a million miles away. I am also grateful for my siblings. Lately I have really been missing my relationship with them. I am mostly grateful that my family, is MINE forever. They are important to me because they understand me and they love me. I am grateful for thier relationships, and examples. Its amazing how much we can learn from our own families, which is why God gave us them!

-Education- I am grateful that I grew up. Ok, not literally "grew-up"  but more like matured, beacuse when I was 18 years old, I hated school. I actually never wanted to go back. I always assumed after marraige we would have kids and start a new stage of life, but God had a different plan for me. I now know how important it is to be educated in today's society, and am currently extremely motivated to obtain a Master's degree. I am grateful to be here at BYU-H and have learned the value of recieving an education and pursued it. It is a big accomplishment to graduate with a college degree. Oh and PS. Huston and I are "hopefully" crossing our fingers...if everything goes as planned this last year of school, and we dont lose our grants...we just may be.. graduating DEBT free, which is an even bigger accomplishment.
FYI graduation is actually marked on a calender. December 15, 2012

Husband- I know, I know.. the cliche answer, but seriously how could one not be eternally greatful for the best friend they ever had? The most amazing, kind, patient, caring, supportive, and handsome person I have ever known? Its true. I am greatful to be blessed with such a wonderful spouse. He is funny, wakes up happy every morning, is patient with me, keeps us on our toes, thinks that the world is going to end if you spend a penny, adventurous, and loving. I have loved getting to know him more and more, and watching our lives change each year we are married. I am mostly grateful for his virtue of patience, one that I do not posess. He balances me out, thats for sure. I am also grateful for all the time we get to spend together, and how he always puts me first on his schedule. This weekend he had two HUGE tests. He was really stressed, but I really needed time to spend with him because we both had busy weeks and barely saw each and it is important to me that we get TIME together. In fact, that is my love language. Quality Time. If you have not read the 5 Languages of Love, I highly recommend it. It helped us understand each other 100 times better. Anyways, Huston planned out his tests perfectly so that he could spend time with me. Instead of taking both of them Friday and not seeing me at all that day or night, he only focused on one test friday, and took the other on Saturday. He even got up early Saturday morning instead of sleeping in, before he had to go to work..to work on his test. All so that, WE could have another evening together. End result- 2 weekend evenings together, and Best Husband Ever award goes to Huston. I am grateful for him, and the effort he gives our marraige. Its always 110%.

a Job- I complain about my job more than I should because it is really hard to WORK while being in school. I am grateful for my job. Even though I have to work on the Sabbath, my job has provided for our family and been more than understanding with my school schedule changes each semester. It pays exactly enough for us to support ourselves and is perfect for me. I am also more than grateful for my husband's job. We never actually see a real paycheck, but physically live in a perfect little apartment for free because of his job, and that is a major blessing.

Free Time- For the first time in two years.. Huston and my schedules are just the ooposite of each other. Which means less time together. Its unfortunate, but I have taken that free time lately to do alot of things. I am learning that I actually love this time that I have to myself each evening, and I look forward to it. Lately my vice has been crafting, but thats not always feasable so I read, play loud music, catch up on my shows that Huston hates to watch, do some homework, bake or cook more often, maybe even exercise, or blog, usually blogging wins that battle though. Needless to say its been fun to have a little time to myself and really do what I want to do. Not that Huston never does those things with me, but i am just enjoying the free time I have had lately. Its nice to feel like I was able to get something done, ya know? that Accomplished feeling? even if it is for recreational purposes!

-I think right now... thats enough content to read and grattitude. But seriously...

Count your many blessings!! See how much better it makes you feel :)

a phase...

Maybe its just a phase.. and call me crazy... but

Im a little obsesessed with candles lately. I burn them every night and love how my house smells. It just makes our little house a HOME. My pumpkin candle is almost empty and I just baught another one that smells like a combination of Christmas and fall. the best of both worlds.

However, even though i have a new large candle, im still really tempted to take advantage of this awesome deal.at Bath and Body Works.Oh christmas candles...

Im thinking about peppermint and evergreen, which is a pine scent. Oh and they even have a firewood scent..Yikes! I cant decide.

Just so you people understand how much I like burning candles, I will tell you that I have two candles that dont even have a scent anymore that I still burn just for the effect of candlelight in our house. Ha! Oh the beauty of living in such a small space. I was just thinking last night, how in the world am I supposed to burn candles in every room of an actual house, when we have one?

My parents are the greatest and sent me two new scentsy scents. Which i literally planned on ordering this week, and now i dont have have to. What im trying to get at is that I think I am set on "scents" for the home for at least 2 months (hopefully, lol)

 Mom's and Dad's are the greatest. They also sent us some Halloween candy, and some fall/halloween decor, along with the shorts I previously mentioned.

It made my day!

answered prayers

Ok... I know god answers prayers.. He does. or at least he knows exactly how to tell me he loves me.

While Huston was at work, i was at home alone. alone and left to think about everything and how sad i really was. You know.. if your mind is not actively engaged it wanders to places you don't want it to.

I hated sitting there alone. I got anxious but didn't want to do anything. I kept looking at my phone thinking maybe someone would call me or text me or maybe i should be proactive and call someone. And...

not long after i looked at my phone someone knocked at my door.

Someone who makes Hawaii home. Someone who has made me feel welcome here and loved and like we belong here. Someone who is always positive and such a good example to me, someone who gives me all her recipes because she has been married for almost 5 years, and someone who means the world to me.

She handed me a bag with a  smile and a hug.

That bag contained:

-Gum- to remind me to stick to it

-A small smooth stone- to remind me that the rough times help refine and polish us

-Popcorn- to remind me that i am always popping into her thoughts

-Love Spell(victoria secret spray)- to remind me to take time to enjoy the act of love and romance and forget about everything else

-Hand soap- because it smells yummy and washes away all the bad junk

-and a safety pin- so I can hold it all together

She titled it Kilie's happy kit and left me the best LOVE NOTE!! I love and am so grateful for my amazing friend who listened to the little voice inside her head that said she needed to come and visit me.

God sent me an angel today! :) It was my dear friend and that was the most thoughtful most creative thing she could of ever done. Thank you kind friend!

She beat me..

Once upon a time.. i posted about the great sales i found on shorts.

My mother read it... and i don't think she meant to do this on purpose but ...she BEAT the crap out of me. She found shorts.. Khaki and Black for $3.00 each. Originally 36 buckaroo's. She got me 8 pairs.  Haha

Grand Total- $24 bucks for 8 pairs of shorts. That is pure robbery!
Im set with shorts for the next 3 years probably.

Thanks mom!! I may or may not be a little spoiled...and i may or may not like it! :) I am the golden child after all... Right?  (sarcasm) be choice with your words those who respond to that.

I would say.. my $43 dollars in 5 pairs of shorts to her $24 for 8 pair..Blows me out of the water. But not everything is a competition right? 

Looking forward to receiving a package in the mail. I love my Mom! Thank you sooo much! I should probably thank my dad too since it was probably out of his wallet! :)

THE BEST

this.... my dear friends

is my absolute favorite kitchen item in the world aside from our Ninja Blender that shreds chicken in two point three seconds.

I use my Kitchen Aide for EVERYTHING literally. It has by far gotten the most use in our kitchen than any other item. It makes wonderful cookies, cinnamon rolls, breads, breadsticks, and pizza dough. We LOVE it. When we move back home...unfortunately it will probably not make the "ship home" list. So i will buy a new one that matches our new kitchen.

Fancy ones like these:

I may or may not be a little obsessed with yellow!

Easier said than done

I dont understand life sometimes. but i guess i should try to follow something like the above quote and i might feel better. Today was a hard day. 

Everyone is on different paths.. but sometimes... just sometimes...I just don't understand.

I take everything back that i said about General conference and feeling so confident and so strong. Its true, i did feel that way, but today emotion proceeded to overtake my strength. Satan gets you the most when your the strongest. and boy today did he get to me. 

Satan creeped into my head...made me ask WHY over and over again...and got me all angry and confused and on his side again. 

Here's to tomorrow...It is Friday after all! :)

A year w/o Groceries

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/green/no-groceries-for-a-year-how-one-family-saved-money-lost-weight-and-lived-well-2582457/

Pretty much the coolest thing ever. Would be pretty challenging. But how cool is that?

side note

I may or may not have spent my time unwisely tonight and may or may not have put off exercising because of a small projects.

I guess thats not true, i made it through about 10 minutes of "INSANITY" tonight before i got bored and started to blog instead. I guess I'm not much for working out in the home. Its not really my M O. I think my next attempt will be at the gym. Anyone have any good work out/nutrition/eating tips that gives results? Goal is to lose 10-15 lbs in the next two months. 

and the perpetrator of tonights work out is...

-my Frankenstein door 

how do you think it turned out? 

my neighbor is going to do the mummy. good idea Marya! 

-made candy corn garland- its really cute and super easy

Other great accomplishments for the week:

-Aced two tests! Literally. 98 percent and 100 percent. Its been a LONG while since that has happened

-Husband made these awesome cookies to help me out. I needed them for class, but didn't have time. He didn't argue one bit and they were a hit with the class! 

I may or may not have taken partial credit for them though.. don't tell him that! 

-House has stayed clean ...(Dishes) don't count ... for almost 4 weeks straight.  can you say RECORD 

-Fall decorations are up in the house and Im obsessed. I would rather hang out in my house then go anywhere. Not that my decorations are great or anything, but it makes me feel like its actually Fall in Hawaii!

-Put in for 3 whole weeks off work. Probably won't get it, but just dreaming its possible makes me warm inside 

-Had Kahuku Grill Banana Coconut Bread tonight. realized that Candi, nor mine even came close to this amazing heaven in my mouth when we attempted to re-create it in September. My next adventure is getting the recipe before we move home, hopefully its not too secret.

On other notes... 

-My pumpkin candle i bought about 3 weeks ago is almost burnt all the way down. time for another one. ya..that happened. What can i say, i love burning candles, but probably should not post that online since we are not aloud to burn them in our apt complex and my husband is our resident advisor. OOPS. 

-Wishing i had answers to the questions Satan plants in my head and wandering why everyone on the planet can pro-create so easily

-I need to be whipped into shape. I can't even make it through a 1/2 hour work out. Shaun T, HELPPP me.

-Lost is our new favorite show.. its addicting. Never thought we would jump on this bandwagon..but its SO good. 

-I need an idea for my sewing project... anyone have any cool ideas!??? Thanks!

Test Overload

Test OVERLOAD

 Remember that one time I posted about how my teachers don't believe in multiple choice tests?? Well i have 3 of them this week. I am stressed because i have to memorize all of this content

Monday- TODAY-Working with Substance Abuse Users - Should not be terrible, but a lot of content that i need to know

Wednesday- Social Policies
Going to be my hardest test so far. 33 questions. HARD, oh and my teacher only calls it a "quiz" .. sorry anything over 15 questions validates the title of TEST

Friday- Human Development
should be pretty easy. its mostly about pregnancy and the trimesters which I am not too worried about

Gahh.. Why must they all fall in one week!?

Education.

School Is actually Enjoyable.

My one complaint is that my teachers..as in EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM....dont believe in traditional multiple choice tests. Instead its.. Memorize EVEYRTHING from chapters 1-3 kind of test.

WTF? I took my first test friday....it had 9 questions but was worth 150 points. ya.. ...the short answer kind of tests. . ... I am told that every test in the program from here on out is like that. ... ps. I think I did well on that particular test, however I know there will be others I wont do so well in.

other than that... Love my program. It is a cohort, therefore the students that are in my classes now, will be in my classes for the next year as we finish the program together. Everyone is nice, and im excited to get to know them. Teachers are all great as well, and interesting to listen to. I am taking Social Policy, Working with Older Adults, Working with Substance Abusers, and a Human Development class.

I find it really neat as I continue to learn that this profession fits my personality. This is where i am supposed to be, even though my educational paths have been confusing and crazy. I dont think I have ever enjoyed school as much as I have in the past few weeks.

I have to volunteer at (2) AA meetings for my substance abuse class, that should be interesting. I also have to volunteer with the activities coordinater at a retirement home, which I have done plenty of, and LOVE.

I am stressing about my internship. It is not until Jan. 2013, however I have no idea where i want to go, or what I want to do. The options are endless. Idealy lately I have been really wanting a job for LDS family services, but like I said that...that could all change tomorrow.

My teachers are such role models. They are all extremely accomplished and have so many stories to tell in the work they pursue and the paths they have been led down. I have chosen the right program, because these people are well known, along with BYU-H's program. I feel blessed to be able to be experiencing this awesome educational oppurtunity.

We are blessed to be here at BYU-H attending a private school at a very cheap tuition rate. The work of the lord is moving foward, and I see it everyday at this school as so many students have come here from other countries to develop skills to return to thier home countries.

The other day my teacher had just gotten back from a school presidency meeting and explained to our that the school is going to be making many changes in the next few years. Here is the scoop: President Monson has asked the school to grow to 5,000 students. Currently we only have 2,000. For fall semester 2011, this year alone about 9,000 students were denied acceptance to the school, and that is the most they have turned down since the school opened. Monson also asked the school to continue its international efforts western. The school will now be bringing over more students from China, and other countries to help the church grow. Initially the point of the school is "Enter to Learn, and Go Forth to Serve" and thats what these international students do. They come to Hawaii for thier education, and are given church callings to learn leadership to go back to thier countries and develop and organize the church. I feel blessed to be here. We are supposed to be here. In about 2-3 years Byu-Hawaii will only be 20% mainland students. Currently, because of economical crisis in other countries, the mainland percentage is more like 45% . It is progressively getting harder and harder to attend this university of great worth.  Now do you people understand how blessed we are to be able to participate in the work of the lord?

"Enter to Learn, and Go Forth to Serve."

Oh and This Man......

President Steven C. Wheelright ... the President of our School.. Is..a Volunteer Service Missionary. Yep.. What a man. He is volunteering his services to our school, to us as students, and to the church. Out of hundreds of qualified applicants for the JOB (payed) ..(.yes his position is an actual payed job normally)- President Hinkley called this man as a missionary of the church to be the President of this University. Wheelright and his wife were serving as missionaries in Idaho when this happened, and the prophet called him and told him they were changing thier mission, and he has been at BYU-H as acting and presiding president ever since. Pretty cool huh? Says alot about the kind of man he is, and makes me even more grateful to be here, because I know that he was called to be here for a reason.

Happy Anniversary (Mom and Dad)

My parents have been married for 29 years.

WOAH!!!.... When i think about my life... in terms of time.. having only experienced 2 years of marriage, 29 years is a freakin long time!

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! As my dad said this morning.. no pun intended... (Ha) "29 glorious years of the purest matrimonial bliss."

Love you so much! :) Wishing you many more years!

My heart is about to EXPLODE

LONG POST WARNING: my feelings on General Conference

Words cannot describe to you how much i needed General Conference this time. I don't think i have ever felt less prepared to watch it, but have gotten SO much from it. I have a lot i need to work on which is usually what I get from general conference, but this time was different. I received the most direct answers to my prayers, our prayers. More direct than i have ever received one before.

This is the first time I am expressing my feelings about this on the blog. its pretty personal, and I'm pretty adamant about it. I just feel So much gratitude, and like it is time to share because my testimony has grown so much from this trial.

I don't want to bore you all so ill give you a short run down, and that is that we have a strong desire to begin our family. My husband is more than ready to become a father, and I am ready to be a mom. We have prayed and fasted, and felt strongly about starting our family at this point in our lives. We have had this desire for almost a year now and we know and have received answers to our prayers that we should begin our family(maybe thats the frustrating part). Constant prayers and pleading with the lord has required all of our patience. My husband is a rock, and understands fully God's plan, but me.. I have tendency to question it. I get so frustrated when i hear my friends are pregnant, or that a 16 year old who lost her virginity for the first time got pregnant on her first try.
The question i seem to always ask is... dun dun dun.. WHY? Heavenly Father, Huston and I are doing things right, we are in school, we work hard, we pray, we keep the commandments, we have an eternal marriage, why are we not blessed with our righteous desire??
 I know that eventually it will happen, but it is just so hard for me to accept that its not NOW (I get this trait from my mother). I know there are women who are infertile and I am the one who is complaining, and i know that 10 months is no time at all in the eternal realm, however it is such a deep desire that it has required ALL of my patience. I am at my last straw.
(I could go on forever)

But then... Robert D. Hales spoke.
Robert D. Hales are you speaking to me personally? I think you are! My insides wanted to fall out and my jaw was dropped. I was not even crying, just in utter disbelief that this man is saying every word I have been waiting to hear. I couldn't put my pen down, or write fast enough. The Lord spoke to me Sunday through Robert D. Hales. And he said...

Wait for me Kilie. Do not give up on me. I will bless you. Thy WILL be done.

Robert D. Hales said that it is our duty to Wait upon the Lord, and that everything that happens in this earthly life is for our own experience. But what exactly does it mean to Wait upon the Lord? It means to have hope, to anticipate, and to TRUST him. We can do this by showing Faith, Diligence, and Patience.
He also said to endureth for one night, and that night may seem long and hard, but Joy WILL come in the morning. Too often, we pray and plead with the Lord for patience, yet we want it NOW. Does that make any sense? If we shall wait upon the Lord, we will renew our stregnth.

I know that he said many more amazing and comforting words in his talk, but those were just some of my favorite. I needed to hear every word, and I felt comforted in knowing that my Heavenly Father WILL bless us. He has not forgotten us, he knows our prayers, he knows our hearts and our desires. That is all i truly needed to know, and Elder Hales could not have put that knowledge into my heart in any better way.

I am learning in my D&C class that in order to have true Faith, we need to start with some sort of knowledge base. That is my knowledge base. I can move forward now, in full Faith...knowing that Heavenly Father has heard my/our prayers. He will bless us. He has not forgotten. We just need not give up.

and As my husband and I were talking last about talks we felt really truly made sense to us, Huston said to me..." Kilie, your Heavenly Father loves you SOOO much.  He knows that you have a hard time with him testing your patience. He KNOWS and because he knows he spoke to an apostle on YOUR behalf, to tell the rest of the world that it is going to be ok." - Pretty powerful statement if I do say so myself.

I believe that.

24

Birthday Boy....Huston Levi Farnsworth turned 24!

We celebrated by eating at Outback Steakhouse and shopping A-LOT the weekend before. This boy got spoiled. He loves to play Raquetball so he ordered a raquet he had his eye on forever, and then we just got him some needed items like shoes and some clothes.

 On his actual day, our awesome friends made him a cute sign outside the door, so all the neighbors kept  knocking just to say Happy Birthday! :) He felt pretty special, so thanks Alysha for doing that.

My babe is 24. He thinks he is old. I call it his mid-life crisis, only its happening alot sooner than expected. haha. Actually, both of us are having a hard time accepting and understanding time. It passes by way too quick. It really does feel like just yesterday we were going on our first date.....5 years ago officially this weekend.

Yep.. I was his Birthday date 5 years ago. Little did he know...he was stuck FOREVER.

(Our First Date October 2006)

Anyways.. Happy Birthday Huston. I love you SO much and I am so grateful for your constant love and support. You truly are my other half, and I could not have been as happy as I am today without you in my life. I look forward to eternity with you...It just doesnt seem long enough!

Mission Possible

Yep. I haven't watched any TV since Sunday. Hard to do. Very tempted often.

But... I ...and by I, I mean WE finished all sessions of General Conference. Including Priesthood (Huston) and Relief Society(me) sessions.

My heart is about to explode.

Why?

1. because I feel excited I was able to accomplish this goal and overcome temptations of Satan who makes General Conference seem unimportant. Truly Truly he does. You would not even know how hard it really was just to not watch television. ....I think next G. Conference I should ban Facebook until i have seen every session too. We shall see.. Thats stretching it a little. (note the sarcasm please)

2. because I received more personal revelation than I can even handle. more than ever before.

3. Because tonight in sewing class we learned to sew ruffles and they were so stinking cute.

Anyways... I have a date with Glee, If i do say so myself,

and I vow to watch less TV and spend less time on my computer...eventually. What i am getting at is that ...I will be the "Master of my TIME" ... Ya... the thing about that.. is... it will take time to figure out a balance. I slightly have an addiction to blogging, Facebook, and Pinterest. Ha.

But not overly addicting. I Just want to make a goal to do it LESS. because i could do so much more with my time.. like serve my fellow beings, or I don't know.. something like.. HOMEWORK...or the dishes maybe?

Disney Resort-Aulani (Hawaii)

Recently Disney vacation club opened a Resort out here in Hawaii. Mickey and Minnie and some of the "characters" actually come visit.

We have been wanting to go check it out, because this annoying commercial plays all the time and gets the song stuck in our heads...

Last night.. We finally did. Its AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL and I could live there forever. Luckily its only $474 a night for when we want to stay. Local Resident rates are only %25 percent off. Thats a little much for our liking. But I think we added it to our bucket list anyways just so we can say we did it once! :) ... We are going to start saving I think for our anniversary and stay there for 1 night. ... MAYBE.

Anywho.. if anyone makes it over to Hawaii, and can afford to stay here\

You should!! Its incredible.

General Conference

Unfortuantely... my weekend consists of Work, work, and more work.

Which means I will not get to watch conference while it is on. Huston and I have made a goal to watch it TOGETHER so we can hold each other accountable(mainly me) because it is hard for me to watch it on my own, so therefore my sweet husband is going to wait for me to be able to watch it with him.

The challenge is...When? Sunday we will probably watch a session after I get off work, but because of the power of Satan and a busy school schedule I feel strongly like after Sunday we will have no desire to study the words of our prophets.

Hence.....We have made it a goal to not watch any TV of our choice (right now its Lost, and Modern Family, along with The Office) Until we finish watching ALL of the sessions.

The words of our prophets are IMPORTANT! I hope that Huston and I can commit and accomplish this goal together, and then continuely study the words from the Ensign for the next 6 months.

Why this matters to YOU? ... Blog World... I need you to help hold us ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!!!

I am so excited to get to listen to what these apostles have to say to us! I wish that I was able to be there LIVE. It is such a neat feeling to gather together as saints and listen to our prophets.