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i have alot on my mind. Its a grumble post. sorry... Anyways.. recently ALOT has been happening in our lives. well my life. so.. since we have moved to Hawaii i have been unable to find FULL time work. Unless its working 2 jobs. anyways..Since i have been so motivated the past two weeks to stay busy i have started playing/working out with the Volleyball team here. SOOO MUCH FUN...and lo and behold... my thought process might go a little something like this... I am doing nothing with my life right now. I need to start spending my time better. i think later in life i will regret this oppurtunity to NOT go to school.We are here in Laie, where everyone is in the same boat, where BYU has made it 210% possible for us to be here, and there are so many oppurtunities.. WHy not go back to school? huh?Plus Huston is not ready for a baby yet, so why not do something with my life until he is ready? i am tired of waiting haha..so stay busy!.. yep.. and then the girls on the team kept saying to me.. you should try out. It doesnt hurt to try right??.. hmmm.. they may have creeped into my head a little. so all in one week.. prayed.. decided with my husband to apply to FALL semester. and try out for the volleyball team. In that same week i have had to make a video for the coach, meet with some eligibility lady, and get my rear in gear on this going to school thing. Even if i dont play volleyball, i still wanna be in school. ..anyways.. and in the same week.. like umm.. yesterday.. I was offered a FULL TIME job in the golf shop. What the heck???.... taking a huge leap of faith.. i turned down the job, and i am now just praying and hoping school works out. I feel strongly about this! .. Wish me luck. I am stressed up to the Wazooo...:)
Thanks for letting me grumble...thought i might catch you guys up alittle. :)

ps. Goals are going good! We are rocking our gym m-f goal, and reading/praying every night. and i have lost 6 ibs. and Huston has lost some tooo! yahoo!.. Life is good. :) umm.. Nail biting.. not going so well. but.. i am definately more aware and trying real hard. :)

pss. last night we waited 2.5 hrs to see Johnny Depp.. didnt happen. we will try again soon. they are shooting pirates 4 not to far from here. He actually shakes everyone's hand. so.. someday.. SOON. we will meet Johnny Depp.

Family history..

So basically .. here's the scoop. . Lanea Miller..she is in charge of holding our ward accountable for 200 of the 1000 names the stake is going to be accountable for when the Laie temple opens. that means 4 names per family in our ward! ... so she came over to help us last week. and apparently i didnt look to far into it.. because i got on the website and only saw that my entire family line of work was done. including Hustons line of work too. i was quite discouraged thinking great.. this is going to be harder than i thought. but wanted to be committed to finding out four names. ... well.. apparently thats not the case. After a few phone calls today to home, Huston's mother informed us that it was not finished there was quite a bit more to be done on his grandpa's side. so we hurry over to the computer and log-in and find that its TRUE!!!!! We go for a little hunt and ended up finding about 12 names on Huston's family's side. We are soo excited to do the work when the temple opens. After finding so many names on Huston's side, i then thought.. hmm.... there is no way my side is finished too with my dad being a convert. So i log-in to my account..and sure enough started uncovering at least 33 names to do in the temple. It is mostly mens ordinances, but i am so excited to send them to my brother and dad so they can do the work of his family. This work is really fun. We will soon be doing our OWN family names in the temple. I know i never knew these ancestors, and i know nothing about them... but the spirit in the temple is so different when you are doing personal family names. I pray that they all accept the gospel and i just think how cool will it be one day, to meet them in the eternities and they will be waiting for us.. to thank us for bringing them to know the truth. Wow... this is amazing. :) ...if you havent started doing family history.. DO IT! its easy! make yourself an account on new.familysearch.org and get to work.

Baby steps to habit forming. Goal inventory :)

-work out with husband m-f. CHECK

-sore body..i didnt sign up for this. but CHECK CHECK AND CHECK!

-wash and clean out/vacuum out the car. Not check. (YET)

-make a dent in your to do list. (sort of) not check. .. i guess we decided our other goals were more important to focus on. thats ok. there are lots of weeks in the year. this goal can carry over! ;)

-just put aside all distractions. and do something together. like write in a journal. play a game. do a puzzle. etc. this week. we attempted to play cards together. good thing we are BOTH NON competitive(sarcasm) because it turned out..well.haha.. well.. lets just say we attempted the goal! :)

-Do something active every day at least once a day..like a walk together, or a bike ride. CHECK

-eat healthier..well sort of.

-eat less. CHECK

-attempt something new in the kitchen.make lasagna. CHECK

-read scriptures and pray every night. CHECK

-Have family home evening. if watching the bachelorette together counts. CHECK

-We set a goal of starting a garden together, to give us something to do together thats not just watching TV. i will keep you updated on this goal.

-PLAY VOLLEYBALL.(kilie's personal goal)it was FANTASTIC. CHECK

-get started on our family history goal. CHECK.

-finding names for the temple...not so much. thats another one ill have to keep you posted on.

-visting teaching/home teaching finished with plenty of time for the end of the month to come around . CHECK

-get scuba certified(FINALLY). CHECK.. we will be finishing next tuesday and saturday.

-find the cheapest flight home for christmas- CHECK

-figure out (kilie) school situation. - not check, but still working on it. probably will be enrolled at BYU-H in the fall just taking general courses until i figure out exactly what i am going to be doing.

-keep the house clean ALL WEEK.sometimes we have tendency to let loose too much. CHECK

-go on a date. gotta have date night as a goal or it doesnt happen. ok i lied. we go on a date at least once a week. but i thought i would add it in here, because i know in the future, it really might have to become a goal to have. ...CHECK

-no nail biting. not check. but they are longer than usual. and doing great. i just have a hard time not biting ok? dont judge.

-getting up everymorning and actually getting ready for work, and putting forth the time. well..sort of. and ill leave it at that.

-getting ready for bed at night. face washing and brushing teeth.instead of just crawling into bed to sleep. CHECK- i actually did really good at this one this week. i was excited. because usually i just fall asleep.

-Take at least one nap or SLEEP in one day. CHECK.. this can be depending on how tired you are, but sometimes being motivated and staying busy can make you really tired. so if you have the time.. take a nap.:)it just rejuvinates the batteries!

**These are just some inside goals i set for myself, and some of them we set together. I tried really hard to be motivated all week and it worked. Instead of coming home from work and just wathcing TV until bedtime. or being lazy and not getting things done.I chose to set some goals in order to start spending my time more wisely. there are lots of things we could be doing. I loved this week. i feel good about myself. and huston and i both feel healthier! as you can see, not all the goals are accomplished, and thats ok. dont get discouraged. just try to do better next week! Most of these goals, are not just for the week. they are habits i wish to develope better. So i am consciously trying to make the effort every week to develope some of these habits. easier said than done, but with alot of prayer for motivation and reminders, the lord tended to help me throughout the week. :)it seems like alot, but really its not. its just small little goals. so stay motivated! :)

HOMEEE!

I am happy to announce that on December 20th, 2010...we will be arriving in Phoenix. The tickets are purchased. and we could not be more excited to be visiting home. :)..there is one little set back...We got ahead of ourselves and booked the flights without knowing if i(kilie) can take off work or not, but sure praying and hoping its all going to work out. So please pray that it works out for us because we want to visit Arizona soooo bad. if it doesnt work out, we know airline credit will be available for another time, so its not the end of the world, however.. December is when we would prefer to see our families..being the holidays and what not.
We are SOOO excited! :) .. Thanks mom and dad Rainey. :) ALOTTTT!! Love you guys so much!

FIRE! in my kitchen...

hahaha yep... last night.. i was making myself a "flip-flop" our name for cheese crisp, or a simple bean burrito..however we just fold the tort in half and call it a flip flop. haha.. anyways.. easy.. because it was later in the evening, well.. all of a sudden my stove is on fire. .. i tried to stay calm. ha. that didnt work out. i didnt want the alarm to sound because i wasnt sure if the whole building would sound or just our home..haha..so..i quickly dumped a bowl of water over the fire. and it was put out, however when huston came home, he informed me that potentially could have made it worse, because if it were oil that was burning, oil stays on fire. Moral of the story is... clean under your stove tops. We think it was just food or oil or soemthing that caught fire. ..ha. SCARY. i know i know.. not a big deal happens all the time.. but Kilie... well.. i panic. my mind is not the mind to problem solve at the scene of the crime. so.. it was a big deal to me. k thanks!

The rules of Costco...

You are unable to enter Costco without shoes. ... thats a highly unlikely rule being that we are in Hawaii...anwyays.. our last Costco trip Huston and Kaleo didnt want to put back on thier wet shoes from the cliff jumping they just did, so they tried to go inside barefoot.. NOpe..didnt work.. so what did they do? they both went and got thier boogie boarding flippers and tried to walk in like that. haha.. Nope.. that didnt work either. so they finally resorted to putting on shoes. Wow.. we had a good laugh over this. It was funny. unfortunately for us, the person at Costco didnt think it was as funny. O well! :) Good memories!

Boys Week..

Huston's little brother James and his best friend Chance came to visit last week for a week and half. We had a lot of fun with the boys, however i was really outnumbered! haha. BOYS! .. you know...they like to do boy things.. like not clean up. haha.. just kidding. Anyways, Huston and his brother really enjoyed the time together to say the least. It was alot of fun, and alot of down time. here are some of the pictures from the week... I'll be honest, i did enjoy them here because i got to have a girls day and spend the day with Cassie and go shopping! Have not done that in a while, thanks Huston for letting me shop with our little married budget, and thanks Cass for letting me join your day! :) ... anyways when the boys left our house was quiet. we didnt quite know what to do... other than simply enjoy it!