Perfection...

our eggplant the garden neighbor planted for us! :)


The Fence is finally up!!

Our First attempt on the ANTS!! They can ALL DIE!!! Am i mad? .. a little! lol
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We are a bit Proud! :)


when we first started our garden and i uploaded that photo that i said was going to be our goal.... well i would say we are getting pretty close dont ya think??... Today, the fence went up! :) yahoo! and we are coming back after the ant attack stronger than ever. We recently planted some papaya trees, okra, basil, parsley, some more onions, and more carrots, oh and we replanted our squash and zuccinni! ... We are trying our first ANT attack too. :) we know it wont kill our plants, however we are just wandering if it will be effective! :) anyways.. Enjoy the photos of the Garden! we might be a little more proud than we should be;)

Good News...

I get to keep my job. Yep.. small update. about 5 months ago, i put in for time off to go home for christmas. It was not granted to me, yet my lovely parentals had already "mortgaged the farm" in order for us to come home, sooo... i told them i would put in my two weeks before i went home and that would be that. Well, about three weeks ago i decided to mention it to my boss again, asking him if there was anything he could do for me... and well.. he was really sweet and said, well Kilie, we would really love to have you stay. Do you think that you could pick up an extra day? If you can pick up an extra day, we will give you your time off and you can go home! :) ... WHAT??? Thanks LARRY!! ..currently favorite boss in the world. ... So, next semester i will be working 5 days a week, and no sundays. what could get any better than that??.. And the best part is.. my work schedule works really well with school, etc..... so.. the VERY BEST PART IS...... WE ARE COMING HOME!!!!!!!! ... o, and i suppose keeping the job will help us out alot too;) ..Thank you Heavenly Father for always blessing us with exactly what we need to make it work out here. Someday ill figure out why you wanted us here so bad!!

When your supposed to do Homework....

This is what happens.... :)... I got a little bored, and creative and laminated our seed labels for the garden..and made us a cute little sign!! :) .. someday.. the garden will have a fence around it. Today we planted more seeds, and we cant wait for them to start showing up. Suddenly, an eggplant sprout showed up in our garden too.. our little garden neighbor was sweet and planted it for us because we had to pull out all of our squash and zuccini!

Romance Anyone?...

the other night... we decided we needed some quality time together since we have both been pretty busy...so we just simply packed up some foil dinners(aka.hobo dinners), made a fire on the beach, and star gazed after dinner. It was such a beautiful night, and suprisingly the sky was pretty clear. We saw about 3 shooting stars and made shapes out of the small clouds we could still see. It was beautiful and relaxing! :) I loved it! It was fun for me because i felt like we were dating again, and i was like a giddy little girl with her new boyfriend. .. yep, the man still gives me butterflies! I love him.

Garden Troubles....

It is what it is... i was unable to take pictures. but today we went to weed our garden and we only found every single one of our squash and zucchini plants were infested with ants and wilted over and dying. and when i say infested..I mean..more ants than you have ever seen in your life. Two full rows of these babies. Almost like the whole population of the united states gathering in one place. Anyways, we were sad because the plants were beginning to even have actual vegetables finally...and it had to get infested by the "plague of ants." It was very sad, but we are not giving up. Everything else seems fine. Our peppers, carrots, and green onions are coming in great. We are going to re-plant some squash, and then plant a few other new things in our garden, now that we have more space. Wish us better luck next time. :( It was very sad. we were not thrilled about it. But it is kind of fun for new beginnings. Wal-Mart here we come. We will conquer the ants. WE WILL!!!

Is there Sunshine in your soul today?

alrighty... Welll... as far as sunshine goes.. this morning it was GONE. I accidentally slept on the couch last night ( if you dont know me, i am kind of a needy person, and i hate not sleeping next to Huston..so..not a good nights rest) and woke up to homework early this morning. and it decided to rain on me as i walk out the door to start my real day. then, i couldnt unlock my bike because the lock was stuck..and I was already late for class..in which i had to do a presentation. it got time for me to present..and well.. powerpoint decides it wont work. so... i didnt get to present. and i was flustered and running around like a chicken with my head cut off. My teacher was thankfully understanding and decided to give me till wednesday. does that sound like sunshine to you?? to me, that sounds more like when it RAINS IT POURS!!!

But, it gets better. :) Heavenly father sure knows his daughter well. And he knows i have needs. He then allows me to run into a friend i havent talked to in over a month, and it made me smile alot...after that i was able to allow myself a few minutes of meditation to slow my mind down and relax, before class starts. Religion. My favorite hymn is playing as i walk in the class "i know that my redeemer lives" and i could feel my heart begin to break down its wall. I was humbled. Because then, right then and there, i looked down in my planner ... only to see that We had our temple open house appointment today. I cant have an attitude like this in the temple. So i was able to mentally prepare a little bit before we had to enter into the temple. it is Beautiful by the way. I cannot wait to do my second official temple session. This is where i know that Heavenly father knows his children... because he knew i needed something to lift me up. He knew that i needed to feel the spirit somehow or i would have allowed myself to be grumpy alll day! .. these things sound so little, but the only thing i can think of is that Heavenly father was watching me from above thinking, how can i help her? ...and just the thought of that give me sunshine in my soul! :) So, i will ask again...Is there sunshine in your soul today???? ... Radiate it to others, like it was radiated to me!

Halloween Festivities!

This year was really fun for Halloween. I have not really been in the holiday mode because there are no seasons really in paradise, but the weather has cooled down quite a bit in order for it to feel a little bit like fall. I appreciate that. Alot. Anyways.. this year consisted of Friday night was babysitting(which was really fun, we love to play with kids.) Volleyball game and scary movie. Saturday night was Huston's work party, which we both dressed up. Same as last year. shhhh, dont tell. :) but it worked out for us. anyways.. then we ended up heading to the volleyball game again, but this time.. IN OUR COSTUMES! very fun! However, i am finding that the older we get, the more people gives us looks of death and you know they are thinking... " GROW UP, HOW OLD ARE YOU?" and my response would be to that..... where is your festive Holiday spirit. I hope we dress up every year, even if we are just passing out candy. Anyways.. after the game we tried to compile a "traditional" halloween. A few friends joined us with their favorite traditions, like bobbing for apples, carmel dip (since we didnt now how to do carmel apples), pumpkin bread, the donut game(very entertaining) and scary stories of course! It ended up being a wonderful Halloween! Then on Sunday, we carved Watermelons. Foodland was out of pumpkins, so we decided to go with watermelons instead! Our friends watermelon was epic, and ours was fun to do! :) After that we celebrated with the ward at the ward Potluck. It was really fun. We do love our ward. Anyways... for being far from home and coming from someone who doesnt deal well with change, we had a wonderful Halloween together! Our first Halloween Married! :)