updates....long overdue!

well...where to begin. i'm not really good at blogging, but again, i'm not really sure that anyone even reads this SO it doesn't really matter. but either way. here is an update (we'll start with bullet points to make it easier):

-i finished student teaching the end of march and am so glad that i am done and have that under my belt. relief!

-my best friend britt came out to help me move back to california and we had a ton of fun. we went to the hoover dam (verrrry cool) and of course went and saw john mayer. swoon. love him. and he even managed to play a little bit of journey. my favorite!

-i came back to california and spent two weeks patiently waiting (and freaking out) to go to hawaii to visit the boy (or mr. hawaii as my mom refers to him)

-sooooo the second week in april i went to oahu and visited the boy and it was AWESOME. so much fun and such a relaxing sun (with a lot of rain too) filled 10 days. pictures below.

me and the boy :]


hanging out at the sweeeeet beach house that i got to stay in. seriously SO

thankful to the couple that trusted me to stay in their beautiful hawaiian dream home!

(i wish i could live in their guest house)

this below is where i stayed. its the guest house thats right off the main house pretty much. its AWESOME. SOOO nice inside. its in haliewa and is seriously perfect.

this is the view from the back porch of the guest house. the main house is to the left and yes...the beach is just beyond those plants. literally a 100 foot walk from the house. AWESOME.

and of course one of the views from the backyard. amazing. i seriously fell in love with this place.

-hawaii was so fun and it was so fun to get to spend time with chris. he had to work a few days while i was there, so i begrudgingly went to the beach and layed out for hours while he was gone :] rough life.

-it rained a lot so we didn't get to do a lot of the touristy stuff, but it was fine because he is pretty much local anyways and so it was nice to have somewhere to just kind of hang out and chill. we did see some fun movies and went out to eat probably too much. i have literally been craving an acai bowl since i got home! ahhhh

-annnd the big news....i'm moving to hawaii this monday may 24th. kinda crazy and spontaneous but i'm so excited (and nervous and scared) buuut i really think its going to be such a fun adventure and i'm really looking forward to it. everything has just fallen right into place so i know that this is what i need to be doing

-my roommate colleen from idaho is joining me for the summer months in hawaii and i'm SO excited that i'm going to have one of my best friends and most favorite roommates out there with me. its making the whole thing a little less scary :]

-below are some more pictures of my adventures of home. i've been home for about a month now and its been awesome. i love the babies and am getting sad to leave my family but im excited to go to hawaii (its been a dream of mine since i was younger, seriously) and im excited to finally get to be with chris, in the same place. ha.

so thats kind all that is going on with me. big exciting changes. now if i could only figure out how to pack all that i need to into two bags. seriously? its a daunting task and we'll see how i do.

jordyn and i goofing off in the kitchen. this girl loves her some diet coke.

she's been trained well :]

girls day in san fran. so fun.

at pier 39


the traditional picture plus deanna.
my sister and i have taken this same picture for the past 7 or so years.
san francisco tradition :]

the crazy street performers are definitely a san francisco classic.
here is the robot guy. it was kinda scary getting a picture with him but he was nice enough...for a dollar!


and we ventured out to find the full house houses! this isn't the actual full house "house" but these are the painted ladies that they show in the opening credits for the show. pretty cool

-one more update. i got my official diploma in the mail and really it made graduating that much more real to me. it was almost cooler than walking across the stage (is that bad or weird to say?) it just made it official. such a cool feeling

thats all for now. i'm going to try to be better about updating this thing because its a good way to keep people (whoever it is that even reads this) updated. :] until next time.