Buddhist Temple in Kaneohe

Tara, John and I went to the Buddist Temple in Kaneohe. It was really cool and interesting.



At the front of the temple there is this big bell thing that you can ring... it's supposed to bring happiness and the blessings of Buddha. We all gave it a really good ring... cause who wouldn't want the blessings of a big golden statue?

Tara


John


This is the do not feed the wild swans and peacocks sign...



This is John feeding the wild swan some gravel...mmm rocks


The big Buddha, big buddha big buddha


The temple


Me, Tara and John

Jell-O Man

One of our friends had a party for his graduation and it was the Office themed. We played games, pool, rock band, and ate lots of food. Towards the end of the night, Tara, John, Keighley and I got a little loopy or perhaps creative and started sticking random objects into the jell-o that had the stapler in it. We put in food items, a fork and a lid. Finally we ended it with making a Jell-O person... I have to say it was pretty creative!

John, Tara, Me and Jell0-O Man

Kona Temple Trip

We went to the Big Island as a tri-stake event to go to the temple... it was really nice. Can't wait to go back again!

Road Show

Here are a few pictures from our Road Show dress rehearsal... I'll add more of the actual performance later.

Horton aka John, Mayzie Bird aka Kiana, and the elephant-bird aka Celeste

The 3 hunters (Isaiah, Mike and Ikaika) hunting down Horton (John)

Horton (John)

Mayzie the Lazy bird (Kiana)

Mayzie (Kiana), Horton (John), and little old lady/animal friend (Kivette)

Snorkeling at Waimea Bay

We went to Waimea bay and did some snorkeling there. It was a lot of fun!
It started out with Zach trying to out build the sand castle that we did a few days ago...


He didn't plan it very well, because the waves kept coming up and washing it away... ha ha



Then we went snorkeling...


Whitnee and I
This is me... there is something big and creepy looking behind me, I don't know what it is, but I'd like to... your guess is as good as mine!


Whitnee


The sea turtle


Zach



Me

After snorkeling was done, we decided to do some random underwater pictures... it made me really want to buy an underwater camera!


Me

Me and Tara


Tara


Me

Sand Castle

Yesterday, we went to Iraquois Point and hung out on the beach. When we got there, it was super windy and sort of cold, so we decided to build us a sand castle. We found a tree stump and built it on top of that so it wouldn't wash away.

We started with a mound of sand and slowly carved our way to a pretty cool castle:

Tara worked on building the tunnel

John worked on the bridge and the stone staircase leading to the top


and I worked on the garden courtyard


It was fun!

John, Me, Tara

4th of July

ON the 4th of July we (Me, Holly, John, Gavin, Jonathan, and Jess) went hiking up to Maunawili Falls. The hike was beautiful!! It was covered in trees and greenery! Then we got to the falls and went swimming, and jumped off the waterfall...it was a fun-filled time!

here are a few picts from that:

jumping off

Holly, Jess, Me

(i'll post more picts when I get them from people)

After the hike we came back here and Missy made us some really good food. The 4th of July just isn't the same with out a bbq.


After eating we played some phase 10, John and I won, of course due to our super tricky tactics. ha ha


After games we went to the beach at Iraquois Point and watched the fireworks. It was so pretty!! And some of the boys had a contest to see who could climb the highest up a palm tree...

After fireworks we walked around for about 30 minutes trying to figure out where John parked his truck... we finally found it right where we left it! (who would have guessed!)



We then came back to my house and played some sing star and games and everyone met Whitnee!


It was a fun 4th of July!

Peep Holes

Have you ever wondered what you look like when someone looks through a peep hole on their door? Well, here is my interpretation of that:

Knock Knock....

It's me, I sure hope they are home

Heloooo?

hmm, maybe they aren't home...


should I keep waiting?

And that's how it goes... now you know looking at people out peep holes is funny, and that's why they take so long to answer the door, because they are laughing their heads off at your ridiculously enlarged head!! ha ha