::: Home Sweet Home...

.... or is it?
Talk about Culture Shock.
I'm not gonna lie... coming back home was one of the hardest, most emotional, most confusing times of my life.
I was SO sad to leave my friends from YWAM... being away from them is the hardest thing. I was SO sad to leave the environment of community living where everybody you're surrounded with is in love with Jesus and where the people around you constantly push you to grow more and more in who He's called you to be. I was SO sad to leave Hawaii... beautiful Hawaii.

It was hard too because I felt like I should be HAPPIER to come home and see my family and my man again... and I was happy because I had really missed them, but I almost felt like I was sadder to leave than I was happy to come home. All these people were excited to see me, and I was just in this crazy, extremely emotional state that didn't reciprocate any of the excitement I received.

Nothing could've prepared me for the crazy emotions I felt in the first few days of coming home.

I MISS living the life I lived these past 5.5 months. I would do it again in a heartbeat. But, God's got my life in His hands, which is where I want to constantly leave it, and I'm trusting that tho this transition phase has been slightly more difficult than I anticipated, He knows what He's doing and He has my life under control. I'm at home now, back in the real world of family, work, and eventually school, and I can't help but try to bend my life around the truth that Jim Elliot once spoke:

"Wherever you are.... be all there."

So here I am. Home again. Back in beautiful Colorado. Miles away from any ocean, miles away from people I've loved so much and shared my life with these past few months. Sometimes I'm tempted to give into the confusion that Satan likes to throw me in... (and I know its Satan doing it because God is not a God of confusion...) ... that is, the feeling that my life has no great meaning, that I CAN'T do anything REALLY for the Kingdom of God, that I can't pursue the God of the Ages intensely in the midst of my crazy, busy schedule here at home.

Lies, Lies, Lies.

I've tasted His goodness and seen His truth. I've seen so clearly how He is alive and moving at such a great speed all across the earth, for the glory of His name. I've experienced His presence and want absolutely nothing less than cultivating His presence every day in my life.

Being back, being in that crazy, emotional phase has taught me that I can't do this on my own. I can't figure my life out on my own and I can't pretend like I have everything altogether... because honestly I don't. I'm a crazy, at times confused little girl who is SO in need of a Savior, and I want to spend the rest of my life getting to know that Savior on a much deeper, personal level than I know anyone else.

I'm SO grateful for my experiences, for the AMAZING journey God guided me on these past few months. I would do it again in a heartbeat. Praise Jesus!!!

::: Snovem Gorom! :)

:) That's "Happy New Year" in Russian!! I've been hearing it non-stop for about a week now.... since the people here don't celebrate Christmas (because its a Muslim country) their "Christmas" is really celebrated on New Years.... they buy cakes, give each other gifts, and honestly the whole city of Bishkek goes CRAZY with fireworks and alcohol and everything shuts down for a couple days for the whole town to party!! The firework show was incredible... there were fireworks in every direction lighting up the whole sky! It was beautiful.

My last day of 2008 was spent in an orphanage with handicap/mentally disabled orphans who were absolutely precious. Here are some pics from there... and also from working at this ministry called "TeenChallenge" which primarily took place on a farm right at the foot of the mountains, where we had a snowball fight:) ... and also from the first snowfall we had on the day after Christmas! :)

Eating lunch at the Teen Challenge Center.... the sweet guys served us a Kyrgyz dish called "Plov"... and culture is that its rude to not eat EVERYTHING they gave us.... but oh my gosh it was way too much food tho.

The GUYS even thought it was way too much food:) (And they're fattys.)

At The Orphanage!!

Precious little orphan kids

My Leader, Brandon, getting attacked by snowballs at the farm:)

Daniels hair-froze... the boys were in awe:)

Loving the pretty snowfall!!

Making Christmas cookies! :)

:::Bishkek Pix!!!!

Christmas morning!! Taken after I basically bawled my eyes out when our team leaders surprised us with the gifts from my parents... :) (read following blog to get details on my Christmas day) :) I look like crap but it was one of the best moments of my life!!! Merry Christmas everybody!!!! :)

The team chillin in the girls apartment eating lunch:)

Walking around Bishkek and in a nearby neighborhood... :) (pretty grey huh?)

My beautiful leader, Katie, and I riding on the Marshuka!! (These like big, van/bus transportation type vehicles in the cities)

Eating lunch... turned out to be a fishtype pizza. Probbbably the grossest thing I've tried so far.

Some cute Kyrgyz girls at the Greenhouse for Girls Club!!! We made jewelery with them, they're all university students and all sooo sweet! :) I'm helping out with their dance-club as well in January about 3-4 days a week. I'm so excited to work with them!

Me and the beautiful little daughter of the long-termers here in Bishkek!!! :)

Janish, so graciously buying us a sheeps head to eat for dinner and have a "full Kyrgy experience..." :)

Me and our dinner:)

BEFORE: About to eat the sheeps eyeball....

AFTER: ... pretty self-explanatory:)

Philip playing with the sheeps ears... lol probably really wrong of many levels but still very funny:)

Daniel, surrounded by girls of course:) No actually the long-termers here warned us to be careful with the local girls. They'll do anything to get out of Kyrgyzstan, and if an American guy comes into the pic, they're allllll over it. So here is Daniel... and me coming in to save the day:) These are all University students. Sweet, sweet girls! :)

I KNOW you're not supposed to have favorites.... but this girl is Leila and she's my favorite:) She's 10 years old and only speaks Russian and I love her!! I wish I could take her back to the states with me... *tear*

Kelsey and I with some of the little Kyrgyz kids!!! My favorite boy is named Advar, he's on the left right in front of me:) He's a mischevious little guy, but I loved him!

Me and the kids... and Advar is the one right beside my head! We bonded:)

The students really only remember names like Britney Spears, Will Smith, and Jackie chan. So they call the Canadian girl named Brittany on my team Britney Spears, they call my friend Will, Will Smith, and they call the Korean guy named Philip on my team Jackie Chan. So here, this little boy wanted to fight Jackie Chan (aka Philip) :)

My team with one of the elementary schools we helped out with!!! :)

This is Janish!!! He's a local Kyrgy turned American:) He helps with a lot of the long-term missionaries we work with and hangs out with our team a lot... he's hilarious:) (And he loves sheeps eyeballs of course)

Me and some random Kyrgyz girls I met on the street when I desperately had to go to the bathroom... and thank God they understood a little bit of English!! They took me a few blocks away to their school and introduced me to my first "sqwatty." .... If you don't know what that is... just think about it for a second. You'll get it.

Kelsey, Philip, and Brandon enjoying our VERY FIRST contact with local Kyrgyz food. Its soooo good by the way:)

A really cute little girl I caught in the act of taking a cutie:)

Shopping at a Bizarre (market-place).... pick-pocketing heaven. Goodluck getting out of there alive... :)

Typical fruit-stand at the bizarre! :)

This is LIPIOSHKA!!! The famous Kyrgyz bread. You can buy it anywhere for REALLY cheap, like 50 cents a whole bread... and oh my gatos its soooo good!!

An important government building in the middle of Bishkek... (notice the flag and the two men guarding it on the left... they are guarding it 24/7 so no one tries to start a rev. and take it down!)

The kitchen in the girls apartment!! (Check out the lacy curtains...)

:::MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

:)
Ahh... Christmas 2008! I can't believe its already here!
Its a pretty cold day here in Kyrgyzstan... it snowed a little this morning and then the temperature dropped quite a bit and froze everything.
Yesterday, on Christmas Eve, my outreach team got the opportunity to go to a Community Center celebration/assembly type thing for a ton of 8-14 year old students in public schools across Bishkek. They were having this talent show competition between schools, so there were about 100-150 little kids there total. Each school teamed up and played games against each other, and then they brought out their posters that they decorated for Christmas/New Years and presented them to us. My team had the job of judging which poster was best, it was a lot of fun!! Then after the judging, the assembly turned into something like a talent show of some sort... different little students went up and sang and danced and it was really awesome! Then, the coolest thing happened. My leader, Brandon, suggested we do our lifehouse skit in front of all the students... and they said we could!!! So, literally at the LAST minute, my team set up and did our lifehouse skit for all the students. It was a little rusty... as that was our first time doing it since we came to outreach, but oh my gosh it was amazing. It was so powerful! I was praying the whole time... I just felt so strong and secure doing it for these kids and being a witness of Jesus in a primarily Islamic Country!!! It was so incredible!!! God was so glorified through it... and it was one of the most powerful times yet so far on my outreach:) God is sooo great!

The last night, everybody went over to the guy's apartment and ate an awesome Christmas Eve dinner together, played games, watched soccer (random I know), talked, and then the girls and I contined our Alias addiction that we've created about a week ago... and watched three episodes in a row last night of season 1. :) All the girls ended up sleeping over at the guys apartment so that we could all wake up together, one big happy family, on Christmas morning!! And that we did.
We didn't go to bed until around 2 a.m. and then woke up around 10 a.m. this morning, where the awesome Swiss couple, Martin and Corina, had prepared an awesome french-toast, sausage, mandarin oranges, and cheese breakfast! It was delicious:) Then we played the White Elephant games... I won a bunch of gummy bears which were delicious:) Then, my leader Katie had each of us write a letter to Jesus, thanking Him for everything He'd done for us this past year, and that was SUCH a special time. I'm so so grateful!!!
Then after that, we were ready to open the stockings that we decorated for each other... (funny story: The guys decorated the girls stockings and vise versa, so my friend Will decorated my stocking and then they showed them to us last night as a surprise... and guess what he drew on it?? That's right. A USAFA plane, and a bomb, and more military AFA things in honor of my main man *smile*... haha it was so funny!!! I'm keeping that stocking forever.) so yes we wanted to open the stockings and also open the little presents that one of the long-termers here named Tony got for each of us... but before that, my leaders, Katie and Brandon got up and announced that they had a surprise...

They said that they contacted each one of our families during the DTS and had them send a Christmas gift to each one of us!!! They started handing out wrapped gifts to each one of us, each gift having something that our families put in there from home!! OH my gosh. I was SO shocked and excited and happy.... ahhh so many emotions!! As soon as they started handing out the boxes, I started crying lol. My box was BEAUTIFUL, it had a bunch of candy, playdough from my sister:), and a card that has those voice recorder things where each person in my family recorded a message for me!! It had a couple of awesome letters from my sister, a card from my family, money, and a bunch of just little trinkets that were all shoved inside this little gift box from home:) I couldn't believe it!!! A little peice of home on one of the most special family days of the year... ahh I'm about to cry right now just thinking about it... it was the most MOST incredible Christmas gift I've ever received. It was amazing. I would've been totally happy just getting the card with their voice-recordings on it.... lol its amazing. Needless to say I almost lost it, I was crying so hard. All of us were... (well, at least all the girls were.) I couldn't believe it! I just started bawling because I was so happy lol.

ITs amazing when you realize how much of a treasure something is when you don't have it there with you. I would've done anything to wake up with my family this Christmas, to wake up and serenade my parents with Christmas Carols before we head down to open presents. :) To make pineapple cookies and just to be with them.
I miss my family so much. I treasure them so much. This has been one of the most incredible Christmas' I've ever had, just because its been the most special and I've never realized before how much I treasure each person in my family. I hate that lessons like this are learned in this way... that is, "you don't know what you have until you lose it..." but still, its so true. I miss them sooo much!!!! I'm so grateful for them. I'm crying right now as I'm typing this... which is embarrassing in an internet cafe lol. But ahh... this has honestly been one of the most incredible days of my life. I love being here, but I'm SO looking forward to being home with them again and just having them near.

Mom and Dad, if your reading this, thank you SO much for your gift and card and for giving me a little peice of home even though I'm all the way on the other side of the world. You honestly changed my life and gave me the best Christmas Gift I could've ever asked for. I miss you guys so so much. I hope you have an amazing Christmas, and I CAN'T WAIT to be there for the next one!!! I LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH!!!!

To everyone else, I hope you have an amazing Christmas. Don't wait til' your family isn't there for you to treasure them.... take it from me. Family is amazing and God is even more amazing for creating them. Take full advantage of having them there... love them, spend time with them, make memories with them. Because you never know when they might not be there for Christmas one year... so treasure them while you can!!! I hope you all have an amazing Christmas, surrounded by people you love who love you back twice as much!!! Praise God for sending Jesus to save us and restore relationship with Him, I'm so grateful. I miss you all... and looking forward to next Christmas when we all an be together again:)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

::: Prayer Requests!!

- SAFETY!!! - A few nights ago, somebody tried to break into the guy's apartment. They walked back to their apartment after walking the girls home, and when they got their they couldn't open their door because something was jammed in it or something. There were scratches on the side of the wall by the lock and stuff so it looked like somebody tried to break it. They called the landlord and waited and slept in the stairwell for 2 hours in the cold until he showed up and then called the locksmith... ahh. Then last night we thought somebody tried to break into our apartment (the girls apartment) becasue one of the locks on the door was undone and one of the cabinets was broken off. It was scary and I was honestly raelly scared and scared to go to sleep last night... and on top of that walking around ont he sidewalks is really dangerous becasue the drivers here are INSANE! ... so just pray for safety and discernments as we walk around the streets every day. And pray for the casting out of fear and that none of us would be afraid.... that's important to not live in fear.


- HEALTH!!!! - Its cold here... a huge drastic difference from the humid gorgeous Hawaiian Islands. There is a lot of drowsiness due to the change of pace and jet-lag... so pray if you can for complete health and strength from the Lord... that's the only way we'll make it:)

So far its been an awesome adventure. We're getting used to the towns and the "Bizaars" (marketplaces) and the Beta Stores (grocery stores) and everything. :)

The people here are BEAUTIFUL... they're asian, with dark hair, but with like LIGHT GREEN/LIGHT BLUE eyes... its gorgeous!!
The locals here are very serious tho, you can tell they have come from a comm government because they walk around the streets and nobody smiles at each other... thus the Americans stick out like a sore-thumb. :) Its funny. But we're getting used to it.

I'm learning a little bit of Russian!! I've learned the whole Russian alphabet so far, and am practicing reading the signs on the stores and labels on things and such... its awesome!! I love learning a new language!!! :)

We met a lot of Kyrgyz University students a couple of days ago... they were SO cute and they practiced their english on us a lot. There would be like 6 students that came and surrounded each one of us and just bombarded us with questions... "Do you like America??" "Do you know Bred Peeet?" (Brad Pitt:) "You Singoo?" (Are you single:) "You come back to Kyrgyzstan yes? Bring your boyfren nestime yes?" :) They were so cute. I LOVED meeting them and getting to know them... that's been my favorite part of the trip so far and I'm looking forward to doing more stuff with them as the week goes on.

COOLEST STORY: The like VERY FIRST day we got here, we were walking around one of the Grocery stores and this random Kyrgyz man came up to this guy on my team named Will and he goes "Jesus loves you!!" ... it was COMPLETELY out of the blue!! Then he went up to this other girl on my team, my roommate Kelsey, and said "You loves Jesus yes? I love Jesus, Jesus loves you!!"
Reason why its such a cool story: You have no idea how dangerous that could be to say something like in a comm country... he had to know that we were Christians or something because the man just came up to us RANDOMLY and said that... SO dangerous but SO SO cool!! Its like Jesus was waiting for us here and Kyrgyzstan, and the first day we got here and were walking around, He was welcoming us and telling us He loves us:) That makes me so happy!

So yes. God is good. Thanks for your prayers and support... miss you guys! love you! :)

::: Hello from Biskek!

Hi!!! :) I've finally arrived!!
Wow this place is AMAZING!!! It's different, but I really like it. It's really gray and cold... no snow yet, but it's definitely like 35 degrees F, and the city looks like a city from the movie "The Pianist." Everything is gray... made out of cement... no skyscrapers but there are some pretty tall buildings. The flights really flew by.... (no pun intended...ha) and I slept pretty much most of the time. I watched 5 movies on the flight from L.A. to London... and that really made the time pass which I was grateful for. I met this nice man on the plane who lived in London but sometimes works in Bishkek and he told me a little bit about the town. He said we would probably see a lot of Americans because there's an Air Force Base that's RIGHT next to the airport and a lot of Americans use Bishkek as a passing point. We arrived on Friday, Dec. 5th at 3 a.m. and had Jerry come pick us up at the airport with his friend, a 20-something year old named Janish who helps with the ministry and another taxi and they drove us into the city and straight to the girls apartment on the 6th floor of this building... which is a really cute little place!!! It has a lot of cheap tile and lacy curtains and everything is kinda run down... honestly looks like an apartment from an old, scary movie or something, but as far as a living facility for outreach goes, I'm really really grateful!!! There are two bedrooms, one living room area, one bathtub that has no cold water, only STEAMING HOT water, which also makes showering difficult, and one teeny tiny kitchen. :) It's cute. I share a bed with Kelsey, the cute blonde girl from Texas. It's great fun!
The guys apartment is about a 5 minute walk away, which I haven't been to yet but I hear its pretty similar to ours. Gabriela, Jerry's wife, met us this morning at around 10 a.m. when they came and took our passports and gave us copies of them and our visas. Then we went to walk around the town... it was cold!!! I haven't worn a scarf or my black pea-coat in a long time... I kinda liked it actually:) She took our whole team and showed us around a little bit.... SO much gray. IT's crazy. Nobody looks at you or if they do and you smile at them, they just stare at you. There are a lot of cute little "babushka's" walking around.... which translates to "Grandma's." :) They're all bundled up in their scarves and big coats and its cute. People here are a lot more fashionable then I expected... I think all of us were surprised. All the girls walking around in cute coats and black boots and skinny jeans... its really weird and seems really out of place because they all look classy but then you look at the sidewalk they're walking on or the buildings around them and its so run-down and old and ugly.


Jerry and Gabriela are AMAZING!!! They have two kids... Elijah who's 7 and Helena who is 4. Elijah was in school today so we haven't met him yet, but Helena was walking around with us all morning and she is the CUTEST blonde, blue-eyed little girl!!! Gabriela is swiss, and she's been learning Russian since she's been here, so the crazy thing is at age 4... Helena is tri-lingual!! She speaks and understands English, Swiss, and Russian! It's crazy. Martin and Korina, (the swiss couple on my time) have really enjoyed being able to talk to her cuz she's so cute. Brandon, my team leader, is obsessed with her and plays around with her and makes her laugh and its hilarious to watch. Gabriela is one of the NICEST ladies I've ever met!! She's SO sweet, so real, is really down to earth, really fun, and SO excited to have us here. She's SO easy to get to know and talk to, I feel like I've known her forever, she is so sweet and I love her already.

We walked around downtown for about an hour then went to the mall to eat. The food is SOOOO good... a lot of breads and noodles and stuff but its really tasty and the meal we had was an extremely awesome introduction to Kyrgyz food. The drivers here are CRAZYWe walked around a little bit more, braving the cold, and then some of us came here to the Internet Cafe and some people went back to the girls apartment where we will meet later. There are two ministries... one called the Greenhouse Coffee Ministry which is just a coffee house that Jerry and Gabriela run, and the other is called One Thing and they do more things for kids and community. So tonight they're getting everybody together and we're watching Elf... ha I'm excited!!! Jerry and Gabriela are giving us some time to recover from our jet-lag, but everybody is trying to stay awake all day so we can get our systems a little more normal.

They are expecting snow in about two weeks... ahhh.... not really looking forward to it but I AM grateful so still have a white Christmas:) The girls are gonna try to get a Christmas tree and decorate our apartment and the boys apartment a little bit, ha I'm excited for that.

Anyways... ya. This place is awesome. I am 13 hours ahead of Colorado Springs... so right now it's 2:23 pm on December 5th. That time-change is crazy. The exchange rate is 39.5 SOM (which is their currency... SOM) to 1 US dollar. Not bad.
I miss you guys!!! I wish you all could be here with me, this place is beautiful and different and sad and cold, but I'm excited to work here and be with these Russian speaking Asian people (which is weird btw... Asians speaking Russian... throws you off.)
I hope you guys are all doing well!! I'll try to call as soon as I can. I love and miss you all:)

::IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!!!

HERE WE ARE!!!!

The last day of my lecture phase of my YWAM adventure.... :)

Today is the day I leave for outreach. I can't believe its actually here!!


A couple mornings ago, before the sun came up, my school said goodbye to the first outreach team that left on Nov 30th, the Cambodia team. It was such a sad, teary event... everybody was depressed lol.
Yesterday morning, we said goodbye to the Phillipines team... that was also a horrible way to start a day.

And right now, I'm sitting here on the Hospitality couch, and we just said goodbye to the Bangladesh Team, and that was also so so hard!!! :(
We don't leave until 2:45 this afternoon... so it's going to be here being on this YWAM base with just my team and some other base staff. :( So sad!!

But at the same time... there is excitement lingering in the air:) Every student is excited, nervous, anxious... every possible emotion!! Everything we've been training for, everything we've learned about God and people and serving and cultures and Nations and teamwork and evangelizing... finally gets put to good use!! We're getting off this little Christian Bubble here in Manoa Valley, Oahu, and finally getting a chance to go out to the Nations of the earth and SERVE people and LOVE people to death. Ahhhh, I honestly can't wait! :)

My team has been doing a lot of preparing... we've found out a lot of stuff about my outreach country that I want to share with you to keep as prayer points.

The biggest stronghold we've heard about in Kyrgyzstan is depression. Previously having a socialistic government, the Kyrgyz people have a very apathetic approach to life and many of them struggle with depression. Previous staff members that have lead teams there have told us that alll the buildings in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, are all gray and dull. There is absolutely NO color, no life, nothing. That makes me sad to think about... But my team is full of hilarious, joyful people and we're determined to battle the spiritual warfare of depression in the opposite spirit and be extremely joyful people instead!! :)

So if you could cover my team in prayer, that God would protect our hearts and emotions from getting dragged down with depression or anything of that sort, that would be amazing for sure!


Some ministries we'll be working with involve possibly teaching English in some elementary schools (which I'm SO excited about!!!), working in orphanages, working with street people and in homeless shelters, and, due to the fact that there are MANY musicians on my team, we might even get a chance to play music and evangelize in Pubs!! Ha I'm SUPER excited about that. :)


But the main ministry we'll be doing is Coffee Shop Ministry, which involves a lot of interaction with University Students in Bishkek. It's more "frienship evangelism," we're developing relationships with the students there and praying for opportunities to witness to them and love them to the Kingdom. I'm so excited because that's my favorite type of evangelism... I can't even wait!! :) So that's what we'll mainly be doing.

We're honestly going with the goal to serve the Long-term missionaries there. We want to serve them and be of assistance to them above anything else, so whatever that entails, we'll be doing. :)



Prayer Points:
- Pray for safety as we fly over there... we're taking a 10 hr. flight, getting off for an hour, and then hopping on 9 hour flight before we get there. That's a lot of flying, and a lot of world to cover:)
- Pray against the Spirit of depression and for spiritual and emotional protection against depression.
- Pray for opportunities to share the gospel... for God to prepare the hearts of students there and for the harvest to be ripe! :)
- Pray for team unity... that my team would get along and be united and close to one another.
- Pray for my team leaders, Brandon (21) and Katie (22), that God would give them wisdom and strength and discernment to lead our team in the best way possible.
- Pray for protection... there's a possibility that boys and girls will have to be split up in different apartments in different locations in the middle of the city... pray for safety and protection for both teams.
- Pray for strength that comes from God alone... many times its easy to slip into a culture shock or stress or anything like that, pray that we'd run through that culture shock phase and get right back into serving and loving people!!
- Pray for us to have FUN!!! We'll be in freezing temperatures, with a LOT of snow, but we'll be surrounded by BEAUTIFUL mountains... (a little taste of home I guess *smile*...) so I'm definitely excited for that!!
- For you prayer warriors out there, here are the names of everybody on my team: Brandon, Katie, Donny, Will, Philip, Daniel, Martin, Korina, Brittany, Katie, Kelsey, and Me. :)

THANK YOU SO MUCH all of you who've prayed for me, supported me, read my blogs and followed my journey. You all have blessed me so much and I'm SO GRATEFUL to have you in my life!! Next post... will be from a Colorado Girl in Kyrgyzstan! :)



PRAISE JESUS!!
Love you all!! :)

"Let your light so shine before men, that
they may see your good works and PRAISE you're Father in Heaven!!" - Matthew
5:16

Also.... on a side note. My boyfriend and mom and sister were able to come visit me this weekend before I left for outreach!!! My mom and sister are still here but my boyfriend left on Sunday... he totally SURPRISED me!! I had NO idea he was coming, he TOTALLY surprised me and it was honestly probably the best thing that's happened to me in my life... (other than receiving the bouquet of 6 roses on our 5 month anniversary a week before...) :) So here are some pics from his visit. We drove up to North Shore, rented a MUSTANG, ate at the Cheesecake Factory, and hung out with my YWAM buddies:) It was an AMAZING weekend! I love him!!

- At Thanksgiving Dinner

- Our new ride... he was one happy man to say the least:)

- Us at Pipeline up on the North Shore!!! Beautiful! :)

- My mom, sister and I at Waikiki!!! :)