Celebration of Life party

March 26 my family and extended family got together for a celebration of life party for my Uncle Stan. He is my grandma Jeans brother. Really I thought of him as my Grandpa. He lived with my family for a while when I was younger, probably when I was around 14 or 15 he moved in after a really bad car accident. Thats when I got to know who he even was. After he recovered from his car accident, I would go into his room and say "Hey Uncle Stan, what you doing?" Of course he knew what that ment and would always ask "Want to go to a movie?" So we would. Just me and him. Drive in his Camaro to McDonalds and then to whatever movie I would drag him to. From then, I became very close to Uncle Stan. Rillz knew him too for a long time. They would play the eukulele together at the hawaiian parties. This last year Rillz and I tried to visit him and Margene a couple Sundays a month. He would always have the BEST stories to tell. Rillz and I loved sitting in their living room for hours just talking. He spent christmas eves with us too. He definitely brought joy to a room! Love you and miss you Uncle Stan! Thats my gruffy mountain man Uncle Stan and Margene Aunt Nancy. Uncle Stan's (and my grandma Jean) sister. I just LOVE my aunt Nancy too! Beth, Uncle Stans daughter. Nice eyes Beth... haha My mom at the party.

We danced hula and played music. This is my favorite Keiki outfit. They are so darn cute!

Work and wedding...

Crap-ola... It has been over a month since writing on my blog. It's not that things aren't happening in my life to write about... just that to much has gone on that I am never home long enough to relax and write. What have I been up to? Work and wedding. That about sums it up. The last couple weeks I was working 12-14 hrs a day. Doesn't leave much time for anything else. Thank goodness Rillz is amazing and such a BIG help around the house, like doing the laundry so I have clean clothes. And wedding planning is in full force. My living room has boxes full of wedding favors. I swear everyone who lives in Hawaii also think they are on vacation. Grr.... oh well. Rillz and I started following a dinner menu plan. Rillz made up a month menu plan. Our goal is to not eat out at all for any meals this month. We are really loving this. Granted, it has only been a week but I feel really good about it! Meat is already thawed, no guessing whats for dinner, so great. Speaking of cooking, Jeff (Kristi's husband) asked Rillz if he would do a young mens activity on cooking. So last night Rillz did his young mens activity and enjoyed doing it. He had the boys flip eggs and then make a grilled ham and cheese and taught them how to doctor up canned tomato soup. Everyone enjoyed it! Random: Kristi made me a pillow for my birthday (yes three months ago and I am now just posting about it). The pillow is so cute and looks great in my living room! I have plenty more to write but don't feel like it right now. Hopefully it won't be a month from now when I post again. :)

Date Lunch

This week Rillz and I were out and about doing errands and I told him I wanted to take him to lunch. Somewhere we had never tried yet. The Creperie. We entered the place and found ourselves excited about the menu. The menu had pictures for all their crepes. Great for a visual person like me. I had coupons for buy a savory crepe and get a sweet one for free. Great! I ordered the Faux vegan and Rillz got the Soleil sunrise. We definitely were not disappointed. One is plenty big to fill you up. The sweet dessert ones were just as great! We had a difficult time picking which ones we were going to get. After both of us changing our minds a couple times I settled for the Thai banana coconut nutella. Oh my! They used coconut milk, not just shredded coconut. And Rillz got a peanut butter, banana ice cream one in a cone! What an awesome and delicious concept! We talked to the owner for a bit who was VERY nice! The Creperie was a really enjoyable experience and I love supporting great local business' so I will definitely be back!

Unfortunetely I was so excited to start eating my savory crepe that I forgot to take pictures of them. :)


But here are the sweet crepes.

Stop drooling and go to the Creperie if you live in or near Boise, Idaho!

Girls day

Back in January I had won tickets to a Bridal show extravaganza thingy. I wasn't engaged yet but, hey, they were free tickets. I called up Heidi and asked what she was doing that day. We decided to make a day out of it together. We packed up Camden and headed to Boise. The bridal show was typical. Nothing exciting especially because most were vendors and I don't need to really hire anyone from Boise for a wedding in Hawaii. Heidi and I still had fun though. Camden LOVED the runway show. She would watch all the ladies go up and down in those gowns. It was really cute! We then went to Cafe Ole for lunch and Camden was asleep the whole time. Heidi and I did some shopping and went back to my house at the perfect time because Camden decided to have a HUGE blowout! After cleaning her up we headed out to a family gathering. It was really fun hanging out all day with Heidi and Camden! Thanks for coming along!

Camden ready to go.

Sleeping during lunch

I am....

ENGAGED!!

Rillz proposed to me in Hawaii on Sunday February 13. He took me to watch the sunrise and have a picnic breakfast. I did NOT think he was going to propose. I knew he picked out a ring and thought it was still on layaway. We woke up and grabbed Zippy's breakfast. We went to this ridge called the blow hole. We hiked down to this private beach and had our picnic and watched the sun. After we ate I wanted to hike around and when I was admiring this cove area I turned around and Rillz was holding the ring. The only thing that came out of my mouth was "you're not supposed to have that." Really romantic huh. And Rillz said... "So....what?" And then he got down on one knee and asked me for real. And then I cried... Happy tears! Our wedding is going to be September 24 of this year in Oahu... and a reception in Idaho. Better get started.
This is my engagement/wedding ring.
After he proposed

I am wearing a very ghetto outfit but I didn't know I was getting engaged. And it was 6 a.m. when we left the house.

The sunrise with the waves crashing against the rocks.

Our Zippy's breakfast.

Hawaii wedding

Rillz and I went to Hawaii on Feb. 9 until Feb 14. It was sadly a short trip but we needed to get back to work. Rillz's really good friend Davey was getting married Feb. 11. We got their and immediately went to get Rillz fitted for his tux and shopping for the wedding day food and bachelor party (yes, I went to Waikiki for the bachelor party too so all the boys would have a dd). We stayed in a HUGE rental house the first 2 days. All day thursday was wedding stuff too and rehearsal dinner. Friday was the wedding. Rillz helped cook and I helped decorate. The wedding was nice and I definitely got my dance on that night!

The wedding party

At the wedding

Isn't the flower girls so cute! The middle girl is the bride and grooms daughter.

Me and Natalie. She is from Idaho too and 5 months pregnant!

Natalie and Tommy from Idaho.

All the grooms men. There were 12. Holy cow!

The view from our master bedroom at the Makaha house. So nice to wake up to the ocean and birds.

The sunset.

Rehearsal dinner.

Rillz b-day

Rillz and I were going to Hawaii on his birthday so we celebrated it with my family the Saturday before. I made lasagna, salad, and breadsticks for everyone. We had a great time. Brent had just got a new hunting wii game so Brent, Rillz, Ren and I played it for a long time. Happy 32nd birthday Rillz!

Gunnar loves doing the heavy heavy hangover game on anyones birthday

Rillz got this duffel bag and Gunnar got a ride in it.
Can you tell the candles are shaped into a 3 and 2 for his age?

The hunting game
Family dinner.
Rillz and cuddly Brecken
Camden giving grandma loves!