Hello, Future.

Devin got a call this morning from the Dean of Admissions from the University of Utah asking him to come there this fall. 

He is officially U of U Law class of 2014! 

We were put on the waiting list, and that is what we have been doing ever since....waiting. Before today we have been living in limbo land, not knowing where we were going to be in a few months. I took a chance, getting a job in Jordan School District with the hope that we would be living in Salt Lake. Devin took a chance deferring to a school in Oregon for a year, with the hope that he would be going to school in Utah this year. 

We are so grateful that everything has worked out and we feel very blessed that our frustrating time in Limbo Land has paid off and our future has never looked better! 

Lady Luck

Off to San Diego to kiss these faces...

And I was in Arizona just last month kissing this face...

And I kiss this face in Utah every.single.day.

I am one lucky lady. 

Summer Reading

I just finished reading The Help. This book is breathtaking and takes such a beautiful approach to such sad history that happened not so long ago. It is so amazing though, I feel morally obligated to tell everyone I know to read it.

Read it. Seriously. Right now. Go.

I also finished reading The Maze Runner and it's sequel The Scorch Trials. They are very adventures books and very boyish, where at times I was a little weary of the "boy violence". But I am anxiously waiting the third and final book to come out in October. Overall, it is a good series.

White Cat and its sequel Red Glove were really fun reads. Exciting mystery element and a little scary with an interesting modern approach on a supernatural world. 

My next read that I am about start is The Time Travelers Wife. I have never been able to read a romance novel before, but this one seems to have enough element of excitement and no one is dying of cancer or looking for their long lost love 60 years later (gag), so hopefully I will be able to enjoy it.

My next book after this is The Book Thief.  

Any other summer reading suggestions? 

Also, I tried reading Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but didn't get far. I was sooo bored with all of the business talk for the first 100 pages and heard it is very "r-rated". 

Still debating whether I should try that one again. 

Any opinions on this one?

Summer, here we come.

 I have been trying to make the most of our scarce and few between "summer" days. 

Devin and I went on a bike ride and played tennis on one sunny day. 

I have been reading outside any chance I get, but if I keep only reading on sunny days, I won't be done with my book (The Help is my current read) till Summer 2020.

And yesterday I went on a bike ride by myself and then played tennis with Devin.

But it hasn't stopped us from getting shave ice at least 3 times a week. We just usually have to eat it in the car, with the heater on. 

Luckily, tomorrow my mom is taking us on one of her hiking adventures, the Black Hole. 
It's part slot canyon, part bouldering, part climbing, and all parts beautiful and fun. At one point, you get lowered into a slot canyon of the most freezing cold water that has never seen the light of day, and you have to swim through it. That's where it gets it's name. 


Wow, describing it makes it seem kind of terrible. 
But it really is fun.

If summer won't come to us, we'll go to summer. 
Summer, here we come. 

Hawaii Day 8

Day 8: Today we left beautiful paradise and it sent us off graciously with a hurricane (not officially a hurricane, but practically. It rained the entire day). We hit up Puka Dogs and Dukes again because when it's raining in Kauai and there is nothing you can do outside, the food still tastes just as good.

It was the trip of a life-time and I loved every minute of it. It was my perfect vacation...a perfect balance of relaxation and adventure, all in a paradise wonderland.


 Here's to next time Hawaii, because we will meet again.

Hawaii Day 7

Day 7: This was the day I was most exciting for, the Napali Coast Tour. We had planned on spending a little (okay, a lot) extra money to go on a really nice catamaran boat tour where they take you snorkeling and touring for over 5 hours. 


To start off the morning, we got up an hour earlier than we normally would've just to go get more banana pancakes from Tip Top. Totally worth it even though it we got up at like 5 am.

On the tour we saw sea turtles, flying fish and a huge group of spinner dolphins that would jump out of the water and do tricks. It was incredible!It was a stormy the whole day (but didn't rain on us!) so the waves were HUGE! We stood at the front of the boat, which was seriously catching air on the waves and our bodies would literally lift off the boat floor. It was so much fun. Everyone on the boat was screaming like it was a Disneyland ride.

When we finally got the coast (it takes about a hour+), we got about a mile in and a woman hit her head and was bleeding, so we had to turn around and go back. I was so disappointed and not in the least bit sympathetic for the dumb woman (she was standing up when she wasn't supposed to when she got hurt and she made us turn around, but yet she was okay enough to be guzzling down beer on the return trip).

Luckily we still got to see part of the coast and have a lot of fun still. Overall it was amazing, but we are going to have to go back to Kauai soon to get the full boat tour. Too bad. (are you making note of this, Devin?).

We also got shave ice at Jo Jo's, which was recommended by everyone and top ranked in our travel book, but was our least favorite of the trip. I blame the dumb woman who ruined our boat tour. 

Hawaii Day 6

Day 6: Today was supposed to be devoted to beach all day, but it rained for part of the day so we didn't get much beach. So we shopped around for souvenirs and then we went and saw Wailua Falls.
Then we went to Li'hue to crash on the Marriot Resort some more where we swam in the pool for a bit and read books on the beach. We also got the most amazing shave ice of the trip...and I didn't even document it.

*So our rental car was this ghetto van. (most tourists are driving mustang convertibles and brand new jeeps). So to fit in, we drove around with both sliding doors open on either side the whole trip. It was so much fun and added to the ghetto ambiance!

To end the night, we went to Kauai Pasta which looks so ghetto on the outside, but we walk in and its the equivalent of Macaroni Grill. Everyone was dressed so nice and we were in our swimming suits. Whoops. But the food was amazing! I also didn't document this event. Fail.

Today was less eventful, but relaxing and fun.