Green with envy...

Green was once upon a time my favorite color. Until that pesky Red came into the picture. But I still have and always will have a love for green.

Today I feel like paying homage to my former favorite

Buildings

For your viewing pleasure :)


A church in Haleiwa:
A burned down bldg near north shore:

A church in Laie:

A church in Haleiwa:

A midweek beach adventure

It's been a while since my last blog, which wasn't really a blog...more like a couple of pictures. And it looks like this blog will be more or less the same. But you know you love my pictures, so without further adeu...these are a few pictures I took at Waianae Army Recreation Center. Beautiful beach.

Oh, and by the way, we are down to under 100 days before Brian comes home from Iraq! This has been a very long 15 months, and Im glad it's coming to an end :)

The last picture is Heidi. I could see the ocean in her shades...thought it would be a cool pic :)

A photo of a building downtown

I was going to make this one full-on black and white, but I left some blue tint in the sky.

I love the holidays

And my favorite part of the holidays is the decorating...

Now if I can just get motivated in the kitchen..

Happy Birthday to my PawPaw

Today is the birthday of one of my favorite people in this world. Well, actually, it's safe to say that he IS my favorite person in the world! My PawPaw. He turned the big 8-0! I wish I could be with him to celebrate today, but this damn pacific ocean keeps getting in my way!!!

But since I can't go hang out with him and pig out on cake, I decided to write a little blog about him on his special day.

Some of my fondest memories of him were when he let me tag along with him to his classroom and laboratory at the university where he taught classes. I remember the smell of formaldehyde as I walked around looking at all of his fascinating creatures he had frozen. He would tell me the names of all the different species of insects he had in his office.

Another fond memory was when him, my MawMaw and myself would have long, drawnout, heated games of Scrabble! He would use all of these long, extravagent and foreign words and beat us every time. But MawMaw and I wised up and got the official scrabble dictionary so he wouldnt have these unfair advantages over us!

I think my favorite memory of my PawPaw was when I would stay with them in the summers, and he would come wake me up about 4:30 in the morning on Saturdays to go riding with him. We always went the same place: popeyes, to get a box of their mouthwatering blueberry biscuits. And then we would stop by the gas station , he would get a coffee and I would get a chocolate milk. The whole ride I would talk his head off about my trivial concerns of youth, and he would always listen. It was me and PawPaw time. I miss those drives.

Now, I'm older, I live so far away that Im rarely able to see any of my family at all. But what I would give to see my PawPaw again.....

I love you PawPaw, I hope you know that. Happy Birthday to you! And many, many more!

Twilight

Ok..so I know I'm probably the LAST person in the free world to have read this book. I know it came out a while ago...but hey, at least I finally jumped on the 'Twilight' band wagon!
I just finished the final chapter of this book a few nights ago. It took me about 2 work shifts to finish it. And let me tell ya.....it was soooo hard to put down! I felt like I was almost having an affair with Edward Cullen myself! HAHA kidding....I've got my "Edward" already :)
The book is a love story about a girl named Bella and a vampire named Edward. The writer weaves an intricate blanket of emotions tying the two star-crossed lovers together; exposing only Bella's emotions to the reader. Two lovers who, living completely different lives, try exhaustingly to be together.
I can't go any further into detail for fear that I might give the story away! This one is definitely a page turner, and I am thirsting for more....I just got my hands on the sequel, "New Moon", and I cannot wait to see what happens next!