Day 50: two days in a row?!

Well this morning started off like every morning and taking Xavier to school but after one of my friends from church wanted to come over to the beach with me. We got to the beach around 8 in the morning, we had some breakfast, played some volleyball, and swam a little. He was only there until about 9:30 then he had to leave to go on a hike. I stayed at MY beach until about 11... the weather was wayyy too nice to not stay! It was a good thing that I left though because I went to sleep once I got home and cleaned up, well when I woke up... my chest and my face were RED! I looked like a lobster! Once I woke up I started to clean the house and cleaned out the fridge. Then I went and got my nails done. It was pouring outside, and of course the day I look like a lobster I was seeing the most people! I had to go get power steering fluid, and go get dinner! Once I came home I ate and watched some Empire until I went to bed! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo 

Day 49: beach day!

Well today started off like every other school day! Except the pharmacy was having problems with my prescriptions so I couldn't get my medication, so I decided it probably wasn't the best idea to go run, and swim and all the other fun stuff I'm not "allowed" to do. Mom made a comment to me of "you know your heart is triggered by over emotions, so just be happy today! Easy some ice cream and talk to Alden" and Alden told me I had to take it easy all day! Wow I love being told what to do! (Sarcasm) so I have been catching up on empire today!! ITS SO GOOD! When I went and picked Xavier up from school I told him we were going to the beach, but for some reason he didn't think it was gunna be fun, so it was kinda a fight to get him into a swim suit! But he always does this and we always have fun!        And since I'm the best nanny ever of course we stopped and got a shaved ice, but I made Xavier believe it was his awesome idea! After the shaved ice we were FREEZING so all the way home we had the heater blasting IN HAWAII! Haha I know I know! I'm a baby! 

Earlier today my mom FaceTimed me and it was Remi! My mom thinks it's so funny to put the pictures on your face so Remi had some today! 

  How did I get such a cute family? Haha hashtag blessed! Melisas brother is in town, so Xavier and her went over to visit him. I'm just watching empire in my room. Tonight is a termite night so I gotta keep all the lights off! Sadly the beach wore me out so I could easily go to bed right now! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo! 

Days 40-48: I suck at this

I feel like I was doing pretty good on posting about everyday, but now that I'm doing more I just honestly forget! So let's hope I can remember enough to make this post decently long! I guess I can start off of telling y'all what I'm currently doing right now... I'm at one of my favorite restaurants gyu kaku!   t's the one where you cook your food! They have these BOMB gyozas and smoked pork tacos so when I crave them I have to come... even if I'm alone! I really actually don't mind eating alone anymore! It's actually kinda nice! Okay so last week the weather was terrible! All around the island! Just poured all day and night!  So there wasn't much that I did besides watched new girl and cleaned the house... yes mom I clean! So last Saturday a friend and I named Denny went to Waikiki and watched a little of a sand tournament that went on! We got volleyball hungry so we went down to a park and the locals asked me to play with them to just fill a spot! After they could tell I have actually played everyone wanted me on their teams! I ended up playing volleyball for at least 37 hours! That's what my body felt like that next morning at least! Getting up for church was ROUGH! I only went for one hour because I couldn't sit still! I came home and we did some yard work and Xavier and I had a water fight! I won of course... on Monday the weather was better so after I dropped Xavier off at school I went to the beach. Did I already tell y'all that I have started working out in the mornings when the weather is alright at the beach? It's pretty nice because since I don't sleep at night when I come home after I shower I PASS out!   Monday night was family home evening so I went and we made some craft flower things for the cinco de mayo dance... yeah I threw mine away! It looked terrible! We all just hung out and had dinner after that! I'm starting to talk to more and more people, but most importantly... remember their names hahah but for real though! Somehow my heart got brought up, so I was talking to a couple people SO late. I finally left around 10:30! And I still had close to an hour drive home! So I got home pretty late last night so this morning was so hard to get up and get Xavier ready! Plus I woke up with a headache so that didn't help! Instead of working out I went home and took a nap! Then after that I went to the beach and worked out... it was clear skies when I left my house, but when I got there is was pouring!! And of course this is the ONE time I don't bring extra clothes! So my shirt got soaked! So when I had to go pick up X my shirt was still wet! Oh whale! https://vimeo.com/214797486
 Now that everyone is caught up with my life I can leave dinner! I gotta go pick up my prescriptions and then head home! I love and miss you all! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo! 

P.s. Shout out to my homeboy Aldie for KILLIN his finals!!! 

Day 39: Happy Easter

Well today was a pretty simple yet rewarding Easter for me! I slept in... which is no surprise considering I do it everyday, so I woke up and started getting ready for church! I drove my 40 minutes to my church which was pretty good! I'm starting to meet more people and everyone is super nice and friendly! The second counselor invited me over to his house after church for dinner, which was very nice, but I had already planned on going to the temple to spend my Easter Sunday! I stopped at this place that had about 15 food trucks up and going so I got a chicken cheesesteak sandwich! It was BOMB! After I left and drove an hour and 15 minutes to the temple! I spent 3 hours there today just walking about and looking at how beautiful it was! It even started pouring rain and I still just sat on the bench not caring if I got wet or cold! One of the sister missionaries walked over to me and I knew who she was! Her and I went to high school together and it was my roommates really good friend! It was pretty cool! I finally left once I was FREEZING and soaking wet! It takes me about 40 minutes to get home, once I got home I grabbed my ice cream and played with Xavier for a little before hitting the hay! Xoxo Sammy jo!   

Day 38: Lamest day... ever

Sooo I have been in a bad mood all day... all because of a stupid terrible pain in my eye! Mom thinks its a sinus infection... but all I know is it better not be here tomorrow! I spent all day talking to Alden while he drove to Vegas for Easter, so it wasnt a terrible day, but he definitely saw a different side to me then before HAHAH bless his soul for sticking with me! Later on I went to the store and it was PACKED so it took me like 8 years to get out of there, and again im going to preach not to go to the store when you are hungry... I dont know why I do this to myself! Well... it makes me happy... all the Oreos... ice cream... oh and they were having a sale on soda... buy 2 get 3 free! Of the 12 packs of soda so that was a win for Sammy! When I got home Melisa and I watched the Fantastic Beast movie! and now im about to make myself some burritos and eat some Oreos and go to bed! P.s. If y'all haven't heard already... Hawaii is gunna get bombed by North Korea... so I love you all and I'll see you in Heaven!! Just kidding! Grandma please don't freak out! But for real... the start has issued warnings and stuff like that! When I was talking to my parents about it this morning Dave said this... " if you see an orange light in the sky put your head between your legs" I'm thinking yeah okay... they tell us to do this on airplanes and so he is probably right! Then he says... "AND KISS YOUR SORRY BUTT GOODBYE" I have never laughed so hard at one of his jokes! It made me laugh sooo hard!! 
XOXO Sammy Jo

Day 37: girls day

Today Melisa and I worked on our counter tops, we are building new ones! When I say we I really just mean she does everything, but I help with lifting the suuuuper heavy stuff! They are starting to look really good! we got everything cut and painted now just waiting for the clear coat to set. We went for a walk during a break and picked some papaya. I honestly dont think I have ever had papayas so it will be interesting to try one! When we got everything done we decided to go to the mall and get our toes done and get some dinner! We were gunna get our toes done first, but they were SWAMPED so we just went to dinner instead. We went to Gyu- Kaku which is the Japanese steak house that you cook your own food! It is one of my favorite places here, I have tried a lot of stuff and have LOVED it all! So once we got done with dinner we went and got our toes done... Did I tell yall that I stubbed my toe REALLY bad? well its all bruised so they were being all weird about it and asked what happened or if it was always this way ahah! And she even painted up top to make me feel better because the top half of the nail is missing! Shout out to the Asians for makin my toe feel great! When I got home Alden and I talked for a while on the phone! Let me tell ya... Long distance relationships... hard... long distance relationships with a 4 hour time difference... FREAKING NUTS! He stayed up pretty late to talk to me since tomorrow is a Saturday, so that was sweet of him! Once he went to bed Melisa and I went and cracked open a nice... cold... pint.... of ice cream! Me eating ice cream is an almost everyday thing... So if next time you see me im about 100 lbs heaver... yall know why! But hey... im happy as can be eating that ice cream!
xoxo Sammy Jo 

Day 27-Day 36 Lets catch up shall we?

I know I haven't posted in so long and I'm sorry!! I would say I'm just so busy or something along those lines to make you feel better, but in reality I just forgot! I was fighting a nasty cold for part of this so I slept A LOT!

I will try and remember in order what I did which day and of course I'll post pictures!! Well if y'all follow me on social media you see this picture! 

 I think it's one of my favorites since I have been out here! Clearly I went to the beach to relax, but as soon as we got there I saw I sign about a shark being spotted earlier that day! It was an 11 footer! I still got in anyways. I figured I look too skinny he would go for a lot of different people before coming to me! 

Xavier and I have started a new game I don't even know what to call it, but pretty much we go through the trees and look for zombies with out nerf guns haha he takes it so serious it's so cute!! https://vimeo.com/213264288

I went to the beach again this one is called pyramid rock, it's on base, but I was just walkin doin my thing when I almost walked into a HUGE monk seal 

 He was HUGE nothing like what they look like on animal planet! I brought my camera today so I got some videos in the water, but it was so fun because the waves were pretty big so you have to duck dive under them or else you die... there was one wave that got me GOOD, but something about me is even if I break a bone in the ocean I am still laughing!! Last year when we were here as a family I got all competitive on who could catch the biggest wave, so I got on top and the wave was so big there was no waver under me it was just sand and the wave crashed and dropped me and I scorpioned and was convinced my neck was messed up! Mom even saw it and ran over to me! But I got up just laughin... couldn't move my body but I was laughing!!  This is Blue!

This last Sunday I went to church... well I didn't know that there was a million things planned that day, so I was there for 7 hours!! I did the whole church thing, then there was a linger longer, then a fireside, and more linger longer. The fireside was AMAZING a choir called come unto Zion came and they told stories of how they found the church and stuff like that it was sooooo good! I cried the whole two hours! 

I went to this place called the valley of the temples, well it first starts as a cemetery, but each section of the cemetery has a place for a different religion! I though that was way cool because you could see the difference between them all! The Buddhist temple was so beautiful and peaceful! https://vimeo.com/213265897 I'm sure people go in and out in 30 minutes but I was there for 2 hours! It was just incredible! 

I got a great surprise in the mail today! Mamma sent me an Easter package full of candy! Isn't she just the best? I know I know y'all are jealous, but Judy is all mine... well and the 12 other kids'! I also made dinner and took it to the beach and then just walked the beach looking for sea shells! I left at the perfect time because as soon as I got into my car it started RAINING!! When I got home there was a river in the road that leads to my house! I love the rain though so I just listened to it all night!! 

Well I will try and keep on top of this again hahah but no promises!! I love and miss you all so much!!

Xoxo Sammy Jo

 

Day 26: sandys beach

So today after I got ready I went to the beach called Sandys. Or as the locals call it "broke next bitch" (sorry mom) the waves were HUGE! So I didn't even dare get in... I knew I would do something stupid to try and show off to everyone and then I would be the BNB! But I met some friends there and got their numbers so finally I'm making friends haha! I met a girl named Piper and it was funny because we were both just hanging out and these guys came up to her and said "we are on vacation can we take a picture with you?" She points to me and says ummm "she's hotter" hahaha what a brat. They knew I wasn't having it so they went to the next girl and asked the same thing and she fell for it!! They wouldn't leave her alone after that haha so piper and I were just dying laughing and started talking about how stupid they were! After the beach I went over to Andrews and Andys house... homeboy has pet ducks!! It was awesome! We were feeding them it was so cute!  Then we watched north shore which is actually a really good movie! Andrew is gunna teach me how to surf! He fell asleep during the movie so when it was over I just snuck out haha so finally I'm making friends haha! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo! 

P.s. Dodgers kicked butt today! So there is something to be happy about! Oh but UNC won... Alden and I were rooting against each other, and he won... I never lose!! https://vimeo.com/211562221

Day 25: Sunday Funday

Well today started off with general conference! This was my favorite talk from it, if you haven't heard it go listen now!! https://www.facebook.com/LDSGeneralConference/posts/10155141131841499

Well after conference Melisa and I took the boards out and paddle boarded to chinamans island! Well then I hiked it... with no shoes on haha but it was beautiful hahah! 

https://vimeo.com/211554503

Day 24: April fools

Today is Taylors birthday so happy birthday Tay hahah! Today I drove into a town about an hour away to get some dinner at Sakura! Well I called it in and the guy was telling me that I couldn't have noodles if I was taking it to go then his manager said something along the lines of "I have no idea why he said something like that we can do noodles with take out" gotta love people huh? So after I got home I watched a movie

And ate all my food in peace! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo

Day 23: NEWS

Well normal school day, woke up and took Xavier to school then was about to get ready for a hike when I got good and bad news... which one y'all want first? Good? Okay!  Shout out to my boss ass sister who is doing very well and her tumor hasn't grown in 3 months!! She is amazing and I have no idea how she does everything with a smile on her face!!

Well onto the bad news ... I don't know if I'm even supposed to tell people, but no one told me not to so... Courtney's lab results came back and he has tested positive for Long QT... so today has been a hard day for me and I haven't even gotten out of bed and it's 10 pm here. Now Remi has to get tested and if she has it I'm gunna feel sooo bad!! I understand it's not my fault, but my brain processes everything differently!! I feel like it's like the flu and I gave it to him. I know logically that's not how it is, but that's how I feel! So today has been very emotional for me! Alden has been so sweet and comforting to me all day so that was helpful! I even got to talk to taylor and tanner! They were hounding me about Alden and my mom was saying that he is her favorite so that's good!!(: haha I screenshotted a picture of him and he looks SOO handsome! Well now tonight Melisa brought me ice cream and we are eating it and watching a movie!! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo! 

 

Day 22: Last day with Xavier

Well today was my last normal day with Xavier so I got up and got him ready for school and dropped him off! I was going to go on a hike but I fell back asleep and by the time I would have got there I would have had to turn back not too Long after and I didn't wanna risk the traffic and be late to pick up Xavier! So I went and picked him up and then we went and got snow cones! Well then we took the best things in the world to the beach and ate them there! It was PERFECT! I was all dressed up in my summer dress so of course I had to take some pictures haha! I decided I'm the smartest person ever! First off I just keep an extra swim suit, towel and shoes in the back of my car for Xavier and I so we can just go whenever! But secondly there is this like water can kinda like a gas can so I just keep that in my car filled with water so if we go to a beach with no shower we have our own little shower!! It's actually really convienent!! So yeah! Xavier goes with his dad tomorrow morning so I told him we could go to BDUBS since it's one of his favorites! Plus it was wing Thursday! After dinner I came home and FaceTimed my handsome lover boy until he had to go to bed! So I went to sleep soon after! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo! 

Day 21: ummm

Okay to be honest... I really don't even remember what I did today.... so that's lame maybe I shouldn't wake for a couple days to pass to update my blog... so sorry! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo! 

Day 20: End of Spring Break

Well today was Xavier's day back at school! So I had to get up early and take him to school! Then since he hasn't seen his grandma for a while she wanted to see him so I literally just took him to school then had the rest of the day off so I literally packed a lunch and went to the beach! It was so nice and peaceful I just laid down and listened to music all day! Except one thing that was nasty... some homeboy was walking around the beach in like a thong and he was just walking back and forth so I saw his whole butt like a million times! Gross! But hey at least there weren't any tan lines hahaha so I got in the water right before I was getting ready to leave and then all these fish started jumping... and for those who don't know... I'm terrified of fish! Not sharks or rays or anything, just fish! When I was little and in the lake or anything I would kick my feet so fast so they couldn't get my toes! I told my mom I had a secret mission for her, but she FAILED! Alden went over there for dinner and I told her to take a picture of him because he was looking SO HANDSOME! She got nervous and couldn't do it! Hahaha I know what a baby! I thought she was CIA material! Guess not! Today Xavier and I had a little disagreement. He was very tired all day and I could tell, well we were going to Ross to look for a baseball glove so I can teach him how to plsy baseball, well he wanted a different toy but I told him no! Wait first off I had to wake him up and he doesn't fall asleep in the car so you know he is tired! So he threw s FIT in the store so I told him we weren't getting anything and the whole reason we went over there was for ice cream! Well I got my ice cream... he didn't! And he was MAD at me! Well after we got home and stuff we went for a walk and it was so cute when we were walking he stopped and randomly said "I'm sorry for how I acted in the store Sammy" so we had a nice little chat! But I was VERY impressed that he did that! I talked to the neighbor for probably and hour outside! He is very nice! After that I went inside and made dinner then went to bed! 

Xoxo Sammy Jo!