The Adventures of Joey & Bri

Few people may know that when Joey and I first began "dating" (i use quotations because the first few months were simply phone calls and text messages everyday back and forth) we began a list. A list of adventures. We would sit up on the phone late at night and think of all the wonderful things we wanted to do with our lives and together. This then turned into us joking about being the couple from the movie UP. Before we knew it our new slogan was, "Adventure is Out There!" We knew the theme song and we even watched the movie together on one of our actual first dates. As you may know in the movie the couple had a savings jar that they kept having to break into for emergencies and Joey and I too have had experiences like that along the way. We find it funny sometimes how this movie mimics our life, but i love the moments we've had.. 

Here is a movie Joey put together of a few adventures we have been able to have so far here in Hawaii. We have had a lot more than what is shown in the clip but up until a few months ago we didn't have this sweet camera to document our adventures so well! Here is to the adventurer in all of us, go out and live your lives to the fullest my friends and maybe jump off a cliff or two :)

love, the Williams

Enrichment Leader.. dun, dun, dun!!

well it has happened, a few months ago when i moved into the La'ie Married Student 5th ward i was given the calling to be on the Relief Society activities committee. To be honest i was thrilled, i got to plan all the fun, make all the fun and have all the fun but not have to worry about the logistics of it all because i wasn't the leader, i was just on the committee..

 

well that changed and it changed fast! One week i was on the committee, the next i was leading a committee of my own. I am grateful for this opportunity to lead these wonderful women on my committee and also to be able to still have ALL the fun, because really, i do have all the fun!

This calling is new to me, I'm not sure if i do everything the right way, and to be honest I'm not even sure if there is a right way. But, alas, here i am fumbling through and making do. i am excited for the new year to start and to be able to incorporate some new activities into our Relief Society. Hopefully my ward will get excited to and that we will see more and more sisters come out to the activities.

 

This month we did a Christmas card activity and it was so much fun! i love Christmas, everything Christmas! So i used my handy dandy cricut machine to make a few different card types and then i set to making enough supplies for my ward members to recreate these simple cards. We had wonderful food, Christmas music of course and a few Christmas decorations including a Christmas themed "photo booth" with the opportunity to use Santa clause or Rudolph props. All in all we had a pretty good turnout and lots of fun getting to know some of the sisters in the ward. Check out a few of my favorite pictures from the night..

 

the cards we made.. number 1

number 2

number 3

the "hohoho" banner i made

a few of the ladies from the ward

lovin' the props!

so cute!

so fun :)

a wonderful activity with the ward!

many more fun activities to come, and i cant wait!

love, the williams

*update* 25 things before I'm 25

while Josh was here I was able to mark off a few things on my list! I am super stoked and can't wait to mark off some more :)

 

1. skydiving
2. bungee jumping
3. hiking to chinaman's hat
4. doing the lighthouse hike
5. visit family in Utah
6. go shark diving
7. learn to surf
8. learn to paddle board
9. go scuba diving
10. have a baby
11. visit California family
12. go to Mexico
13. go horse back riding
14. Honolulu zoo
15. Pearl Harbor
16. swim with dolphins
17. hike waimea falls
18. go to the dole plantation
19. kaneohe zip line
20. Polynesian Cultural Center night show
21. hike diamond head
22. hike stairway to heaven
23. camp on the beach
24. island hop (big island?
25. catch an octopus

 

Three things down, only 22 more to go, but as I look back at my list I realize I have some pretty lofty goals.. oops!! Here is to hoping it all gets done!

love, the williams

Our first Tsunami

As Joey and I were watching a show together and snuggling up on the couch, we all of a sudden had a knock at our window and our dear neighbor was informing us that a tsunami warning had been issued! We quickly switched over to the local news station to get the latest updates and information on what to do. I am not going to lie, I was a little panicked at first. I kept telling Joey that it was better to be safe than sorry and that we shouldn't hang around our home.

The news made it out to be a pretty scary ordeal, I know that they have to make sure everyone is prepared but they probably caused me more stress thinking about what could happen then what actually did happen. We got the warning around 7:10 on Saturday night, the tsunami was triggered because of an earthquake in Canada (those darn Canadians!) and we were told it would hit our island around 10:28pm. Since I was a little flustered Joey appeased me and we packed up a few important papers and a spare change of clothes just in case and left our house for higher ground around 9:45. We ended up at a friends house where we chatted and ate brownies, when the first waves hit it was as if the ocean went from low tide to high tide all at once. But luckily for us and our island that was all that had happened. The water levels rose and the currents got stronger but there were no injuries and flooding everyone made it through the Hawaiian tsunami of 2012!

I am just very thankful for a wonderful husband who takes the time to make sure I feel safe and left our house to make me feel better even if he would have rather stayed and gone to bed. Plus on the bright side I can now say that I have heard the tsunami alarms going off in the case of a real tsunami!

 

love, the williams