25 things to do before I'm 25!

This birthday wasn't really that big of a deal, it came and it went, until all of a sudden it sunk in. I am 24, next year I will be 25, I will be entering my late twenties...

I am starting to get old!

 

In my effort to preserve my youth I have decided to make a list. Yes a list. A list of 25 things to do before I turn 25. I pulled out my phone one day while at the beach and I thought, what do I want to do before I'm 25? This is what I came up with...

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

so much to do! I better get started, I already only have 11 more months! yikes!!

love, the Williams

 

September in a nutshell

Oh September, what a magical month. It is the month I was brought into this world, it must be pretty magical! Seeing as this is my birthday month every day was special to me, but I will try to sum up only the big and important events. Here we go!
Technically the Magical month of September didn't start out so magically. It was Labor Day weekend, I was missing my family, Utah, and SWISS DAYS! Joey decided we should head into town and check out Pearl Harbor since we both haven't seen it and it would take my mind off things. We started out on our journey excited to see this historical sight, but alas, about twenty minutes into our drive we heard a thumping noise coming from our car. Not quite sure what is was we pulled over and I took a look. Oh phew! It was only a stick stuck in mud on our tire.. WRONG! I pulled the stick off, we kept driving, and again..
 thump, thump, thump!  
Oh dear.. we pull over again and to my dismay I see our tire tread unraveling. Our plans went from a fun FREE day at pearl harbor, to a not so fun and very expensive trip to Big O Tires in Kaneohe where I begrudgingly spent all my savings on two brand new tires. My silver lining? The still small voice that prompted me to bring along our savings cash. I had no idea why I threw it in my purse as I was running out the door, but man am I glad I did!!

joey changing the tire

there she is..

September is also when I became in love with ice cream mochi.. what is mochi you ask? Well really I have no idea, but it is delicious! Just kidding I kind of have an idea, it is like a rice pudding it comes from Japan I believe, could be wrong though. In the ice cream form it has a rice pudding/jelly like shell and then there is ice cream in the middle. Sound gross? Maybe a little but it is delicious...

this is chocolate mint mochi! Mmm

Our favorite television show to watch together started back up, hello Scandal, we have missed you! Football also started again and that has been a blast to watch. I am a huge San Fransisco 49er fan and Joey is an Oakland Raider fan. It doesn't cause to much trouble, most days :) With the beginning of the football season also came a new deal from McDonald's, Touchdown Tuesdays!! You can enjoy a quarter pounder meal and get a free quarter pounder, Joey and I both can eat for around $7, not bad. We make sure to work out afterwards! I also tried a new recipe from Pinterest this month, creamy potato cheese soup, YUMMY!! It was magnificent, everyone should try it, maybe I'll post the recipe later..

My parents sent me a sweet birthday box and it was full of all kinds of fun surprises! Joey got me flowers and balloons and breakfast and his sweet mom sent me some awesome Toms! The family I work for joined the fun and gave me a gift card and two of the sweetest birthday pictures from their kids. I truly am a lucky and blessed little lady.

some of the goodies inside said birthday box :)

We spent a lot of time with friends, playing games, hanging out on the beach, watching sunsets. We even went back to Waimea Bay and jumped off the rock again! Life sure was grand in the month of September :)

love, the Williams

August Catch Up

August came and went pretty quickly, we started out the month with jumping off Waimea Rock which you can read about here. 

This month Joey caught us an OCTOPUS!! That's right folks my husband is an octopus hunter! He went out with some friends (i had to work, boo) they used hand spears and they hunted the elusive octopus. Joey thought he caught one once but then realized he had speared a giant sea snail! OOPS! He finally caught one, brought it home and used it's guts for fishing bait. We were going to eat the octopus but it ended up sitting in our freezer for to long. We did however BBQ another friends octopus and man oh man was it delicious!! Boiled in coconut water, grilled on the grill.. lip smackin good I tell you!

there she is :)

The month of August also brought us a new home! We upgraded from our wee little room with a bed to a place that has an actual sink and full sized fridge! It is such a blessing to have the simplest of things.. check out the place!

this is the view from the front door

we have a sink!!

our full size fridge and our little kitchen area :)

our bed, which is right behind our couch and right next to our desk!!

 Joey jumped off Laie point, and he does is a lot!

We spent a lot of time at the beach, duh we live in Hawaii, and we met Roberts new dog, Kona!!
We love her, and are a little jealous, we want a puppy.


isn't she cute??

We also ventured down the east side towards the end of this month. We drove down kam hwy and found Makapu'u beach and look out spot. This is also where there is a lighthouse that you can hike up to (don't worry, it's on our list of stuff to do!). The beach was gorgeous and looked like a fun place to spend a day. When we drove a little further we found the look out which gave us a great place to take pictures and we adventured a little bit and found these old war look outs in the side of the cliff face. Of course we climbed a little and crawled into one!!

makapu'u beach

 

the lighthouse up there is where we want to hike :)

just enjoying the view

inside our look out

Well I think that pretty much sums up all the fun stuff we did in August, at least I can't seem to think of anymore. Now on to Septembers catch up blog we go, see you there!!

love, the williams

seriously? i haven't blogged since august?!

I dont know what is wrong with me, I think about my blog all the time and all the wonderful things I want to share with you.. and then I dont do it and I sit and think some more about all the other new things we just did.. and I dont do it!!

 

so it stops here, right now!

I am going to need some time to collect my thoughts since it has been about two months since my last blog. I have quite a bit of catching up to do!!

 

I shall leave you with this today, a youtube video that Joey made after we jumped of la'ie point, which is the point that we live on. I hope you enjoy it, we sure did!

 

Enjoy the show!

love, the Williams

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Jumping off the ROCK!

i have been wanting to go to waimea bay ever since we have come to live in hawaii. it has a massive beach, its protected from some wind, and it has a fun rock to jump off of.

downside.. the parking lot is the smallest thing i've ever seen! it is incredibly hard to find a place to park, but on one glorious fine day (which was yesterday..) joey and i were one of the lucky people who found a place to park. After we argued about whether or not we should park in a no parking tow away zone, i won and we found another place to park on the side of the road where we did not get towed!!

did i mention that the beach is massive?
it is..
so finding a place to lay out was quite easy. while i enjoyed some sun time, joey went for a swim and explored the ocean floor a little bit. he went to go jump of waimea rock first to see how easy or hard it was to do. i sat anxiously awaiting his return. Once he came back he was ready to go again but i had cold feet..

when i was finally ready to conquer the rock we climbed on up, which really wasn't that difficult, and then i took it all in. it was quite a view from the top and the way down looked like fun. i was a little nervous but i got in line and waited for my turn. when i was finally staring at the water from the top of the rock and joey was counting to three, i jumped on two and left my nerves on the rock! hitting the water was a rush and i resurfaced with a smile on my face!
i am proud to say i conquered waimea rock and we video taped it too.. enjoy!

this one is me jumping

then it was Joey's turn

on top of waimea rock

everyone on top of the rock waiting to jump off

its almost my turn!

i jumped off of that!!

love,
the williams

Pupukea Beach

As Joey and I were trying to figure out what to do one fine Hawaiian day, and realized we would like to try out a new beach. We headed out and wound up at pupukea beach.

we fell in love with this beach immediately!

the beach is nice and sandy, there is easy access in and out of the water, and the snorkeling is divine!

since falling in love with this beach we have gone back many times.

we have even brought bread with us to feed to the little fishies.

times like these i wish we had an underwater camera because the fish here are gorgeous!

plus when they figure out that you have bread they swim around you and will even eat the bread right out of your hands! but then they start to think your hair is food and it gets a little creepy but still way cool! haha

the coral is gorgeous, the fish are beautiful and the beach is stupendous! an A+ beach in our book!!

a shot of Pupukea beach

just hangin out :)



love,

the williams