October

Halloween is tomorrow, so Happy Halloween!!! Last weekend my roommate Brooke, her boyfriend, her friend and I carved pumpkins! It was great! I made pumpkin cookies, pumpkin pie, and bought candycorn for the event. My pumpkin is the happy one, Brooke's is the scary one. Thanksgiving is going to come up fast, and I'm so glad! I'm going to the Big Island! (with the same people who I carved pumpkins with) We're going to go to the temple there and go see hot lava!! It will be a great break in the semester. Haha, I'm already excited for Christmas! I'll be home for a couple of weeks, and my great Carli is getting married then too! So I get to see her come out of the temple. I'm so glad I'll be home for it.

Fall semester started!

Aloha! Well, on Thursday classes started for the Fall semester. So far I think my classes are going to be good! Some of them will keep me busy but I think it will be a great semester. I had my first paid photoshoot on Monday, with my old roomie and friend Rachel. She did great! We had a good time. It's so nice to have my friends back who were gone for the summer. Yesterday some of us had our "Saturday Breakfast Club" again, but had it as a brunch this time. It was so nice to start that up again. We just go to Caroline's house and can invite friends to join us. Then last night I got to hang out with my friend Dave, which was great. It's been a while since we last got together!

Chinaman's Hat!

Last weekend I went with Brooke, Sam, and Sam's friend Joseph to go to Chinaman's Hat! It's an island is shaped like a "Chinese man's hat"... we walked and swam to it from the beach and hiked to the top. It was great! The view from the top was absolutely beautiful. I loved it! Plus the breeze at the top was refreshing. We had a fun time.

Another photo shoot!

Brooke and I had another photo shoot on Sunday, and here are a few photos from it. It was a great day!

Photo shoot!

Today I took my very first photo shoot with my friend and roommate Brooke. She did awesome! It was so much fun! I think this is something I could enjoy doing in the future with friends and family. Here are a few of the photos.

Talk

Aloha! Today I gave a talk in church about fellowshipping in the church. I think it went pretty good! It was nice to give a talk again, since it's been a while. It was my first time to give one in Hawaii. My roommate Brooke and I went to mission prep after sacrament, which I haven't gone to in a long time. (I've only gone to it a few times) It was funny, the same guy that spoke after me in sacrament happened to be the teacher for mission prep! It was nice to hear from my bishop today, he spoke in sacrament, (we finished our talks pretty fast and so he got up and talked too) a little bit in mission prep, and then taught most of the Relief Society lesson too! He gives great lessons with good stories. Today it's a beautiful, warm sunny day, and my roomies and I are just relaxing on our couches. (we each have one that we like to sit at) Last night I watched Valkyrie with Brooke. It's a good movie! I like how it's a true story, it brings a lot more meaning to the movie. I think if it isn't too hot out in the sun, I'm going to go take some more photos, just for fun. We'll see!

Coming back

Here are some photos that I took after coming back to Hawaii after being home in AZ during the summer, I hope you enjoy them!