Great Aloha Run

I killed the Great Aloha Run. I wasn't even expected to do it, but I got my Personal Best by almost 2 minutes ( it was an 8.15 mile race and I did it in 51:55, 6:20 minute miles), came in 3rd place for the women, and won $250!!

OH YEAH, Brandon was there too...

Valentines Day

Valentines was super fun this year. Randomly Brandon and I both planned a "14 Days of Valentines" without telling each other.

Mine to Brandon...

Brandon to Me...

I have a good husband.

For Valentines we decided to use that free night at Turtle Bay that I won at a race in November. It was so much fun.

Back to the grind...

Our cruise was way too short and we had way too much fun... but we had to get back to reality. Brandon had already missed the first week of school and I need to get a job.

Thankfully though Brandon got caught up quicker than both of us expected and I got a job in less than a week!

Brandon has a pretty tough schedule. He is taking 18 credits this semester with classes like Anatomy, Advanced Molecular Biology, Evolutionary Anatomy, and Honors Interdisciplinary Studies. Yikes! But luckily since I am gone at work all day, he doesn't have any distractions and actually gets a lot of studying done.

I got a job working at a Surf Shop in Haleiwa. So epic. Who works at a Surf Shop in Hawaii?! 

only the coolest people.

Cruising

The second week of January Brandon and I and my parents went on a cruise to Mexico!!!

Thanks Sun for taking us to the airport so early in the morning! you rock.

 we had a crazy good time and it was great to be back in Mexico again. we had so much fun on the ship eating whenever we could, laying out, and going to all of the cool shows.

We love Mexico! we went snorkeling, laid out on the beach, and went on a zip line tour and road mules!! best part was seeing dad's face while we took public transportation in through the streets of Mexico and him zooming through the air on a zip line! it was so an awesome adventure.

HO..HO..HOliDays

Brandon and I had such a fun Christmas break! We got to see so many of our friends and family, which was super awesome. This year was the year to spend Christmas with the Johnson's and it was a blast.
We made cookies every day, worked out at Groll's gym to work off the cookies we ate everyday and

made a super awesome graham cracker nativity

we got to spend lots of time at SunDee and Joey's house to hang out with their cute kids! I got to me Dexter, Sun's youngest, for the first time! love that little guy.

we also got to go on a date with Charlie and Riley to the Planetarium, which was super fun.

We also we able to drive up to Vancouver, Washington and surprise Brandon's dad for his birthday. We had a so much fun visiting the Krout's and meeting Brandon's sister's fiance Dieter for the first time!

For Brandon's dad's birthday we took a trip to Seattle and went to the Rock and Roll museum and then went to Bucca di Bepo's for dinner. So good.

and since everyone in Brandon's family was there we finally got to take a family picture

Brandon also had a work Christmas party and won this...

we had so much fun over the break, celebrating Christmas and visiting our families