Janvier,deux mille onze...

What happened to this last year?!
Crazy things happened, and the time went by soooo fast!
I can't even remember half of the things that happened last year, or even in the last 6 months...Things have been wild.

But I'm so excited for a new year, a fresh start. New friends, new prospects, opportunities, and changes.

God has blessed me with an incredible family, and life. I should feel most privileged to live the life that i do. I don't often enough thank him for all he has done and given too me. Thank you LORD!

Planning is not something that I'm good at, so I will have to wait and see what comes of this year. I'm also not very good at waiting. Or waiting patiently. We could all use a little more patience nowadays.

The little things, like snow falling on the evergreens outside me window in the backyard. They float and tumble, and fall, and fly. Snowflakes that are all unique in their own individual way. Thank you LORD!

Playing now : I and love and you// The Avett Brothers

road trippppp!!! Were in Redding,CA.

New Arcade Fire is Approaching...so sweeeet!!

http://onethirtybpm.com/2010/05/26/mp3-arcade-fire-the-suburbsmonth-of-may/

Just go check this link. Its aaahmazing :D

Peace, love and Goodnight!

The Dress looks nice on you.

Whoa.
Kinda forgot I had a blog for like...6 months!!
But once again, I'm sorry world for forsaking you...
Sorta.

Ahem, so my life? How's it been thus far and so forth?
Errrm, good. I think. How does working full-time, and planning/participating
in two weddings, as a maid of honor, both within 6 days of each other sound??
Yeah, so when I say that I'm good after the fact, then well I should be best as can be, right? Just be glad that I didn't blog at all in the meantime. Or there would have been some interesting, and possibly entertaining posts. Maybe it would have been a good thing, I dunno.
However, now I'm here. Where doth thou go now?
I dunno. Haha but in all honesty am not too worried.
How will my summer play out? I'm not sure but am confident and secure that it will be a good one. I will be moving in with Sam and Jen, now that Makela is married and moved on! and whoa, talk about weirdness...we are one Kaleohano down now...sad.
But I've gained an amazing brother!! And his family, which is incredible. I should be packing right now, but instead wanted to just write. My heart is all a-flutter these days. Things are strange and confusing. But most often that tends to just be me working/thinking through these things. Currently there is a an over-powering smell of lilies in my house. I bouught them last week, unbloomed? and now they seem to be full blown and potent. May be my cause for sinus reactions? Yes Indeed.
I will be traveling to New York in July with my good friend Dane. Yes, so excited for some HIP (as we call each other, cuz we should always be attatched at the hip) time!! I'm really hoping to see Tyler and Olivia while I'm out on the east coast. I need to see some good faces that I love and adore! And am also looking forward to some quatlity down time, and vacation for once! Ahhh...so much has gone on these last few months. Words cannot describe how I've felt. I want a new surrounding so bad. I need a change. And yet I know that the change I need most, is the change that needs to happen within me. I hate this feeling. I really do. I'll be visiting Boston while I'm out there as well. A place that I've always thought I'd fall in love with and someday move too. Not sure what else I'll be doing for sure this summer, but only time will tell. Where else should I travel too? Ideas would be greatly appreciated. Blessings!

Janvier deux-mille-dix.

Sooo many new and exciting this have started this year already!!
First off its 2010. What the heck...
But the year is going to be soo sweet!

Currently, I am going back to the coffee shop full-time, and getting promoted! woot woot! I'm looking into returning to school as well, maybe specials needs or psychology. Looking into both right now. Jen is back at home with the baby for now, I'm going to miss him so much, but am excited for her to be with him. He needs his mommy. Andrews back home with Mom and Maile. Dad is heading back too eventually, after the we move out of this house. I'm not sure where I'm moving to after this, but it will be here in Seattle somewhere...

Come March, Ill be heading to Cali for Brooklynn's wedding! I'm driving down. I need a good road trip and just a fun experience. I'm hoping Billy will be able to come with me too! He's hoping he'll be able to too!! Then back home again to plan two of the biggest weddings of my life! My best friends and my big sister's!!
ahhhh!!! This will prove how good of a Maid of Honor I will actually be!
But yes, Makela and Chelsea both are getting married in May. I'm so excited.

Oh, man almost forgot, before all that my old roommates from Bible college are coming in February for a week to visit!! I'm so elated for it! My spirit needs a good uplifting, and I think this will do just the trick!

So many crazy good things are already in the process of happening this year! God is good. He's been providing for me non stop! And He's been showing me so many important things along the way too, like things that are to make me into a better Child of His. I am truly blessed for the Life I have been given, and in return can only hope to give all of myself back to Him.

What might have been lost?

Listening to:The Wolves Act I & II-
---by Bon Iver

Wow, So its been Like two months or more since I last wrote.
I'm terrible at things like these...
Where to begin?
Well How about somewhere that I left off?!
Yes, that sounds like a good idea.

Two days from now I'll have been home for a year.
What the heck happened to my year?! Seriously, its gone.
Things are so very different from last year too.
Somethings are good, and others...not soo good.
BUT! Christmas is right around the corner. And I haven't done any shopping yet...
I fail sometimes at life. haha or rather present shopping on-time.

Family is different. Lots of things have changed this year.
Sam and Jen are doing good! Baby is growing up so fast! And i still love being with him every waking moment! He has been my joy despite all the Chaos.
Makela and Brook finally got engaged!!!
So exciting!! I now have to weddings to try and be the Maid of Honor for in the same year! Yikes!
Andrew is moving back to Ephrata with Mom and Maile...which leaves me and Dad here in this big ol' house all alone. Its funny to think that after all this time, and our differences, that Dad and I would end up together without anyone else to buffer out all our stuff. But at the moment I'm looking at it as a God-thing. I don't know what else it could be.

Billy is awesome. Can I just gloat about my boyfriend for a bit?!
He's amazing :) We're both doing very good, and are very much attached to one another! haha

I'm excited for a new year to start soon. A new year brings new propositions. And for this next year, I have many! I feel bad for not doing any of the ones that I previously had made for 2009, but I feel 2010 is going to be an entirely different story. Why? It just does!!!

What Am I doing right now?! I have no idea. I'm still working random weekends at the coffee shop, and still watching baby full time. I'm hoping to move in with Sam and Jen once Makela moves out after she gets married, but thats a long ways away. I want to move back to Ephrata for next summer, but am just not sure yet. I want to make sure that I'm ready to go, you know? I don't feel quite ready to leave Seattle yet. Too much that I know and love here. But the plus side of moving, is being away from the business of the city, and getting to be near Billy, and my Bestie Christinie. I want nothing more than to have a relaxed, laid back summer. One of those summers that you just love and look back upon all nostalgic.

But most importantly, I want what the Lord has for me.
I have not been fully seeking Him on what to do with my life as of late. I have kinda just been on auto-pilot with it all. I have no real emotion or feeling as to whats happening in my life. I'm just existing. And thats never a good thing. Too many people in this World, and life just exist. We weren't meant to exist, we were meant to live! And Live I shall!

I feel bad that this whole thing has no real significance to anything at all.
I'm sick, and tired. That maybe why this sounds all off!
But I will get better at blogging more often, and more clearly too!

Octobre.

How in the World did all this time fly by sooo fast!
A year ago I was waltzing around in the Yorkshire Dales in England.
And now I'm here in America...doing nothing! Haha, or rather I feel like it.
Fall is here and it is so very beautiful :)
I missed the Pacific Northwest fall last year. The way the Sumac, and the maple trees leaves turned orange, and yellow first. While all the evergreen stayed...green...haha.
Such a beautiful combination. I got plenty of rain over the pond. Didn't miss that one bit! But I did get all nostalgic about how when it rains, no matter where I am, I think of Seattle.

Life here in Seattle has changed, and I will admit is weird and hard to adjust.
My life of lately has been busy, crazy, hectic. I'm still working at Tully's and moving onto Lead Barista. But along with working 30hrs a week with Tully's, I'm also nannying for my brother and sister. My sweet baby nephew Kai, who turns 3 months next week! My how time flies...But that takes up another 30 hrs of my week. So I feel like I don't have much time for myself...But I know I need and can make more time as well. I'm moved into the new house with Andrew, and my Dad. It looks great! Its weird to be away from the Lake after all the years, but the forest behind the house is a nice change. Maile and my Mom are on the East side most of the time. Someone needs to take care of the house on that side, so my parents commute. ALOT.
Makela has moved out and in with Sam and Jen. So now I will see even less of her now. But hopefully once she gets engaged we'll get to spend more quality sister time together! So many things have changed this past two months...haha I have a boyfriend now too :) Old, old friend from middle school. Long story, but sweet. Life is good, and weird at the same time.

I got a phone call from a friend whose going to be helping me in my home-made soap making ventures. And also have another friend who is gonna teach me how to sew. I have a huge list of things that I'd like to get done this fall, or rather attempt to do at all! I want to start canning alot more as well. Painting and writing more is a must as well. I hope to get out and explore the NW alot more this fall. As this may be my last one here...There's so much that I have yet to see. I've been here 5 years now, and have little to show for the things i've done and places I've been.
But still...i've got 5 months to do things! This month is almost already flown by...I wish time would truly, really, stand still for a moment. Only to let me catch up! But time moving fast is a good thing at the same time. No one truly likes to be sedentary.