a video update....

here is my life after hours...and some people that are dear to my heart here.

some reflections...

"Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. LOVE LIKE THAT."

Ephesians 5:2

i am going through a season of learning to love---and i never realized how bad i was at loving until i actually started applying 1 corinthians 13 to my life. i am not patient, i am always looking for a shortcut, and i am learning that patience means i turn my life over to God and wait, just as God waited for me. it's been quite the journey of failing everyday in my stubborn self...but i will get there eventually:)

Merry Christmas video from STN

Christmas Fun 2011 from Surfing The Nations on Vimeo.

The wonderful Joel Schat, visited us a little while back and we used his video skills to make a fun christmas video....it was all done in one take!

I sent this to my mom to remind her what I looked like. She didnt think that joke was very funny at all.

our attempt at a christmas photo shoot...

when you live with people and work with people....and in the middle of the pacific ocean...this is what your family christmas pictures look like. insert a bag of doritos and some lights and this is what you get....

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas...

somebody turned 4 today...

celebrating lei':)

it's time to start bloggin' again......

wahiawa is great and one of the perks of being a part of the community are all the cute local kids. our community impact team organized a bbq at the apartments down the street and a couple of us were able to go out and hang out with our neighbors and eat some good food (also a perk). it was quite the chilly night, and i learned that it actually gets cold in wahiawa and while complainin' over the weather, a swede told me...."if you were born a swede that wouldn't be a problem." as if i could fix anything about that. i also learned that there is such thing as a blind man's camera, shell and kristin (the couple in the front) are blind and the whole time this picture was being taken he was makin' fun of cobe tellin' him that he doesn't even know how to work a blind man's camera....the camera actually talks and tells you what to do.

the cute little girls pictured above (well, besides me...) are selena and jazminn. selena is a dear and has a big surgery on her vocal chords next week, and jazminn is a big bunch of sass and likes to make you chase her around.