Practically Suicide.

On tuesday and wednesday there was a full moon! In celebration, a friend invited me to go cliff jumping off the point! Little did I know, shark attacks occur most when theres a full moon. Yeah, I didn't know that until two days after. I was basically putting myself in a suicidal position, without the suicidal intentions. I had never jumped the point before, and doing it at night was very brave on my part because, well its night...so it's very dark (except the full moon helped a lot), and the waves are giant. I jumped anyway. I love the rush of excitement that I get when I cliff jump. It doesn't last very long but its so fun! This picture isn't of me, but I wanted to give you an idea of what it looked like! We actually went two nights in a row, but I only jumped the first night. The second night was a bit windier and the moon was behind clouds so it wasn't very bright. I just didn't have a very good feeling about it, so who knooows what would have happened had I jumped. It a gorgeous view though, even if you don't jump.

During the day is prime time for the beach...obviously. I spent a lot of time at the beach this week. I only have classes on tuesday and thursday so I went like every other day. This is me and Karla, she's from Chile. I love this girl to death. Me, her, and the three girls girls in this other picture hitchhiked to Sunset Beach on North Shore, then went to Ted's Bakery and

then came back to a beach closer to campus to just hang out and take pictures...the ones you see here! This is temple beach. There are three beaches within close walking distance of school...hukilau, temple, and bikini. Temple, the one we are at in these pictures, is my favorite

of the three. Hawaii beaches have practically ruined every other beach for me but thats ok haha but I guess as long as i'm at a beach in be ok!

So I have 8:00 church...yeah not so good. I slept over in my friend Emma's room the night before and accidentally slept through most of my ward. We like to call it a mental health day in the Theobald home. However, I ended up going to her ward that met at 12:00 but I only went to her sacrament meeting which was at 2. After church me and some friends walked over to the temple. We went to the visitors center and walked around for a bit and then watched the Joseph Smith movie...sooo good. We took some pictures (I'll have to post them later because I don't them right now) and then came back to eat dinner and hang out in the Hale's. Actually, I lied. After dinner we went to a fireside. Can you guess what it was on? Correct. Marriage and dating. Shocker. This fireside was actually pretty funny though. One of my favorite quotes was of this lady when she was introducing her husband who was the speaker. She said, "You never know who you've got until you've been married for a long time." I thought that was pretty funny. Not that I need to be thinking about marriage AT ALL, but I thought it was a good talk. After the fireside we went back to the Hale's and played some card games and all that good stuff. It was a good day.

I love Hawaii.

and we continue...

On our way to go hot tubbing at Turtle Bay Resort in the back of a truck!

More KBLZ.

Family with the newest addition! Love them all.

She's married!

Spencer likes to abuse me.

We're so much cooler than you are.

I love skype. Enough said.

I love these girls. These are some friends I go to school with now. We all went to the night show at the Polynesian Cultural Center together and felt like taking a picture with this awesome statue.

Worlds largest water balloon fight! This picture sums up my summer at BYU. I have never had more fun in a 7 week period than I did summer term in Provo.

Erica and I went shopping several times last semester. It was bad. We are banning each other from going this semester. This is probably my favorite of all the pictures that we took on our shopping trips. These glasses were ridiculous.

Reunion of the siblings in the summer when Lindsay and I came home from BYU. We brought Spencer with us to meet the rest of the family for the first time. I love my family.

New year. New start.

Firstly, as part of my new years resolution, I am going to post something at least every Sunday. That is my goal...just so you know.

It sounds cliche saying I'm ready for a fresh new year but I really mean that. There are a lot of things that I want to accomplish this year. But as I look back at 2010...a lot of really great things happened. 18th birthday, volleyball, senior year, graduation, seminary graduation (glad that's over), summer at BYU, BYU Hawaii...probably the best thing that happened to me all year, weddings galore ( but most importantly, Lindsay's) and the most amazing Christmas with every cousin, aunt, uncle, grandma and grandpa on my moms side. I couldn't have asked for a better year and I'm looking forward to another great year with new habits. To start it off, Im still going to BYU Hawaii, I just got a job at the Gateway Buffet at the Polynesian Cultural Center, and I have the most amazing friends. Before I go off talking about this new year, I picked out some of my favorite pictures from 2010 (definitely not in order). Here they are...

So many good times with these girls, and many more to come. I love them so much. This was actually taken on my 18th birthday, which was also the 1st day of spring break AND the first day we could start eating sugar again! If you don't know what I'm talking about...we had a no sugar contest for like 4 months. We actually happen to be doing it again right now! I could write a novel about us so I need to move on.

This is just a goofy picture of me and Emily at our seminary graduation. You have no idea how happy I am that it is over.

Just a little bit of KBLZ action at GRADUATION! Best day of my life. Although I do miss some aspects of high school, college is amazing...especially in Hawaii.

More graduation with my lovely sisters! I love this, and them.

This is on top of China Man's Hat in Hawaii. It is a small island that we had to swim out to and hike to the top of. I love Hawaii.

FLOOD. The week of finals we had a craziest storm and it flooded our Hale (dorm building). A couple years ago they cancelled finals because of a flood...we weren't that lucky. This night was a lot of fun and consisted of a lot of tackling, body sliding. It was a good time.


Umm this thing is being dumb and won't let me put any more pictures up so I'm going to have to finish on another post...

Some things never change.

So I told you I would update you on my shopping trip in Waikiki but Im pretty sure that if I told you about that whole day you would be bored to death. So instead, Im just going to tell you that Erica and I took the bus to Waikiki and spent the entire day there walking the streets andshopping. It was a lot of fun. So I'm going to show you pictures instead because Im sure thats a lot more interesting and you'll get the same information!

We've actually been on a couple shopping trips together! We went this last weekend and another girl named Kahana came with us! This is us on the bus.

So basically, long story short, we love shopping. Whats new?!

Stairway to Heaven.

Last weekend I did the craziest thing I have probably ever done in my life. I hiked a mountain. But it wasn't just an mountain. So its called the stairway to heaven because it is literally a 4,000 steps to the top of the mountain in the clouds, but it was more like a ladder because they were so steep! But thats not all. Its technically illegal...yes, I broke the law. It was originally built for the U.S. Coast guard and it is government property and pretty dangerous so thats why its illegal. But that didn't. There are guards that come at 5:30 am so if you go after they get there you can't get in, but if you go before...you're golden. There was a slight problem though...not very many students have cars here so instead we took the bus, but the busses do run that early in the morning and they stop at 10:30pm so we took the bus to the mountain the night before and stayed the night in a sketchy abandoned house in the middle oflike a forest basically. This picture is of most ofthe group on theoutside of the house. Itwascompletely graffitied inside, and apparently some crazy gang meets there sometimes? I don't know if thats true, but I heard that after I stayed there. All I know is that it was kinda sketch. The plan was to sleep there but I don't really think I fell asleep for longer than 5 minutes at a time. So basically I pulled an all-nighter. So we "woke up" atabout 4:00 tomake our way to the entrance of the stairs where the guard goes. It took a while to get there so we had to leave pretty early. Anyway, so we started up the stairs and naturally I had to pee like no other right when we started. I wanted to die I had to go so bad. This made the first part of the hike very difficult. By the way, its still pitch black so Icant really see where Im going, all I know is that Iam on a ladder on a mountain. This picture kinda givesyou a good idea of what Im talking about. This is looking down the stairs...crazy. But once we were hiking for a while, we got to a small platform where we couldrest and watch thesunrise. It was beautifulfrom even just there and we weren't even to the top yet! The next picture is before sunset at the platform. I love all the city lights. It was amazing! So after this, part of thegroup kinda chilled at the flat for like an hourhaha because it was really pretty and nice to rest because it was such an intense workout! After being there for a bit, I went on to finish the hike with most of the other people in our group but a couple people stayed behind. I am so glad that I did the whole thing. it was definitely worth it. I almost did, which now that I think back on it, I would have been crazy if I didn't do the whole thing. After pulling an all-nighter in a sketchy abandoned house...I'll do anything. The second half wasn't as hard as the first half surprisingly, but it was the more dangerous part. For some reason I was not scared at all and everyone was freaked. At onepoint, the stairs were wider thanthe part of the mountain we were walking on. Im just not afraid of heights so it wasn't a big deal. Oh, before I go on...this picture is of me on the first platform. Well the platform had railings around it but there was this lovers leap rock that I went out and sat on. Ok, moving on...so yeah, the second half wasn't as hard. I enjoyed it a lot more because I was able to see everything and itwasn't dark out. It was green everywhere. Im probably starting to bore you because Im taking so long with all my little details but oh well. This next picture is probably one of my favorites that I took. I don't think that it was quite at the top but I love it. It looks fake. And finally, the last picture is me at the top. Ihave a lot of pictures of me at the top but this was at the very highest point. Its not a very good picture, and my body looks out of proportion because it was so windy that my shirt was going crazy but it kinda give you a better idea of where I was and what was going on haha. From the top you could see most of the island, except for the couple parts that were blocked by mountains. But it was insane! It really made me realize how small this place is. If you want to see more pictures from the top, feel free to check my facebook...there are a ton on there. So on the way down, my legs were jello the entire time, but it was an adventure. Going down was a breeze. It didn't take long at all. I loved this hike. If you ever go to hawaii...I highly suggest it.

So long for now...next post...all about Waikiki!

Isn't that slick?

So Im taking Calculus...again, and my teacher is crazy. He says the same things all the time. For example, he says...easy enough? make sense? Isn't that slick? sound good?. He says them so many times I decided to make a tally. At the end of the semester I will post a picture of it so you can understand what I go through. I think I might actually be excited to go to this class now that I have something to do. Just so you have an idea of what I'm talking about, he said "make sense?" 4 times in the same minute. I about died laughing. He probably thinks I'm an immature rebel child because I don't really pay attention (because I've taken the class before and I understand pretty much everything already), and I laugh every time he says one of the lines I mentioned. Just thought I would fill you all in. It is outrageous.

A whole new world.

3 weeks later and Im back to update because I was starting to get complaints. I dont even know where to begin. Im in a place where they serve rice and pineapple at every meal, as well as random foreign meats. Breakfast is definitely the ONLY meal I can count on haha. But the dining hall does have its good days every once in a while! When I first got here I felt like I was in a whole different world and I still kind of feel that way. I would say maybe 1/3 of the students here are from the mainland, so we are basically minority, which is crazy to think about. The first couple weeks were really hard, just trying to adjust to the culture and the new people and food and everything basically. I was told that the first month would be super hard too but I didn't really understand how it would be. But now that I have been here for a while, I totally know what they meant. Its not something you can really explain, you sort of just have to experience it for yourself. Sorry for being so vague but you really wouldn't understand what I mean unless you were here. But anyway, things are starting to get really good and I have met a lot of really cool people. I've met people from all over the world. China, Australia, Spain, Mongolia, France, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa....you name it, Ive met someone from there. Its crazy!

So the first weekend I went on an Island tour and went to a bunch of famous places on the island like the valley of the temples (where karate kid was filmed), pearl harbor, a swap meet, haliewa, and walmart. Yes, walmart. Its a big deal here, ok? haha. Just as a side note, I had to go to walmart again after this trip and it took an hour and a half to get there. Its super far and there isn't anything like it closer...thats why its such a big deal haha. Who knew. Anyway, the island tour was super exhausting because it lastedall day but it was a fun way to meet new people and explore the island a little bit. This picture is from the buddhist temple wewent to! It was so pretty! It was kinda back in the mountains...as you can see.

The temperature is amazing here. Its like 81every day but its humid so sometimes it feels kinda hot, but its amazing! I've been trying to go to the beach as much as I can. I've been more busy

will school the last week so I haven't gone as much but Im definitely not going to let that happen anymore. This is the beach thats right by campus. It takes like less than 5 minutes to get there riding my bike, and I pass the temple on

the way! The Laie temple looks a lot like the Mesa temple, which I like because it reminds me of home. I'll have to take a picture sometime soon and post it. Its absolutely beautiful! It has been under construction for a while but they are reopening it in a couple weeks and I get to go to the open house! Im really looking forward to that!

I've been on several adventures. Its fun to just get on the bus and go somewhere new. Like

2 weeks ago my roommate was checking out some surf boards that people were selling on craigslist so we just hopped on the bus and just went searching. We stopped at a couple

different beaches, including Sunset Beach which is MY FAVORITE! I love it so much. You meet some pretty interesting people on the buses too. Last Saturday I went to the beach all morning, and then in the afternoon we went snorkeling at sharks cove (the picture is me at sharks cove). As you can see, I am already super tan, and I still have at least 2 more months! As of right now, I do not even know how long I'm going to be here haha. This place is amazing. I wish I could remember more of the things that I have done in the last 3 weeks. I need to take more pictures. Im gonna work on that. I think that you people that actually read this should remind me to write more often so that I don't forget anything that I've done. Anyway, I miss you all and hope to hear from you soon!