it’s things like this.

today was the most wonderful kind of day!  the internet decided to give nate and i the gift of working and we sure used the gift!  in the morning it was even strong enough to skype and so we got to have the “date” that we had planned earlier in the week.  the idea was to watch singin’ in the rain simultaneously while on skype with each other making it like we were actually just in the same place watching it together.  pretty creative, eh?  the actual execution of this was way better than i had even dreamed it would be and so that was just an amazing surprise.  we decided to make it a once a month thing and i am sure we will write about those future times as well.  before we had got to the watching of this though, i had a whole bunch of wonderful surprises fly into my dropbox.  (dropbox is a file sharing application that makes it easier to share and transfer files) one of those things that was “dropped” is actually the picture that is above.  nate’s creativity continues to just completely blow me away.  i don’t even know how it is possible for one person to be so full of ideas.  i really don’t.  really.  🙂  so needless to say i was a very happy girl and was telling him so and he says to me, “these are just the kind of things i make when i can’t talk to you.”  and i say, “yes, these are the things YOU make nate.  YOU.”  so a little piece of my new goals for life is to learn how to create insanely amazing things on photoshop and shock him with them one day.  or i guess i could also just wait till he teaches them to me cuz i do like that a whole lot.  anyway, it’s the things like this that he is ALWAYS doing for me that continually just make me a very happy lady.  [as well as one who very much in love]  {thank you dear!}

A Date by the Ocean

I have to say I love hawaii, I have so many good memories there. This is one of my favorite moments from the two weeks I spent in Hawaii with Jaylene.

This is one of the many dates that we went on; we decided we wanted to have a picnic on the beach. So we went to Target and got our most favourite picnic foods. Triscuits and Cheese, Country stand medium Pulp orange juice, Yogurt, and bag of baby carrots. The next day around 5 or so we started the walk down the hill to a little beach called Hunl’s, carrying our bags of food, and a mysterious box that Jaylene wouldn’t show me yet. We laid out our sheet on the warm sand, and we just sat there right next to each other looking out at the ocean. Then we broke into our picnic, not talking much just enjoying each others company. After we had finished off our yogurt and most of the Triscuits, Jaylene grabbed the box from out of her bag and said it was a gift for me. I didn’t know what to do, so I slowly opened the box she had commandeered from the mail room. I find wrapped in two of her sweaters her 10-22 lens. I was in shock and I really didn’t know what to do, I mean that is a really expensive gift. I just sat there smiling at her and tried to say something but nothing came out, eventually I just collapsed in her lap and tried to get some words to come out of my mouth. All I could say was thank you. Still in a slight sense of shock I sit up as the suns sets around us. Next Jaylene stands up and runs towards the waves crashing in front of us, so I followed and we just danced around the beach laughing with each other not caring about the people around us watching the sunset. We eventually landed standing in the end of the waves path ankle deep in the cool water. We took a breathe and just stood in the water holding each other tight. Perfectly content just being together, until the waves got a little too big and we got a little too wet. We Eventualy retired back to our sandy picnic blanket and just sat there talking about everything you could imagine. At this point the sun had set and the darkness was closing around us, so we decided to head back to the campus to watch a movie stopping at one of many ABC stores for some juice…

I have to say This was one of my favorite dates we went on in those two weeks, they were all great but this one was just wonderful. Maybe one day, I will write about the others, but then by that time we will have better stories to tell all y’all.

happy moment #1,472.

like the title of this post says this was happy moment #1,472 in my time of knowing nate.  or, maybe just to be safe, i need to give an extra thousand to that number.  🙂

it was one of the first days that he was here in kona and we had gone to the cafe to work on some of the planning of the designs for the book my team is creating right now.  [as a side-note.  i now know everything i know about photoshop from one nate william lynch because of these times.  thankYOU again dear!]  so we brought along some snacks obviously in order to encourage the work one of them being my newest discovery.  and the discovery is this.  every morning at breakfast time the foodline serves large trays of plain yogurt, among many other great things, but the yogurt is my favourite.  the new discovery that i made was putting this said yogurt into a container, covering the top layer of it with a spoon of brown sugar and then putting it into the freezer for approximately 2 hours.  this is the perfect amount of time to get just the right consistency after you give it a good stir.  on this particular day, the consistency was so perfect that it was really just very exciting.  and thus this was a happy moment.  yogurt, brown sugar, perfect amount of freezing, nate by my side, a pair of chairs on the cafe deck, and getting work done = priceless.  haha, couldn’t help the reference even though i am aware that i did it wrong…  i think i shall start a series of these random moments that made me very happy, though there is no way i could cover every one.  after all i started way up at 1,472 so maybe the next one i get to will be in the 3,000’s.  we shall have to see.

and one from Kona.

so as nate said in the previous post he currently finds himself in Brazil.  i am still here in Kona and have started off with this january quarter.  the new faces, and styles, languages, and hair have got me very intrigued, and YES, i do love people watching.  it has been quite chilly these past few days which has everyone a little confused however the geckos are not phased as one is running across the window slats right now.  the illustration in the world tab shows our current locations, and the picture aboves illustrates a little something else that i would like to call…

generosity.  or maybe just love.  one of the many things i got for christmas from nate (he knows my love language is gifts hard core, as in 100%, hehe) was his most favourite flannel shirt.  it has become my favourite article of clothing now and i wear it every day.  helpful for the cold weather we’ve been experiencing.  also, you may have noticed the matching glasses in this picture, well that is again something that nate did that i thought was just cool not to imitate.  we now both have 4 pairs and i would think that both of us have them on our faces for say, an hour every day.  we’ve been laughing because of these two little examples at how we seem to becoming more like each other.  for another example, take food.  nate now eats fish and did not before, and i love hot dogs and before only really tolerated them.  and the list seems to go on.

so, and this is an assignment for you!  if you happen to know both of us, what is a way you think we are similar?  we are curious.  yes, indeed, for we are both very curious people.  today in fact i told nate i may have to start calling him george.  just sayin’.

Brazil.

I am in Brazil and am safe. It is very nice here, a lot like the Dominican Republic weather-wise, the city is a lot bigger though. The base is a lot smaller then what I have been on in the past, but its nice. It is right out side the city so its kind of in its own little world, there are walls all around it. Today is only my second day here.  We all slept in then got put to work at around 9 this morning. Getting here went pretty well. I almost lost my wallet on the flight down to LA. It fell out in the plane and I went up to the Virgin America desk and asked and they had found it so I just had to go pick it up. Then it wasn’t that hard to check in then I just had to wait.  I talked to Jaylene on the phone for a bit in the LA airport. Then I got on the 11 hour flight; it wasn’t  bad Korean air is really nice with lots of leg room. I was sitting next to an older couple.  I was sitting for 11 hours strait that was hard. But I slept maybe 4 hours on the flight.  I watched a couple movies. It was good i got two meal a dinner and a breakfast and it wasn’t bad for airplane food.  i would tell you about the food here but I haven’t actually eaten a meal on base yet so i don’t know how it is yet .

Nate

 

Isaiah 41:13

“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.”

Somewhere out there.

Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight

Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there

And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

Somewhere out there if love can see us through
Then we'll be together somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true

And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

Somewhere out there if love can see us through
Then we'll be together somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true