Mele Kalikimaka

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me - a Maui honeymoon!

Ashlee and I hopped over to the next island after being married on Oahu - Maui!  It was the best week ever - we caught some rays, relaxed, went swimming, ate local food (lots of fruit and a little fresh fish), drove all around the island, saw the 7 sacred pools, and hiked to waterfalls through bamboo forests!  It was perfect.  On Sunday we went to church and it was testimony meeting - a woman got up to speak and said she had gotten married in Hawaii and after 5 years her husband had taken her back to Hawaii every year.  It was pretty neat and a great idea. Hopefully I can do the same thing somday.

Thanks Ashlee for such a perfect memorable week!  Mele Kalikimaka!  I love you!

12 Gifts of Christmas

I have to apologize for not blogging earlier - not only have I never blogged before but Ashlee is great at it and I have been so busy in grad school I never made the time to start.  Its been almost a year and a half since Ashlee said yes so I think its time I started to share some of our love stories about being newlyweds.  I would be content to leave the sharing of our love stories to Ashlee - she is great at it, but every story has more than one side so I'm going to try blogging to help tell the stories in full. 

I am also starting to blog as a Christmas gift to Ashlee!  With both of us having grad school loans we are on a budget - you could say it is tight.  Last year, on our first Christmas together we got each other inexpensive gifts for the 12 days of Christmas!  This year, with more school loans, we are not spending any $ on gifts.  So, I decided to give gifts that don't cost any money but cost more important things like, time, thought, and self.  It is impossible to share all of our first year of marriage and a great start to our second, but I will try my best to share my side of our love stories as 12 gifts of Christmas to Ashlee!  (a picture tells a thousand words so I'll use a lot of pictures!)

Better late than never some believe so here I go:

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me - a Hawaiian wedding in Laie!

 

 

 

Thanks for marrying me Ashlee and making me the happiest boy in eternity!  It was the best day of my life and your love is the greatest gift I have ever received.  I hope you remember that day, our whole wedding, and how you felt, during this Christmas season.  Merry Christmas!  I love you!