new things

New things in the Myers household!

Ben and I have new callings!  Ben is now an Assistant Ward Clerk over Finances and I am the new Relief Society Secretary.  We are excited and we love the ward that we are a part of.  After just a few weeks we have already seen our schedules get a little busier!

Also, I have a little change at work.  What I want to be doing is Activities.  When I was hired, they only had room for me to do Activities one day per week, and I've been working in the Dining Room and at the Front Desk other days.  Well, as of tomorrow, I am a full-fledged Activities Assistant and I will do Activities 4 days each week!  Probably a 5th at the Front Desk, but I'm not sure yet.  Anyway, woo hoo!

And here's a picture for good measure.  Giant's game a few weeks ago with the awesome hats they were giving out.

if you only knew

I didn't love my body for a lot of years, but I love it now.  I wish I could instill in every human being a love for their body, a precious gift from our Heavenly Father while we're on this earth.  If you only knew how wonderful and how loved you are for being exactly who you are.

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my brother is a missionary now

It was a unique weekend in just about every way, and now Scott is on his way to the MTC to prepare to serve in the Florida Tallahassee Mission.

muir woods

Ben and I have several day trip adventures that we would love to do, but because I work on Saturdays they just haven't been possible.  We both were off of work on July 5th and we just had to take one of our trips!

Marin County/Muir Woods.

We stopped in Mill Valley for some excellent fish tacos.  I am totally on a taco kick this summer.

And then we went to Muir Woods National Monument to hike.  It was so beautiful there!  So green and moist because of the Bay Area fog.  Most of the 3 mile hike was in the shade too, so, uh, that was awesome!

After hiking, we drove a little ways on beautiful Highway 1 to Stinson Beach for our picnic dinner.

more hawaii pictures

This is my floppy sun hat that I wore every day in a concerted (and successful) effort to avoid sunburn.

This is the shave ice that we had several times a day.  Oh and my cute dad and brother.

This is another cute brother.  I love this picture!

These are brothers again.  Scott leaves for his mission in 10 days!

This is the cutest sister to have ever walked the planet.  I mean, come on.  This is a great picture.

This is . . . yeah.

This is my-family-that-I-love-so-much!

sweetest two years

These past two years of marriage to my sweetheart have been the sweetest two years of my life, and last night was nothing different.  When I left work, I swung by home to pick up Ben so we could celebrate with a little anniversary dinner downtown, and this is how I found him in the parking lot.  Flowers in hand.  It was the sweetest moment of my day!  How I love that man!

Last night Ben suggested that we make this week our "anniversary week" . . . so basically we get to celebrate for a whole week!  I'll keep you posted.  ;)

ko olina

Oh, Hawaii, you have treated us well!

Ben and I arrived on Friday afternoon in Oahu to meet my family and Ganon's family at the Marriott Resort at Ko Olina for a fabulous week!  I'll give you a short play-by-play, but I'll let the pictures tell most of the story.

Friday - No pictures.  We got to the resort in the early afternoon and spent the rest of the day swimming in the resort pools and ocean cove.  The pools had a fun waterslide and several waterfalls and the cove had a perfect little beach with lots of chairs and no waves.  Ben and I wore ourselves out playing with all of the kids this day - Ben threw the little girls in the air what seemed like hundreds of times, and whatever I did with little Andrew he would say "Again! Again!"  

Saturday - No pictures.  Today we drove several miles to a beach in Kaena Point State Park to snorkel and play in the waves for the first half of the day.  As always, snorkeling with Dad is awesome.  We spent the rest of the day in the pools and at the beach at the resort.

Sunday - We went to the local ward in the morning, where, of course, I ran into a girl I had had several classes with at BYU.  Small world in the Church. 

Here we are outside the church building.

After Church we started our drive around the island (counter-clockwise, mind you).

Our first stop was the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

This is Lady Columbia, a statue representing all grieving mothers.  It says "The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice on the altar of freedom."

Then we drove to Pali Lookout.  It was very pretty and very windy.

Lunch in a park was next, and then we went to the LDS Temple.

These are all the ladies on our trip.

And these are all the men.

The last stop on our trip around the island was Matsumoto's Shave Ice.  We went a total of three times during our week on Oahu and Ben and I both came home with Matsumoto's t-shirts.

Because we spent most of Sunday driving, I thought this would be an appropriate place for pictures of our rental car . . I mean van . . I mean . . bus.  It has 4 rows of seats and seats 12 people.  Here are a few pictures to give you a little taste of what it was like to travel in the "white elephant."

Also on Sunday I started to get sick.  Boo.

Monday - We hung out the resort all day!  Ben and I had fun playing with the kiddos again (no really - "again! again!"), and we had some good beach reading time too.

We BBQ'ed that night.  Cute, Dad.

On Monday I started taking Mucinex.  That's when I know I have a cold.  

Tuesday - I felt the most sick this day.  Mom, Dad, Scott, Doug, and Ben went snorkeling at "Electric Beach" this morning.  I was way bummed to miss out, but it sounds awesome!  There is a power plant that uses ocean water to heat their system (or something like that . . ) and a big pipe pipes the water back into the ocean.  All the fish hang out on/around/at the end of the pipe because the water is extra warm.

I didn't really want to get in the water this day so I suggested we go to Pearl Harbor or something.  It worked out perfect.  We got there too late to get tickets, but we stood in the standby line for about 20 minutes and then we all got in to see the movie and take the boat out to the USS Arizona.  I think we all enjoyed this afternoon a lot.

Wednesday - We went to Waimea Beach for the morning.  It was beautiful!  Some people jumped off this rock into the ocean (heck no, not me), everyone had a ton of fun playing in the waves, and I was still feeling under-the-weather so I sat under my beach umbrella and read, thoroughly enjoying myself!

We left when it started to rain!

And that is the end of my pictures.  Mom took a lot more than me so I'll give a link to her blog when she posts about Hawaii.

Thursday - I was feeling much better this day and I had a blast!  Mom, Dad, Scott, Doug, Tom, Ben, and I went snorkeling for a few hours at Three Tables Beach - we loved it.  Then went back to Waimea because we had enjoyed it so much the day before.  We got lunch at the taco truck (mmmm-mmmm!) and played in the waves for a few hours.  This was my favorite day.

Friday - We flew back to the Bay Area.  :(

Great trip all around!  Thanks Mom and Dad for taking us!