Paintballing

This past weekend we got invited to go paintballing with some friends.

Confession time. I've never in my whole life been paintballing. 

Kade was so disappointed! Hahaha. 

I really had no interest in doing it to be honest... This time or any other time. I heard it hurts when you get hit and you get massive welts. Not interested. 

After much asking and prodding, and a huge, fluffy, man-sized down coat being brought out, I somehow got roped into it.

I had no idea what to expect!! I really was so nervous. Sweaty palms, shaky knees, the whole bit. Plus, I was playing with 15 guys who were really into this stuff. I mean, reeeeaally into this stuff. 

We played in a forest and the second they shouted GO and I ran through the trees SO fast to the biggest one and hid behind it. I don't even think I shot the gun once. But hey! I didn't get hit! 

After that I started warming up and using the gun and running around and shooting and stuff. I felt so cool.

I only lasted a couple rounds. I was melting in that huge coat. I wanted to play more but there was absolutely no way I was going without that thing. 

I only got hit one time and it skimmed the sleeve of the coat so I really actually never got hit. It was awesome. 

 Here is the big coat of awesome. I give this guy 2 big thumbs up.

Just looking all hardcore and stuff. 

Aaaaand then totally killing the hardcore vibe. Haha!

In all of these pictures I was totally smiling and then trying to have a straight face and look all cool and then after looking at them I realized you can't even see our faces. Hahahaha *face palm*. 

After the experience I had, I'd definitely play paintball again. Assuming the big, man coat gets to come with, of course. 

We went "upcountry" to play and have our little bonfire. It is unreal up there. I wish pictures would do it justice but they just don't!! 

It is incredible. 

And cold. It was super nice to put on actual shoes (with socks!!!) and wear jeans.

Our weenie roastin', mallow toasting view.

Hooray for paintballing, not getting hit while paintballing, pretty sunsets, and marshmallows! 

Halloween

Halloween this year was kind of different. Besides the fact that we weren't home... I didn't get to eat my mom's uhhhmazeballs donuts (that's 3 years in a row!!!! It's a crime!), we didn't have any trick-or-treaters, aaaand we were in bed by 10. 

It felt so bizarre. 

We're lame. We didn't even buy candy for trick-or-treaters because we didn't expect any. Which ended up being a good thing because, like I said, we didn't have a one! 

We went to the ABC Store at like 9:30 because I was dying for a Reese's Peanut Buttercup (HAHA) and we didn't have any so we walked down our street and there wasn't a soul in sight! It was so dead! 

That was so strange to me because at home the party is still going all hours of the night ya know? 

Anywayyyyyy.... 

Instead of dressing up on actual Halloween, we dressed up for our ward's trunk or treat. 

This was the result of a last minute Target run. 

The pizza is a children's small and was the last one... But I think it turned out alright...

We got pretty into it when we were figuring out our trunk though. We made a pretty legit oven! Complete with actual Pizza Hut pizza boxes!! That we were totally willing to pay for! Hahaha oh geez. The nice filippino lady gave them to us for free btw.

This is pretty much the only picture we took with it... So you can't even see the detail or the blood and tears on our display! 

Just kidding.

It did look pretty legit, though.

Our carved pineapples turned pretty swell too! 

I'm a total fan of that. They're a tad more challenging to carve (read way mega sticky and messy) but they looked so cool! 

Don't worry, we made sure to carve them at someone else's house. ;)  

They smelled so good!

Just to keep it traditional we did carve our pumpkin from the patch. But I liked the pineapple way better.

Bummer is, they rotted so fast (darn humidity) that we had to throw them away like 3 days after we carved them.

Actual Halloween ended up being a pretty laid back night, which I wasn't mad about. And there was no sugar hangover the next day!

Slightly bummed about that....

Hope your Halloween was as cheesy as ours! :)

HAHA.

The Pumpkin Patch

THERE IS A PUMPKIN PATCH HERE IN MAUI.

I felt the need to put that all in caps because this was a big deal.

I got all pouty for a minute thinking that because we're in Hawaii we won't get to do all the fun fall things, which is still partially true. But, it's fine. Some things I can live without doing. For instance... wearing cute boots and drinking hot chocolate on the reg, because it's still hotter than Hades here and so I don't really feel like doing that.

I really was sad about missing out on pumpkins though!! Lucky for us, we have awesome friends with little kids so they knew about the fun pumpkin patch wayyy up on the mountain. 

Speaking of way up on the mountain... LOOK at this view. Just look! You could see pretty much the whole island. It was insanely beautiful. 

It really was an awesome, little pumpkin patch.

I was all for picking like 6 pumpkins and taking them all home and carving the crap outta them! 

How do you ever pick just one anyway!?

But then Kade told me that in Hawaii you carve pineapples and watermelons instead... Soooooooo that should be interesting. 

In the end we only got one. 

But it's a good one. A real good one.  

And now I'm feeling much better about this whole "fall in Hawaii" thing. 

Side note: I promise I don't always look like such a scrub! In probably the last 5 pictures Kade and I have taken together I am basically wearing the exact same outfit. I actually do wear clothes that don't say Vivint Solar on them. Hahaha. 

It just happened to be Take Your Wife to Work Day. So I gotta rep ya know? 

10:00

For probably the past 4 nights and a row Kade and I have gone to bed at 10. 

And I'm not meaning deciding to go to bed at 10 and then brushing our teeth and getting into bed and looking at Instagram and going to bed at 11:30. 

I mean both dead asleep, out cold, at 10:00 pm.

One night it was even 9:30!! I kid you not. I have pictures to prove it! But, then I realized that they are pictures of us in bed and that would be weird to post them. Haha.

Sometimes it really is just so good. And then sometimes I feel like a total chump! 

We're a fun-loving, young, hip, newlywed couple! (ugh. maybe not after that comment...) We should be out on the town! Partying with all of our friends and hanging out and doing fun stuff!

Aaaaaand then I remember we live in Hawaii. Where there isn't much of a night-life. And we have no friends. 

Hahahha. Just kidding. We really do have friends! They just all have babies and work schedules and things to do. 

So. We usually hang out at home. Which is totally fine! Here is the really pathetic part though... We'll start a movie or a show at 9 and both of us are struggling to make it to the end! 

We're such a married couple. 

On the bright side, this is probably the only time in my whole adult life that I have ever actually hit the full 8-10 hours of sleep. It's quite nice. 

There's the married person talking....

Please, please tell me we aren't alone in this. 

Lilikoi

Lilikoi. Aka passion fruit, the nectar of the Gods, yummy yumness, whatever you want to call it. 

I had never had it and really didn't even know what it was before coming to Hawaii and I was definitely missing out. This stuff is GOOD. 

It's a cute, yellow ball fruit full of amazingly tasting gooey stuff inside. It has seeds that give it the perfect amount of texture to offset the sliminess. 

Sounds appetizing right? HAHA! I swear it's good.

What is so funny is that it grows like weeds around here! People think of it as more of a nuisance and nobody really cares for it. Which is sad but also fine, cause like, more for me, ya know? 

We visited our friends last week and stocked up on soooo many from their yard. Of course I didn't get a picture so just trust me on this one.

So, since we have a fatty pile of lilikoi, this is the concoction that I've come up with. With a little inspo from my good friend, Steph!

Looks a little gross. But it's not, promise.

It's plain greek yogurt, cottage cheese, looooooots of lilikoi, and a tad of agave to sweeten it up if your fruit is tart. 

It's my go-to for a quick and easy snack. 

yum.

Haleakala

Since Kade and I have recently moved to the island, we like to go exploring and actually see where we live! We usually do a new hike or go to a new beach or something new every week. 

One of our most recent adventures was going to the top of Mount Haleakala to watch the sunrise. 

That involved getting up the mountain and getting up there earlier enough to see the sunrise. That meant 3:50 AM! 

Nobody should ever get up that early.

But, we did. 

After a forever long car ride of complete blackness and a really small, windy road, following like 30 other cars, we made it to the top! 

And it was cold.

I don't know if Hawaii has softened me up, or it really was just that cold. But, man! Who would've thought Hawaiian temperatures could reach as low as 40 somethin' degrees. Not this chick. 

So anyway, we waited for the sunrise, and waited, and waited....

sunned out. sorry, kade.

It was the coolest thing being above everything else and being able to see the whole entire island from one spot. It was amazing!

It was way cold and way, super early but it was so worth it.

The nap after wasn't too bad either. ;)

Tarzan

I'd like to introduce the newest member of the Hansen family!!

I named him Tarzan. He's cute huh??

Older than the hills. Smells like it too. But runs like a champ and it drives. 

Big deal, folks. 

I have been without a car ever since we've been in Hawaii. So a couple of months now. Which is totally fine! People do it all the time, for wayyyy longer periods of time than me, and by choice. Totally cool. 

Buuuuut, ya see. I've been stuck in our teeny, baby apartment where only so many treats can be made a day, so many counters can be wiped off, and so much homework can be done. 

I've walked plenty of places, mind you. But walking a good distance with arms full of groceries isn't ideal. Plus, it's so darn hot! And I'm a little bit lazy. 

So, with open arms I welcomed Tarzan into the family. 

Bless him and his funky smell. 

WELL.

Well hi! Hello! Man, it's been a while. I feel like I've had these posts pretty frequently in my blogging career. I'll be on a role and postin' with pictures and being great and what not and thennnnnn it dies. So then I'll resurface a couple of months later and we repeat the process. Haha! Funny. 

(Does that say something about me...?) 

So, last time I posted (or my mom posted) I was still an LDS missionary! And now, here we are 10 months later and I'm married and living in Hawaii! Woah. 

There is SO SO much filling in and updating and catching up to do and it overwhelms me so much that it's enough to throw me back into my blogging absence before I've even fully come back. HA! 

So we're just going to skip to now. And I'll get around to the past 10 months soon. Or not. Whatever. 

I'm trying to give this blog a facelift so I've googled a bunch of stuff (because how else does anyone do anything?!) and I've come across more than a few websites that say you should to brand your blog. Like, give it theme ya know. Like, food blog, fashion blog, mommy blog, or whatever other kinds of blogs there are. This blog has whatever I feel like putting on here sooo I guess that categorizes it as a lifestyle blog? That just sounds so daunting... If you consider randomness a lifestyle then I think we'll be alright.

Phew. 

I'm gonna call it good for today. Haha what a chump. Ah well, another day with bring a great post with lots of goodness. I'll just leave with one of my most favorite pictures from our wedding. I'll get around to introducing Kade and telling our story eventually. :)

I love this guy.