Finding JOY in the JOURNEY...: Happy Birthday to ME!

November 29, 2010

Happy Birthday to ME!

Wow...I am 34 years old!!! Actually I don't really feel any older but I do feel wiser ;) I decided to kick of my Birthday weekend in Kona in the only place in the world that I can find total peace in this world...the TEMPLE! I flew over Thursday afternoon and spent the evening there. I stayed overnight and then got up bright and early to send my Birthday morning communing with the LORD! I really think this needs to be my new tradition. Wake up and startof celebrating my birth by doing the Lord's work! I said goodbye to my sweet temple worker sisters (as Laie will be opening and I wont be back until next year) and said "see ya later" to my Kona Temple. I admit I cried a little but then focused on my beautiful Laie Temple that is opening in a few days!!!

The night of my birthday is also the night of my Wedding Anniversary. Lee and I go to 21 Degrees North (fine dining restaraunt @Turtle bay) every year and my sweet and amazing best friend in the whole world offered to take me there for my Birthday:) Lee loves Alii almost as much as I do and was so happy to know that he would take me out to celebrate. Lee sent me sucha beautiful Birthday/anniversary card that told me to PROMISE to have fun and celerate my life becuase that is what Jesus would want...and to not be sad. I was a little sad but had so many wonderful things to keep me smiling. Alii and I talked andlaughed and ate yummy food and it really was the perfect way to spend the night!

I told the waitress that I dont eat sugar/carbs and she said her sister was on a similar diet. Well when we asked for hte check, she brrought out this amazing and beautiful dessert for me!!! I am in the stage where I can have a small amount of berries so this was perfect. She ot a very nice TIP!!!!

Saturday we celebrated my irthday with Sara nd the kids. I wanted to get in the Christmas spirit so we went to Wondward mall to participate in their fun Christmas activites. We ate breakfast at IHOP first then I got a mani/pedi while Sara and the kids played:)

The got to see Geoffery the giraffe from Toys-R-us...

Made Chritmas ornamnets and bags while watchign the Nutcracker...

And we played in he "snow" that was coming out of the top of the Christmas tree...aka Bubbles!

All in all it was a wonderful Birthday and I am truly blessed. I only have one more without my hubby but really he comes home three weeks later so I think I will change my Birthday/Anniversary to Decemer 11th next year:D

3 comments:

Janet said...: I'm so happy you had a wonderful birthday.....and you are looking AWESOME!!!!; 11:53 AM
Emerson Experiment said...: Shoots! What a smart waitress you had...I'm so glad your bday was the bomb...

Dec 13th is good for me!; 11:31 AM
hine.T said...: I loooved your birthday and that you were able to spend it with the next best thing to your hubby (Ali'i). That is awesome! Top it off with a dessert from someone who understands...again...LOOOVED your birthday! :); 9:02 AM

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Once upon a time...

Mibi grew up in Laie and attended Kahuku High and Lee grew up in Haleiwa and Mililani and attended Mililani High. Mibi went to College at BYU-Hawaii and then served a mission in the Utah Ogden Mission before meeting the man of her dreams. After school, Lee jumped into the workforce looking for his career and eventually ended up working for Mibi's family flower shop at Turtle Bay while Mibi was serving her mission...and never thought that this job would lead him to his "Angel". We met in Septmeber of 2001 after I returned home from my mission. I came back to the flower shop to manage things for my Mom and Lee had left to pursue his education. Well a few months later, Lee's education path didn't take the direction he had hoped and instead life lead him back to Turtle Bay. The first thing he did was call Mom to get his job back and of course she said YES. So, I was Lee's boss and there was an instant friendship...it felt as if we had known each other our entire lives. We kept it strictly business for a few weeks and then one night I was gong to make a Wal-Mart run after work and called him to see if he wanted to come along. His phone was busy (the days before call waiting) and I almost gave up...but after a few more tries he picked up and from that night on we were inseperable. I think we told each other our life stories that night and we both knew then that our lives would never be the same! Over the next year, we formed a deep love and respect for each other which kept us connected through a few rough patches and across the ocean as Mibi moved back to Utah. Finally after a year of being best friends, we both realized that there is no one on earth we would rather be with than each other! We were a couple for about two years when Lee proposed to me and we tied the knot at the exact place we first met...the same hotel the flower shop was located when we worked there...TURTLE BAY. And to add to our JOY, we have a beautiful daughter Savannah (Lee's biological and Mibi's spiritual daughter ) who we just ADORE! She is so smart, funny, outgoing, a jabberbox like her Dad and just the cutest thing you have ever seen!!! We also are praying that we can give her a little brother or sister sometime in the next year or two!!! Until then we have a Doberman (Kayla) and a cat (Shadow) that we spoil rotten and of course all of our Nieces and Nephew's. It has been almost 8 years of wedded bliss and although we have had our ups and downs, each experience has made us grow more in love with each other and are still each others best friend!