We found a home!!!!!!

I cannot express to you how happy I am right now! It only took 2 weeks but we did it. We will be living in a 2 bedroom townhouse in a GREAT neighborhood everything included (Electric, H20, and parking) for $1395/month!

I know that might seem so HIGH to all you folks in AZ because we could have a 3300 sq/ft house for that a month, but here in HI that is SO CHEAP! We seriously lucked out! I am so happy! Now we have an extra room so people can come and visit us! :) Yes, please everyone come and visit if you can! You can stay with us and hang out with me! :)

What an adventure....

We are staying in the Ala Moana Hotel and we'll be here until Friday. We are about a 5 min walk to the beach, and get this, if you go to the second floor of our building you can walk straight to the mall! Too bad we are starving students and I can't take full advantage of that. :( We are on the 23 floor and have a great view of Honolulu. It is truly amazing to me how many skyscrapers there are here. It's a BIG city! And every street starts with a "K" and it's so hard to figure out how to say the words because they don't look anything like the way they're spelled. haha but it's fun...

Sunday Brint and I went to the North Shore of the island where the Temple and BYU Hawaii are. It was absolutely beautiful. We got a few pictures...

State Flower

The LDS Temple

We also found out that the temple is getting renovated right now and will not be open until August of 2010. We were so sad when we heard that. :(

BYU Hawaii

These pictures below are from our tour of the island we did on Monday with the school.

We went to a Macadamia farm and Brint got to crack open his own Macadamia nuts and eat them. He was so excited!

So that's the adventure so far. Birnt has started orientation already and so I have just been hanging out and laying out... I must say I am getting pretty tan. :) I really don't have anything else to do but to lay out. I know, tough life right?

Aloha

We are here and made it safe and sound! It was quite an ordeal getting here... but we made and and are relaxing (finally)!

Let me give you a little run-down of how everything went for us getting to Hawaii. On Tuesday Brint and I left with my car, dad's big red truck, and a HUGE trailer for a Cali to go and drop off all of our stuff at the docks so it can get shipped to Honolulu. Well everything was going great until 9:30am Wednesday morning, we get to the warehouse that we needed to drop all of our goods off at and found out that we packed 3 times as much stuff as we could take! So if you know me, I stared panicking and almost started crying because they were going to charge us an additional $5,000 to take everything we brought. YEAH! So I started going through stuff and figuring out what we could "really" live without and what we needed. The guy comes back out and says that he would take everything for $3,500. So after much thought and talking to Brint's parents we decided to seal the deal. (That is the start of the bad day...)

So then we had another hour drive to the dock where we were dropping the car off at, and we get there and they didn't have us on the records. The people we booked through forgot that tiny little step in our paperwork and so we had to wait 2 1/2 hours until everything went through. So instead of getting home at 2PM we got home at 9PM. We were DEAD! Brint was late for his Guy's night that his friends were planning for him so that really sucked.

We had all day Thursday to say our goodbye's and get finished packing and then we were off Friday morning at 10:55AM. We are still so dead tired from this past week... but we're in paradise so I guess I should just stop complaining now. :)

Anyway, If you have not left a comment stating that you would like to continue checking out our blog, please do. We are going Private on Monday 8/17/09.

Going private! ASAP

Hey everyone, I am going private.... Please leave me your email addresses or you can email me at breahiatt@gmail.com to let me know that you would like to view my blog.

The reason I have decided to do this is from an email I got from a good friend telling this experience:

Brooks Blog

Hey family and friends!! I am going private REALLY SOON. I never thought I would...but I just experienced a really big freak out. Leave your email info ASAP if you want to keep in touch with our family via blog. I WANT TO HAVE THIS THING CLOSED IN THE NEXT 7 DAYS!

I just let a friend of mine know why I am in such a frenzy to set my blog private. She encouraged me to let you all know what happened so you too, can be educated about this new search engine recently launched by Microsoft. I'm going to be blunt and bold about this SERIOUS situation we are dealing with people...

I have SITE METER attached to my blog spot but unfortunately I have been really bad about checking it for unusual visiting sites this past year. To be honest, I have always been very trusting and thought that I could never be the one whom wackos actually target and stalk so I rarely have made efforts to check. Tonight I chose to click into it and directly on the first page I noticed an unusual website that had viewed my blog. Curiously, I clicked onto it to see what it was. The site contained dozens and dozens of images. I began looking closer at them and come to find out there were some VERY inappropriate pictures. I clicked out of the site immediately and sat there talking to Brett about my concerns. We both became VERY worried. The more I sat there, THE MORE SICK TO MY STOMACH I WAS. IF THIS PAGE HAD DIRECT AFFILIATION TO MY BLOG, THEN THAT MEANS THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT THEY HAVE A PICTURE OF MY KIDS OR FAMILY ON THAT PAGE. With out hesitation, I went right back to that page. I was so scared of what I was going to find. There were hundreds of pictures on that page and I looked through each one very quickly but efficiently when all of a sudden I FOUND A PICTURE OF MY SWEET TAYLIN. Yes, a picture of my sweet Taylin on the same page as pornographic AND child perverted pictures. I then returned BACK to my site meter to look for other sites in direct affiliation with my blog. I found a different website that had come to my page 5 TIMES THAT INCLUDED A PICTURE OF RIDGE WITH HIS LITTLE BUNS SHOWING AS HE WAS SITTING ON THE TABLE DOING DISHES. I'm just sick right now. My sweet innocent children so exposed. I FEEL SO VIOLATED AND SCARED.
I immediately googled the website BING to find out more about what it is. I then went to WWW.VOICEFORTHECHILDREN.BLOGSPOT.COM to see if I could find anything. Here is an explanation of what this website is.

BING:

The major problem with Bing is that it has brought pornography directly into your home or office. Porn is no longer a few clicks away.

When you search on Bing, you no longer have to click to go to a different website to view porn. All you have to do is roll over the thumbnail image of the video on the video will begin to play snippets of the pornographic video.
Imagine the harmful effects if a child is searching on Bing and merely rolls over the image and instantly the child is watching a porn video.

This is completely unacceptable and irresponsible of Microsoft to launch a program such as this without a solution to block pornographic videos.

DO NOT USE BING AND ESPECIALLY DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SEARCH ON BING!!

*Do yourselves a favor and add VOICEFORTHECHILDREN to your blog. My uncle, Jeremy Geigle, is President of Arizona Family Council and between him and a few other family members, they are SO diligent about keeping this blog up to date. They want nothing more than to educate all of us on how we can keep our families safe and protected from the pornographic world.

As ruthless as it is, I hope I DID scare a lot of you. We stay so sheltered and ignorant thinking it will never happen to us...but let me tell you people, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IS EVERYWHERE. Let me remind everyone too that Phoenix now is the #1 kidnapping capital in America.

Please everyone be aware....

Thanks,

B