Shaye turned 26!
I went to girl's camp (just for one evening) with the darling Young Women in our ward. They're all so darling!Maui Revealed from Shaye Scott on Vimeo.
We went to Maui for a week earlier in May and had the time of our LIVES!!! It was just Shaye and me on this beautiful, exotic island! If you haven't been to Maui before, I can't recommend it enough. I've been to Oahu, which I also loved, but Maui is my new favorite.
This is the lanai (or patio) attached to our hotel room. We had a spectacular oceanfront view and could always here the waves. There were sea turtles playing right on the beach. It was magical!
We went on this gorgeous 4 mile hike through the jungle, swatting mosquitoes the whole way. (I had 17 bug bites after this hike--I counted.) We hiked through this bamboo forest. It was crazy beautiful. Then at the end of the hike we ended up at the ginormous waterfall, (pictured below). It was an adventure!
I'm the tiny speck at the bottom. :)
At the Seven Sacred Pools in Haleakala National Park.
Sunset on the Road to Hana. Doesn't Shaye have mad skills with the camera?
This part of the island, Upcountry, was so mountainous and gorgeous, but didn't really look like Hawaii--maybe New Zealand or somewhere.
This is us on top of the Haleakala Crater. This is only 4 linear miles from the beach, but 10,034 above sea level! It was so peaceful and quiet up here and we could see Hawaii and Oahu from up here!
This is at a fun little restaurant we found on the beach in Lahaina. It was so yummy! I'm hooked on Poly food now!
Oh my goodness! Have you ever had Hawaiian shave ice? We heard about this place in Lahaina that had a PERFECT review history and decided to try it our first night--we went back every single night to try new flavors. This is not a snow cone, people! It has a texture similar to ice cream and all of the flavors taste EXACTLY like the real flavors. Amazing! Ululiani's Shave Ice is a MUST TRY if you're in Maui!
Sunset in Old Lahaina Town.A wise poet, Robert Frost, once wrote:
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— | |
| I took the one less traveled by, | |
And that has made all the difference. |
For the past few weeks Shaye's been working on his new short film, "Not Found". At first he started out shooting random footage in the hills by our house with his friend Kyle Fisher. Then from there they tried to fit their strange shots and dialogue into a plot. This movie should give you all a good laugh and give you insight into Shaye's strange brand of humor. Let me know what you think!
The other day I was reading my good friend Kenzee Anderson's blog and I came across this:
I really got to thinking about this and I wondered, am I laughing my way through life? Until about 3 years ago, laughing at my life's problems had not been a problem--not until we had a hard time getting pregnant. Admittedly, though I've had a lot of good laughs, I haven't had as many good laughs about this struggle as I should have...So I started looking for the humor...
I started to realize that one of the reasons I've had such a hard time with it is that I grew up with a lot of negative associations with infertile women. First impression--Sarai--she had to wait to conceive until she was 90 and had to watch Hagar have Ishmael in the meantime for her husband because she could not conceive. Not fun.
Then I thought of the movie Raising Arizona that I saw as a kid. In this movie, the woman finds out that she's infertile and then gets her husband to steal a baby for her so she can be happy again. Not exactly a stable image... (P.S. I'm making this movie sound like a horror flick, but it's actually a comedy.)
Even so, all joking aside, I've been blessed with Shaye, who is so good at making me laugh. I know that he cares about having a family just as much as I do, but he is always good at balancing me and helping me keep things into perspective. Just the other day I was feeling really weird because of a medication I'm on. I kept saying I felt weird and I was kind of moody and weepy. We were watching TV and Shaye was skipping through some commercials and all of the sudden this hospital commercial came on with a mom holding an infant and talking about the joys of motherhood and how you need a good hospital when you deliver. Shaye looked over at me hoping I hadn't seen it and then we both busted out laughing. I'm so lucky to have him.
Another example was the other night when we were at the table praying over our dinner. He said "please help us get pregnant with one baby when it is thy will." I had to laugh. Shaye knows that as we proceed further with treatments, our chances of multiples rises, (mostly the chance of twins...not sextuplets or Octomom style pregnancies)--which makes him a bit nervous, understandably. But I'm like--bring it on!
So until things work out, I'll continue to learn to laugh. We have so many things to be grateful for. If this is our trial for the moment, we're in pretty good shape. But I want to thank you, our friends and family, who've given us so much support. It's helped so much!
Hi Everyone! I hope you're all doing well! I was just realizing something fun and kind of crazy that I wanted to share with you all. As many of you know, I'm a PhD student at UNLV (earning my degree in British and American Literature). This semester I am taking two classes, which is only part-time, and I have approximately 800 pages to read each week. That translates to 21 novels, and about 12,000 pages in all.
I guess when you're a grad student in Literature they want you to read a lot. Weird. :) It's a good thing I love it! I have to admit though, I do miss the Read-A-Thons in elementary school when I could wear my pajamas and read the Boxcar Children and eat Swedish Fish and M&Ms... No, grad school is much different than that!