Free Falling!!!!!

Growing up I was always a daddy's girl. I wanted to be just like my papa Don. Which is why he couldn't give me too much grief when I told him I was moving to Hawaii for 4 months since he did the same thing! So to take his example a bit farther I decided to "fall in his footsteps" my latest endeavor.......
SKYDIVING!Best thing I ever did! Everybody should go! I wasn't nearly as scared as I thought I'd be. It was AMAZING!!!!

I am officially the WORST blogger ever! But as I have said before I blame it all on the beaches and beauty of Hawaii! It has been the most amazing thing of my life! I am in LOVE with this island! This has been the best choice ever to come out here. I definitely miss my family and everybody at home but Oh my gosh I love this island! I am going to miss it SO much!

For the most part we have just been playing outsidedoing all sorts of stuff like hiking waterfalls....
Going to the surf competitions......Watching amazing sunsets....Riding all over the island on scooters!...

I have so much more to write and tell about but my bed is calling to me after a long day! I will definitely write more soon! Love you all and I'll see you soon!

Just some pictures for my people!

We get really board waiting for the bus!

The gang at Sunset

Me and my girl Kam! Love this girl so much!

The Foodland runs for ice cream at night!

Our Beach nights :) First trip to Honolulu!

Our first tie surfing here!

We tried to find Karaoke all night and this is the ghetto place we had been looking for!

My new favorite picture!

We decided we needed some new games to play at the beach cause we get too board laying out!... Enjoy!

Aloha!

I am so sorry I haven't posted! I guess all I can use as an excuse is this picture....
It is safe to say that I would rather look at this than my computer...believe it or not! This is my beach! I am lucky enough to say that this is about a 5 minute walk from my house. I have been here for about a month (can't believe its been that long by the way!) and out of those 36 days I have been to the beach 33 days! Ha. It is really hard to go a day without it. So basically we got here at about 10 pm Hawaii time after leaving Salt Lake about 5 in the morning. Long long day. We had a 8 hour layover in L.A. and we were already super tired. So we had our handy dandy Grey's Anatomy with us luckily and the lap top to watch it on! We were well prepared. We found a "cubby" if you will and stayed there practically the whole time....

But that flight and 8 hour layover was well worth it! Our awesome landlord came and picked us up and we made it home at about 10 that night. We got just enough unpacked to go straight to bed! Our house is pretty cute and we love the neighborhood and all of that. Needless to say the ocean. Its amazing! Anyone who needs a vacation please come out here and visit! Open invite. Its amazing.

So we promised ourselves that the first thing we would do is find a job. So, we decided to be grown ups and took the whole next day to look for jobs.... which actually turned into a 3 week long job search. It was ridiculous! There are NO jobs in the little town of Laie that I live in. So we finally looked outside of the town and after a month of being here I got my first paycheck! Which was very needed but sadly my first day was the last day of the pay period. but every little bit counts!

We finally made it to do the things we really want to instead of looking for dang jobs! So we laid out at the beach practically all day and got fried! Which was expected and I guess its all part of the experience right? Then later that day we wanted to go on a hike so this (on the right) is us at Wiamea Falls.... It was such a great day. We loved it.

So one of the best parts of Hawaii for us is that we nanny for our landlord. We get to watch the cutest kids ever! Tavita is 4 Malia is 2 and Shaylee is 5 months. They are the best kids ever and are adorable! I am going to take some better pictures of them and will post them soon for you guys to all be jealous :)

Love and miss you all like crazy! I promise I will be better at updating this in the future :)
Love always Danielle Sue!

With Love

With deepest regrets and prayers I would like to tribute those who lost their lives yesterday in the fatal plane crash. Every person on that plane lead a wonderful life and were serving others up to their last hours of life. May their families feel out prayers and know of our love and gratitude for their loved ones. May they rest in peace,

David White; Dr. Lansing Ellsworth; David Goddard; Mandy Johnson; Marcie Tillery; Valerie Imlay; Keith Shumway; Dallon Ellsworth; Camie Vigil; and Cecilee Goddard.

If you would like to leave regrets for the family please do so at the link below:
http://www.cedarcondolences.blogspot.com/

We will miss you and love you all...

Really?

About 6 months ago my amazing friends Kamry and Rachele and I made a pact that none of us would back out on Hawaii... Although we later talked about the more than likely situation that something would fall through and it wouldn't happen. I had my money that I was going to loose both of them to 2 young missionary's they had both been patiently waiting for but lucky for me it worked out to my advantage...

Is this happening, REALLY? I officially have 3 weeks until I will be sitting on my new and improved territory on the islands.... I can't even tell you how excited I am!
However, I have to sit back and admit how ironically sad I am to leave Cedar City Utah. Really? Am I honestly feeling sad when I moving onto much warmer and brighter things? :)
As a sophomore in high school, if you would have asked me where I would be in 5 years I would have had no clue, but I can assure you I was not thinking I would be leaving my home of 2 1/2 years in Cedar City Utah and taking off to the Islands... Really is this happening?
I feel like I am moving away from where I have grown up. And in a way that is a very true statement. I have done more growing up here in Cedar City than I did in my entire 17+ years in Sandy Utah. The times and lessons I have had here are completely priceless and I wouldn't trade them for the world. I will always remember a huge chunk of my heart left here in the Southern Utah (Now if thats not the cheesiest thing I have ever said)

I have had the most wonderful opportunity to work here as a Medical Assistant in a pediatric clinic that I have absolutely fallen in love with. I might already have this story on here but... I will never forget when I had my interview and they told me I was hired on the spot and Dr. Dowse (the owner/head physician) said "Welcome to our family!" I remember thinking really? They think of their office as family? How neat was that to hear as a 17 year old who had graduated early and left her family behind. Now it makes so much sense to me, they are my "Premier" family there and it is so much more than a job to me. I appreciate so much all I have learned there and how much fun I have had. Thanks so much for the knowledge and especially the laughs guys :)

I will write more about me leaving Cedar but more importantly my upcoming adventure of Hawaii!!!! Thanks for everybody that has helped make it happen :)
But once again.... is this happening, REALLY?!

Time...

There are moments I think, I have all the time in the world. And at other moments I think to my self, maybe the world really is flat and it is just a giant clock we are all walking around on and getting smacked in the butt by the second hand, leaving us flat on our faces. I'm not sure how to overcome that...

"Yes, time flies.
And where did it leave you?
Old too soon...smart too late."

Sometimes I find myself thinking "if I only knew then what I know now..." and then I remember how ridiculous that sounds because I am only talking from nearly 20 years of experience where as most people who express that statement have decades worth of experiences. So then that makes me think, what am I going to look back on in another 20 years and think the same statement about? My mind leads a very tangled web of thoughts. It is a very scary yet thrilling idea... There are so many answers that I won't learn or understand because of time...

.... When did this time thing start and how do we make it stop it?

On the other hand we all know Danielle and that with out time and a little push from those that do have it all figured out, this girl may not do anything more than travel her way through life taking still shots on her way that she might savor the moments without having to commit to keeping anything the same. As my father has told me many times, "Change is the only thing that is constant." I think I took that a little more literal than he would have liked.
My solution to this problem of feeling overwhelmed by the whole stressful time issue is to escape to Hawaii for four months with 2 of my best friends :) It sounded like a good idea to me at the time of about 4 am in the middle of last semester (aka the semester from hell) as Kamry and I were brainstorming escape plans. We thought about it and to be honest, I didn't think it would really happen but now that I am $750 and 4 new swimsuits into it , I'm now thinking there is nothing that could stop me. The Hawaii plan is slowly becoming real to me and coming into effect. I do have slightly more than some new bikinis as I do have my plane ticket and a contract and deposit down on a house. I leave to the islands on September 1st and don't return until December 22nd just in time for Christmas. I'm going with tow of the best people I know, Rachele Gardner and Kamry Maughn... the three amigo's are officially coming and Hawaii has no idea what is going to hit them :) We found a basement apartment right on the beach and a great landlord that has a cute little family we get to nanny the kids for a cut down on rent. Although that has all panned out , I still have to find a job which I heard can be very hard out there, I can use all the prayers you would like to offer !
In the mean time I am trying to figure out life's bigger plans like getting into nursing school. I have very high hopes of getting into Touro University. It is a small private university in Las Vegas. I have looked into it alot and it seems to be a wonderful school and I just have a really good feeling about it. So I hope at times like this I can trust my somewhat "broken in" instincts.
I am less than two weeks away from no longer being able to fall under the category of a teenager. And can I tell you how good that finally feels! I feel like I have been 19 for about 3 years now... I'm definitely ready for the break through.
The only downfall of me moving to Hawaii is that I am leaving Cedar City. I have now been here for almost two and a half years. Time is definitely one thing that I can say I have appreciated in this aspect. Cedar City has definitely become home to me and I have so many people to thank for that. Its funny you know, As much as I make fun of this small town feel, I can't tell you how much I have loved being a part of it. The hardest thing to leave here is my amazing job. I know, it just a job some say but it want to me, I have learned so much from it and will miss it so much. When I had my interview in April of 2006 my adorable manager Becky said to me, "Welcome to our family!" I remember talking to my mom right afterwards and telling her how good it felt to hear someone say that in a job setting and now that I have been there for this long, I can't imagine anything better to call my job but like a family. I will truly miss Premier Pediatrics.
Ok, enough with the sappy. I am taking the next big adventure in the life of Danielle Wright and that is.... escape into the land of pineapple and the deep sea.... deep deep sea...

The next Gate...

As a child you often say the words, "No! I can do it myself Mom, let me do it!"... Now that your an adult you begin to think the words,"Mom, just do it for me, make the decision for me" It is quite the change. You have your good and bad days and your good and bad decisions to make or break you. Thats the scary part, we aren't in elementary school anymore trying to decide what treat to pack in our lunch today or which of our hundreds of gadgets to take to show and tell. Nope, today I am actually making choices that will have an effect on my next 3 years of life. And that my friends, is scary as what I would have said in the fourth grade... "H.E. double hockey sticks."

Two years ago a girl named Danielle from Salt Lake made the decision that she wanted to move out and"see the world". So, she moved to good old Cedar City Utah. This was a very good choice indeed but a vegetarian, city girl an only hold out so long in a town with no mall and more talk of hunting than she can handle. It was time to see the bigger and better. She was able to make a decision on her own this time and inform her parents after (which actually went over better than expected). This change in "scenery" is going to be made at the end of her "so called summer" when she takes her suitcase, some of her best friends and her bathing suit to live in for 4 months in the land of pineapples and beautiful Polynesian men... Thats right. Hawaii. What more could a girl ask for? So, low and behold, one decision has been made. One she is very happy about. until then we are not exactly sure where she will be or what she will be doing. Her small country girl side just might kick in and she will stay in Cedar City this summer working at her job that she has grown to love more than is healthy for a collage job. But this all depends... We do know she will be finishing her pre-requisites by the end of this summer for the nursing program that she will apply for very soon. This dream of being a nurse has stayed strong while it has also completely kicked her butt (and is now throwing a tantrum in her face :) The dream will more than likely take her then to the city of lights, Las Vegas where she hopes to start the nursing program in July of 2009 at Touro University. (This is a private non-Government funded school so there will be an address attached accepting credit cards,cash and even checks made out to Danielle's dream fund:)
Will keep you all posted on how this portion of Danielle's crazy adventures pans out!
Love you all!