Life via Instagram! Finding my way to Hawaii and Happiness!

I'm linking up with Ashley over at Life Via Instagram. We all use it, it's amazing and makes us feel like professional photographers (sometimes). So, I guess I'm going to use it to tell a little story!

Born in the Lone Star State!

I have one sibling. This is Megan!

Graduated High School at the top of my class! 

This is my best friend, Sophia!

Spent a lot of my Senior year coming here. Ranger's Stadium

Decided I've lived in the Dirty-D for too long (Dallas, TX)
and learned SMU was not a good school for me

So I traveled a little (in a backpack)

Decided to live my dream and move to Hawaii and attend UH

My love also happened to get stationed here :) 

 

 Every part of this Island is BEAUTIFUL!

I've realized a love for rainbows (this is the view from our apartment window)

Now, I'm the happiest girl in the world. I'm going to school, married to my soul mate, living in paradise, and enjoying every little moment. 

instagram username: @briamtomlin

"Its Ok"

Thank goodness it's already going to be Friday! Any special plans for this memorial weekend? Mike and I have a few things we wanna do and you'll just have to wait until Monday to see what those things are! Until then, I'm trying my first link-up!

So, it's ok...

 That I'm completely addicted to Vera Bradley

That I'm going through a Taylor Swift phase (WTF!)

That I still call my mother's home in Texas "home"

That I can't work my husband's PS Vita

That I'm addicted to chocolate milk 

That I don't do ANYTHING all day. Dean's List two semesters in a row, I deserve it! 

That I had Taco Bell last night for dinner (first time in six months)

That I've already started a packing list for my travels to Texas and Japan

That there will be one less person living with me soon

Photo Shoot (teasers)

Remember when I told y'all Mike and I were gonna have a photo shoot soon? Well we finally did yesterday with Beckie. She's a great photographer and we had a BLAST! I can tell they're going to be amazing and I can't wait until we get the rest. Here are just some photos she posted on facebook in her teaser folder. Check her out y'all at https://www.facebook.com/BeckieGPhoto

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Not all of them were in uniform, we also took some in "normal" people clothes. Like I said, I had TONS of fun and we will definitely be getting photos taken of us by her again. 

I promise I'll post pictures of the Shark Cage excursion soon!
 

IT'S SUMMER TIME!

Since I've last been on here I was stressed, waiting for my amazing husband to get home and trying to find the time to get my Spring semester over with. Well all of that stuff is in the past and today is my fifth day of summer!

These are my updates on...everything! On Friday I took my last Final at 7:30 in the morning! Mike didn't have work so that was nice, we hung out mostly. On Saturday we got in a SHARK CAGE! It was the most amazing experience ever and I'm so happy we decided to do that. Mikey got stung by a jellyfish, he said the initial stung hurt, but after the swelling went down he was fine. Picture's will be uploaded soon along with a video (maybe the camera added like 20lbs to us) We drove around North Shore, ate at Serg's in Waimanalo, and started making putting together our Mother's gifts for Mother's Day. We bought the "Collage It" tumblers from Starbucks and put pictures of our childhood, siblings and more recent pictures.

These are our baby pictures! We were so cute!!!

I've apparently always been a little girly girl with bows, polka dots, dresses and...who got me a gold ring!?

Mikey, well, we have Mickey and Minnie plates we use for breakfast. We were adorable little babies and I hope that means we will have adorable children.

We have a lot planned for the next couple of weeks and I'm super excited! My friend Laurie will be moving out here next month and she will be staying with us until she finds her own place. She will also be starting school with me at UH. 

Japan Update: I GOT MY PASSPORT! It only took about a week and a half too! Which is amazing! I love you, Hawaii! 

I finally got my "Marine Wife" key chain, now Mikey can actually call me "moto." I guess you kinda have to be when this is your life. I got it from The D.O.D and Me she does and AMAZING job and it doesn't take long at all to get your order! 

Last, but definitely not lease! I finally got one of my wedding bands back. We were gonna wait until we had the full ceremony with all our family, but we're married now so why not? The reason why I say one is because we ordered two, one to go on each side of my engagement ring. I just got this one back from being resized (I'm a size five) and I'm still waiting on the other one that had to be special ordered then sent for resizing. P.S. Sorry for the up close and personal picture of my chubby finger that's also a bit hairy!

So I'm working on getting those pictures developed. I can't wait to share the full shark cage experience with y'all! I definitely recommend it to anyone that lives here or is coming to visit! Have a good week y'all!