In the picture, is the beach we will be getting married on in Maui!
August 31, 2009
April 1, 2009
Our Engagement, 3-29-09
On our second day in Maui we woke up at 3:30 AM to drive The Road to Hana. Justin was hoping to make it to this east coast town by 6 AM so that we would be able to watch the beautiful sunrise together. However, little did we understand at the time, this is a LONG road, which switches often from two lanes to one, and has continuous curves the entire way...oh and...the speed limit is 15 mph for most of the way! This is not for those, like me, with an ever so slightly off equilibrium!
As Justin was speeding along these continuous switchbacks to try to beat the sun...it slowly began to rise along the way. We were bummed but still determined to have a great day! We reached Wai'anapanapa State Park at about 6:45 AM only to find out that it doesn't even open until 7:30! By this time, we were starving hungry and decided to continue on into Hana and see what it was all about and more importantly grab a bite to eat.
Hana is a small town on the east coast of Maui. When I say small, I mean small! Every "city" building in Hana is green...and literally if you were to blink too long you would definitely miss it!
This is Hana... Just in one building, you had the real estate office, town bank, and post office side by side! Another building was a restaurant, and another a general store. There was one small gas station where we paid $3.90 for gas.
We could not find an open restaurant...or just a restaurant really for that matter... to save our hunger. We finally found a resort hotel as we were driving down the road, and the smell of breakfast food quickly consumed our convertible. They still didn't open for another 20 minutes but we patiently waited it out. Breakfast was soooooo yummy! I had pancakes with coconut syrup and a fresh cup of Kona Coffee. Justin had an omlet & potatoes. It was a bit spendy...but by this point we were so hungry, with such limited options, that we didn't really care.
Once we were done eating, we made our way back to Wai'anapanapa State Park. This park has the most beautiful black sand beach in all of Maui! We arrived shortly after 8 AM and had this small beach cove all to ourselves. It was absolutely gorgeous!
After sitting and admiring the beautiful landscape for some time, and taking a lot of pictures of course, I went to play and write some things in the sand. I would write and then snap pictures and was basically caught up in my own little world with a stick in one hand and a camera in the other.
I thought Justin asked me to go and get something out of my backpack...but he says I meandered back that way all on my own. As I was heading back towards our stuff, I began to notice something in the sand that I hadn't written. As I slowly approached the words, I looked hard to try to make out what they said. Once I realized what they said I started jumping up and down with a smile on my face from ear to ear! I turned around to see where Justin was and he was already down on one knee with the ring box out and a smile across his face. For being "unspontaneous" the proposal completely caught me off guard.
Of course I said YES!
This is my Hawaiian engagement ring. It is so pretty! We bought this ring while we were there, since my real engagment ring does not yet have the center diamond. How lucky am I?!?!
Shortly afterwards, people started showing up to the beach here and there...and within an hour or so...it was busting at the seams with tourists. We did some exploring in and around the lava rocks and lava tubes and then headed on our way south for some more adventures.
Now as "Snickerdoodle" put it... We will soon be JD2.
It is our hope to get married on this beach, one year from today, in the presence of immediate family.
Makena Cove, Maui, Hawaii
April 2, 2010
Anyways, this is my super hot fiancee...
and his soon to be bride.
We can't wait to share our lives together!
As Justin was speeding along these continuous switchbacks to try to beat the sun...it slowly began to rise along the way. We were bummed but still determined to have a great day! We reached Wai'anapanapa State Park at about 6:45 AM only to find out that it doesn't even open until 7:30! By this time, we were starving hungry and decided to continue on into Hana and see what it was all about and more importantly grab a bite to eat.
Hana is a small town on the east coast of Maui. When I say small, I mean small! Every "city" building in Hana is green...and literally if you were to blink too long you would definitely miss it!
This is Hana... Just in one building, you had the real estate office, town bank, and post office side by side! Another building was a restaurant, and another a general store. There was one small gas station where we paid $3.90 for gas.
We could not find an open restaurant...or just a restaurant really for that matter... to save our hunger. We finally found a resort hotel as we were driving down the road, and the smell of breakfast food quickly consumed our convertible. They still didn't open for another 20 minutes but we patiently waited it out. Breakfast was soooooo yummy! I had pancakes with coconut syrup and a fresh cup of Kona Coffee. Justin had an omlet & potatoes. It was a bit spendy...but by this point we were so hungry, with such limited options, that we didn't really care.
Once we were done eating, we made our way back to Wai'anapanapa State Park. This park has the most beautiful black sand beach in all of Maui! We arrived shortly after 8 AM and had this small beach cove all to ourselves. It was absolutely gorgeous!
After sitting and admiring the beautiful landscape for some time, and taking a lot of pictures of course, I went to play and write some things in the sand. I would write and then snap pictures and was basically caught up in my own little world with a stick in one hand and a camera in the other.
I thought Justin asked me to go and get something out of my backpack...but he says I meandered back that way all on my own. As I was heading back towards our stuff, I began to notice something in the sand that I hadn't written. As I slowly approached the words, I looked hard to try to make out what they said. Once I realized what they said I started jumping up and down with a smile on my face from ear to ear! I turned around to see where Justin was and he was already down on one knee with the ring box out and a smile across his face. For being "unspontaneous" the proposal completely caught me off guard.
Of course I said YES!
This is my Hawaiian engagement ring. It is so pretty! We bought this ring while we were there, since my real engagment ring does not yet have the center diamond. How lucky am I?!?!
Shortly afterwards, people started showing up to the beach here and there...and within an hour or so...it was busting at the seams with tourists. We did some exploring in and around the lava rocks and lava tubes and then headed on our way south for some more adventures.
Now as "Snickerdoodle" put it... We will soon be JD2.
It is our hope to get married on this beach, one year from today, in the presence of immediate family.
Makena Cove, Maui, Hawaii
April 2, 2010
Anyways, this is my super hot fiancee...
and his soon to be bride.
We can't wait to share our lives together!
March 26, 2009
The Story of Us
Jami's Story:
I always wondered what MY story would be. You know... the story of "how you met". Everyone has a story to tell, and I was always overly curious how mine would play out. I never thought my story would turn out to be like this...
It is amazing how you can look, and look, and look for love, with open eyes and an open heart...and never find it. I now believe love truly finds you! When I met Justin, I wasn't looking for love. I can state this as a fact, because I had stressed to others that I was not going to meet my future husband "on-line". I mean, have you met me? I am like the poster child for paranoia with constant stories from Dateline NBC playing over and over and over in my head!
Around December 2007, my sister got me curiously interested in Facebook, a social networking site. I decided to join, and see what it was all about. A few weeks into it, I started looking up people that I may know who went to PHS around the same time as I did. As I was scrolling through the list, the name Dahl literally jumped off of the page. Knowing that one of my friends, wife's maiden name was Dahl, I wondered if this person was one of her brothers. So I sent a "friend request" along with a message asking such. (By the way, this is soooooo out of character for shy, quiet me). As you could probably guess...he was not, but accepted the friend request anyways. It didn't take long to notice similarities in our profiles and things that we liked. We began to develop a friendship through email...which eventually turned into hours and hours of online chatting! Finally, on Feb. 5th 2008, I got up the courage to meet him in person...and it has been a crazy, wonderful journey ever since!
Justin's Story: A big bird (Justin) worked hard at building and preparing a nice nest. A little bird (Jami) flew by and saw this nest to be an appealing place filled with love and comfort. She decided to stay awhile and see if it was so. It was so...
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