The Recipe for an Extraordinary Life: P A D D L E

Life is like a recipe. You've got the fun and yummy ingredients but you've also got the necessary gross ingredients that don't

become something great until all mixed in. Life is the same. You've got your good days and then you've got your trials. Taking

trials by themselves, they're terrible and bitter. But when all mixed into life, you see the blessings and wonderful joys they bring.

Like flour and baking powder, you have your necessary evils. Butter is like the grease of working. Sugar is like the good days,

they make everything sweet. But when all of these are mixed together, you come out with something wonderful... hopefully. When

you mix the elements of life, you also come out with something very... Extraordinary.

Welcome to the recipe of our lives.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

We knew, as soon as we knew we were going to Hawaii, what we wanted to do.

PADDLE BOARD

And boy oh boy was it fun!

We rented 4 boards and rotated them between the 6 of us

The weather was beautiful

The waves were perfect...

calm enough to let us learn, rough enough to make us tumble a few times

It was the funnest, and one of the hardest things we've ever done

Standing on that board isn't as easy as some make it look

We spent most of the time on our knees and our bottoms

When we were daring enough, standing became the only thing we focused on

However, standing was scary due to the coral 3 feet under us

We were told: "When you fall, fall flat"

Whaaa?!

Falling flat is tough stuff

Then, this handsome cut his foot open on the coral and paddling was over for him.

isn't he cute?