HaWaii

We were lucky enough to spend a week in Hawaii this month. My Dad and Dotty had a fabulous condo in Kauai for a month and they invited us to join them for a few days. It was so great to be able to take our whole family (meaning our kids) and enjoy each other without distractions.

My boys had never flown before...they were crazy excited!!

We took Eastons seat on the plane so we could strap him down. He actually did amazing. After the 5 1/2 hour flight, people stood up and just told us how impressed they were with our kids. They were perfect....I couldn't believe it.

The girls were so helpful. Addie pretty much slept the whole way because we gave her dramamine....she gets so stinkin motion sick!!! She was seriously zonked the whole time.


We were able to fly with Brandon's sky miles and on the way over we got upgraded to first class. I have only been in that a couple of times, but now my kids are spoiled by the service and huge seats. This was a big mistake because on the "red eye" on the way home, we had lamo "coach" and the girls thought that was ridiculous. Ha, ha, ha....they are funny!



The boys played ukelele's with Poppy the whole time. After they almost destroyed my dad's expensive ukelele, we had to purchase them their very own.


We visited this stand frequently....SHAVED ICE!




Lots of snorkeling and boogie boarding










We took paddle boarding lessons. That was a riot. I could totally get into that. It was fun because the whole family could do it. Even the little boys because we would just put them on the front of our boards. We just practiced in this river before we went out to sea!


This is "Taylor" our paddle board teacher, tour guide, and new friend. He taught my girls how to make beautiful leis....what a great guy.


As you can see....the kids were in heaven!

Poppy took Chance kyaking


Easton...watching the umbrella man.

This was the first time I had seen a perfect rainbow...it was breathtaking.


We went to a waterfall to go on a huge rope swing. This is Brandon and the kids crossing some rough water to get to the other side where the swing was. We had to hike in quite a ways and it was a little creepy. But soooo worth it once we got there. It was so neat. Brandon and Hannah and I all went off the swing which was enormous. And when you landed down in the water, you were the only one down there... a little eerie but cool. We also played in the little pools around there and caught tadpoles...the kids thought that was neato.


All the troops. My camera fell in the water here and broke. But we were lucky enough to save the pictures off my card! This was such a great trip. We are all tan and content and can't wait to go again.