Hawaii....the rest....

WARNING.....Here come a boat load of pictures but this is it I promise......

Sawyer was a little timid of the water he enjoyed snacking with mom....surpise surprise.

Isn't this what vaca is all about....reading on the beach.

Grandma playing with Noah in the sand. They loved playing the beach was so perfect for them no waves and just perfect.

Date nigh in WAIKIKI....
Jody and Rich were so nice to watch the boys while we went into the city and enjoyed the night together. We got there right at sunset and watched the surfers.

Jeff really wants to take a surf lesson...maybe someday.

Jeff and the perfect girl all legs...haha he didn't want to take a picture with them I made him I just thought it was SO funny.

Classic shot. I can't believe we came here six years ago on our honeymoon...boy how life has changed.

In front of the surfer statue.

The boys LOVED these inter- tubes.

We walked down to the JW marriot to look at the sharks and sting rays, Noah fell asleep on the way...it was so funny because he wouldn't even stand up.

Why did we wake him up again?

Oh finally a good one!

Hitching a ride back with Dad.


On Friday we headed to the Dole Pineapple Plantation it was a great family outing of course we took a ride on the pineapple express.

What cute pineapples......

Pineapples play the ukuelle?

Feeding the KOI

These fish were crazy diving over one another and slurping up all the pelets.

World famous....Matsumoto shave ice.....so yummy!




In front of our hotel.....

Enjoying our last sunset.




The view from our villa....... We had a great time and couldn't thank Grandpa and Grandma enough. Also Grammy and Grampy took such great care of Ryder....I missed him so much and was so relieved that he was being so well taken care of!

Monday PCC

On Monday we headed to the Polynesian Cultural Center. We met up with the whole gang.....there was us Grandma Jody, Grandpa Rich, Nana, Papa, Aunt Lisa, Dave, Heidi, Nicole, Jason, Jack, Kari, Jon, Kasey, Jessica, David and Taylee. TWENTY of us. It was such a fun time. It is such a cool place and the kids had a ton of fun wandering around looking at all the Hawaiian villages. The highlight was definitely the end of the night at the big show.....the boys LOVED the fire dancers.

The pictures are refusing to upload so I will have to add the rest later.
In one of the villages they gave you a ukulele lesson. SAwyer was in heaven with the mini guitar and was super ticked when it was time to move on....think screaming lots of screaming.



Noah and Jessica in front of a huge ship similar to what was used to travel back and forth among the islands. Jessica is so great with the little ones.

HUla hula....Jeff even tried. It was so funny I wish I could get the video to upload.




POY....YUCK. Noah has the worst gag reflex he almost threw up luckily I had some trail mix in my bag.


This guy was about to get the pig out of the ground to take to one of the luau's.


Jeff got one of these yummy pina colada's when we came here six years ago on our honeymoon. And had to have on again. THe boys loved it!


Best villages....Tattoos Noah loved getting the tattoo, watching the guy climb the tree and of course playing with fire. Sawyer it was all about the mini guitar.

Hawaii Day One and Two......

I know who blogs from Vacation right? Well Jeff has promised me that I get to print my blog off at the end of the year so for journaling purposes I can't remember anything and since I left my real journal at home...whoops! So feel free to totally ignore these next few posts I won't be at all offended.

We left Early early Saturday morning and headed up LAX. We made it to Irvine and well I realized that I had left my wallet at home...in my defense I had my entire bag packed and Jeff took my wallet out of my purse the night before to check us in online and he left it next to the computer. See not entirely my fault. So we turned around luckily I checked in Irvine and not in LA or we would have all missed our flight. Once we made it we headed to the terminal....security is horrible and I can't even imagine what would have happened had we had Ryder...AH it would have been a nightmare. We barely made it through security and grabbed a bite to eat and then we hoped on the plane for a about 6 hours.

Noah and Jeff....making one last phone call before the plane takes off.

Me and Sawyer. The boys where so great on the plane. They were so excited to be on the "hairpane".


Delta is the greatest airline. They have TV's on each seat and you get to choose from different movies/tv shows plus tons of games. Seriously it was a life saver. The boys got to enjoy some movies and we didn't even have to break out the DVD players. Sawyer loved Madagascar 2 or "move it move it" as he calls it.

After we arrived we ate some yummy lunch and then headed to Target to pick up some essentials before checking into the hotel. And then it was off to the pool.

Jeff's favorite thing to do in Hawaii is snorkel. He loves to go out and look at the fish.


View of the hotel from the beach. It is such a cool place.


Sawyer was a little weary of the water.

Noah has become a little fish. I like that he will wear his life jacket so I worry a little less. But he is getting in a lot of practice.


The boys playing in the sand. They are having such a blast!


Tomorrow the PCC with Heidi, Dave and their gang! ALOHA!!

BUBBLES!!!

 

 

 

Last week we had Sawyer's buddies Lincoln and Spencer over....Sawyer just loves his friends. Sawyer got a bubble machine and the boys LOVED it. They had so much fun playing outside. The twins thought that they were blowing the bubbles and would run up to the machine and blow into it. It was a great outside toy and we will be doing it again!!

More Birthday

After Noah's friend party we went to CPK to celebrate with Grandpa Rich, Grandma Jody, Aunt Patrice, Aunt Lisa, Nana and Papa. Noah loves CPK's mac and cheese. Noah was spoiled rotten as usual. We can't wait to be with them in Hawaii!!!

Grandma Jody was sick ALL last week the boys were happy to see her feeling better.

Papa Rich, Jeff and Ryder

Turtles...I think we have an obsession on our hands!!

Aunt Patrice...always makes sure she gets exactly what the boys LOVE!!

Nana and Papa gave Noah a book that had money hidden inside...it was such a cute gift.

Seriously will we ever get a decent family photo??

The gang!


Noah missed out on our usual breakfast in bed because he was up WAY before everyone else. But he didn't seem to care. He opened up his present from us I found some more TMNT dress up things at ROSS seriously love that place. He was so excited to dress up.

Grammy, Grampy, Leslie and Michael came down and went to church with us and afterwards came over to celebrate one more time!!



Noah with the gang.

Grammy, Grampy and Noah!


Noah decided to take up photography....note there were about fifty pictures...I will spare you!!

WE HAD A GREAT WEEKEND CELEBRATING NOAH'S DAY OF BIRTH!!

Party Numero Uno....

As we already know we celebrate Birthday weeks around here. Yesterday We had a Ninja Turtle themed birthday party for Noah and his friends. He was so excited for this party and literally has been talking about it for weeks. I had grand plans and wanted to do all these things but realized that over stimulating three and four year olds probably would be bad. The party was a little too long but I think the kids had a good time I know Noah did especially since he woke up asking to do it all over again.
Thank you thank you Bethany for the fabulous party ideas!


Sawyer destroyed half of the cupcakes. Luckily we had enough for the kids!


I would say that the pinata was the biggest hit. The kids LOVED it. Here is Jack taking his turn....don't tell him I got his photo he hates getting his picture taken.



They were enjoying their pizza and juice boxes.



Noah loved his party. Thanks friends for coming and celebrating....and you better believe there is more birthday posts ahead!!