H A W A I I

A few weeks ago I took a last minute trip to Hawaii with a friend. She had a Pediatric Dental Convention and she needed someone to go and keep her company so after watching for airline tickets for a week, she finally found a good deal and I bought it 4 days before we left. It was a crazy rush trying to get everything lined up so that I could be gone for a week but it was awesome. Thank you Michael, Cari and Tammy for taking care of my kids!!

You guys are awesome.

A L O H A from H a w a i i

This is the first view of Ohau, the island where Honolulu is and where we stayed.

Our hotel was sooooo cool and had lots to do.

The night we got there they had a HUGE luau (at this point we were still still trying to get the room situation figured out but I won't go on about that...)

After we got into our room, ate dinner at IHOP =) because it was close and we had been traveling ALL day, we decided we better go put our feet in the ocean because we WERE in Hawaii. Notice the long pants.... I guess only a girl from Idaho would have her jeans on in Hawaii in MAY. It was cold when we left Salt Lake City and the airplane is always cold.
These are some of the views and things we had at our hotel.

This is the view out our hotel balcony.

The enterance to the hotel was beautiful.

I only have a few of the pictures because Meredith has the rest on her NICER camera.

I loved the vegetation!

There were turtles,

penguins, (yes we were is Hawaii not Antarctica)

and Flamingos.

CHEESEBURGERS... We found the COOLEST restaurant! The name of it was Cheeseburgers. They had live music as we ate outside. We found it just a couple blocks from our hotel as we were walking and exploring the city. We liked it so much the first time we went back again. Yes we ate there twice. I know the pictures are NOT good but it was soooo good.

Here are the pretty mountains

We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center aka the PCC. It was so cool to see all the different cultures. Ok so I will have to admit that I was VERY upset because the first hour we were there it rain HARD! After in Finally quit it was AWESOME. We ate some cool food, even purple dinner rolls, and a pina colada slushie at the luau with ALOT of people.

Our last day there, we just had to rent the mini coupe. It was so fun and I loved EVEYBODY staring at us. It was a three wheeled little car thing (a cross between a 4 wheeler and a moped.) We drove around the city.... very slow because the mini coupe could only go 35 mph.
The day I got home my sweet Brody put this together for me on the coffee table.

Thanks Brody! I love you and missed you all.

Cub Scout Day Space Camp

"The Final Frontier"

Brody had his first "Cub Scout Day Camp". Lucky for both of us, I am the den leader so I got to take some pictures. He had a lot of fun. Here are a few of the activities.

Opening & Closing Ceremonies

Frisbee Golf.....This was the first station we went to. The boy in charge was giving the boys instructions how to play and then he says (in the same tone of voice), "They said there is a moose and her baby out here in the trees. If you see them, turn around, walk away, don't look her in the eye and go to your leader." The three of us leaders looked at each other....and said to each other "don't hide behind me". It was sooooo funny.

This was the coolest game...The boys had a lot of fun working together
Lazer Guns....aka BB Gun shooting Space Rockets

Thanks for going and having a great time Brody. You are an Awesome Son!

This is such a typical picture of my outdoor kids. Brae and Brekka decided to unload the wood pile inside the little building. I asked them to please put it back where is was supposed to go so it got half way back to the orginal destination, but I don't think the slide is the best place for it. They did get it put back after a few destractions. I always think it looks so funny when Brekka is out with Brae in her cute clothes. It just doesn't look right.... but she loves it.