For spring break this year our family was lucky enough to take a trip to Maui,Hawaii! We went with our GREAT friends, the Cuillards. We were in heaven (or better known as The Grand Wailea) for a week! This trip, all we really wanted was to have a great time as a family and to come back relaxed! So, for the first time we passed on all the excursions and just planted ourselves either down by the beach or next to the pool. While at the beach we did a ton of boogie boarding, paddle surfing, kaiaking, snorkling, and built many grand sandcastles! While poolside we swam, rode the many waterslides, went up the water elevator, flew off the rope swing, played volleyball, ordered too many pina coladas to count, and ate a few shaved ice!
Clay and Cheryl's family flew into Maui for a few days to play with us before their week in O'ahu. It was such a short time, that next time we will have to make sure to plan at least a week together! We did have a fun day at the beach, a couple wonderful dinners (especially the one at the hotel where our table was out on a little dock surrounded by groups of koi fish!), and went to the the movie "Soul Surfer".
This truly was a dream vacation and our kids say that this now needs to become our "spring break tradition". Yea Right! LOL!
The family after church in front of the falls at our hotel
Links can't wait to get out and try surfing!
Don't you love the orange! I thought since I was soooo white that I would go and get a "healthy" spray on tan before going. Oh Wow!!! Good thing it pretty much washed off in a day:)
Kennedy and Kynlie
We finally made it to Paradise!!!
Curren.....can he be any cuter!!
Payton showing off her cute umbrellas:)
The kids taking a picture with Daxton's "Flat Stanley"
Silly Boys!
Cute Girls!
In our hotel lobby
The Gardner Family:)
Links playing smashball
Kynlie & Kennedi loved showing off all their dance moves
MMMM.....shaved ice
Just had their hair braided.
Rilea & Maddie excited about their braids!
Maddie getting her hair braided
Gavin & Links trying to dig a hole to China:)
Links, Ian & Gavin
Kids resting after shopping at the Wailea mall.
Where did your body go Links?
Hanging out in the pool.
The view from our room
BRAIN FREEZE!!!
Maddie & Rilea @ Local Boys shaved ice
Kynlie & Payton building a sand castle
Cuillard's & Jackson's doing what they do best......eat! We sure didn't skimp on eating out:)
Maybe this fisherman will marry us and we can stay in Hawaii for ever!
Rilea, Curren & Maddie
"Look at our cute new hats!"
These two girls loved burring themselves in sand!
paddle boarding
What a cute boy! I love how he is concentrating so hard!
Look at our sandcastle!
It's really a pig!!
Let's go snorkeling!
The rope swing
Checking out the tide-pools
This was a permanent fixture in Parker's hand.....pina coladas!
Links loved riding the waves in on the inner-tubes:)
I think we spent the majority of our vacation boogie boarding.....even the adults couldn't get enough of it!
Parks riding a wave in:)
"J" The Jackson 6
Links meditating!! I was laughing so hard when I saw him sitting like this. He was just taking in Hawaii. Today while driving in the rain he said, "I really wish I was in sunny Maui instead!" "You Know mom, I think I'm going to live in Hawaii with my wife and kids when I am older....you are just going to have to come visit us there.....I will even build a room for you and dad to spend like a year in!"
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