Family Celebration!! Hawaii Day 1 & 2

Lots of people from Ryan's school were getting their wives extravagant gifts for graduation, and I told Ryan I didn't want a piece of fancy jewelry for anything like that... but I thought after two long years our family could really use a good family vacation together! And my wish was granted :) We both felt it was a good time for us to do something like this - no babies, finishing school, before moving and starting a new busy job. I am so glad we were able to make this happen!

We took a night flight there and didn't land until 1:30 am... Brinley and Casen slept about 2 hrs on the 6 hr flight and Marlee only slept 30 minutes! By the time we got our luggage, rental car, drove to the hotel, and got to our room, it was 3:30 am!! We are all so exhausted!

Waiting for the luggage, they were seriously such good sports despite being sleep deprived!

The kids were crazy in the car while we were waiting for Ryan to get the room keys. Apparently this is what kids do at 3 am! They were climbing in and out of the car windows too :)

We woke up early to this beautiful view!

Brinley was the first awake and happy as could be.

And then there were three :)

Fruit and dry cereal for breakfast. I knew they would be hungry the second they got up and before we could go get food, so I was actually prepared! :)

We hit the beach as soon as Daddy woke up and the big kids sprinted for the water!

After some time at the beach we tried out the pools. The kids loved this tunnel and water fall. Although Marlee was not a fan of the "cold" water :)

And back to the beach, Marlee was a big fan of the sand.

Brinley wanted to have us make a mermaid tail and take a pic to send to her friend Bree.

Watching the waves!

We found this tiny little crab, it was so cute!

The landscape everywhere was so beautiful.

Watching the fish in the pond! We went and had pizza with some friends from Wharton who happened to be there the same week as us.

DAY 2 :  Breakfast on the balcony again! The kids choose french toast sticks, eggs, fresh pineapple, bananas, and orange juice.

The kiddos loved the hot tub! The water was a little cold in the shade the next morning.

Love these girls!!

We had fun playing over on these rocks. There were tons of crabs sun bathing all over them. Case was brave enough to climb up on his own and jump off a couple times.

Casen helped me make shish-ka-bobs for lunch, he was such a sweet little helper. Love him.

For lunch we grilled chicken and shish-ka-bobs. Such a beautiful view!

3 little monkeys in a tree!

That night we had dinner with our friend Rob and Janelle and a couple of their friends as well. Such great people with neat stories.

The kids went to Aunty's Beach house at the Disney Resort while we were at dinner, they had so much fun!