Hailey's Hawaii List

As our vacation was drawing to a close, we had to make sure we had covered ALL of Hailey's Hawaii plans!  She wrote this list before we left and even made a pretend "shark bite" in the lower RH corner, to make it look more authentic!  ha ha!

How cute is this list??

 Tom and I took many walks on this beautiful boardwalk.  

 Having fun at the Disney Resort at Ko' Olina - they had a delicious buffet dinner :)  

 We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center and had so much fun playing games in each of the villages.  It was SUPER HOT though!

 Yummy taro rolls at the Luau!

 The evening show was absolutely AMAZING!!

 Then, this was the scene in the back of the car on the way home!  ha ha---everyone was zonked out!

 On our last day, we decided to get as much sun as we could so we headed up to North Shore and took a walk around Wialea Falls which was one of the most beautiful parks I have ever seen.  

 The kids all started walking silly when we would go downhill.  I even caught them in sync and it made me laugh!

Then we went to Haliewa Beach to get more snorkeling in.  There were HUGE sea turtles swimming all around us and it was pretty incredible!

 Out of all the things we did on this trip, my most favorite memory was watching our children PLAY with each other.  They played in the water for hours and I just soaked it all in!

 We were scheduled to take an evening flight back to the mainland so before we left, we took advantage of seeing just one more sunset.

 We all took our flower leis in our hands, made a wish, then tossed them in the ocean to make our wishes come true!

 There is my lei---mid air!

This was a moment in time I will always remember and cherish in my heart!  Aloha 'Oe

Hawaii Trip Memories

Aloha!  Our family got back from Hawaii about 2 weeks ago and we are still talking about how much we miss that place!  We stayed on the island of Oahu in Ko'Olina on the west side of the island.  Gorgeous--doesn't even begin to describe the beauty of this incredible place!

 We had to change planes in SLC---Hawaii, here we come!

We are here!  Doesn't that water look amazing?

After we got settled into our resort, we got back into our rental car and headed to North Shore to visit some friends of ours at their home.  The beach is their backyard.  How would that be?!?

Here's Kohler and Tom with Lanny and Deena Morton.  They were so fun to show us around and let the kids go night snorkeling!

 On our second day, we went out on a huge catamaran called the "Ocean Joy."  We went snorkeling and saw sea turtles and I even saw a small white-tip shark!  Yes---that scared me a little, I will admit!  There was a photographer on board that took photos and we were able to purchase a CD of all the amazing photos.  We actually saw these spinner dolphins right off our boat.  It was the most incredible thing I have ever seen!  A entire pod of these dolphins were swimming right along our boat, jumping, diving, and spinning along the way.  We were all screaming---it was SO cool!!!

 Here we are dressed for church on Sunday.  The funny thing is, that we got directions to the nearest chapel, drove there just in time for sacrament meeting to start, but when we got there the chapel was under construction!!!  

 We headed over to the Honolulu Zoo where Hailey was in HEAVEN looking at all the tropical birds!!!  She knew the names of many of them from reading her Hawaiian Birds Book that her daddy gave her.

 We love plumeria flowers!!  They smell divine.

 One of our favorite days was going to Pearl Harbor.  We had headphones and took self-guided tours of the submarine, the battleship Mighty Mo--and then the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial.

 It truly is a sacred, humbling place to be.  Every American should have the chance to experience this. 

 Beautiful pineapple fields

 Laie Hawaii Temple - one of our favorite places on the island!

We even took a small tour of the BYU Hawaii Campus on our way to the Polynesian Cultural Center.  So fun!