Our kids LOVE the beach and the sand. Griffin spends all day just digging with his diggers and shovels, while Sophia takes full advantage of everything on the beach. She rolls and digs in the sand, then she swims in the water and runs in and out of the waves, then she'll look for treasures. She's just busy! Kyle also loves to swim in the ocean and body surf and snorkel. I like to simply sun bathe and watch my family - with a cocktail, of course!
(note: I always wear my cover-up when someone is holding a camera...)
My boys.
Here was the whole group! This year Don, Deniece, and Michelle went (they stayed at the Westin Villas). We stayed at Aston Maui Kaanapali Villas. And the Wyckoff family also went. Kimberly, Zach, Abigail, and Baby Ty stayed at the Whaler.
We made a visit to a different Westin to see their flamingos. Sophia has been completely infatuated with tropical birds for the past 10 months or so. She was elated!!
While in Maui, I celebrated my 33rd birthday. We all went to Kimo's for dinner. Zach and Kimberly surprised me with reservations for the whole group. Very thoughtful and even more DELICIOUS!
Aunt Michelle and Sophia
Griffin wouldn't let us rest until we rode the Sugar Cane Train. We rode it last year and he loved it. He was pretty disappointed this year, though, because the steam engine broke down the day before our scheduled ride and we had to use the diesel engine. He enjoyed the ride, even though he kept telling us how mad he was that we weren't hooked to the steam engine. :o)
Griffin was such a trooper the whole trip. He fell asleep at dinner 3 nights in a row. this was the third night at the Old Lahaina Luau. Here we were waiting to get in. My tiny 31 pound baby boy... my arm was dead!
Sophia looking beautiful in white sun dress. Glad we captured this picture before her dad whacked her in the face (on accident) with the video camera and gave her a bloody nose - all over the white sundress... ugg. Tears and blood and a big baby in my lap while daddy rubbed the blood into the dress with a wet rag. Good story, though. :o)
Abby and Griffin waiting for the hula show
And then the funniest part of the whole trip - a monsoon arrived as we started to eat dinner! We were SOAKED, and so were our dinner plates. The staff tried to get everyone a poncho ASAP. Griffin was not happy that his mug full of sunflower seeds (his dinner...) was filling up with rain. We got it covered with a plate - but he was not in the mood for this debacle!
Now this next picture is not the most flattering, so I apologize. But it's hilarious!
Here are the savage beasts that Kimberly and I are lucky enough to call our husbands.
They were much more worried about shovelling the pork into their mouths than getting wet! Kyle, who'd had quite a few MaiTai's all day (remember the bloody nose incident earlier), was finally just yelling to everyone to "just take your shirt off!" because it was so much better than wearing a wet shirt. Our server started calling him Tarzan! Nice, Hon... Kyle and Zach both just look like they are in survivor-mode in this picture. It makes me laugh every time I look at it.
Here's a more flattering picture of Zach and the rest of his lovely family, while they enjoyed the hula show. :o)
All in all it was a great trip with some silly adventures. I will try to get all the pictures loaded to Kodak this weekend. ALOHA!
