Like Leading a Lamb to SLAUGHTER

Alexus decided she was ready to get her ears pierced. So we talked to daddy and he said we could do it in a few days. The next day we went to Mamaw and Papaw's house, the first person Alexus saw was Aunt Theresa. The first thing out of her mouth was " Hi Theresa, I'm getting my ears pierced today!". Well that was news to me! So like any good mother (who is in total control of her children of course) would do.....I immediately jumped in the car and drove directly to Claire's to fulfill her royal request! She promptly picked the pink flower studs. This is what happened next:

I love her big huge excited smile and then it begins to fade...then question...then worry...then cry. Oh it was so cute and so sad at the same time. She only cried for a second and then wanted to tell EVERYONE she saw that she had her ears pierced. She looked in every THING that showed her reflection to see her ears. She was so happy and thought she was so beautiful with her earrings.

Kauai - the full post!!

This is our 1st morning, we got dressed and went over to Aunt Nancy's Condo for breakfast. We had hard boiled eggs, papaya, pineapple and juice out on her Lani ( I feel like I am in a dream). After breakfast we waked down to the shore and watched the big turtles coming up to get air, then walked along the shoreline.

This spot had great big Turtles right off the shore that would come up to get air. The kids were able to spot them really well.

This is a baby Monk Seal taking a nap on the beach.

This is Poipu Beach the #1 rated beach in the United States.

I don't know if you can see it but to the right, 2 whales are blowing up water, this picture is taken while on Aunt Nancy's Lani.

Aunt Nancy read the cutest book about the Turtles to the kids

Our pools are open 24 hrs so we decided to go swimming at 9 o'clock at night. It was quite an experience, it was really windy and dark with soft lights throughout these canal type pools. We had a bencher (adventure) exploring all the dark crevices and waterfalls.

February 11th, 2010 Day 2 Hawaii

This is the spouting horn

LOVE IT!!!This is our room at the Hyatt

We went to the Poipu Village and watched a little hula show, the kids got to get up onto the stage and learn a hula dance. Of course we shopped some more, with no kids let me add my mom and Nancy took the kids back to the Condo with them so we could take a moment to shop.

February 12th,2010 3rd day in HAWAII

This is our 1st time eating out, the food was so good, and they had Tiki Torches, live band playing island music.

Jace was so tired he fell asleep in his chair

Jace poor fair skinned boy got so burned, Kim applied and reapplied sun block 3 times and this still happened.... Dang IT

February 13th Hawaii Day 4

February 15th, 2010 Whales up Close

This morning we decided to eat breakfast at a restaurant at the resort. It was a enormous buffet with everything you could imagine and very delicious.... I have to admit though, I don't think anything can beat breakfast at Nancy's Condo. With the Island Music playing in the back, the breeze blowing through and the sound of the ocean in the background

After breakfast we walked the Hyatt Resort grounds. Everything there was so breath taking. From the lazy river pool to the flowers and the birds. I still could not believe that I was there with Alexus....

Around Noon we had lunch at Nancy's, and of course it was fabulous. Then we headed off to a Whale Watching dinner Sail on Captain Andy's Sail Boat.

We had debated over and over... Take Trevor with us on the boat or leave him behind. We decided to take him and he loved it. After about 30 minutes he crashed hard, he fell asleep and slept the whole time, Nancy found a quiet comfy place for him...

We saw about 15 whales, 5 dolphins and a Turtle ridin' the waves

It was so cool you could move around the boat as you would like. That black that we sat on was a trampoline so you could see right through it to the water.

Of course Alexus has never met a stranger so she wedged her way in between this couple

February 14th, 2010 Hyatt Camp and Snorkeling

Today we dropped Jace and Lex for a day of fun at Hyatt Camp (9am-4pm). Then we dropped Trev off to have a day of fun at Nancy and Bonnie Camp... And Me and Kim had a moment with out kids wahooo!!!

We decided to go snorkeling. We dropped our chairs off on the grassy beach (very cool) and headed in. I have to say it was a little creepy, just the 2 of us, with out any ocean smarts. We stayed close to shore and saw some amazing fish. I could not believe the amount of fish we were swimming with and never knew it. Then we laid out for an hour, quickly changed and met my mom and Nancy for lunch at Keokies.

We found it so cool to see Banana's growing on the trees right at our Hotel

This is a salt water pool at our Hotel, it has a sandy beach, and all these little canals that you can explore.

What a view, I think that this is the most beautiful picture.

After we all got cleaned up we headed back to the Condo for our "Pina Colada Sunset Toast" and Dinner...

Our time here is quickly coming to an end, I really am not ready to come home yet!!!

Haiwii Reunion Lunch

My mom and Aunt Nancy put together a little lunch for us a couple weeks after we got home. They made all of our favorite things we had in Kauai like egg salad sandwich's, Maui chips, potato salad and Pina Coladas. We also shared all the pictures we took and made copies for each other.

I really cannot put into words how much fun this whole trip was. Thank you Mom and Aunt Nancy for showing us "your Kauai".

P.S Thank you Kim for letting me copy and paste your post ;-)