Thursday, February 13, 2014

Holidays and Kauai

This is a super long picture post. I was just going to do Hawaii, but realized I never did Christmas, so now you get everything in one post because who knows when I'll post again. Wish I wrote more often so I could give stories with the posts and not just pics. Maybe one day again.
 
princess night at the beauty school



making gingerbread houses



cute stuffed animals

the great teddy bear massacre (via Liam)

Seth and McKinzie


keeps getting his footies stuck in the doggie door

found Seth's chocolate pediasure

Polar Express, Heber Train


Mrs. Claus giving out cookies

Santa asks what you want for Christmas

and gives out magic bells


decorating Christmas cookies

potty training

ready for sledding





making snowmen


the whole family

and snow dogs

Sakura made Liam

genuine french yule log for my birthday

Christmas presents!





New Year's blowing up our gingerbread houses

firework selection was lame


did the best we could


welcomed to the hotel in Kauai with leis. :)

Grand Hyatt

exploring the coast. found some dolphins

looking for Vidinhas

our rental car

oldest caltholic church in Kauai and the Vidinhas' church

Koloa - Vidinha hometown



helicopter tour


Jurrasic Park Falls

Pirates of the Caribean film site


Queen's Bath


not my best pic, but it's what I look like

Queen's Bath is a giant tide pool - hard to tell with the high surf

saw rainbows everywhere all the time

tree tunnel road - our favorite drive

ATVing

Chad and the guide picked wild oranges for us

Indiana Jones rope swing site

private land



restaurant on the water


Catamaran up the coast


Napali coast line



took 4 cemeteries before we found my great grandpa Jack

Luau indoors because of weather


Grove sugar cane plantation


Vidinha section of an old phone book. Pretty good, since there are only 60K people on the island

macadamia nuts

Koloa Mill - first on the island

sculpture by BYU-H student to honor sugar cane workers


wild chickens - ALL over Kauai!!!

2 comments:

Adrienne said...

Love the teddy bear massacre. Nice to see what you did in Kauai since we leave in 2 weeks!

Julie said...

For the picture captioned, "saw rainbows everywhere" At first glance I thought you were saying Chad kept seeing rainbows and I thought, "He should really get his eyes checked!"
And then I realized there was an actual rainbow in the picture.
You can tell I've never been to Hawaii as my first thought to seeing rainbows everywhere is a medical problem, not just a great vacation!

I love the pictures of Sakura at the beauty school! I miss your kids a lot.
I mean, I miss you a lot.