kauai

the kids are back and school this week and i finally feel like i have a chance to breathe (a little).  we had a summer full of fun, so much so that i haven't had a chance to blog for over a month.  this week i will try to post pictures from our summer.

first up is kauai. we spent a wonderful week there in july with my dad and siblings and niece's to celebrate his 70th birthday.  it was my first time to the island and i gotta say i'm a fan.

the kids woke us up at about 5:30a the first day so excited to get in the surf...so we were body surfing in the sunrise.

we also spent a fair bit of our time eating and drinking... tiki fish tacos were so so good...mmmmm!

one evening we went to a luau with the whole roasted pig thing...

yummy hawaiian dinner...
                                          .......so cute, yet photobombed!

...the girls in matching black strapless dresses

....riley had a bit of a man crush on my niece's boyfriend alec

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 ....nana and my niece ella

.....lucy and my niece regan

the kids got to practice doing the hula....

then we watched a dance performance....

....it was really quite a fun night.


during the daytime we spent lots of time on the beach!

...we did some hiking with views of the amazingly beautiful napali coast...

....also checked out the waimea canyon which looks like somewhere in arizona, but yet is over the hill from the napali coast...crazy!

....and of course we snorkeled plenty and even swam with the turtles (a highlight for sure!)

...and the last night's dinner with a cake to celebrate dad's 70 years!

it was a fabulous trip full of lots of great memories!!  we all definately want to go back to kauai again someday!!...shocking i know.