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Daddy/daughter trip to Hawaii

~ TRAVEL

Here are some pictures of Jay and the girls on their 10 day daddy-daughter trip to Hawaii.

brothers
the camp site for the big family reunion
Jay’s dad made an awesome projector for movie nights
Jay found Ana sleeping in her tent.  she was so tired from playing, she put herself down for a nap.  this never happens at home!
Adi got stung by a blue bubble and was saved by auntie Jaymie.
dried pineapples with li hing mui powder.  as soon as Jay got home, we bought a dehydrator and we’ve been making them non-stop in our household. 
Adi loved picking the plumerias to make flower leis
they ate Giovanni’s garlic shrimp- my favorite!
face-timed a lot.  Adi is making flower leis with the flowers she picked with grandma and Ana is showing me every single sea shell she picked at the beach, which I was happy to listen to because I was missing them so much, any face-time was a good time.

of course they went to the beach many many times
and when the girls got home, they showed me every single sea shell they found at the beach, one by one. they had given a name for each shell too.  so darling.
They also went to the Polynesian Cultural Center, went fishing, went crab hunting, sea shell hunting, and played choke with their cousins.  They loved it there so much and kept telling Jay how they didn’t want to go back to UT but wanted me to move to Hawaii and it would be perfect.  Now, Jay is more determined to make plans so we can move to Hawaii in the near future!

My dream vacation becomes a reality

~ TRAVEL

We were all suppose to take a family trip to Hawaii in July for Jay’s big family reunion but as soon as I found out I was pregnant last December, we knew we didn’t time it the best.  The reunion was really close to my due date so Jay was debating whether to go or not with the kids, but I encouraged him to go partly because let’s be honest, it’s been my dream vacation for a long time to stay at home all by myself!  Nervous as Jay was, he went with the kids to Hawaii for 10 days while I stayed home all by myself.

Besides napping, sleeping in and just worrying about taking care of myself, here are some other things that I did:

spent the whole day with Ginny and went thrift shopping, watched a movie, ate and chatted.  
how awesome and funny, I mean, how dare they make a t-shirt that says SL,UT!   
went to the library to pick out some books and took it home with me where I read in peace and quiet where nobody ever bothered me or interrupted me.  I thought those days were over!
sent Jay and the girls random pictures(Jay made me a deal that he would send a picture of them every time I sent a picture of me).  Here I am eating some apricots Ana picked for me from our backyard before she left.

went to church to see my college girlfriends whom are all pregnant now.

met up with my friend Gloria in downtown SLC for lunch, then visited my other friend Ramona, and then I thought to myself, “I could drive back home now or go somewhere….” and decided to stop at Trader Joe’s. 
this I did not get.  sounds so gross!

this I did get.  
met up with Ginny and had in-and-out and had a sleepover where we stayed up ’till 4 a.m.

went out to eat at La Jolla Groves with my girlfriends
and of course, watched The Bachelorette at my house like we do every Monday night.
The weirdest/nicest thing about being alone for 10 days was that I didn’t have to adhere to anyone else’s schedule, but strictly to my own.  I didn’t have anything I had to do(Jay insisted I don’t do any cleaning or hard labor so I don’t go into labor, so I was like fine, if you insist, I won’t clean all day long which I love to do, gosh darn it.), and I was never rushed, I could take my sweet time in doing whatever I wanted.  I didn’t have to rush at the grocery store because someone was getting cranky or bored, I didn’t have to rush at Target because it was close to dinner time and I had to go home to make dinner, it was just doing whatever I wanted to do, as long as I pleased!  It was magical.  After 7 days into it though, I missed Jay and the girls so much, I was crying and calling them like crazy and telling them to come home because I was DONE.  They came home 5 days before my due date and we were all so happy to be reunited and that baby Aiden was a good boy and had stayed inside my belly.  
I was talking to my girlfriends and when I told them, “Yes, I’m boring, my dream vacation is to stay at my own house by myself.”  They all told me that that was their dream vacation also!  So do you agree?  What is your dream vacation?

hawaii 5

~ TRAVEL

these are the last pictures of christmas in hawaii ’10.
Goo Christmas party
doing a little play of jesus being born in bethlehem
mikey had a part in the play as an angel.  i kept trying to take a picture of him but he would cover his face everytime! i don’t get why a 18 yr. old boy be ashamed of wearing a white dress and a gold halo?
playing minute to win it
ana enjoying the fan with the little hair that she has
at kathleen and harris clarke’s wedding (kathleen is jay’s little sister’s husband’s little sister.  got it? 😉
it was at the PCC and it was beautiful.  if i could get married again, it would be here.
jay and his little sister kat

hawaii 4

~ TRAVEL

don’t you love her little belly? or should i even call it little? haha
coconut cream filled donuts
making cookies for santa on christmas eve
 
i don’t know why jay thought it was so funny and took tons of pictures
and even a video of me making christmas ornaments. 
my eye’s squished but i still like this picture of us.
jay is an excellent daddy. i love him.
santa came to visit! (and ate all the cookies too)
isn’t jay’s dad such a cute dad? jay must get it from him.
asai bowl
ooh i want this now.

hawaii 3

~ TRAVEL

i won settlers of catan TWICE in a row BABY, TWICE!!!  
and don’t mind dad’s hand and jay’s foot.  they were just jealous. haha
visited our sweet wonderful grandma and hiwa, whom we all adore, especially by adalie
jay’s parents celebrated their 30th anniversary!
had a tyau family christmas party
we biked everyday day and night
adalie boogie boarded and loved it
this time i got buried in the sand
ate dim sum in China town with cousins
went to the night show at the PCC.
if adalie looks sad in the last two pictures. it’s because she was.
the whole time during the show she kept saying to us,
“can i go dance too?”
we told her she could after the show was over
and when it was over and we went down to the stage
she saw everyone was leaving and she got so sad.
i need to enroll her in a dance class where they have
dance recitals asap.
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!