Hawaiian Vacation

Oh Hawaii... How I miss you.

To say we had a wonderful vacation would be a huge understatement.  So much happened and we had such an amazing time.  

The day we left, December 12th, was my sister Charley's birthday so of course we made her wear a crown and sash to party on the plane, the rest of us had fun little party hats.  We ended up having the BEST flight attendants ever!  They brought our crew free drinks and food and gave Charley a free plane tablet for the flight and sang happy birthday over the intercom, so we definitely got a good start to the vacation.  Traveling with 8 people is a total circus, especially our family, but it is always the best time!  Luke did absolutely fantastic on the plane, I totally had myself prepared for the worst, but he was a total champ.  I didn't take any toys for him, just tons of food, which is his favorite thing, so he was perfectly happy.

We have all been to Maui a bunch of times so we all have our favorite places to eat and things to do.  We spent a lot of time on the beach and at the pool at our condo.  Luke loved the beach, and being out in the water.  I can't even imagine how much sand he must have eaten.  It seems like every time we went to the beach he would play for a little bit in the sand, then I would take him out in the water and he would fall asleep while we stood in the waves.  Luke was a trooper, he played so hard every day and got really good at walking while we were there, probably from walking in the sand.

Other than spending time at the beach, we ate a ton of yummy food, rode mopeds, made a day trip to Lahina to go shopping at an outlet mall, and made a couple trips out to the beach where Zack and I got married.  I was really hoping to get some nice pictures there, but when we got dressed up and went, there were two weddings going on, so we went down the street to another beach and got a few pictures there.

On one of the last days we were in Hawaii, my sister Haley and her boyfriend Josiah got engaged!  It is so exciting, they have been together for close to 6 years.  He picked the prefect time and place to propose, on a beautiful beach at sunset.  

It is always so sad when vacation ends, it goes by so quickly but we had the best time.  I love that Maui was Luke's first vacation, it is my favorite place in the world, if I could convince Zack to move there I would be on the next flight out.

This is the beach Zack and I got married on, we just randomly stopped there one day and took a few pictures but planned on going back when we were dressed up.