The stories of Kauai

Not the best picture of us but the scenery is nice.

Twice mom and dad watched the kids for us so we could got out. This night we got to go out with Chad & Bridge so Mamo & Papa had all 6 kids to them selves. We had a great time and really appreciated the break that they gave us. Thanks Mom & Dad...we love you guys.

Mamo & Papa

This is Huddy after the day at the beach in Hanale...

This is Huddy & Ty 1 minute later.

Ok you are probably wondering "who is this little girl in the picture...that doesn't look like a Hughes or a Phillips?" No she's not one of ours but we did take her under our wing so to speak for the afternoon. When we got to Hanale beach this little girl was running around the beach naked with no parents in sight. She decided she liked the toys our kids had to play with but before she really moved in on us she peed about 3 feet behind were Ty & Levi are sitting. Jay about lost his marbles over that one! The scary thing was that she would go out in the ocean by herself and go all the way up to her head...it worried us so we kept an eye on her while we were there. Then we decided we needed to find her parents so we started asking around and found out that the lady selling jewelry & smoking dope (OK we didn't actually see it but...hey some things you just know.), sitting at the main entry was her mom. One older man on the beach went up and talked to her and all she said to him was "its a nice day, she'll be fine." UNBELIEVABLE!!!! There were signs all over the place warning about the under tow. So we left hoping the poor thing didn't drown...she didn't we saw her walking down the road with her mom and her mom's jewelry tote...that's something you don't see everyday.

This is Ty not to happy with Levi dumping sand down his back. Levi, however, is enjoying himself and the free sand to eat to its fullest. Ask his mommy what his poop looked like the next day...hee hee hee.

Ty was OK with the water...but not in love with it. But doesn't he look like he's enjoying it?

On the way to the Beach in Hanale we stopped at the famous "Bubba's Burgers" to eat lunch. You know...the place where their logo is " we relish your buns"...I thought it was funny...at the time anyway.

I so enjoyed watching my Jax this time in Hawaii. He really did enjoy himself. He is just growing up so much and he is more independent and so helpful. I love you bud.

My little Hula girl also had a fabulous time and made the most of the trip. I love you Moo!

Ty & Hudson. Hudson loved Hawaii and was always saying "I'm gonna be happy today mom!" which was fantastic for us! Ty on the other hand was a little small to really enjoy all the activities but he did ok once we got to Hawaii. He started the trip off on the wrong foot though. The night before we left for Hawaii he puked and had the you know whats. He had a fever a few days of the trip and he pooped about 5 minuted after every take off (5 out of 6 plane rides)...he also cried about 7 of the 11 hours we were on the plane going and coming. 18 months is a hard age to try and travel. He just didn't understand that he had to stay in our laps and he didn't like that we were making him...so he fought us most of the time. We tried to make him happy with any kid of treat there was available but that only works for so long. Out of the 14 hours that we were in the air he only slept for 1 of those hours. Not good.

The hotel that we stayed at had activities for each day and this day the kids activity was "bubble blowing". It was perfect for the little kids. They just brought out tubs of liquid soap and fly swatters, of all thing. They worked fabulously! It was really windy and it blew a hundred bubble out of those fly swatters each time they re dipped!

Mamo & Papa with the grand kids.

We decided since we had kitchens to utilise them. So we went to Costco to buy food for the week and this is what we came back with. It looks like a lot of food but we actually ran out 2 days before we left.

The kids loved watching the big fish in the ponds. I love Emme's face in this picture. It looks like she got caught doing something she shouldn't have!

Emme & Huddy...best buds.

Here we are hanging out as a family in our living room.