Airport

Last week we went to the little airport in our city and had breakfast and then looked at planes. It was cute. The kids were excited to see the planes. A guy who was working on one of them let the kids get in and see the inside.

Taylor just loves Sammy or Nammy as she calls her.

Travis did fly too, but I didn't get a pic...sorry Travis.

It was a cute little place for the kids to see planes!

Oahu

Finally I was able to go through all of my pictures. My photoshop decided to stop working :( Luckily Tawny came and got it all set up again. Thank you so much!

So, here is our trip in a nutshell. I posted all of the pictures on Facebook, but had to really slim it down for this and it's still gonna be long.

We drove a minivan all week. Taylor and Gavin had matching toy laptops that kept them pretty busy in the car while we were sightseeing all over the island.

The view from our condo. Our condo was a three rooms and two bathrooms. Perfect for two families and a grandpa. It was on the tenth floor so we had a great view. It was walking distance to the beach and caddy corner from the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

They feed the fish there at 8:00am each day. Jimmy and Nate took the kids down on the first day in jammies.

Taylor and Gavin got in some good grandpa time. They watched movies and played.

She calls him Grandpa ill. Not Gil.

My dad had a cheeseburger. The first one in two years! They must not be big on them in Korea :)

We got to visit with our cousin Ashley and her husband Jacob. He is in the service and they are stationed there right now. It was fun to catch up with them. That is my mom's sister's daughter.

Of course she had a tropical smoothie...

And wore flowers on her ear...

and swam in the ocean...

played in the sand almost everyday...

imitated what fish do...

and got sandy feet multiple times.

It was beautiful there!

Our family

Don't know how they got that smile out of Taylor. I think she was squeezing my neck really hard and she thinks that funny...hence the smile.

That was my sixth trip to Oahu and I have never seen the Kahala Resort, but that is the prettiest place on the island in my opinion.

Taylor and I in a hammock.

Dinner at Duke's our last night there with the cousins.

We swam a lot at the condo too!

No wonder she slept 2 hours and 45 minutes on the way home! She was so comfy.

It was such a good trip, but of course so sad to say bye to my dad. That was really rough. Taylor really liked Hawaii and everyday I asked her if she wanted to go home or stay in Hawaii and she would say, "stay Hawaii."  She was such a good traveler!

Sneak Peek

We are back! I have so many pictures and so little time to sit and edit and go through them. I have started though. Since my computer is being wierd I will post a few real quick.

Overall, the trip was a success. Taylor was great girl on the airplane, both ways. She took a long nap each ride which helped a lot.

Can you tell she was excited? She was all about going on a plane in the sky.

The most important reason for the trip... see my dad. It was great.

And skipping WAY AHEAD... I LOVE this picture. It's one of my favorites so far...

I have so many more. I will post more soon I promise!

Hawaii Here We Come!!!

I am up packing and getting things together because on Wednesday morning we are off! We are all very excited to finally see my dad. It's been far tooooooo long and we miss him so much. He will be meeting us there that night all the way from Korea. Taylor and I picked up this little shirt the other day...it was perfect. I do have some serious anxiety about a five hour forty minute flight on the way there! It will work out though, it has to :) I can't wait to post "family" pictures from Hawaii!

We are also going to get to visit our cousin that lives there. We will be back next Wednesday with lots of pictures!

4th of July Princess

We had a relaxing fourth this year at my Mom and Rob's. We swam, bbq'd, and watched fireworks from the spa. Taylor and Gavin had so much fun just being outside all day!

She was a little princess.

This was the best I could do at getting the whole outfit. This little outfit was cousin Emma's last year. We are so lucky to get all of her cute clothes!

She swam with water wings for the first time. She doesn't know how to do them yet, but she didn't mind having them on at all.

I didn't take too many pictures. This was when we left...Jimmy put Gage in the bag and he was so tired from hanging out with Zoee all day, he didn't mind one bit.

Huntington Beach

Lucky for us, our aunt and uncle own a condo at Huntington Beach that we got to use last weekend. It's right on the sand and so nice with babies. It's close enough to come back for naps, walk to eat, walk to shop, ride bikes and have lots of fun. We were there two nights and this was the easiest trip wtih Taylor and her sleeping by far. She would just watch a movie (Cars) and fall asleep around bedtime or a little later both nights. There was no struggle, no crying, just easy! Yay for me :) Lots of pictures...

                           You can see the condos right behind us with the blue canopies.

                                             We played on the beach one day when it warmed up.

Taylor loved it!

She collected lots of shells and didn't mind sand getting all over her.

That's Jimmy and Nate out there.

The next day we rode bikes all the way to Newport and they both fell asleep right away...it was naptime.

It was a really fun trip. Thank you Aunt Vicki and Uncle Ben. It was good seeing you guys too!