We love to visit Auntie Carrie and Uncle Dale in Kona. We have been very lucky over the past 3 years. The kids school is on a year round schedule so we have August, December, and April off. We like to spend the first half of December and some time in April in Kona. This year we left Thanksgiving weekend and stayed until the middle of December.
Carrie and Dale sold this house and Emma will be starting middle school next year (traditional schedule) so our December visits are over for now.
Kua Bay is a favorite because it has soft white sand and beautiful water.
We love to see the temple.
In a cave at the Hilton after swimming with dolphins.
I call this the pier beach, there are no waves so we can kayak, snorkel and paddle board. I don't know what it is really called but I know for sure Carrie is anger about all my nick names for the beaches.
This year we spent spent a lot of time at Hapuna, another favorite. The waves were perfect for the kids. Emma and Carson were in the water from the minute we got there until the minute we had to leave. Emma did a lot of body surfing and boogie boarding. She started to get pretty brave and took some big waves, this was the result.
Emma is tough and recovered quickly.
Carson was none stop surfing on the boogie board.
Lily did a lot of playing on the beach and body surfing. She did spend some time in the water with uncle Dale and he took her on some nice waves.
It was getting close to Christmas even though when you are at the beach and it is 80 degrees it doesn't seem like it. I tried to keep some Christmas traditions, so we decorated a gingerbread house.
These pictures are actually from our April trip but it is one of my favorite Hawaii memories. We took a drive around the island and one stop we made was at the volcano. We told the kids we were going to walk through a lava tube. When we got there it was getting dark and as we got closer to the tube you could see a red-orange glow from the lights. Carson started to cry. The poor guy thought we were going to take him into the lava. It took a lot on convincing to get him close enough to realize we were going to be no where near lava. Once he realized he went in with us but was very anxious to leave. Carson has Brent's self preservation gene.
3 comments:
Hey looks like you have been updating since I talked to you on Saturday! What a fun time you guys have in Hawaii. I am so jealous! I can't believe Emma will be in middle school next year!
Can I add you to my blog?
Yahoo, finally you posted. I was beginning ot wonder if you were ever going to post anything beyond your Oregon Trip. Welcome to bloggerland lady! Your kids have gotten sooo dang big and beautiful!!!! Love you.
i love all of the hawaii photos and video, but my favorite is carson in the ocean facing away from the camera. did you see the post on my blog about you blogging again?!
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