Food, Family, Friends and Mosquito Bites!

We made tin foil dinners on the beach one Sunday night. If you've never tried one, you really should! We all just had fun eating, talking and hanging out....(while getting eaten alive)!

                                               Chase, Karl and Valerie

                                              Jake and a Cane toad.

                                               Meg and Eliza

                                               Apparently Lily was really hungry!

                                              Dan, Corbin, Brent, Chase, Jake and Betsy

                                                Betsy and Katie                                                             Brighton and Jonna

Water Ballet

Katie has a underwater casing for her digital camera, so one day Katie, Karly and I went to Sharks Cove and frolicked in the water! Here's the proof.

                                               Karly and Katie

Random Hawaii Pictures

 These are some pics I wanted to post, but didn't know what exactly to blog about. The blow up toy ones are from the end of the semester party that BYUH puts on, and the weird ones of Lily at the beach are just that.                                                 

                                                               Tickle, tickle!

                                               Dan, Jake and I racing on the bungee cord. WAY more dangerous

                                               than it seems...this was taken seconds before I hit my head really hard!

                                                               Katie suiting up.

                                              Jake on the velcro wall.

                                              That guy in red shorts is Lily's best friend.

              

                                               

                                               Indie and Lily: 3rd Cousins!

Maunawili Falls

In Kailua, there is a hike called Maunawili Falls. It's only about a 2.5 mile hike in, and at the end is a waterfall and fresh water pool with cliffs to jump off and go swimming.  The Nelsons were visiting and so we decided to go! Jake carried the our "lead baby" in the carrier, which wasn't an easy task, and Lily even did it with a broken collar bone, with a little help from Karly. (More on the broken collar bone to come...) It's a very muddy hike, and it's completely unavoidable to not get dirty. I know what you're thinking,...good thing there's a place to swim at the end and clean off. Little did I know that the mud and water possibly contain a bacteria called Leptospirosis! It comes from animals in the area peeing in the water. Its not a common occurrence  but it really freaked me out for like a week!  It was a  beautiful place though.

Thief!

Betsy decided to steal the car one day to go to the beach! Good thing Karly stopped her just in the nick of time!

Waimea Weekend

This last weekend we did a lot of "Waimea-ing". It's a beautiful bay on the north shore. The beach in this area is the best and just across the street is Waimea Valley where the falls are. my sister, Jessica, and her Husband, Eric, came for a visit for a little over a week, and we had a ton of fun! Here's a little re-cap of our adventures...

Waimea Beach

Waimea Beach is my favorite beach! We go there pretty often. The day we took these pictures, the water was a little rough and the waves were big! We got some cool shots though. Lily didn't mind, she just stayed ashore. She's a sand monster these days. She does venture in the water sometimes if she's feeling brave!                                            

                                               Beach Baby.

                                                                     Beach babes.

Waimea Falls

 Waimea Falls is in a valley that is very lush and beautiful! We enjoyed the mile walk up to the falls and since they were open for swimming that day, a few of us had a dip! They film parts of LOST here, for those of you that are fans. 

       

                                               

Completely normal

These are every day things you see in Hawaii....A Parrot ordering at the drive-thru at Jack-in-the-box,  "Sawyer" with his wife and baby walking by the zoo. He got all excited when he saw me and told me he loved me, and asked if he could take a picture with me! And, Lily wearing sunglasses while in a fish bowl.