Ouah Hawaii 2015

Day 4:
Our fourth day in Hawaii was a Sunday. We spent the morning relaxing on the balcony listening to church music and getting ready for our day out and church.
We decided to go to one of the wards that was on the north side of the island by the Laie Temple. It was a ward that started at noon. Just before church started since we got there early we decided to walk to the front of the temple to see it. We spent a little time there and then walked over to one of the ward buildings since there were two for church. The ward had some wonderful speakers that talked about the sacrament and about being involved members. Their high counselor that spoke was a funny and very interesting guy to listen too. Layla did very well in church. After church we walked back over to the temple and took pictures, walked through the visitors center, talked to the sister missionaries and the men changed their clothes.
The temple is so white and the ground are beautiful. It is crazy to think that was one of the first temples to be build in this latter day.
After our time at the temple we went to some of the spots that we were told we needed to go too. Such as the fruit stands on the side of the road, Teds bakery and then we went to Waimea Falls for a nice walk to end our Sunday.
We did get to enjoy at the fruit stand some local fruits like dragon fruit, fresh coconut, pineapple, star fruit, and mango. We even took a drink out of a coconut. Not the milk but just the juice in the middle.
Ted bakery, sadly we weren't very impressed with it. It was just a normal bakery. We must be really lucky to have great bakers in our life that their stuff wasn't that good. It was not bad but not AMAZING. haha
The walk through the botanical gardens to the water fall was amazing. Layla did not want to ride in her stroller so we walked slowly through the park/gardens. Then we made it to the waterfall. Tanner and I did not get in the water but Chance and Aubrey did go walk in just to try out the water. It was really a great Sunday.
We then headed back to the condo and I made fried rice for dinner and we just talked and enjoyed each others company.

Oauh Hawaii 2015

Day 3: 
We decided to head to the swap meet at the Aloha Stadium because it was a Saturday morning and we wanted to see if we could get some of our souvenir shopping done a little earlier on this trip. We were also planning to go for a hike and then going to Kailua Beach Park to spend sometime at the beach before heading back to our resort to make dinner.
As we were driving to the stadium we kept seeing signs on the road talking about entrances that were closed. We thought all of this was because of the swap meet. Sadly is was because of a football game that was going to happen that afternoon so there was not going to be a swap meet that day. So, we headed to our hike to Maunawili falls a little earlier than planned. Little did we know that, that was actually a blessing in disguise because the hike took longer than we anticipated. It took us 5 hours round trip. It was a very fun and adventurous hike. At the beginning of the hike we were all excited and enjoying our time. Tanner slip an apple in half with his hands so Layla could eat her own half. Chance was swinging from vines.
We walked through the jungle and over a river and up a lot of stairs. We got to the waterfall with very muddy shoes and ready to get in the water and jump off the waterfall. I wasn't going to jump at first because of the warning signs at the beginning of the hike talking about some bacteria in the water.  It took very little to talk me into jumping. I love doing adventurous things but being a mom it has stopped me from doing it as much as before. It was really fun to see Tanner jump off the waterfall and then climb to a high point and jump off. He was so brave and it was good that we did a long hike because he needed to make the hike worth the waterfall jumping. Aubrey and Chance jumped off the waterfall with ease. I think they really enjoyed that part of our Hawaii vacation.
As we were hiking back down we had a scary moment where Tanner decided to toss Layla to Chance over the river. It was terrifying. Chance decided to fly his drone for a little at the top of the hike while Tanner, Layla and I kept hiking down. As we were hiking down we ran into a guy that started to talk to us about BYU football since Tanner was wearing a BYU shirt. The man was from Denver but there on vacation like us. As we started back down the hill we mentioned how that is a big reason of why BYU has a football team is so we can talk about the church and gospel but in a more comfortable intro like with football.
We finally made it down, over the river and through the muddy jungle.
We headed to the beach in Kailua. It was a nice beach park. It had very soft and white sand. We really enjoyed watching the wind surfers and Layla loved playing in the ocean again.
The down side to the sand at this beach is that it stuck to Layla even after washing in the ocean and at the showers. She had sand all over her and she started to rub her eyes and got sand on her eye lids. It was not worth it when you have a toddler with sand like that. It was also easier to not like that sand when the sand at our resort was so nice. It was soft enough to play in but heavy enough that it came right of with water and wiping.
We headed back home after a little bit at the beach to make kabobs for dinner at the grills by the pool. We love to grill especially on vacation. Tanner is very good at grilling and enjoys doing it. It was also a meal I think everyone enjoyed.
Then we watched the rest of the BYU football game against UCLA and it was so close but we just lost at the very end if the game.  After that long day it was finally time to go to bed so we straightened up and went to bed.

Tanner jumping off the high spot at the last seconds of the video 

Ashley Jumping off the low part 

Oahi Hawaii 2015

DAY 2: 
We were still partly on Utah time when the morning came in Hawaii. At 6 in the morning we were up and getting to watch the sunrise because our bodies felt like it was 10 in the morning. We watched the sunset, made eggs and bacon for breakfast.Tanner and I needed to buy diapers and wipes because we forgot to buy them at the grocery store the night before. We went to the little ABC store in Ko Olina. It was nice to know that there was a little market close to us for if and when we needed something.
We spent the rest of the day relaxing at the beach and pool. We took naps and just enjoyed being in a no worries Hawaiian Condo Resort.Even just the Hawaiian humid air was a nice change from the Utah summer.
The lagoons were amazing. They were close to our condo but they were still the ocean with nice manicured sand. Layla really enjoyed herself at the beach. She loved the feeling of the water pulling her out. We had to watch her or she would just walk right into the water. We built little stand castles that Layla could kick or knock over.
The pool was nice because there was never more than 8 other people in the pool at the same time as us and it was a salt water pool that wasn't as strong as the ocean but you don't get the chlorine hair and smell.

For dinner that night we walked over to the little strip mall in Ko Olina and went to the Monkeypod. It was an all organic, locally grown restaurant.  Which we did not care that much about as long as it tasted good. I got fish and chips and Tanner got a hamburger. Both were delicious meals. They even had free noodles for Layla. The restaurant even had a live musician playing the whole time and he was pretty good. It was a nice dinner because I got to know Aubrey and Chance a little better.