welcome to hawaii

look at this poor little traveler! the last 2 hrs of the flight was rough (for me). both brandon & bryan got real antsy. i can only let them play w/ the iTouch, iPhone, and leapser so much before their brain gets fried. too many snacks may give tummy aches so i had to pace the goodies for them too. bryan finally fell asleep the last 1.5 hrs before we landed. eddie just took the whole car seat and carried him off the plane like that. one of the workers saw us and was kind enough to give us a smart carte and we wheeled him off in it through the airport. i was worrying about bryan waking up and then he'd be up the rest of the night. thankfully, he remained sleeping through a rental car transfer, a trip up to the hotel room, and changing him into PJs.


our room had a gorgeous view of the garden and looked out to the beach. we slept a few nights w/ the balcony windows open and fell asleep to the sound of waves---and rain! it rained a lot while we were there and was windy. but it was off & on.

while we were there, i got a chance to meet up with the very talented donna. go check her out---she's amazing and so so sweet! she treated us to a great lunch and even stocked us up with a bunch of hawaiian snacks! came in so handy and she knew exactly what we needed! she also sent me home with a heavier bag with some crafty goodies!! can't complain there ;) !! brandon & bryan just talked her ear off......brybry was all over donna! i only wished i wasn't so distracted with the boys and i wanted to talk to donna more. i hope donna wasn't scared off by my 2 monsters!

brandon could have spent our entire vaca on the beach! he loves to build sand castles and just dig his hands & toes in sand. brybry, our fear-of-water boy took a real liking to the ocean! at 1st, he was reluctant to go into the water but once he did, there was no turning back.

rain and no parking at diamond head one day brought us to the farmer's market nearby. i think the boys made out a lot better. they had shaved ice for their breakfast! we also went to aloha stadium to their swap meet. it was suuny, rainy, sunny, rainy. the boys had a ball there and bryan would catch streams of water coming off the vendor's tarps. his hair was soaking wet by the time we left!

only in hawaai would we ever see a smart car with a surf board rack! very cute!

i mentioned in one of my posts that i was bummed the boys would be missing easter back at home. low and behold, there was an easter celebration going on right at the hotel easter day! lucky us! they even had a bunny there!

there were a ton of crafts for the kiddos to make. can you tell what craft the pic below was for?i caught both boys being picky & choosy about the eggs they were hunting. bryan was taking his sweet ol' time using 2 fingers to pick up eggs. brandon, shook each egg by his ear and put them back down if he didn't like the sound of it! in the end, they had more than enough but sheesh!

we were told that there are 5 "special" eggs that contains a winning tix for something. guess who was 1/5? [his winning tix is on the last row, middle pic]

BRYBRY! he claimed his winning tix at the front desk for this easter basket! brandon was a little disappointed he didn't have that 'special' piece of paper....bryan sensed it and just handed brandon his winning tix. what a great little bro!

there was almost 2 of everything in the basket and bryan didn't even like the peeps.

we got to ride a 90 minute train ride. this is where the boys learned how to do the 'shaka' sign and they haven't stopped since.

my boys[brandon---always the ham] we saw many rainbows on this vacation!my birthday dinner at roys. dinner was not w/out incident. bryan tipped himself on his chair and fell. people felt sorry for him but i really didn't. i dunno HOW many times i told him not to do it and........y'know, they just never listen. dinner was yummy though!here we are at the dole pineapple plantation.

fun maze. more fun was the dole whip.shaved ice again. cannot pass on matsumotos!

the boys are hooked!

we love asking random strangers to take our pic!
thanks for looking at my gibillion pics!