Taking off for Hawaii!!

We decided last year when we went to Hawaii that we'd make Owen keep a journal and each day he'd have to write down everything we did. It was a fight, but, so worth it when we go back and read it.  So, we decided to do the same again this year.  He was ok with it until he actually had to start doing it!!  Anyway, I tend to do a recap here myself, on my blog when we get home, but, figured instead, I'd do the same as Owen and maybe I'd remember more detail!!

So, here goes!!  Please forgive any typos and a lack of photo editing.  Because I'm doing this while still on vacation, I'm loading the pics to blogger straight from my camera. I may go back and replace them with edited photos later and most likely will add more photos too after I've dowloaded them all!

Between spring break, Liv's birthday and the upcoming trip, the kids were about to drive us nuts!!  They were having trouble sleeping and were just super restless.  Of course, there was also daylight savings in the mix and the fact that the temps have been in the 40s one week and then dipping back to zero the next ALL WINTER LOOOONG!  It was kind of cabin fever at its worst for all of us!!

I took these random pics in March of the kids just for fun.

Owen's doing really well with his guitar lessons and looking forward to learning how to play his sister's pink ukelele she got for her birthday, haha!

Liv had her first haircut right before we left and thought it was so great.  Her hair curls so much more now than before even!!

We headed to the airport around 9am Friday morning and I made the kids take pics while we waited for Dave to get back from dropping the truck off.

Each kid insisted on taking one pic themselves...

Not too shabby considering! 😊  Afterwards, the kids killed time walking back and forth on the moving sidewalk until Owen stepped in front of Liv right as she decided to dart off.  She ended up falling and skinning her knees, poor baby.

But, she was still super excited to fly and insisted that we fly only on a "red plane".  We assured her that's what we would do and didn't point out the white plane parked at our gate, hahaha!!  We had barely taken off and hadn't even leveled out when she turned to me and asked if we were in Hawaii yet...she was in for a LONG flight!!  She eventually gave up and took a short nap. One of the flight attendants stopped to see if I'd taken a picture of her because she thought she was so cute!

Owen struggled with a little nausea and about the time he fell asleep, the dude in front of him stood his lap baby up who then coughed, spitting all over Owen.  I was not amused at all.  About an hour before we landed, the same baby puked all over his mom.  The smell was SO bad.  Both of my kids just about lost it themselves!  I thought for sure we'd have a chain reaction!!

But, on the upside, we were about 40 minutes early into Kona!!  On the landing, Liv insisted on holding her dads hand the whole way down.  I just thought that was the sweetest thing I'd ever seen.