girls trip to Maui....

We had the greatest time in Maui with these beauties! 

Such a great trip to celebrate jane as her Post cancer trip.  Each one of these ladies hold

a special place in my heart, they all inspire me in so many ways.  

 I consider these ladies my best friends and loved spending the week in Maui doing

many adventurous things.

We stayed in jenn's condo and she was the BEST tour guide ever.  Seriously!!  

I love that i know the many places here to and couldn't wait to eat at Fred's and 

maui taco's more than once, ha!

We hiked to waterfalls, jumped off waterfalls, paddle boarded, snorkeled, cliff jumped, 

swam with turtles and had many spa days!  It was a blast!! 

love these ladies.

loved my morning runs...

 Jenn thought i wouldn't be able to do a headstand out in the ocean on my paddle board.  

Booyah!! 

We joke that we might send this as our Christmas card this year! ha!

The headstand became the new plank!  ha!  

 Kapalua was possibly my favorite day!  We went cliff jumping and hung out at the Ritz all day! 

we had an awesome under water camera that summer brought and we literally 

laughed so hard in the ocean for hours!! 

loved it!

we came home to a surprise from dusty!  He sent jane flowers along with all 

of us "Boston Strong" hats!

Laughter really is the best medicine!!

xxoo

happy birthday jenn...

i Love everything about this girl...

except that she lives so far away from me in hawaii!

i share many fabulous and hilarious memories with jenn, and love talking about 

them while we giggle uncontrollably!  

still laughing about some of them {caden's comment in the car}

bahahahaha!!!

she inspires me to be a better mom & wife and always has the right things to say! 

 she can pretty much talk me into doing anything, and then continue 

to teach me and encourage me along the way. 

i love that we are as close today as we were when we met almost 10 years ago. 

Nothing has changed!

Happy Birthday my jenn! 

xxoo

luckily we got to have a birthday dinner while we were in maui at Kimo's and celebrate with some delicious mudd pie!

Maui {spring break}

I should probably warn you... PICTURE OVERLOAD!

i can't help myself... my family, besties, and Hawaii how could you not take a ton of pictures!

anyway, we had a blast! 

 kids loved being together!  Husbands played to exhaustion, and so did Jenn and I!

 Thank goodness for days in the treme's at 'Spa Grande' 

 It was so much fun to be with our best friends and surf and swim and just play all day in the sun.

fabulous vacation... can't wait to go back!

Boston & Cory Paddle boarding

this boy was either skim boarding, paddle surfing, body boarding, or surfing the whole time!

  He was in heaven.  Chase & Boston were non stop and loving every minute of it!

total best buddies!

 go bos go...

so sweet!

Cory & boston both caught the same wave 'paddle surfing'.  

caden cruising olivia around on his board.  I

 could watch these granum boys surf and body board for hours. They are all SO good, even Crew.

Jenn & I coming in from paddle surfing. 

 She is a great teacher,  It's a sport that i would love to try more

 when i feel like i am NOT in everyone's way.  Plus it's alot harder than it looks.  

lots of work to get out to the waves {standing up} 

 we ate at some of our favorite spots... 

Fred's {below}, Kimo's, roundtable, maui taco & flat breads. 

But the best food after a long day of playing in the sun is bbq teriyaki chicken

 and rice and chillin out on the lanai.

love my jenn

the waterslides & rope swing at the "Grand Wailea"

hayes & liv's & crew's favorite.

they were non stop coming down all the waterslides. My kids loved it! 

we got to play with the gleeds too.

these two giggled like crazy every time they went down the slides... pure happiness.

 ***Carve boarding***

  while the boys {and jenn & i } were carve boarding at night the littles

 were serenading us with the "ukelele" ... not annoying at all x3. ~wink wink

***Crab Hunting***

we took the kids at night to go crab hunting!   they loved it.  well most of them. 

afterwards we went night swimming and did the waterslides at the Grand Wailea.  

The  Ho'olei pool is pretty much my favorite place to swim.  I love that my kids ALL of them love to swim and they did it all day everyday!  Livi & Hayes are swimming so good now, and Ivy started swimming so good a couple days before we went home.  She loves it!

"the three amigos" played so good together.  with ivy as their tag a long.  

Look at how she put her darling sunglasses on.  Love her!

***Big Beach***

my favorite beach!  

it's so beautiful and the waves are so BIG!

***Wailea beach***

best beach for paddle boarding and just lounging around while the kids make drip castles!

i loved that Ivy loved to go out in the ocean with me, she sat on my paddle board while we cruised around out in the ocean.  We saw huge turtles and one turtle even popped up to breathe right next to us. 

 but still ivy really wanted to see Ariel... so jenn jumped in and pretended she was ariel.  haha

good times!

loved this! My twins wanted nothing to do with
 going out on the paddle board but my little ivy girl was all over it!
 she is her momma's girl,  we love the ocean!
we even saw a huge turtle {crush}.. he popped his head up to take a breathe right next to her.
It was amazing! 

more waterslides, this time with ALL of us!

one night we all got dressed to go out to Lahaina to have dinner and shop.  

We are quite the group now...

Best friends for almost 10 years! we've grown quite a bit in size since we first met.
Jenn blogged some awesome pictures when we took our first trip to hawaii in 2003.
click here to see.

my hubby makes me so happy~wink

  

 Best buddies...

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
Jenn's birthday dinner!!  one year older than me and wiser too.
  Best 'mudd pie' ever!

*** Glow in the dark, egg hunt***

jenn hid all these glow in the dark easter eggs out on
 the beach and the kids just had flashlights to find them.  It was so much fun! 

she is always a party!

SO. MUCH. FUN.

i swear we could start our own "kids club" while on vacation! haha

apparently this was a big swell day to be surfing.  so we loaded 

up the kids and off to do some more paddle surfing!

 ***The Ritz Carlton***

besides running my favorite run every morning with my best friend... this was my favorite day!

 Ivy loved the kiddie pool especially because their was a playground right next to it. 

Kapalua is beautiful!

then back home for some night swimming and "roundtable pizza"