Finally...Hawaii...

So, here are our Hawaii pictures. We had a wonderful time and are so blessed to be able to go and visit family and friends over there. It really is an amazing place. This first picture is of the family (minus Felipe) after Lia's blessing. It was really important for me to include as much of our immediate family in Lia's adoption and process as possible and because Flavio's family was not able to attend the sealing, we had Lia blessed in Hawaii. Plus, I think Lia will think it is cool that she was blessed there as well. The blessing was beautiful.
These next two pictures are of my favorite beach in Hawaii, Waimea Beach. As you can see, even though there are other people there...you would never know it...the North Shore in Oahu are the best beaches in all of Hawaii and I have been to all the islands. The BEST!
This picture is of our amazing view from our hotel room. It was so beautiful there.

Our hotel had a great pool, and even though we love the beach...the pool is so much cleaner...no sand, salt...you know.

Taking a hit from Rockey.

We went to Planet Hollywood...

Only in Hawaii: A Gecko landed on our windshield while we were driving to the airport...he finally flew off...it was crazy.

Flavio and I were able to go to Maui for a couple of days by ourselves...thanks again Martins...we decided to do a few things and one of them was take a submarine tour. It was awesome! As you can see, we saw a shark, a sunken ship and tons of fish. We went almost 130 feet under the water! Way cool.

Here is my hot husband...I think he looks hot here :)

So, in Maui we decided to take Rachel Ray's advise on cheaper restaurants...it was awesome...all the places we went that she recommended tasted great and cost at least 50% less than the dumb hotel restaurants.

So, I am pretty proud of these two pictures. We took the road to Hana while we were in Maui and it was beautiful. The lower picture is the opening scene for Jurassic Park...Flavio loves that movie, so I tried to get a neat shot of it.

Here we are with some of the family. We had a really great time with Flavio's family and wished we could go visit more often. LOL

On our way back the girls were pretty silly. We had a red eye so we were hoping that they would both sleep. At first, no luck, but then Hannah fell asleep and slept like this the whole way back...pretty funny. I just wish Lia would have followed her big sister's example...let's just say I was really tired when we got back...and so was Lia.

We love Hawaii, it will always be our second home, as that is where we met. We had a lot of fun and like I said hope to be able to go back...when our girls can remember it. :)