Hooray for Hawaii Weddings :)

Our hawaii trip started on Oahu near Waikiki with just us and my sister Megan who has been living with us this summer. We played in Waikiki a couple days before everyone else came into town. We loved the little lagoon outside our hotel in Waikiki... perfect for the kiddies


That's our hotel in the background where we stayed in Waikiki the first 2 nights before heading to North Shore

Love the floaties...they were a must

We went hiking in the rainforest to a waterfall on Oahu... it was fantastic... supposedly they filmed some of Jurassic Park there



Our hawaiian girl :)


So my mom and brother flew in from Germany and we all headed to North Shore and stayed in a beach house there altogether which was a blast. Below is me, my mom, and sisters and Mia outside BYU Hawaii where Cari has been going to school for the last 2 years and graduates in December. Wahoo!

The beaches on North Shore were the best... great boogie boarding, surfing and snorkeling. We also loved visiting the Polynesian Cultural Center.

After a couple days on North Shore we all flew to the Big Island (the temple on Oahu is closed for remodeling so we all had to go to the Big Island). Below is a national park we went to near Kona that showed all the lava rock from previous eruptions...


And then at the end of the week... the whole reason for going to Hawaii....Mr and Mrs. Desmond and Cari Enesa were married July 17 in the Kona Hawaii Temple!

They were just beaming and sooo cute

The whole crew there on the Big Island for the wedding. My Grandma and Grandpa Reed, Grandma Pimentel, Aunt MaryAnn, and Megan's fiance, Colin, were all able to come too. It was great!


All 4 of us kids :)

My kids with the beautiful bride




We had a fantastic trip even with our minor hiccups (beach house broken in to with laptop and camera stolen....which were actually later recovered just without the camera's memory card and that was the thing I was most upset about....**sigh** oh well). So one wedding down... 2 weeks and counting until the next one (YES... don't worry... BOTH my sisters are getting married this summer and I'm doing the open houses/receptions here in the bay area since my parents are on their mission in Germany. Megan's wedding will be here at the Oakland temple so no traveling required on our part just lots of fun planning :) I think I'm going to crash come September when all the weddings are over and our house guests have left (we've had someone living with us since February... John's sister Julia, then my sister Megan, and John's brother David... it'll be a big party when my mom and brother, and Cari and Dez come back out and stay with us for Megan's wedding too :)