{Hawaii LOVE}

Well friends, I'm back in action! Just like that, thrown back into the day to day routine. I crawled into bed at Midnight on Monday and Josh left for work at 5:30am Tuesday. Left me alone with a clean house (thanks honey), sweet/sassy kiddos, and my icky suitcase to unpack. I missed my family tons while I was gone, but was so happy to get away for a bit. I'll admit it wasn't the most relaxing vacation.......there was wedding mania to keep me busy, but I loved it just the same. Here's a brief re-cap of my trip :)
Friday, I arrived at the rental house (& wedding venue) and took in the gorgeous North Shore view!!

Pipeline!

The inside view was a bit more ca-razy!! Ha ha
ALL of these vases needed to be filled with flowers and candles for the wedding the next day. ALL of them, ha ha!!!

Needless to say, after the rehearsal & dinner were over, we got right to work!!!
The next morning, we had this to show for our hard work :)

The calm before the storm.....

We had a ton of people helping, which was awesome!!! Once we got moving, things came together really well!! Here are some shots of the set-up:

I was on chalkboard duty so pretty much all of the chalkboards you see were done by me ;)

The tables looked great too!!! One of the girls taught herself a seashell napkin fold :)

I made these cute signs for the kids to carry before the bride walked down the aisle. They weren't the easiest things to carry on the plane, but I made it work :)

It was a beautiful ceremony with the beach as the backdrop! Gorgeous!

Hooray!!!!!!!!

Ha ha!!!!

Cathy (my close friend & hair dresser) was my travel buddy :)

The wedding was a blast (in fact, my legs are still sore from dancing, ha ha)
and the view did not disappoint!

We danced late into the night and all had a great time!!!

My date and I :)

The day after the wedding, we left the North Shore and headed to Waikiki for some relaxing :)

And the final day before heading to the airport was spent here:

Cathy and I both agree that we needed ONE more magical day to lay here and do absolutely nothing :)

(sad to say, I actually came back from Hawaii without much of a tan. Bummer!)
It was a GREAT trip and I made lots of fun memories with my friends. I definitely want to take a family vacation to Hawaii some day, my kids would LOVE it!!! They liked their souvenirs that I brought back for them (although they liked the free airplane headphones even better).

(isn't that coconut purse the cutest??!!) Silly kids!!!!

Ok, now back to the grind :)