Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts

May 23, 2016

The Beck Villa & Balloon Festival | 2016

We just got back from our second annual Glamping & Balloon Festival up at the Beck villa in Temecula – and I think our whole family is still glowing from all the fun.  Our close group of friends (family really) have been planning and anticipating this weekend for months!  My kids have been out of their minds excited and the weekend delivered on all their dreams.  Our friends and most gracious hosts, the Becks, live on a vineyard and almost have us all convinced to move up there and be neighbors.

The kids ran wild with all the fun stuff do.  To include – riding bikes and quads through the vineyard, shooting arrows and guns, playing capture the flag, playing with Mocha the pug, lounging in the hammock, splashing in the fountain, running in and out of tents, watching movies, and just running around in general.  Heaven on earth for kids I tell ya.

The women took pictures and made delicious food, the men set up tents and wrangled kids, the couples took selfies at sunset in the vineyard.  You know, the basic dreamy stuff.  We were never short on laughs, great conversations, or toddler meltdowns.  I wouldn't have it any other way.

I just love them all!





































Oct 16, 2015

Sean + Lela | Oahu

I had the chance to tag along with Sean for a work trip to Hawaii last month —  and really, it's only because I have the BEST friends in all the land.  My girls, Erin and Jenniline, each took two of my boys for the whole week so we could go.  I don't even know how to begin to pay them back for that kind of awesomeness.  Ideas?

Sean worked for the first few days, but I spent every last waking moment exploring and soaking in every Oahu experience I could.  We stayed at the Hale Koa in Waikiki and from the moment we arrived I knew I was in love.  Sean has been many times for work, but this was my first time, so naturally I'm already begging him to do everything in his power to get orders there.  It's SO my kind of place.  The warm water, the food, the green mountains.  Heaven. 

~ A huge tree on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor ~
 ~ Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor ~

~ USS Utah, Pearl Harbor ~
 We spent lots of our trip visiting and exploring with the Ganze's.  We love them!!!  Especially this little peanut, Nixon.  He's the sweetest!
~ Dinner at Duke's in Waikiki ~
(Get the macadamia crusted fresh fish)
~ The coolest ceiling in Waikiki ~
 ~ Dinner at Haleiwa Joe's ~ 


 ~Snorkeling in Hanauma Bay ~



 ~ Sunrise snorkeling in Lanikai Beach ~ 













 ~ Drive up to the North Shore ~




~ Laie Temple ~ 



~ Some instagram pics ~