Well, you might think all we do is vacation while we live it up in the Islands, but we do normal life activities as well. Since Nancy and Dad have left I thought I'd give you a video update of the new milestones our "Troublemakers" have reached since D & N's departure.
Jaxon now eats rice cereal, and Ashlyn is a computer game freak.
Ashlyn loves her computer games so much that to end her prayer once, instead of saying
"In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen,"
She said
"PBSkids.org, Amen"
Oh dear... Are we bad parents?
Let's just say, a good old 'zoom in' took care of the problem. Please don't make me point it out...
We also went to Pali lookout, but that's for Nancy to post, I'm getting tired of daily posts and searching through literally hundreds of pictures. But here's a nice one that Heather took. I think it's a hibiscus, but I don't know my flowers very well. A good sign of manliness if you ask me.
A dog walking on the beach all of a sudden decided to park himself right next to Ashlyn, she was delighted as you can see. 
Nobody really swam except for Ashlyn and I, but we did bust out the horse shoes. It's one of Dad's favorite games. Unfortunately for him, he came up short against a superior opponent.
Can't beat the setting though huh?
Even the girls got in on the action, after we moved the line up about 10 feet! Heather even threw a double ringer! Too bad Nancy killed her the rest of the way. No pictures of Nancy you say? Well, that's on purpose. Just wait for her post, I wouldn't want to steal "all the good pictures." Haha!
After spending most of the day at Lanikai, we had to hit up Waikiki, just to say they went. It wasn't the best day there, but we did take some pics. Here's dad spotting a great pic with his photographer eye.
And there's no better way to end a trip than by going to McDonald's Ashlyn loves her McChicken sandwich... but not the bread... and I love the price. $1!! Alright!
Our little water baby kept bugging everyone to get in the water with her, but I have rule. I don't get in unless the sun is out in all it's glory. I know, I'm kind of a sissy boy. So to appease the princess, I took her for a ride on the boogie board. However, when I turned around to check her, her face was full of water and sand... whoops, must've been kickin' it up at her while running at an incredible rate of speed!!
Well, in the end Ashlyn finally got her wish and I went into the water with her... I think my face tells you if it's cold or not.
Dad decided to get in on the action too, and came with us on round number two. It's pretty easy to tell who's the tourist and who's the guy who lives here. They don't call me the chocolate one for nothing. Nice board shorts for Dad though huh?
Soon after Ashlyn, it was time for the ladies to hit the water. The lagoons aren't the greatest place to snorkel, not a whole ton of fish, but there are some. Like this one here! A Nancy fish!
Even Dad tried snorkeling, Ko Olina is definitely a good place for beginners since you can touch the bottom, and the lagoon is quite protected... which is probably why there aren't a lot of fish, it's not easy to get in or out!
Being sunny also had it's cons. We now had to build a little shelter for Jax so he wouldn't get burnt. You can't tell, but he's pretty much lying underneath a beach lounger with body boards surrounding him to give him shade. Ashlyn is a good big sister.
But a water baby can only stay on dry land so long, soon she dragged her Ye-Ye off into the water again. Dad was more than willing to oblige his grand daughter.
And this is what I ended up doing. It's not fake either, Nancy thought it might be when she took the picture, but then she saw the drool... haha.
We went for two full days and one night, and it was a jammed packed trip. We left on Tuesday morning, took the 50 min flight to 
This is what it's 
We only had two umbrellas with us, so whoever was holding a child got to hold it. Heather obviously got one with 
After 
And again, this is what it's supposed to look like:
After that we saw what led up to Rainbow falls, and then went to the local grocery store to pick up some supplies. We then headed southeast to 
But our last stop of the day was 
Plus, Dad went swimming?! Yup, here he is.. can you tell he hasn't gotten sun yet?
Poor Ash was so tired, we put her in her car seat to head back and she was gone, cracker in hand and all.
Here's where we stayed, it was really nice, and not much more expensive than a hotel room would've cost. But instead of a room, we had almost 1700 square feet to hang out in. It's just too bad we all crashed really early.
After a good night's sleep, we got up relatively early, made breakfast, did a little lounging, but decided to get out early so we could spend the day at Volcanoes National Park. Oh, but have you ever seen a shower set up like this? No need for a fan I guess... hopefully there weren't any "fans" either!
Oh yeah, and have you ever seen chickens in the trees? Well, they were at the Hawaiian Retreat... I even found a rooster in the van after I left the door open while loading!
So off we went again, but first a quick stop at the Lava Tree State Park. Trees here are covered in Lava, and it's kinda cool I guess.
But finally, we made it the place where we had planned for a couple months. You can't really tell, but that's a lot of sulphur dioxide being spewed out of Kilauea behind us. You couldn't go any closer though, for safety reasons. In fact Rangers told us people used to pass out from being too close, so finally they just closed the roads. Silly tourists.
Since the road around Kilauea was closed, we had more time on our hands than we thought, so we hiked through Thurston Lava Tube. It's a tunnel like path where the lava used to flow through. 
We drove down the entire chain of craters road 
and at the end saw the 
However, time was going fast and we still needed to make one last stop, to see the Lava enter the ocean. It wasn't as cool as we thought it was going to be, but it was still fun.
We had to hike over lava rocks, and 
We couldn't get as close as we wanted, but the real show began when the sun started to set.
