Thursday, 12 February 2009

• Badly behind in updating this....

  I can't believe I haven't posted anything on here since last year! 

  I'm a bad, bad blogger.  I don't see a lot of other people posting on Xanga either - I have a feeling a lot of people are moving over to Facebook.  My kids talk about Facebook a lot, and I've considered signing up - I'm just afraid it'll eat up that much more of my time.

  Taking big vacations is something that we really don't do very often.  My dh is self-employed, so no paid vacation weeks.  Since his family is in Chicago, our traveling expenses usually get saved up to visit family in Chicago for Christmas. Sometimes we'll take a few days and go to the beach - but usually nothing big. 

  In fact, I think the last "real" family big vacation was in 1996 when we went to Disney World.  (Jordan and I did go to Disneyland in 2002, but that wasn't the whole family). 

  Last week dh and I, and all 3 kids went to Hawaii for a family vacation.  Our nephew, Tim, is stationed at the marine base on Oahu.  DH's brother, sil, our other nephew, and dh's dad were all planning to visit Tim when he returned from Iraq in January.  Normally we would have been going to Chicago for the last Christmas, but we thought about it - and decided that January in Hawaii sounded a heck of a lot better than Christmas in Chicago.  So, it became a family reunion.

  We had a wonderful time.  We stayed in cottages right on the beach on the base that are reserved for military families.  The 5 of us were in one cottage, and next-door were the rest of the family.  It was so nice to be in hot sunny weather and we soaked up as much sunshine as we could.  We did the "touristy" things and visited Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor and the Dole Plantation - but there was plenty of time for playing on the beach, relaxing in a deck chair with a good book, and we even went on a hike.

  The week went by too quickly and now our vacation is already just a memory. 

  Here are some of my favorite pictures from Hawaii:

  

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