After my family left it was time to head to Oahu for Ley's bachelorette partayyy! (what! what!)
haha, it was a great weekend with all of our Maui (and Oahu) friends!
Here are some pictures from the plane over...
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Molokai |
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lunch on the North Shore in Oahu-Ley, Jess, Shaunte |
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Laniakea Beach a.k.a. Turtle Beach |
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Vans Triple Crown Surf Comepetition |
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a little tribute to the blog!! :) |
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the waves were insane! |
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these little buggers were the root of all evil that day! |
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starry night in Oahu. |
let the party begin...
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Friday night...ready to hit the town. |
Saturday we hit the water park...
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(photo courtesy of Jessica Rongen) |
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(photo courtesy of Jessica Rongen) |
Saturday night was the big night...
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the bachelorette! |
Unfortunately (or fortunately), that is all the pictures I have from our Oahu trip that weekend...
One night in December I was inside doing something (probably decorating) and looked outside and saw that the sunset looked insane from our house! I had to document...
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this is looking mauka (toward the mountain; mountain-) side from our Ohana |
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this is looking makai (toward the sea; sea-) side from our Ohana |
...and this is a little later in the night. trying to show the tree lights from this huge tree that a family puts up every Christmas...
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our tree before Christmas |
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just making some decor |
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thank you, pinterest, for our very holiday pancakes! |
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Christmas cookies! made from scratch! |
In mid December we attended Patrick's work's Christmas party at Longhi's Wailea
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Pat and Diane ("Thrasher") |
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we contemplated making a Christmas card out of this one...how perfect for us. |
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me and L bear. |
There were so many football games going on, and it seems every time we were off work, we got together with friends to watch...
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hanging at Chad's |
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uh ohhh |
and finally...Merry Christmas!!
it was our 2nd Christmas on Maui, and this year it truly felt like home! It was a great day!!
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Santa didn't skip over us! |
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opening presents! |
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Santa sure was good to us! |
We spent Christmas night with Ley's family and our friends! It was such a great day and night!! We felt truly blessed and thankful for such great friends and family! Merry Merry!!
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Sweet Soph was the star of the party Christmas night! |
aloha,
xoxo,
lacey and patrick.