Christmas Trip to Hawaii...

Our Christmas trip home to Hawaii started off a little snowy! Our initial plans were that Garrett and Cade were going to fly out Thursday (yes, by themselves!) and Lynn would join them Friday or Saturday. However, plans changed when Lynn's school was cancelled because of the winter blizzard. Fortunately, we flew out right before the airports closed down and all of the travel chaos began. We were lucky!

Seatac Airport snowy! We were about an hour delayed out of Seattle because of the snow and they had to de-ice our plane. Friends and family all advised us that we needed to feed Cade as we took off and landed. We tried our best, but the delay screwed us up! Our happy baby only likes warm milk, so luckily sucked on the binkie as we took off. Cade did a good job flying to Maui. We were surprised to see a baby changing table in the lavatory on the newer Hawaiian airplanes! Cade didn't want to be put down in the spare seat between Garrett and I nor did he want to be carried by Garrett. But, I enjoyed the time with him because I knew once we got to Maui, he would be carried by everyone else non-stop!
Cade meeting his great grandma Yoshie and great grandpa Nobu.
First fishing trip! Cade hung out in the tent all day, so he didn't get any sunburn! Here he's watching Daddy fish. No big catches that day, but had a lot of fun with family and friends.
The hike into the fishing spot took us about 45 minutes.

Family fishing picture: Cade fell asleep on the walk back to the car.

We escaped to the Westin Kaanapali Villas for a night of luxury! It was amazingly beautiful! We had our own kitchen and living room, along with a private hot tub in the bathroom. I think we need to remodel our house to look like this!

Cade's Santa picture at the mall. He didn't smile- too many distractions! At least he didn't cry!

Cade has had many visitors come up to WA already, but still had a lot more family to meet on Maui. Here's his 2nd cousins, Caitlyn, Courtney, and Lindsey.

More family! Lynn's 2nd cousins- Micah, Michael, Tina, Wesley, Allicia, and Stephanie.

All of the great-grandkids! Garrett's cousin's babies: Rysee, Lia, Shaina, Natyana and Chaz.

Sadly, back on the plane to WA. Again, fortunate to be on an empty flight, so Cade got to sleep on his own seat! He was so pooped from all the fun he had that he slept for 3 out of the 5 hour plane ride! WOW!

Bundled back up for the cold weather! We spent 9 wonderful days on Maui, which was too little! Cade didn't get to play in the sand or at the beach because we were so busy visiting family and friends! Next trip definitely!

This is the blizzard we were missing in WA! Poor Kyle and Sporty!