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Aloha Oahu

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Where to start…I am absolutely in love with Hawaii. 
We decided to go to Hawaii because 
a. it was Spring Break
b. lyle killed it in Texas & we could
c. we were pale & wanted a third honeymoon
d. all of the above

This blog is lotsa pictures & my random Hawaii observations
Waikiki/Honolulu is the WORST. if you go to Oahu do not stay there. The North Shore was absolutely perfect and not crowded at all. We LOVED where we stayed. Honolulu and Waikiki are fun to explore but the hotels are overpriced and you will probably have to pay for parking on top.
 Lolani Palace
 my stud husband
Homeless guys in Hawaii are less scarier than homeless guys anywhere else. They wanted me to take a picture of them
Dukes Statue. Other tourists aren’t that good at taking centered pictures
 Some cool/weird tree in Kapiolani Park
And of course we went to the beach. below is Waimea Beach
Waimea Falls. This was supposed to be with a self timer but lyle didnt get to me in time…
One of the beautiful lookout points. We couldn’t live in Hawaii because my hair was just the worst thing ever. As seen in the following pictures… 
Nuanna Pali Lookout. We were sad because it was foggy! The weather in Hawaii reminds me a lot of Florida- it will rain while its sunny and it will be gross one second and fine the next so we just waited until it went away (it did!)
A tripod is THE BEST thing we have ever bought. Especially if you love to travel. Get one.
Hahaha Lyles pose…
 We wanted to live like locals so we a teeny place that was a couple feet from the beach and went to the grocery store and guys everything in Hawaii is EXPENSIVE. Cereal is like $6.00 and they don’t have a huge huge selection and all the food is way pricey. However they do have unique fruits and candies that are AMAZING. Hence we didn’t feel the need to buy razors (we only did carry ons) which equals super sexy for Lyle (see below) and not so sexy for me…. 
 Lyle was very persuasive in Hawaii. Hence my participation in these photos….Lyle obviously posed me too because I have no clue what I’m doing in the first photo.

 We were never lacking in PDA. Sorry to the other tourists, but vacation is fun for that kind of stuff. We were asked if we were on our honeymoon a couple times…sure, our third honeymoon. 

More from Waimea Falls!
 I LOVE this!
Hawaii is not lacking in chickens or cats… the cats were more in the Waikiki area while the chickens were on the North Shore. Everyone owns them
 Lyle found this an appropriate time to ask why the chicken crossed the road…
 But it was so cute because they all had BABIES!
We explored many different beaches! Lanikai, a Waikiki Beach, Bonzai pipeline, Waimea, Sunset, Hukilau, etc. Below are pictures from Lanikai one of Lyles favorites. The sand was soft and white and it was so beautiful!
Then one day we went to the Latter Day Saint Laie temple! It is STUNNING. Lyle and i have now through 5 different temples together! Our goal is to hit go through everyone of them as we travel to many different places
The views are amazing!
We also went to the Polynesian Cultural Center- PCC. They had tons of different shows about different cultures along with lots of hands on things such as lei making, throwing spears etc. We then went to the luau there and saw the HA Breath of Life Show which had guys throwing fire and it was so cool
We just bought this hut in case anyone wants to visit us!
One day we went to China Mans hat! So then obviously we took a photo shoot. IT IS THAT STUNNING- i only edited two of these pictures and that was to make them lighter, the rest are what it really looks like!
All my swimsuits are from Amazon by the way for like $15! They are great when you eat Hawaiian french toast and feel fat haha
One day we went to Valley of the temples! It is stunning! I did not touch a single photo. I felt like I was in China sometimes…also because seriously everyone was Asian
 This whole pond behind us was filled with these huge Koi fish
freaking babe.
My top 5 favorite parts of the trip: (in no order)
1. Hawaiian Sweet bread french toast from Papa Ole’s
2. the helicopter ride over Oahu
3. Our snorkeling excursion where wild dolphins swam all around us
4. laying out & getting sun
5. the amazing beauty everywhere we went
 this waterfall was amazing! our helicopter had no doors and he basically would flip the helicopter to the side so we could get different views and it was so scary! Its actually illegal to hike to this waterfall so it was cool we got to see it since its not visible
Lookin rough on my part- I lost a whole lotta hair in this event haha
Our pilot flew over this whale that was breaching! SO COOL
The snorkeling adventure was so sick besides the fact that we got up at 4:30 am…
we got on this boat and rode out and saw some bottle nose dolphins which is surprising because usually its just the spinner dolphins and he started speeding and the dolphins started swimming alongside and jumping in the waves. it was amazing. then we went snorkeling in an area where we saw 4 huge konas! (turtles) and a bunch of fish. The next snorkeling area i saw a reef shark RIGHT UNDER ME and I started swimming to the boat and freaking out. Lyle decided to get a picture of it (we haven’t gotten our underwater camera developed yet!) The guy in charge said reef sharks wont bug you but hmm funny, on yahoo yesterday i saw an article where a man was attacked by a reef shark…it wasn’t exactly tiny. The boat then got a call about a bunch of spinner dolphins spotted so he slowly dropped us in the water and told us not to move. Then all the sudden 55+ spinner dolphins started to swim under us. They all had little babies and it was phenomenal. They were completely surrounding us. They just swam around us several times. I have never had a cooler experience in my life. Then they fed us an amazing lunch! Ko Olina Ocean adventures was amazing! We had the best time!
I loved Haleiwa! It was the perfect little beach town with a cute bakery, little shops and amazing homemade icecream!
 We watched a Sunset on Sunset beach
We got to hike Manoa Falls and the Kokohead Crater Hike
please ignore the terrible shoes below…
More Pictures!
Halona Blowhole
 Get a picture of the sign! Thanks lyle…haha
 An amazing steak house where we ate with a beautiful view of the beach!
the reason I probably gained 20 lbs haha and for some reason lyle adores this picture…
RIP white wedge shoe. 
We had an amazing time to say the least. We ate lots of amazing food. Hawaii seems to be big on breakfast food and so am I. If we lived there I would be so obese. We ate from the food trucks and had shaved ice and at night we would fall asleep to movies that take place in Hawaii such as 50 first dates or Just Go With It.  We crossed things off bucket lists. We stopped at local little fruit stands and had the best time. We have already decided we have to go back next spring break for a couple days to finish up the rest of the things we wanna do then explore the big island!! The amount of photos i took is ridiculous, i have zillions more but these are some of the favorites! aloha
xoxo Cait xoxo

Better Late than Never

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We celebrated Valentines Day a week later than everyone else. No big deal though because instead of one day, we got a whole weekend! Lyle tried to insist he come home from Texas for it but I thought that was ridiculous and didn’t mind waiting a week, plus two of my favorite people were getting married and we both would rather have him home for that anyway.


 Lyle surprised me with a weekend trip to Park City! It was seriously the most amazing weekend ever. He planned it all by himself and i was WAY impressed. The wedding was on Friday, but first thing Saturday we headed up there. We stopped at the outlets where Lyle let me pick out my own presents. He was so cute, telling me everything looked great on me and acts like I look like a model in everything. If only you could see his cute faces and how his eyebrows lift and he shakes his head and smiles. He tried to tell me to get “it all.” HIM, not me guys. I was good though, btw everything in all of J.Crew was 50% off. Score. 
Me super excited about my new clothes. SO cute. Then went to check in our hotel. Lyle got us a beautiful suite! He had all these surprises for me too!
 sparkling cider- one of my favorites!
 My handmade card. I about died. I told Lyle handmade cards are my favorite. He was embarrassed and made me promise not to laugh but i freakin loved it.
 the room after I messed it up…

 Lyle got me TWO bouquets of roses! He switched it up with pink roses this year. One he had delivered to our house with chocolates and the next one was in our hotel room. Then he tells me to go look in the fridge. AHH. What is Valentines Day without chocolate and strawberries? I seriously love anything dipped in chocolate. He was so excited about his surprises and so was I!!
 One of the surprises I had for Lyle was a coupon book…You would have thought I gave him a million dollars…he told me it was the best present he’s ever gotten and I felt sad if that was the case haha. He brought it up like a hundred times and always made sure he had it and took good care of it. He’s the best. Lyle is so grateful for every little thing I do for him. Its so easy to make him happy.

 Then we went out to dinner! We ate on Main street at this awesome fancy place (see below). We just did something low key since our real dinner was the next night at the Melting Pot!

It was SO good. We split a meal and it was more than enough. Plus then we had room for dessert!
I was the only girl walking around in a dress and heels. Other girls were all wearing fur and I felt dumb for a second until one girl told me I looked pretty and other people were staring at me because they thought I was a celebrity and then I was okay with it
Bread pudding ^
 Then we took some selfies. Sorry we aren’t sorry.
 Then we went hot tubbing!
The next day we woke up to an amazing complimentary breakfast and let me add they had the best hot chocolate I have ever had. Then we went SNOWBOARDING! I was so excited to go snowboarding for the first time. I was obsessed with the lift and honestly wished I could go up and down on that all day until I started actually going down the slopes.
I look so dumb in this picture because this was during my “lets get hurt phase”and I wasnt “good” yet.
It started out all fun ya know how things trick you like that. I got down without a fall the first run. Second time down I fell, and I swear I bruised my tailbone and then it wasn’t so fun because I seriously could not sit down. Somehow Lyle got me to go down again and then I broke my head. Probably one of the more embarrassing falls a person could do because I wouldn’t land on my butt because it already hurt so then I decided injuring my head was better and basically flipped over my board. And then after, I decided injuring my wrist sounded like a good plan. I went from good to bad and I was not liking the whole being bad part. I was so freaked. Then I was done. And wanted hot chocolate. Finally, Lyle coaxed me into going again and I decided to since I could semi feel my body. Then I was good again. What the heck? I could easily stop and get up and down and I was trying to get my carving down but toe side kinda makes me nervous but I loved it. Lyle tried to tell me he wasn’t good but he looked good to me! I was amazed at all the pro 5 year olds though going down all by themselves and thought it would be fun to teach our kids at a young age. So impressed. I’m actually kind of obsessed with it now and love finding new things that Lyle and I like to do together. 
what a babe
Then we headed down to Salt Lake for dinner at the melting pot! Yummy. Lyle showed me a talent ha and let me add that it is definitely accurate haha
My outfit. My necklace has an L on it for Lyle…Lyle thought people would think it was for Leary haha
Also we didn’t get too many pictures because after dinner I fell into a coma…whoops
 The best part was the smores fondue! We ate it so fast I didnt even get a picture! haha Next time we are going just for dessert cause it was ahmazingg 
We went hot tubbing, kissed in cars and pretty much everywhere else, shopped, ate yummy food, snowboarded, explored, watched a little bit of Safe Haven since we saw it last year and had the best time. I came home and was knocked out by like 8:30 haha and my cute husband put me to bed and brought me tylenol. We didn’t have time for some of the other things I had planned for him so I guess we will do those next weekend when this handsome boy comes back to me. Can you believe after all this Lyle tried to tell me he wasn’t romantic? I just looked at him like he was crazy. This weekend was perfect. Girls dream of the rose petals and boys doing this kinda stuff. I love him and I didn’t think it was possible to top last Valentines Day but I was wrong. He is so amazing and I don’t know how I snagged him. I say it every single day but I am so lucky. Lyle’s the type of guy that in high school, I told all my friends I was waiting for. Guys would say I would never find the perfect guy but I did. Here’s to an eternity more of love days. I cant wait.
xoxo CAIT xoxo