States Amy and I have been to since we got married...

I saw this on Mike's blog, and Amy and I were just wondering how many places we've been since being married. Our goal is to be 100% red... one day.

Laie

This is Caleb sitting on Uncle Jimmy's lap. They live in Laie and are attending BYU-Hawaii. He loves Jimmy and Mikensi and always asks to sit on their lap. Sometimes he even acts like a baby and fake cries and asks Mikensi to pick him up. He's found his home-away-from-home.
Here we are at the luxurious TVA (Temple View Apartments) as Mikensi described them to us. We were thinking about staying at the Laie Inn but Mikensi's mom stayed there and said it was horrible. Since there isn't too much on this end of the island as far as accomodations, I felt the Gilberts were very generous in being OK with our inviting ourselves to sleep over at their house.
We stopped by Costco and Wal-Mart on the way in and loaded their freezer and fridge with a few things, then we even added more the Saturday before we left. We stopped at Costco by Hanauma bay because Jimmy decided he DID like Bagel bites (and we had to get some Macadamia Nut chocolates).
Caleb loves sea turtles and we got luck seeing 3 on a beach near turtle bay. They ranged between 25-40 years old. We were shocked in talking to the bilogist who said that they don't really live to be 150 yrs old like it says on Finding Nemo. Caleb will never watch that movie again!!!
For some reason he kept doing the sign for "star fish" - don't know why. He knows the one for turtle.
We bought these squirt guns in Kauai because Caleb saw these 6-8 year old kids with them. He would just follow them around (not saying anything) while they played and then he'd reach out for them, thinking it was his turn. He started getting frustrated, then he just had a melt down on the beach.
He loves them. He took them with us to Hanauma bay and would just squeal and run away when I squirted him.
Tonight Amy dialed Grandma's number and handed the phone to Caleb. I wonder what his conversation was about???
You can barely see a seal down on the beach behind us. Caleb loves to make seal signs with his hands. This is on the North shore of O'ahu and from what we understnad there are not very many seals at all in the islands.
This is Sharks Cove at susnet. The tide was low, so you couldn't really go around snorkeling very much and Caleb just had as much fun throwing rocks out into the ocean anyway, so it was fun for him too.
We went to Hanauma Bay on Saturday. I'm waiting for the underwater pictures to be developed when we get home, but I stole this picture from Mikensi's website. Caleb loves Doritos and he just sat and ate them for 15 minutes or so. When he was done, he showed us his orange hands. Funny how they match his head, huh??







We had a great time at Hanauma Bay. We all got to take turns snorkeling, except for Mikensi who was still recovering from her kidney problems. As we got ready to leave, Caleb wanted to play leap frog with the orange emergency cones that were set up to give the lifeguards easy access to the beach. I had to pick them all up twice before we left. Too bad I didn't get a picture of it, ya know!!!
All good things come to an end, and so we had to say good-bye to Jimmy and Mikensi in Laie. Caleb dressed up for the occasion!
When we got to the San Fracisco airport, Caleb just chilled out and watched a movie for 2 hours until we headed over to our gate. Most of the people who walked by commented on how spoiled the kid is - I would have to agree in this instance :)

After he watched Ice Age, he chased me around with his stroller for 15 minutes... he was giggling and squealing and everyone who was waiting for their flights was laughing because he was so loud. We got a few "That's a cute kid!" comments... that's usually when Caleb gets shy.

Sunday in Hawaii

Caleb is ready to go on a short drive to look at some waterfalls before we head off to Church in Lihue.
This was a double waterfall... Wow look at Amy's curly hair!!!
This is as close as my zoon goes. I tried to get the flowers in the picture this time because I hear Grandma Gilbert really likes that color.
"this is my car!" Caleb wasn't too impressed with this waterfall.
But he sure was impressed with this one. It looked super steamy with all the mist and everything around the look out. It was pretty impressive!
"Hold me, I'm scared!" Sych! It's just cause I don't want to walk back to the car, Dad.
This is the chapel in Lihue. Caleb made it through about 5 minutes of sacrament after the speakers started. Oh well.
It looks like they had some kind of a school attached to the chapel, or something. A lot of the chapels out here looked like this one.
Waimeia Canyon... the Grand Canyon of the Islands.
"Whoa, Dad. Look at the rock I found!"
This is near the North shore by the NaPali coast.
Caleb was concerned because I'm scared of heights so he covered up my eyes for me.


There was a nice breeze here, so I lifted up the bottom of my shirt to let the air rush up (sure makes me look like I need the exercise, which I do) and Caleb was doing his best to copy me.
Next we drove up to the north west end of the island. This beach is the last point before the road ends and the steep mountains of the NaPali cost stretch east toward Princeville. Caleb was so excited to be back at the beach!
But this was on Sunday.
So Amy had to chase down a screaming child who was headed for the water and haul him out again.
You can't see his face, but he's not too happy in this picture.
Or this one.
But he was when I gave him the iPod so he could watch "Little Mermaid" on the way back to the hotel.
This is near Princeville (on the north shore of Kauia. It's a wilderness preserved down there somewhere. View looked cool.

Kauai

Here we are getting ready to leave Hilo at 6:30am. Caleb was such a trooper. There was a group of about 80 Japanese turists on our same flight and they just loved his hair.
The funny thing was that our choices for beverages were either a cup of fruit punch (like Tampico with a tin foil lid, or coffee). So we got the punch and Caleb didn't really care so much for the punch, but boy did he like drinking water out of the cup. We filled that thing up about 15 times before we landed. Boy was his next diaper soggy!
Caleb sure loved this beach. It's called Lydgate Park. A man-made reef was built up with boulders about a hundred hards out and the waves still get in a little, but not much. The water was pretty cool at first, but it was a warm day Saturday so it felt good and after a few minutes you were use to it. Caleb would run down into the water and do a belly flop half the time when he got there. I took this picture of him just crawling around on his tummy.
Caleb doesn't look to happy right here - there is a reason for this! He has this habit of just walking up to kids who have cool toys, or even just a stick, and wanting it. If the other kid doesn't give it to him he pulls one of these pouty faces. Eventually he had a meltdown, but we'll get to that later. Amy brought him up out of the water to sit with us and he cried it out, then suddenly, forgot all about it and ran back out into the water.
He had another meltdown when he found this hole. It was being used by another family and it had little sand castles built up around it. The kid who was playing near it started to knock the sand castles down, but I didn't know who had built it, so I didn't let Caleb help in the destruction - AHHH the drama! A lady who I had seen with her child in the pit came in out of the water and I asked her how long it took to dig the pit. She said she had no idea - it was more of a community pit. That gave Caleb the green light to hop in. As soon as he did, he turned to me and says, "Cheeeese!!" - because he knew I had the camera. Couldn't resist.
I know what he's thinking here, "If I go and take another kids bucket, I could bring water up here and create my own jaccuzi tub!!!"
Suddenly he realized I was there and turns to me and says, "Cheeeese!!!!"