my parents decided to take us all over to hawaii to celebrate their 40th anniversary. we thought it would only be fair if we threw them a little anniversary/luau/party in appreciation:) it also happened to be little emmy’s first birthday, so we celebrated that as well. we reserved the pool for an evening and had some swimming, dinner, cake, and some presents.
jess and emmy
grandma showing us the praying mantis she found on the camera
brian and leilani
if we walked down past the pool in the evening, we found these little gecko’s all over the place. they are super fast, especially when carson kept trying to touch them. he claims he did get to feel one of them.
emmy got a few birthday presents, this stuffed animal was from brian and leilani, and she loved to snuggle it.
i don’t know what is going on between these two, but it makes me giggle every time i look at the picture.
grandpa and grandma opening presents. some of the grandchildren made scrapbook pages about some of the favorite memories they have with grandpa and grandma.
the adults finally getting to eat after the little ones headed back to swim.
shelly and emmy
leilani and emmy
the birthday girl snuggling her grandpa
meghan learned how to play somewhere over the rainbow (which was one of grandpa lyle’s favorite hawaiian songs) on the ukulele as her gift to grandma and grandpa. rachel helped her sing and it was such a neat way to remember grandma glenna and grandpa lyle. i thought of them so much during our trip, everywhere we went, i had a memory of being there before with them. it was truly a bittersweet experience, such great memories of them, but it made me miss them so much.
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what a sweet little tribute!
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