Utah Trip and Trunk Or Treat

We went to Utah last weekend to attend a seminar, and to visit friends....and also I saw High School Musical 3! I loved it! Anyways, here are some pics from our trip!

On the way up north, we stopped in St George to pick up some stuff for our friends. It was also the perfect time to let Landon out of the car seat and play around. He likes to stick anything and everything in his mouth, as I'm sure most babies do. Here is Landon teething on my bracelet. He loves it.  He looked so cute, I just had to take a picture.

Saturday morning we went to Thanksgiving point to walk around and to also look at the decorations in their shop. 

Landon with the pumpkins.

Our little family.

Me and my friend Ashley.

Chillin' with the pumpkin.

I thought these signs were funny! They were near the corn maze.

Wednesday was our ward's trunk or treat. Here are some pictures from that!

This trunk was scary! 

Here we are.

What a cute little shark!

Oh how I love fall! It's so beautiful, and there are so many activities, and the fall food (any thing with pumpkin or squash) is just amazing! I especially miss Utah this time of year! I was glad we were able to visit.  I posted on my new blog, Lanier Creations a yummy fall recipe! I highly recommend it!

New Blog!

Hey ladies! I started a new blog! It's called Lanier Creations. Please tell all of your friends about it!  This blog will have craft ideas and how to's, home decorating and organizing ideas, vinyl lettering (by me), cute etsy shops I find, recipes and more! The link is laniercreations.blogspot.com.

The rest of our Hawaii trip!

Sunday morning we woke up and went to church. Everyone there was so nice to us. We even got a lei greeting in relief society. Here is us in front of the chapel.

After church we did a bunch of free things, it was nice to have a day where we weren't spending money! Here is us at birthing stones. Apparently queens would walk here from Honolulu (about 45 minute drive away, so I can't even imagine how far they would walk) to give birth to their babies. There was one big rock that they used as a form of an epidural, to ease the pain by the way they laid on it.....I've given birth, and I honestly don't think a rock would work near as good, if at all. They must be tough women!

We also went to a botanical garden, for about 2 seconds, there wasn't much there. Afterwards we went to Dole Plantation and walked around.

This is us in front of the gift shop.

Baby Pineapple

After Dole we drove to the North Shore to watch the sunset and take pictures. This is a picture I snapped as the sun was setting.

Landon

Playing in the sand...his favorite.

Look at his cute feet. I just love em'!Paul was tossing Landon up in the air. This was a good shot.

In the air.

A good family picture in the Hawaiian sand.

After the beach we headed back to the villa and made dinner, it was kind of random things, we were just eating whatever we had around our villa.

Monday morning we headed to the Lagoon to hang out for the day, to catch some sun, and snorkel. Oh, and to play in the sand.Here's the boys working on making a sand castle.

Paul got buried.

After our day at the beach, we went into Waikiki and went to cheesecake factory for dinner.

After cheesecake factory we went to Cirque Hawaii. It was a pretty good show!

Here's us after the show with some of the cast.

And some more of the cast....

And the rest of the cast, they were all so nice to take pictures with us.

Tuesday was Adam and Lisa's 3rd anniversary. We figured that would be the perfect day to do temple sessions. We watched Zack while they went, and they watched Landon while we went. While they were in the temple, we went to the shrimp shack for lunch. I don't like shrimp, so I had a hot dog, but Paul was excited to has fresh shrimp.

After lunch we looked at the BYU Hawaii campus, then hung out at the visitors center. Here is Landon with one of the sister missionaries. She wanted a picture with him.

Here is us in front of the Hawaii Temple.

And another one.

After the temple, we took Adam and Lisa to dinner, then we went to Outback, it sounded really good to us. here is Landon sitting on the table. He sat there the whole time. He was not happy in his car seat!

Wednesday was our last full day in Hawaii. We got a later start that day. We went to Highway Inn for lunch. It was ok....I don't think I'd recommend it.

After lunch we headed back out to the North shore and had Matsumoto's shaved ice! I highly recommend this place if ya ever make it to Hawaii. The snow cones have ice cream at the bottom. They also give you the option to put condensed milk on it, I don't recommend it, and I recommend a small size, not a large. Everyone felt sick afterwards. And get the blue plastic things, they make the snow cone much cleaner to eat.

We then went to Turtle bay.

We were just about to leave because we weren't seeing any turtles. Just before we left, this big guy came out of the water. His name is Brewtus (we were told by a guy who works with the turtles), he's about 35 and weighs between 175 and 200 lbs!

After turtle bay we headed to Germaine's Luau.

Here is us with some of the natives in the show.

Here's Landon in a canoe.

This is a lighthouse right by the Luau.

Here's all of us.

And us.I thought this flower was pretty, so I had to take a picture.

Here's Landon and Zack in the canoe.

Landon reaching for pineapple on the table.

Then he took Zack's sippy cup.

Here's us after getting our food. I think the food at the Polynesian cultural center was much better, as well as the entertainment.

Thursday morning we stopped at Pearl Harbor on our way out. I wish we had more time there because it is an important part in history, and there was lots to see. We saw one exhibit and that was all.

After Pearl Harbor we went to the airport, got lunch, and boarded the plane. Here's me reading Landon's new book to him. He kept trying to eat it.

Our flight back went very well. Landon slept some, and played some. We are so gratefukl that he's a good traveler and baby! We had a very nice and enjoyable vacation, but it's good to be home!