jaws

the girls were troopers and lasted the road north, stopped at kahakuloa for banana bread and on to the otherside. Then adventure all the way to jaws- where it was breaking.
It was a long and bumpy road, but it was well worth it!

rider up with rainbow spray

sitting on the cliff

adventure day

checking windmills

road north of kapalua

papa feeding a horsey

the girls at jaws

family shots

family shakas
look at maya's shaka:)

maya smile- she's so hard to catch on camera with a smile

silly shot

kalia's photo

catching up: sunset at mushrooms

kalia mo

maya k

running around daddy

kalia & papa

Tuesday & Wednesday were very exciting days at the Hendrickson home- our nephew Tanner surfed in the Sunset Open. Tuesday Erik's Dad, the girls & I watched his first two heats on TV and knew that he made it to the next day. Wednesday the girls went to school & Celena's and I went to work. I even called Erik at one point to check on when he was planning to pick up Maya and he never mentioned the contest. So when I walked into a house of buzzing excitement, I was shocked! Tanner had surfed his 3rd and 4th heats and was going to the semi final. He had surfed against Jamie O'Brien and then beat Pancho Sullivan - the boys at home (Erik, Greg & Papa) were bouncing off the walls. The carpet was worn where Greg had been pacing all day. The three of them had to sit in the exact same seats they had all day during the semi-final heat (although they are not superstitious, whatever will happen is what is meant to happen...) Anyway, you have no idea how proud, excited, seriously stoked everyone was here- 5th place at the Sunset Open- Wow, Tanner we are all so proud of you! Pipe contest tomorrow?!?

Anyway to follow up and get everyone outside, we all headed down for sunset at mushrooms and then an improptu dinner at Dollie's. In the words of everyone: What a great day!

honolua bay 2

walking down the dirt road at the bay

little maya face

watching daddy surf
checking the whale spouts- getting a little whale soupy out there

erik
the only one i caught - it was packed today up at the bay tons of trucks & maya walking around like she owned the place, seriously need to keep an eye on that one!

honolua bay 1

watching the contest
papa thinks the cave looks pretty good today

maya wants to go swimming
she sees the water, but doesn't realize that it's a big drop to get in,
she wants to charge down the cliff!

papa & uncle greg discussing the waves

walking down to check out daddy surfing the elbow
hand holding is good

gone fishing

morning snuggles
kalia wanted maya to lay with her and rubbed her head

erik, greg & papa went fishing
erik caught this papio- it was delicious!

the girls checking out the fish

holding hands
in the morning, kalia was leaning against the couch and maya backed into her, then she reached to hold hands- you know i love the hand holding