Hawaii!

We went to Hawaii a few weeks ago for Jordan and Emily's wedding. We had a blast. Our adventure started with finding out the we were flying to the wrong island the night before we left Provo. Luckily, we could get a cheap island hopper on Hawaiian Air for just an hour and a half after we landed. We spent the first four days at the Waikoloa Resort with Jordan and Emily's families for the wedding. It was absolutely beautiful in Kona. Emily looked gorgeous of course and it was a great wedding. After Jordan and Emily left for their honeymoon we got to go to an awesome beach with Jordan's family. Here are some pictures from the first part of our trip.

Here we are after a little work out. Katie biked for an hour while Brad laid on the floor and watched the basketball game.


Here is the happy couple!
Kona temple
us at the templeAfter all the wedding stuff we flew over to Honolulu. We stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. It was a lot of fun. We spent most days walking around and eating shaved ice. We even walked all the way to the Waikiki aquariam which actually was very lame. We got to see Katie's friend Eri and her husband. They took us to barbeques and showed us some of the cool local spots. Here are some pictures from our trip.

Here are Eri and Katie at one of the local spots we went to.

Eri and her husband Tee Tai (Sorry I have no idea how you spell it). We loved getting to see them, and they were so nice to take us around, feed us, and make us feel at home!
Here is spitting cave. It is such an awesome spot. People jump off the cliff and try to time it so they hit the water when the waves spit back out. If they don't, they get thrown into the rocks. It's a very dangerous spot so known of us jumped of course.. but we did get to watch the sun set there.
Here we are on our balcony. We stayed on the 24th floor! It actually was somewhat frightening to look over the edge!
Finally at the Waikiki aquarium. It took us about 50 minutes to walk there and unfortunately we were very disappointed. However, they did have some funny sea lions that made it not so bad.Next weekend we are going to El Paso and then to San Diego... We will have some new posts from the family reunion and also from the Eckerson reunion/Sharon's birthday party in April.

Brad Graduated!!!

Brad is officially graduated from BYU! He got his BA in Spanish with a minor in business management. We are so proud of him. Meghan also graduated from the same college as Brad. Rachel, Robert, and Ellie as well as both sets of parents (and Jordyn) got to come to see the graduation. We also had a party for my mom that weekend. We are just waiting to get the pictures from everyone so we can share! Here are some pictures of the graduates!

Here is Brad right before he got his diploma.. well his diploma holder really.


Here are all of the Eckerson girls (except Jo).
Everyone at graduation.
me and Brad
us with Brad's friend Marcus and his wife Ashely.
...and Brad has officially decided to attend the University of Utah for his MBA starting in August. We are excited for him!

Here is a picture of us in Hawaii with Brad's new Utah shirt!!!