ala moana

Saturday.

My sister Elika's husband is out of town and so in order to get out the house, she and her kids decided to come and spend the night at our house Friday night.

Which left us with a whole Saturday to play.

And since the weather was gorgeous (still Summer, according to the calendar, despite the fact that this was the girls first week back to school!), we decided to hit the beach.  

Kaden was stuck to Mitch's hip the whole day.

Well, every day, really...but today especially.

 Once we got Kaden detached from Mitch's hip, he was fairly content to play in the sand and NOT jump head first into the water.  Much to my relief.

 This one, however, I couldn't have held back if I tried.

We brought the nets...just for fun.  

And lo and behold, Anna caught a fish!

And not some dinky one either...but a pretty good-sized 2 1/2 incher!  

We were all pretty impressed.

Though they all tried and tried...this was the lone fish caught at Ala Moana's Magic Island this day.

By us, anyway.

 Kela and Luke.

We brought along 2 of my nephews since my brother's other two boys had baseball.

Such a shame...it was such a beautiful day, too!

 Here's Anna and her cousin Aya.

Net and bucket in hand, but alas...no more fish.

 Once she gave up on her fishing, she played tug boat to her cousin Luke and Justus on the boogie boards.

I just LOVE how the water here is so shallow!!

No need to worry about the kids wandering into the deep or getting swept away.

 Kaden likes the salt water.

It was kinda gross...but he kept dipping his hot wheels car into the water and licking off the salt water.  

Boys!

Here's my nephew, Knox.
He's gonna be a big brother in 4 months!! 

 Me, relaxing in the water while the kids played. 
Not sure how many Saturdays we have left to play in the waves but we sure will try to enjoy as much as we can!!