We're Back!

Trent and I just got back from my sister's destination wedding. Mike and Alissa were married on a beach in Kauai. It was a really fun, beautiful, and relaxing vacation without our little kiddos. I'll make a few posts about this trip. This first one will be the wedding.

Alissa and Mike on the beach after their wedding

Trent and I after the wedding
Getting hitched

The officiant right before the wedding

"The Fam"

Her Bouquet

They hired this musician to play some pretty Hawaiian music before, during and after the ceremony

My dad (or "boyd" as we like to call him) cooking up some of his famous steaks by the pool of our hotel. We had a dinner with Mikes family the night before the wedding.

The Grub

Here is some more of the food. I would also like to say that yes we brought most of the stuff from Utah including the silverware, those bowls, the paper products, candles, and the funky Tikki God. There is a lot more my mom made us all haul over there for the wedding including a huge Costco size box of Sun Chips she fit in my sister Breanne's suitcase. My mom said everything in Hawaii is so expensive, so she wanted to bring as much as she could so she wouldn't have to buy it there. Yeah she was crazy and we all tried talking her out of it (especially me with the Sun Chips), but she actually ended up being right and we used all the stuff she brought, including the huge box of swedish fish and trail mix from Costco.

Here is their little wedding cake. It was an ice cream cake from Cold Stone. One of my family's favorite things right now.

These were bags Alissa and Mike gave to everyone that came out for their wedding. It was a welcome to Hawaii/Thank you for coming bag. It had towels, sunblock, aloe vera, chapstick, candy, bottled water, and a cute box with directions to the wedding and an invitation to a luau.

After the wedding we all changed and went to the beach and pool at Mike and Alissa's hotel. There we rented a paddleboard and a surfboard. Actually my mom rented the surfboard. The lady kept saying to her, "Are you sure you can swim REALLY well?" Finally my mom told her, "It is either now or never." So she rented the surfboard and we laughed hysterically at her. I tried it out a little, but I spent most of the time laughing and taking pictures of her. She would kill me if I posted them, so I won't. But really, you are missing out. Here we are at a Luau the night of the wedding. Mike's mom treated everyone to a Luau to celebrate their wedding. It was an awesome day and a beautiful wedding. More to come...