Thanksgiving in Shorts!

Thanks to the Kimballs for organizing a fun and super yummy Thanksgiving Dinner on Wednesday night. It was delicious and fabulous company! No pictures though. :(

This has been a year of firsts for our family, including wearing shorts on Thanksgiving Day. To help us not miss family, we decided to try some new traditions and I think this is one that will stick. We had a great time hiking the Ha'aula Loop Trail. Other than me getting attacked by a dog, fun was had by all.

The whole clan. It was a first Thanksgiving in Hawaii for our friends too, so we decided to spend the day together. They have five adorable girls and ours have fun with them. Mike and Adam felt a little outnumbered!

You cross a stream a few times on the hike. This picture was taken shortly before Kenna crossed, missed the rock and landed right in the stream. Oops!

There were so many patches of different kinds of trees all in the two-hour hike. It was amazing and beautiful!

These needles turn white-ish when they fall so the girls thought it looked kind of like snow. That's the closest we'll get to snow here, I guess!

At the top of the loop. Bryn protested the wrap so Daddy ended up carrying her for the whole hike.

I was hoping it would open up so we could see the whole ocean, but it never did. This was the best I got. There were too many trees. It was still beautiful though. On one side of the hike, there were a lot of green trees and in the middle was one tree with orange blossoms. It made me think of how we were all made different to complement each other and don't need to try to be like everyone or anyone else. The trick is to be able to see and appreciate everyone else's blossoms (and our own too)!