Springtime

We've been spending as much time as possible outside these days.  We explored the Faerie Woodland Trail at the Zilker Botanical Garden.

There was the annual petting zoo at Carla's school.

We hiked the Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve.  Joseph rode in style while Carla walked up and down our entire 1 mile hike all by herself!

We traveled with the Makis and the Bonzeks to Wimberley renting a house on the Blanco River for a weekend.

And, of course, we are spending as much time as possible at parks with friends and on our swing at home.

Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013.  What a busy, full-filled time of year!  There was a visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus.  Joseph was brave enough to pose.  Carla, on the other hand, passed on the opportunity.

Carla had a Christmas pageant at her school starring as a sheep.

There was gingerbread house making and eating.

We made cookies with the cousins.

We spent time with Frank's side of the family.

(Notice the Dads wrestling in the background.)

Getting ready for a night walk.

Two smiling Josephs

We spent time with my side of the family at my cousin's husband's ranch getting all those great grandkids together.

And then there was Christmas morning.

Kluthawaii

I got the bug to get back to blogging so I'm going to try to do some catching up.

We had the joy of traveling to beautiful Maui for my cousin's wedding on November 1.  The island was amazing and what made it even more special was getting to spend a whole week with the entire Kluth family on vacation!

On the airplane - Maui or bust!

The first part of our trip was spent on the west side of the island in Napili and Kapalua where the wedding took place.  Oh the beaches!  GORGEOUS!  Carla couldn't get enough.  She could spend all day there - building sand candles, boogie boarding, splashing in the water.  Joseph was so into the beach that he wanted to eat it up, literally.  So we had to keep a close eye on this little sand eater.

"Emmie is the best!"

Aunt Banana and Uncle Dylan deserve awards for the amount of time they spent playing with the kids!

Dude time with Uncle Dylan.

Jenna and Reece's wedding was absolutely gorgeous but really how could it not be in Maui?!?  Carla served as one of the flower girls and impressed everyone with fulfilling her duties and then some.  This little lady actually walked down the aisle and stood at the front with the wedding party during the entire ceremony!

The beautiful bride and groom!

All seven Kluth cousins with Grandma....there was lots of reminiscing, especially about Vacation Bible School at Grandma's house for a week every summer.

She was out of control on the dance floor!  She'd dance with Dad and then when he got pooped I would take a turn then when I was tired she went with Aunt Banana.  She wore us out!

The last couple of days we moved over to the east side of the island to Hana.  It's a gorgeous drive through a lush rainforest down a curvy road that in parts only has room for one car to pass at a time.  It takes minimally 2.5 hours to drive only about 45 miles but that's if you don't make any stops for hiking, waterfalls, beaches, ocean cliffs, or banana bread.

This trip was amazing!  Can we please do this again?  Any other family members want to get married or renew their vows here???