Hawaii Again!

These past two weeks we were in Hawaii for a much needed family vacation. We went to Maui our favorite place to go. We have been taking this trip every summer for the last 8 years and it never gets old. Hawaii is so relaxing and we love just spending time together with no outside distractions. We stay at the Grand Wailea, the grounds are beautiful,the pool is amazing and the beach is one of the best. We enjoy relaxing poolside & at the beach during the day and eating delicious dinners by night. It's such a good time to have a lot of conversation and a lot of laughs. The hotel has an amazing spa we enjoyed a few times this trip. Thanks to my husband for providing us with such an awesome vacation, and thanks to my kids for making it all so much fun. Lets do it again next year!

Love~

Mom

Hello Hawaii!!

the view from our balcony

The beautiful hotel

Dinner at Sarentos on the Beach

Dinner at Tommy Bahamas

We found this after dinner... this spider has wove a serious web

Fun in the Sun

Riding the waves

The men went golfing

Enjoying the beautiful sunset

Dinner at Spagos

Relaxing poolside

Sarentos on the Beach again... It's Dad's favorite dinner

Off to the pool for the last time!

Last Night in Hawaii

Shopping in Tiffiany's before dinner... this is a forbidden picture because your not allowed to use cameras in the store. Opps!!

Dinner

Goodbye Hawaii!

David Archuleta...Third Times A Charm!

After 2 close attempts, I was fianlly able to meet DAVID ARCHULETA the 3rd time around!! After many months of dreaming, searching, and pestering I finally found someone who could actually get me in front of David! Kim Halladay's cousin Kendra is the keyboard player in David's band! Me and my mom just happened to run into Kim and her husband Soren and their adorable kids at the mall a few weeks ago. We got to talking and found out this wonderful news! It just so happened to be that David was performing at the Nokia Theater in LA that Friday! Kim being the wonderful person that she is called her cousin and got tickets and backstage passes for her, Soren, me and my mom! So on the 17th we went to the show! I was so excited and yet nervous I could hardly stand it! When we got there it turned out that Brooke White ( the 5th runner up on American Idol) was there to see David with her husband Dave and what are the odds that Soren went to college with him another great connection! So we got to meet Brooke which was awesome because I love her too! Next we headed into the venue and unfortunately we weren't allowed to bring our giant camera inside! :( I was so upset because I didn't have my digital camera either! But after David's set we went backstage! We hung out for about 2 hours backstage with David, Brooke, Jason Castro, Benton Paul and a bunch of other fun people! Brooke became our best friend and ended up taking pictures for us on her camera. So in the end I got a picture with my future husband!! He looked so cute and sweet and it made me love him even more! My sisters sent me withe a wallet size senior picture of me and put my name and number and call me! on the back which my mom gave to Brooke who gave it to David because there was no way I would ever give it to him! haha I know it sounds crazy and I can't believe we actually did it but who knows maybe one day he'll call! haha Thanks again to Kim and Soren and Kendra we had so much fun and it was most definitely the BEST NIGHT EVER!!

Love~

Vanessa Archuleta ;)

Mom, the lovely Brooke White, and me!

Mom and her son in law to be

The Happy Couple!

Soren and Brooke's hubby Dave

Kim, Soren and Kendra with David

The whole gang!

( Unfortunately the picture is blurry, but on the brighter side he is taller than me!)