I have joined in!

Ah, my first blog post. I have joined the masses. This post is truly entitled "Clint & Lisa Were Really Meant to be Hawaiian"

We were in Maui on our own for 3 glorious days, then joined by 9 of my family members on a cruise 'round all the islands.

Here they are, hula-ing. My dad in red, my mom, my oldest sister, her husband,and me & clint just there with the camera. Noticeably sitting and not hula-ing.

The small people in the photos are Charlotte, 3, and Alexis, 5. (When did she get to be 5? Why are they buying school clothes and lunchboxes for my baby niece??)

Lex is a typical type-A cautious, born-adult, first-child sort of kid. She's orderly and predictable and the spitting image (from fears to food to schedules) of her mother. Charlotte is the offspring of nobody's genes. She's loud and crazy and hyper and the funniest child you will ever meet. She does voices and Dayle-faces too. She has an obsession with orange. Orange is my family's most-hated color. ever. nobody taught her this. Note:

I do admit, however, to buying her the shoes. I like to stir the pot. These shoes warranted a loud "Happy Merry Christmas" standing ovation on our coffee table. I was the crown princess of her Christmas. My sister likes to remind me that I have it coming. 

This is my middle sister Christy and her new husband Robert. Robert is a fledgling actor with a frat boy spot (yes! at over 30! we all still have hope!) in the movie W. He of course got some headshots taken by my sister in Hawaii. 'twill help score him the big parts. 

That's my aunt Jo, who does not usually do pictures. We are in a pond. There's still water. Which equals bacteria, something I blame for my current swimmer's ear. There were also eels in that water. It was a quick swim. Note smarty pants Clinton is not swimming.

Now onto other topics. the waves. The hawaii beaches!!!! Confession: I admit to taking your mountain-climbing, skiing Clinton and turning him into a fish. We officially love the beach. Blame the 50th state. 

I credit all my surfing abilities to my father, the big kahuna of Lamar College. He was the best surfer in Beaumont, and clearly the genes are residing in me. 

One of the more exciting things we did was have a night drive-by of the active lava flowing into the ocean.

Here we are all in Kuai'i. Our friendly local native guide not only gave us guava soda, but was rocking on the rocks (complete with wild pig) barefoot. 

Finding Nemo had them looking pretty realistic!

Well... we have pics of Clint but apparently my sister did not take any photos of him so we'll have to put some of ours up here later. Since I know you are all fairly interested in him, I'll get him to blog soon. He's up for it.

We love you, family! We were super bummed to miss Colorado. We heart Miller vacations. Next year.