Catamaran Dinner

Dennis and Kaylene were kind enough to buy all us girls a dinner cruise off the coast of Maui. IT WAS AWESOME! Yummy food and free drinks! Shirley Temples that is! Here we are getting ready to get on the boat...don't ask why I am being silly



Gayna, Me, and Meag
Getting on the Catamaran

GREAT photo of Dennis and Kaylene
Hangin out

The girls!

riding in the front on boat sailing back
Eating

Another great photo of the in laws;)
Thank you again so much for treating me to a yummy dinner and Beautiful sunset! I really loved it and I appreciate you both ;)

Kaylene and Meagy

Here is a pic of our hotel in Lahaina we stayed in the tower to the right and we were on the very top 12th floor with a corner balcony! It was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G So pretty!
The Sunset


And our voyage is over..... Had a blast with this group ;)

The BIG WIN in MAUI

The second game in Maui Chaminade played against Wichita State- Again the boys played so hard and played a close game. I felt like this year the boys could have totally won ALL THREE games because Chaminade has some great talent... All my pictures are not really in order.. But this is Chandler sitting on the bench supporting his team.. And you can see the ESPN camera zoomed in on coach during a time-out

This was when Chan started out playing against Wichita State and hit a three early on and after 5 min he pulled himself out of the game..he was hurting too bad... Chandler getting his foot untapped ;(
The third day Chaminade played against Oklahoma- which is kind of funny... Nick Thompson from his CEU years plays for Oklahoma now so it was interesting to see Chan's team play against him. Here is Meag, Gayna, and Me at the Oklahoma game
AND WE WON THIS GAME! IT WAS INSANE IN THAT GYM! For Chaminade to win this was a huge deal! After 28 years(about) of the Maui Invitational being held Chaminade has only had 5 wins total. This year they made it 6 GAMES! That made HISTORY!
Here the team is coming out of the locker room!

The family ;) AWESOME Support group!
Chandler and I

Awe cute! ;) It felt so good to watch Chaminade beat a team at the Maui Invitational- I just wish Chan could have been apart of playing.

This was us hanging in the stands during one of the games...

Gayna and Dom after the BIG WIN!

Maui Tournament Outcome

Phew! I feel like I have to take a deep breath every time before I blog because I feel like I have so much to say and post! But then when it comes down to it..its probably nothing much..We just have been GO GO GO busy so it feels like tonz!

FIRST things First Chandler's Games in Maui....
So... We get to Maui on Saturday Morning... Chandler is with the team practicing getting pumped and ready for the biggest tournament of Chandler's Basketball career and Chan's foot starts KILLING him. The teams trainer, Cortney took him to the hospital in Maui and like the 5th Dr. he saw did an MRI and basically told him he had a stress fracture. Chandler was in a lot of pain and was TORN with the thought of not being able to play. In the year and a half Chan and I have been married I have never seen him so devastated and even then he is really good about keeping his emotions to himself and not letting his sadness effect others around him or not wanting others to feel sorry for him(poor guy ;( ). He called me with the most solemn voice after he left the Dr. In Maui and just said he doesn't even know what to do with himself and that he just needed time to think to himself. One of the Biggest reasons in why we chose to come to Hawaii was because Chaminade University Hosts the Maui Invitational..for TWO yrs Chan was looking forward to playing against these huge D1 schools on ESPN. He went through the rest of the weekend telling himself to be okay with not playing (as team captain-in his senior yr that's hard to tell yourself). We went to a players party where all the schools come together for the big Xbox party and they have huge screens and tvs set up for the teams to play XBOX BBall as THEMSELVES the teams get actual xbox games created for them of their own teams. We eat yummy food meet famous people in the NBA and ESPN world and the teams are treated like gold. That was so fun...
Monday rolls around and its near game time- an hour before the game Chandler decides to tape up his foot really good, take a few light pain killer pills and play against Michigan State! I wasn't happy about it at all because of possibly worsening the damage...honestly almost sick to my stomach... but I wanted to watch him play just as bad as he wanted to play. The game was AWESOME, INTENSE, and crazy! Chaminade played so great! We could have had a win! We were ahead for a decent portion of the game. Chandler played pretty much the same minutes he always does. He had two HUGE DEEP three pointers at the end of the game that brought our score closer. Unfortunately we lost 74 to 82. (sorry I don't have stats). Chandler said it was worth every minute of it because he had a blast playing! He was in pain for sure by the end!
Chandler and Stevo (captains) in center court meeting the refs and gettin ready to go!
Team warming up Chandler shootin a beautiful 3!
Warm-ups

Getting ready for the game to start takin photos with Hawaiian Santa
Me, Gayna from Australia (Dom's GF- A player on Chan's team), Meag, Kaylene and DennisChan at the line



After the game...we were all VERY HAPPY
to be continued...

Maui Invitational- Chandler's games on ESPN

So.... We leave in the Morning at 7am! We take a 20 minute flight to Maui! I obviously don't get to fly or room with my hubby but I guess Ill survive ;) It will be so nice to have Chandler's parents and Meagan out this yr in Maui and to spend Thanksgiving with us So we will all be together!!!

Chandler's first game is MONDAY against Michigan State(ranked#2 in Nation) at 430 Hawaii time so 730 UTAH time aired on ESPNU

His second game will be either against UConn or Wichita State BUT it all depends on if they win or lose so you can follow the bracket

HERE (click or high light the link)

http://www.goswords.com/documents/2010/8/5/2010_20MIT_20Bracket.pdf

Parents Visit

So my pictures go backwards here.. But we went out to dinner to ROYS (my FAV) or should I say my parents took us to Roys for their 11th year anniversary dinner! ;) Here was my dessert! A painters Pallet of sorbets!

Mom and Kenneth opening a little gift from our friends Bonnie and Mark

We went out to Ko'Olina Marina and saw the Black Pearl from the film Pirates of the Caribbean! It was really cool to see it up close and all the details! It was getting dark out quick so not too many pix!



Hanging on the beach in Waikiki at night!
Lunch at a yummy restaurant in Chinatown
Our pork came out on Fire! Literally sitting ON fire! It was GOOD!

We did some fun things we went to the Vietnam and Korean War memorials
We walked by to see the Capitol
We went to the Iolani Palace its where the King and Queen lived before the US took over. It was actually really interesting! I enjoy it alot!

We went to the Waimanalo Beach where my ward goes every Sat to Bbq and play beach volleyball!
Here is Olga, Amber, me, Brea


Da Guadians! ;)

Here we were starting the Manoa Falls hike where I then broke my camera! ;(


I had an AWESOME time while my parents were here! It was such a last minute flight for them to decide to come! Im so glad they had time to take off work which is RARE sense they both own their own business'!
Thanks so Much for everything! We miss you both so much already!