Hawaii heals the soul!

I'm sure you have been on pins and needles since I told you more posts were coming! Brady is the luckiest baby. Who gets to feel the waters of Hawaii on their feet when they are 2 months old? Baby was a perfect angel.....except anytime we went anywhere in the car. He screamed his guts out in the carseat as he always does, but was so fun to have around the rest of the time. He even started sleeping through the night while we were there! We loved the beaches, snorkling (even though the eels scared me a tich..however I did swim right with the turtles!)golf, the awesome time share condo that we stayed in with our neighbors Ron and Meaghan (that and Sky miles were the reason we went) and of course plate lunch. But, the highlight of the trip was almost the worst! We dropped our friends off to snorkel while Todd and I took the baby on a hike along the shore. At one point there was a cute, secluded, little white sand beach (harder to come by on the big island) and we were getting pretty toasty so we decided to take a little dip in the water. It felt awesome and it was like we were on the Blue Lagoon or something, except we had swimsuits and such. Todd sat down on some rocks to put his shoes and socks on and a wave came so he lifted up his feet as to not get them wet. (you will see a picture of it in the slideshow. I am sitting on it holding the baby while the waves come up to our feet). Anyway, we made our way back to the car and realized that the keys were not with us. Brady and I waited and prayed in the tiny shade of a scraggly bush while Todd ran to retrace our trail. When he didn't see them, he knew right away that they had fallen out of his pocket on the rock when he was putting on his shoes. He dug all around in the sand by the rocks and they weren't there. At this point he was praying too. He decided they had probably been taken out by the waves, so he went into the water and let himself drift along as if he were the keys. He drifted all the way to the edge of the little cove where the rock cliff was and also pretty far out. He looked down and saw something black (just like all the the lava rocks) rolling along the ocean floor about 10 feet down. He dove down and it actually was the keys-about to roll out to sea any second never to be seen again! It was a complete miracle! When do you ever find things that get wisked out by the waves. Not only did it save us the 125.oo replacement fee, but we were also in the middle of no where and would have been stranded for hours until our 100.00 roadside assistance person got there. Also our friends were stranded about 15 min. away from us at a different place that was in the middle of no where. I cried actual tears when I saw him running up to me dangling the keys. I have said many thank you prayers for that one! We loved the warm, relaxing, rejuvinating air and salty water. The beach is our favorite place to go-especially in Hawaii. We were so grateful to get invited by our friends and had an awesome time!