Every year we try to celebrate Chinese New Year with Charles' side of the family. We've been going back to Taiwan the last couple years, but with Isa being such a fresh peanut, we decided to stay a little closer to home. Maui was the winning middle ground location and we definitely weren't mad about it. ;)
Family flew in from Shanghai, New York and Taiwan to celebrate and our token Hawaiian boys, Bubby and Derin, joined the Ma mix again which made things extra delicious and fun.

The week was packed with sun, beach, local food, pool and hot tub sessions, home-cooked goodness, centipede bites (omg like 6-inch long buggas! poor FeiFei!), helicopter adventures, a handful of toddler tantrums, a volcano sunrise, local farm visit, day trip to Hana, ocean kayaking, epic sunsets and the "Shape Song" on auto-repeat. It was an awesome way to bring in the new year together.

Charles and I hadn't been back to Maui since our wedding in 2012 so it was really special to go back this time with the kids. We re-created one of our wedding photos with them too. Hopefully the phone booth will still be there so we can do it again in another five years! Watch the video montage and be sure to wait for the outtakes at the end. ;) Gong Xi Fa Tsai and Happy Year of the Rooster!