• Aulani,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  Disney,  Honeymoon,  Travel

    The Menehune of Aulani

    I interrupt my nearly-finished honeymoon series to bring you a special post about Aulani that I wanted to put up before the last day. While we were in Aulani, we started to notice these kinda-weird kinda-cute little dudes all around the resort. We started to notice them…everywhere. They were around the pool, in the lobby, indoors, outdoors, even in the elevators: Sometime during our stay we learned these little figures are called the Menehune. According to Hawaiian tradition, the Menehune are little mischievous men who live in the forests and hide from humans. Aulani paid tribute to this legend by…

  • Aulani,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  Disney,  Honeymoon,  Reviews,  Travel

    Laniwai, A Disney Spa at Aulani – Review

    As we creep closer and closer to being done with my honeymoon series, I decided I had one more special experience I wanted to write a standalone post about similar to my Club 33 and Walk in Walt’s Footsteps Tour posts. Today I want to tell you all about the fabulous experience we had at Laniwai, the Disney spa at Aulani! We decided to book a couples massage at Laniwai as part of our honeymoon, which we graciously received as a gift from off of our honeymoon registry! Many thanks to those who gifted us this amazing experience 🙂 We…

  • Aulani,  Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  Disney,  In My Life,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 6 – Aloha Aulani!

    This is post #6 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 DAY 6 – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8 After a completely jam-packed last day on the Big Island, it was time for us to move on to our final island destination: Oahu! And we were SO excited because moving to Oahu meant it was finally time to check in to Disney Aulani!! We woke up refreshed after a good night’s sleep and ready for another exciting day. I don’t know why I took this photo…

  • Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  In My Life,  Series,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 5 – Big Island Adventures

    This is day 5 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 These are always pretty photo-heavy but this one is especially so – hope you enjoy! DAY 5 – WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Today was our first full day on the Big Island of Hawaii, and we were so excited because we had a LOT of cool things planned! We got up nice and early to get ready and then headed out to breakfast. Chris was still a little tired from our fun the day before……

  • Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  In My Life,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 4 – Island Hopping

    This is post #4 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 DAY 4 – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Our adventures on Kauai had been amazing so far, but sadly it was already almost time for us to head to our next island! Our flight didn’t leave until the afternoon, but we were still up early to gather our things and pack up. We enjoyed our gorgeous view one last time: And we were out the door and waving goodbye to our adorable hotel around 9:45.…

  • Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  In My Life,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 3 – Flying Over Kauai

    This is post #3 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read the other posts first – they’re listed chronologically here 🙂 Day 3 – Monday, February 5 After a long day of travel the day before, we were ready and excited to get up and explore Hawaii! And when we woke up, we were shocked to find THIS outside our hotel window: The place completely TRANSFORMED in the day time! It was so dark the night before that we didn’t even know our little lanai had this stunning view of the mountains…

  • In My Life,  Lifestyle,  Wedding

    Where We Got EVERYTHING For Our Wedding

    Today’s 4 months since our big day and I’m actually nearing the end of my wedding content here on the blog! Welcome back to yet another wedding post – and this will be a big one. To go along with all my planning pages, I figured I would put together a list of absolutely EVERYTHING from our wedding – all our resources, where we bought stuff, and everything in between. It’s something I would have found helpful in planning our wedding and I also just want to share and show appreciation for everything and everyone involved. So…here’s the scoop! Here’s…

  • Chraela,  Chraela Honeymoon - Feb 2018,  Disney,  In My Life,  Travel,  Wedding

    Our Honeymoon – Day 2 – From CA to HI

    This is post #2 in my series all about our honeymoon! If you haven’t already, make sure you read day 1 first 🙂 All posts will be listed here! Day 2 – Sunday, February 4 After such a fun-filled (but tiring!) first day at Disneyland, we were ready for more excitement on our second day. We woke up bright and early and left our beautiful villa to drop our luggage off at the front desk. Then it was back over to Disneyland! And we had something super fun to do today – we were taking the Walk in Walt’s Footsteps…

  • DIYs/How To Do Things,  Lifestyle,  Wedding,  Wedding DIYs

    Wedding Week Preparations & DIYs!

    We’re going a bit out of order here on our wedding posts but who really cares anyway? Today I’m writing all about the last minute preparations and DIYs that we did the week of the wedding! This will basically be a catch-all for the little DIY things we did that don’t really warrant their own post, but I wanted to write about somewhere anyway. My parents drove down to Florida a few days before the wedding, and with them came all of the DIY things that they had been working on at home. My mom already wrote a separate post…