Thursday, July 21, 2011

Happy 6th Birthday Grace!

For Grace's party we hosted a Luau. It was a lot of work but a ton of fun and very colorful. We had leis and grass skirts for everyone and that made it even more fun!

Of course we had to have the fun cups and straws and the menu consisted of turkey/cheese sandwiches, popcorn, BBQ chips (rather than BBQ pig), pretzel stix, cheese cubes and fruit kabobs. For spirits we had a delicious Hawaiian lemonade. I can email you the recipe if you are interested.



The deck was adorned with tiki torches, Hawaiian lanterns, newly planted colorful flowers and Grandpa who was in charge of videoing the happenings as well as monitor the slide...which was quite a job at times.





By far the best part of the party was the entertaining 16' waterslide. Here is Grace and some of her friends from Kindergarten waving.





Aunt L and Isaac enjoy some refreshments. Isaac gets some much needed TLC since big sister is celebrating her birthday. It was an absolutely perfect day with temp in the 80's and a nice breeze. We were outside the entire day.




What Luau would be complete without the Limbo?! I downloaded some great Limbo inspiring music off of itunes and we were set. Turns out Grace loves the CD I made- I should have made copies for the goodie bags for the guests. Oh well.





Nana and our neighbor Lauren fill up Leah's special fish cup for the party. Leah napped most of the party...by design.





Grace's super awesome Hula girl cake that I did not make.




Here she is about to blow out the candles...




And the party cooperates for a photo.




After everyone had left Daddy goes down the waterslide breaking the 175 pound weight limit.




Isaac follows in suit- Later when the owners of the slide come to pick it up Isaac immediately tells them that Sid went down the slide. hehehe

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