24th of July

About a month ago we pulled out some videos from back in the day. We happened to come across one from our annual 24th of July party we would have at my parents house. Although we haven't had one since about 2001. So, I told my mom that I would help her if we could try it again this year because it looked like soooo much work. Well, I'm not the only one that helped out for sure, and she learned to deligate out some of the work as well! So, this year we planned an afternoon swim party on the 23rd with a BBQ and an outdoor movie and campout that night and breakfast in the morning! Everyone was in charge of planning their own meal for the BBQ, Bri brought over the projector for the out door movie, and each family had a meal assignment for breakfast in the morning.

We started the day off with the sprinklers and a large piece of plastic for a slip n slide. Little did we know how AWESOME the slip n slide would turn out! Everyone had such a blast trying to beat the last persons distance record, we had to add an extra piece of slip n slide at the end of the first piece to limit grass rashes.

Miss Kaloni didn't hesitate to give it a whirl

Moloni and T-Bone took over the mini slide

Alena's knees are made of steel

Moloni takes the game all too serious

Bri Bri took a hit on the slide

Collin gets some pretty good grass burn on this one

Aaron looks like a pro

Tianna loved veering to the left every time

Maile suffered some grass burn on this one too

and me... well I was just happy to be there! (hahaha)

Then it was time for the BBQ. MMMMM... it was so yummy and everyone shared with everyone to make it a nice family get together. By the time dinner was over and the kids were done with the water, we didn't even get to the fire pit marshamellow roast before the kids were ready to lay down and watch a movie.

Big daddy on the grill

Never too much food with this family!

Sione and Papa enjoying a break

my darling Miss Em's

Losahina and Terina. Lets just say there will never be two cousins closer than these two!! THEY LOVE EACHOTHER! Seriously, they hold hands and hug the entire time they are together, and are sooo inseperable. SOOOO CUTE!

The next morning we were all up and ready for breakfast before 8:00am. We ate, and then it was time for games. Penny planned face painting for the kids, and Tani did a game for everyone.


Moloni opted for the snake. I Just LOVE this kid. He is so goofey it cracks me up!

We paired off in teams and had to run to the table, pick an item out of the paper bag and eat it before the next teamate could head down to the bag. Man, there was some interesting things in there. We had gummie worms, starburts, banans, lettuce, pickles, cottage cheese, raisins, marshamellows, hard boiled eggs and lemon wedges.

the teams were pretty fair considering the little kid to big kid ratio...

these were the surprise sacks.. you couldn't look in, you just had to grab n go

we made a rule that the big kids could help the little kids eat their things so they wouldn't get sick...

and let's just say that the big kids were more competitive than the little kids. Mike was stopping Sam in the middle of his run so he could get his stuff down first. CHEATER!

by this point I was feeling really bad for Misi. He didn't want to stop eating because his team was going to win! This kid cracked me up.. he was gagging with each bite but never stopped.

Lets just say Misi was the worst off at the end when he had to down the cottage cheese, and then the hard boiled egg after that!! Poor thing... I thought for sure he was going to puke, but he only dry heaved!! lol

Thank you mom for braving it and doing the party once again. It was a total success and everyone had such a great time!! Here's to next year!!