Monday, December 27, 2010. My in-laws surprised us all on a vacation day in Hawaii. So earlier this year, the whole family was deciding on what we wanted to do over Christmas break. The running joke was that Scott, my father-in-law, should fly us all to Hawaii so we could spend Christmas in Hawaii. I've always wanted to go there so I was totally on board. I knew it was never going to happen, but there was always that small hope. So, Monday morning, the in-laws kicked us all out of the house and we were not allowed to come back till 5 that evening. So we had a ton of time to kill. Collectively, we tried to figure out what the parents were doing for us, the best guess we came up with was they were setting up a mystery dinner for us. 5 o'clock finally came around and we headed back home. We waited outside until Scott came outside in board shorts, yellow button up t-shirt, flip flops, and a straw hat. I was a little confused about what was going on. Next thing I know, we are creating a plane. Loni and I were the wings, Ben and Jared were the engines, the two Jakes were the tail and Emily was the pilot. Around the house we went into the kitchen where Holli greeted us with those lei things (I don't think I spelled it right). We were also given grass skirts and coconut bra's.
Jake and Madison getting ready for the Hawaiian Festivities.
Casen and Marshal dressed up in their grass skirts ready for the luau. They had such a blast here in Hawaii and loved every minute of it.
Uncle Jake in his lava lava thing, and Marshal waiting to eat the yummy food that was prepared for us.
Riley and Uncle Ben putting on her coconut bra. It was a little big but it is still way cute on her. Lets just say that we got a lot of pictures of the girls holding their coconut bras. And I am a culprit of it also.
I love this picture of Madison. It is absolutely hilarious with the face and grabbing her coconuts, I could not stop laughing at this picture. She is such a doll. She was also enjoying the festivities.
After we all got dressed, we went out onto the back porch to partake in the luau festivities. Don't look at me too closely, I look really fat. There is a long story to that. I was 137 pounds beginning of the semester and I got down to 128. But since coming to the in-laws for Christmas I gained like 5 pounds cause of all the high fat foods they were making and all the snack foods laying around. I blame them for the weight gain.
And this beautiful sister in law of mine is pregnant as you can tell. She is about 24 weeks pregnant and she looks like she is ready to give birth. Take a turn for the worse, she is carrying twin boys. I don't know how much bigger, but she is such a trooper, especially with 3 other kids to worry about.
Outside on the porch, Scott and Holli laid out all the food. There was so much! We had chicken, pulled pork, and those mini sausage thingys. The back yard was all decked out Hawaiian style, tiki guys, palm trees, grass skirts on the tables, boogie boards, giant turtles, you name it they had it there.
And these cups were awesome. They are in the shape of pineapples. The children had monkey cups that they also really enjoyed. Especially Riley, she is obsessed with monkeys.
There really wasn't much room for everyone. The kids were the only ones who got to sit in chairs, so us "adults" had to stand around.
This was our other table. It was full of fruit (mangos, pineapple, kiwi, papaya, grapes, strawberries, cantaloupe), vegetables (carrots, snow peas, celery), rice and salad. It was all so delicious and I definitely ate to my fill. No wonder Im gaining weight while I'm here, the food they cook is just way to good.
Here are some overview pictures.
Adorable Madison. She is just too cute to handle.
Like I said. There wasn't much room so for dinner, most of the adults had to sit on the floor. It was quite interesting, I felt native :)
And Jared would take a picture of me while I'm trying to get food out of my teeth. I'm certainly attractive aren't I.
After dinner we got into the dancing part of the night. Here is Riley dancing and shaking those hips of her's. She loves to dance, so she was the one to start it off for all of us.
She can certainly shake those hips of her's lol.
Marshal and Casen were getting into the dancing and the music. They really enjoyed it. Especially Marshal (the boy in Red) he loved spinning around.
Aren't they all just adorable.
Look at those kids go. It was so fun watching them dance around and having a fun time.
Go Marshal!
Madison finally joined in the crowd.
All the girls together.
After dinner and the dancing, Scott and Holli taught us the stick game that I'm guessing is really popular in Hawaii. You have to tap and throw sticks to your partner in time with the music. It was really hard but a blast at the same time. Jared and I kept hitting each other, or throwing them out of reach, but in the end we still had a lot of fun.
After all the fun and the adults we cleaning up, the kids were pulling each other on the boogie board in the kitchen.
Madison is so photogenic. Her daddy Jake is going to have to clean his shot gun ready when she comes of age. All in all, it was a wonderful night and we all had fun.
