Lindsay's Luau---July 15, 2006

Lindsay greeted all of her guests with a **swack** on each cheek.

As you can see, they are still at the age where this is sooooo uncool.
but that is part of getting ready to party Hawaiian style.

The first game we played was passing the wet sponge over the heads in order to empty both buckets. The object is to make sure that each player gets soaked. The water was COLD and the weather was HOT....great combo I think.

The next game was a beach ball relay. Each player had to run around the buckets with the beach ball between their knees.

This was funny to watch because some of the girls were somewhat vertically challenged.

And what kind of Luau would it be with out LIMBO? And of course, Limber Lindsay won this event with no trouble.

Now that the girls are all dry...it’s time for cooling off with a good ole’ fashioned water balloon fight.

So we gave the girls a break and had some free swim time while Gordon and I got the meal ready. The menu was Hawaiian chicken skewers and meatballs. Lindsay’s mom Dianna made the meatballs from scratch and they were a HUGE hit.

She also carved a watermelon into a basket and made melon balls. It was beautiful.
Next came the cake.....
It was an "itty, bitty....teensy, weensy"....orange and blue polka dot bikini...of course in the colors of the Florida Gators (Lindsay’s favorite football team).

Make a wish.

She huffed and puffed and blew all 12 out in one try!

Time for the gifts.

Lindsay’s very first Louis Vatton. She was very excited. Maybe she will let me borrow it some day.

Then Gordon made a call to the local Air Force pilots (yeah right!) that were heading to do a fly by at the local race track and asked them to fly by in honor of the birthday girl. They did one better and flew by 8 times. They were moving so fast that it was hard to get a good shot of them, but this is what we were able to get. The girls were totally amped about this.

It was a great party...even though at the end we were all totally pooped. Even Peanut and Chance.

Party Helpers: Ricky & Debra

Ms. Peanut
Chance

Albino Deer and Lindsay

Some of the greatest joys of living in the country are the amazing things you see that you can never see anywhere else. We had the pleasure of seeing this Albino Deer several nights in a row. As you can see, he was very friendly. We all got to pet him. The kids named him Rob, because he would "rob" the grapes from their hands. Lindsay is the blonde in most of these pics.

Tornado Pics

So I have been here since 6AM today (at work) and I have written a total of 3 e-mails of substance. The rest of the day I have done NADA....I mean NOTHING!!!!! I hate days like this. So I thought that I would show you some of the tornados did this year back in April.....some of these hit about 2 streets over from our house. Luckily we were ok and the house had no damage.

1st attempt at BLOGGING

So today I thought that I would start our family blog. Since we have so much family out of town I thought it might be a good way to keep everyone updated on what is going on. I will try to keep it updated as cool stuff happens. The first few pics will just be trial...so here goes.

In case you haven't met him....this is the King of the House.....Rocky. He is the love and hate of our lives. He just had a birthday, so he is now 1 year old. He is spoiled ROTTEN!