Sarah's 9th Birthday Luau

We had lots of fun on Saturday celebrating Sarah's 9th Birthday! She wanted to have a Luau, which was very convenient since there are tons of Luau stuff in the stores right now. Here is a picture of Sarah and Kaitlyn coloring a long box to make it look like a tiki pole. They colored two of these, and then we weighted them down with bags of sand inside. (They stood really well until William the conquerer got to them.)We had Leis and grass skirts for the girls, and straw hats for the boys.
Here's our sofa table decorated with some extra grass skirts and an inflatable palm tree.Here are the coconut glasses and palmtree straws we used for the drinks. The gathering activity we had was for the kids to decorate their own hula hoops with ribbon and stickers. I got the hula hoops from the dollar store.

Then the kids got to make Candy Kabobs.
We played alot of games, a hula hoop contest, the limbo, pass the hot coconut, but Tom and I were so busy orchestrating the games, that we didn't get any pictures of them.

Here's Sarah opening her gifts:
Here's Kaitlyn looking cute in the Luau stuff:

After the party, the kids went out side to play.

And I accidentally deleted the video of the birthday cake :( She wanted an icecream cake in the shape of a beach ball. It didn't look so great, but it was yummy. I baked the cake in a bowl, cut it in half, put ice cream inbetween the layers, and then frosted it. I put cinnamon and sugar around the outside of the cake which made it look just like a beach ball in the sand!

Sarah had a great time, and she was very happy. Her favorite gifts are an MP3 player from mom and Dad and a pottery wheel.