Good luck my friend!

On Saturday, we had a luau for some really good friends of ours. My friend Chelsey will be serving overseas and will be gone for about a year and then will move back east with her hubby.

We had a really good turn out. I think we had anywhere between 30-50 people altogether. I even had fun at my own party. Usually, I'm really uptight when I have to host a party because I'm either worrying that people aren't having fun or that people are letting their kids get into things they shouldn't or people making a mess and not cleaning up after themselves and that sort of thing.

These cardboard cut-outs were a hit. They were so fun. Some of the people that put their faces in them were hilarious! I'll bet you didn't know these cut-out were actually modeled exactly after me and my hubby.....Don't we look hot?!? I'm totally kidding.

The hula hoop was a ton of fun. I have to say though that I was giving people a hard time for not being able to keep it up. Then, someone challenged me to do it and I did and at first it didn't last 5 seconds. I finally learned the trick to it though.

See? Oh yeah! Look at me go!

My friend served in the Young Women and so this is a picture of all the leaders and some of the girls. I forgot how much I loved the Young Women.

How low can you go???

Apparently I did pretty well at limbo. I got to the last one and just about cleared it until I fell on my bum. I didn't feel too bad though because our friend Keiko couldn't do it either.........

She kind of cheated.

After most of the people left, we put on some dance music and started shaking our groove thing. It just got interesting after that.

Oh yes. And here are the three remaining men of the night trying to look manly. Hahaha! I couldn't help but laugh!

This was our pathetic attempt at trying to look sexy. I know. It was fun anyway. We couldn't stop laughing at ourselves.

I love Brian and Tali's face in this picture! It cracks me up everytime I see it.

I know this probably looks like Brian has a flower in his hair, but it's actually a starfish hanging on a net that we put on the fence. I love my cute little family!

The party animals of the night

After everyone left, we lit the tiki torches, lit our fire pit and roasted marshmallows. It was a great way to end the night.

Chelsey, I love you to pieces. You have been such a good friend to me. I'm going to miss your bubbly personality as well as your infectious laugh. I'm so blessed to have known you. You have a special place in my heart. I will NEVER forget you!