Sunday, June 1, 2008

LUAU AT GRANDMA'S

Every other year mark's parents have a luau at there home. It has become a church ward event plus anyone else who would like to come and enjoy the food and entertainment. With this festivity they always have a HUGE pig in which they cook in the ground in their backyard. This year grandpa brought the pig by our house a day before the party so the kids could see it before it got cooked. We tried to see if jace would sit on it but he did not like it at all. After the ceremonial digging and retrieving the pig from the ground, we eat the grandious amount of food brought by the many that attend. Later we all got to enjoy watching the beautiful dances performed by the native islanders of Tahaiti. Their costumes were amazing and very beautiful- I think they had at least 7 costumes changes but i will spare you the many, many pictures. Mark and I went to hawaii last year and were able to see some of the same dances and yet they are just as interesting and amazing as the first time we saw them. Sorry about the mass amount of pictures but it was hard to only pick out a few.

6 comments:

Amy said...

Erin, that looks soo fun. What a great tradition.

Katie said...

lol! the kid riding the pig!!!

normaneugene said...

Hey the guy with the dress on who's blowing into the shell looks familiar! Oh, I thought it was me! Dad

Eric and Breanna Graham said...

What a fun tradition. I've never been to a Luau. Looks like a good excuse to go to Hawaii

jenn goodman said...

WOW!!!! What a waaay cool tradition!!

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Kara said...

Oh, I'm so sad I missed this. I love going to this every year. SO FUN!


gienger's "hotel"

Dalton's "catholic church"

blandfords "white trash trailer"

Graves " out house"

our "love shack" sorry no pictures of me at this time

what a group of houses! just lovely

making our first layer



reading christmas books while we wait for frosting to freeze

adding decorations

we love our gingerbread house!