10th Beach Anniversary Luau

This summer our JMU625 crew celebrated our 10th Anniversary of beach vacationing. We celebrated by having a luau on the beach. It was such a big hit we might just have to do it every summer :)

 EJ and Cary were the master minds behind the main course: Hawaiian style Pork BBQ.

A hole was dug by the big kids

The smaller kids found sticks and rocks. Each kid brought a rock from home as well.

They built a fire and after the rocks were nice and hot they buried 17lbs (I think) of pork shoulder following a Hawaiian BBQ method.This included wrapping the pork in banana leaves and covering with corn husks and wet burlap.

Pulling out the finished product

We set the food up on the small deck between our house and the beach. A trail of food formed between the table and our luau spot, as the smaller kids carried their own plates down the steep slope ;)

We ALL enjoyed ourselves, the ones with Rum Swizzle, a little more ;)

It was a gorgeous night and no biting flies this year!

After dinner we built a bonfire (with permit) and roasted marshmallows.

The memories made and the laughter had was well worth the effort and bits of sand in my food!

Our family's Hawaiian garb is compliments of EJ's mom :) The older two have out grown theirs :(

Some of the adults enjoyed the bonfire after the kids went to bed. One things for sure, we don't stay up nearly as late as we did 10 years ago ;) Not sure if it's our age or the additional 18 kids that makes us so tired ;)

Courtney captured these last four shots for me. I love them.

 

Her son Levi and Ryan are the cutest. I asked Ryan what he was most thankful for during our week and he said "Levi."

I love these girls. I did have a tan before Courtney sat next to me ;) Leah is on her left.