Most Epic Birthday Ever

Doesn't this look like it could be featured on Cake Wrecks?
I especially love the green shoreline.

This year for Troy's birthday, we joined forces with the Joneses to celebrate Troy's 18th and Brandon's 17th birthday. Since we were going to be inviting all the same people anyway...this made perfect sense AND made for double the fun.

The party was held at Torii beach, pavilion 2, and featured our own dunk tank and snow cone machine...as well as water sliding and lots of yummy eats.



Poor Elijah sat up there forever waiting for someone with a decent throwing arm.



Pa Jones finally showed up to relieve Jake on the grill.



The ocean was full of sea cucumbers, which squished like poo between toes...so the fun was short-lived.



Here's my toes. Still cute.



Patrick, being patient with the photog, as always.



The kids left the water and headed down to check out the splash pad...







And the waterslide, which closed 30 minutes later.

So, the boys came back and played some football:












or hunted for seashells...



and then watched the sunset.



Isn't it gorgeous?



This was beautiful...sunset, moon and mars, all in one shot.



We were waiting for Rachael and Becca to get here to do the cakes, so it was dark by the time we cut into them.



I forgot the candles, so Troy got matches. Neither matches nor candles would stay lit in the wind anyway, so we sang sans flame.



Beautiful girls



Then the kids decided to play Mafia? (think that's what it's called)



Which was very entertaining to watch.



It seemed way too complex to me, and seemed to be a teenage excuse to hug people, actually.



While they all played, the adults sat around in a circle about here and had our own little party. I think ours was way more fun...solving the world's problems and all...



While Jake and the other "little" kids decided to use the dunk tank as their own personal swimming pool.



It just so happened that Rachael and Becca were moving back to the States the next day, so when it was time to go, it was more than just the party ending...it was the end of their three-year stay here. The kids in our neighborhood are such good friends, and this was such a sad scene. Unfortunately, it's all too common in the life of a military brat. It was a great send off for them, too, though.

Happy birthday, Troy and Brandon!