Zachary's 3rd Birthday Luau!

The tiki bar is open... we made yummy Pina Coladas!

Chris working his magic at the grill, sweet and sour shrimp skewers and Tropical Chicken skewers with grilled pineapple.... mmm...
Cute Abby coming back for more Pina Colada, the girls wanted fancy glasses too, and had fun dressing up for the party.
Nicole and Caleb...
Patty with her cute wrap from Hawaii...
Claire, Caitlyn and Nico with their plates full of yummy food!
It's my party and I'll pout if I want to... someday I'm going to teach this kid how to cooperate with the camera...
The three second graders having some fun... Hannah, Fayth, and Abigail...
Isabelle was all decked out and ready to party... she wanted to wear the flower bra by itself, but Mom was mean and I think she looks adorable anyway.
What would a luau be without fun fruity smoothies complete with pineapple wedges, maraschino cherries, and little umbrellas?? Not at my party.

For the last month, Zach has been telling anyone who will listen, "my birthday's coming up!"Zach got spoiled as usual... thanks everyone!
Abby the overseer, we had to keep reminding her to let him open his own presents, big shock!

When we went to try on his new Spider Man costume from Chris... this was way too funny and cute not to share. Silly boy...

Shake your coconuts!


I think everyone had a good time... good food, good company, good fun!
Ivana ALWAYS tries to get out of pics, so Chris actually took this one holding the camera upside down in his hand walking by... too funny!
Patty had more patience trying to get all the right fingers in the right places in his glove.
This is to prove to Nicole that I did actually sit down at one point and even enjoyed myself too!

Spider Man, Spider Man, does whatever a Spider Can! Spins a web... blah blah blah... sorry, don't remember the rest, you'll have to ask Zach. He still LOVES Spider Man!

TJ, TJ, TJ...
My baby is getting SO big, and fun, and cute, and smart, and....
Happy Birthday Zachary, you are such a cute little man!

Happy Independence Day!

I'm admittedly a little behind on my blog posts... and I was going to jump in and get my camping pics up, but I realized I never even posted our 4th of July, so here it is... and hopefully more posts will be coming shortly. TJ and Nic were gone for their big anniversary backpacking trip but we had their kids, so that was a lot of fun. And Patty and Caitlyn were also gone to California... but Sonny and the DeSantiago family came to share a fantastic night with us!

Chris really surprised everyone when he happily offered to host 4th of July at our house. After checking him for a fever, we quickly invited great family and friends, and what does anyone expect at a party hosted by the Maloy's... great food! And with the help of Frank and Ivana, we delivered as always, and as usual had way too much! We needed Patty, Nic, and T to help us eat!

Claire got into the spirit and wore her cute stars dress and hat from Aunt Nicole! Adorable!
By the time everyone got here, Caleb was not very happy with me since I had been working in the kitchen and not holding him... luckily, he had Ivana, he snuggled right in with her and was happy to finally get the attention he wanted... Thanks, Ivana!
Bring on the hacky sack! The big kids even let the little kids join in.

Caleb was born on the fourth of July, so I had to take some birthday pictures for his Mom who ditched him on his first birthday! ;) Happy Birthday Caleb!!

And here is the beginning of the all out raging water fight! I love the water splashing in this one...


Some people were happy to be wet and having a ball... and some were not so thrilled. Hannah was not amused that I was enjoying taking pics of her not so happy countenance!
But, we had fun making fun of her anyway! Until she finally stormed off... Hannah, you are funny


These brothers are too funny... but they sure do love each other!
OK, I made fun of Hannah... but I posted this for Chris... who after Caleb couldn't save Ivana, I should have known he wouldn't protect me either. You can see the fake drama in my face, but they did mess up my hair!
Cookin' S'Mores as the sun goes down... but you can see the clouds rolling in too...

Fire power!
A little hacky sack while waiting for it to get dark enough for fireworks.
As soon as the sun went down, the wind kicked up... you can see their hair and the fire blowing away. Then it started to pour, so we retreated to the porch which lucky for us was big enough to hold all of us while we watched dry and left Frank and Sonny to continue entertaining us in the rain.



Bros!
I was having fun playing with my camera and lighting and sparklers... and we couldn't keep the Sparklers coming fast enough for these kids! Too fun.

This picture of Zach is my favorite!!!


I just knew Zach was going to be so fun this year, he's finally old enough to appreciate and enjoy the fireworks part. I loved watching his face light up with each sparkler and he really got into it!

Sonny is a pyro nut! But he's very entertaining, as usual!
After our initial quick storm, the later it got, the more beautiful the night was... just enjoying each other and our little street show!


Happy Independence Day America! Notice the accumulating stash in the street behind Chris, what a fun night!