Mylee's 1st Birthday Luau

Well, another big celebration for Mylee's birthday week continues but this is it!  It's her actual birthday today so this was awesome that we could celebrate right on the day that she was born!  I still can't believe she's already ONE!  We had almost the exact same party as we did for Makayla when she turned ONE! They had some little differences here and there but overall I think it was pretty equal so no one can look back when they're older and say I got the better party.  haha!  Like any of them would care when they're older.  It's the Mommy guilt in me though.  But if any of you know us Arakaki's, we do like to party!

The luau starts!  Both Grandma & Grandpa's helped so much with all the food!  They are just all so amazing to us and our girls! We're so lucky!  Here's birthday girl Mylee with my parents and her signature board.  I'm bummed that I didn't get a picture of Mylee with her other Grandparents together.  Too much going on!

We got this awesome jumper for all the kids since we seem to know so many now!  It was also a Hawaiian luau theme and had a basketball hoop and slide.  There's Mia & Makayla in action sliding down.  I didn't see Makayla hardly at all at the party since she practically lived in the jumper!  I think we got our money's worth for sure!

My wonderful girlfriends!  Thought this was such a cute picture of us all together.

The guys!  Does Ry look like a Hawaiian tourist or what? haha

The best balloon dude around!  He's the fastest and makes the most creative balloon art out there!  He's just amazing and even all the adults love him!

Makayla was finally around so we could squeeze in a total tacky tourist picture.  

Isn't she adorable?  I just love this picture of her.  And isn't the personalized bib so cute?  

Choosing the book!  I think she's going to be a studious one!  This is an old Vietnamese tradition where there are some items of some significance as to when she grows up she's going to be such and such depending on what she chooses.  haha.  Kind of fun so we kept the tradition going.  Her big sis picked the book also when she turned ONE!  They're smart ones!

Mylee even got her own little personalized cake to dig into!  Time to sing and Makayla is right there to help little sis blow out that candle!  The mini cake was so cute!  The bakery did a great job as usual for us!

Now, it's time for all the big kids to cut into the big cake but they all wanted to blow out the candle here. They were all so excited!  The best cake ever from Kings Hawaiian!  Thanks Auntie Som & Uncle Alan for picking up the cake for us!  Means a lot to us since I don't think we'd be able to have that cake without your help.

More fun!  It's pinata time!  I didn't realize this wasn't a great idea that they're hitting the little hula girl on the head for candy.  When it was all done, her head was just hanging.  Not a good scene.  I guess I have to think through that a little better for next time if there is another one of these parties!  The kids had fun grabbing all the candy when it fell.

It's really one thing after another today.  The "Matsumoto" shave ice stand is now open!  Thanks Auntie Som for the great idea and manning the popular station!  This is something Makayla loves during the summertime with Grandma.  Now Mylee has gotten to love it also! I'm sure the parents were happy with me pumping their kids full of sugar!  But it's a birthday party!

Bubbletime fun!  This is the best bubble machine ever!  I think it can make 5,000 bubbles!   Now that's a lot of soap!  All the kids loved this!

Mylee was asleep for most of her party but when she woke up she was still excited!  Here we are just chillin' on her little highchair mat.  She's having fun!  Thank you so much everyone that came to help us celebrate this big even with us!