Night Games

We thought it would be fun to start night games in the summer, this lasted for about 2 weeks.

Anyone was invited and we just met in front of our house and the ladies talked and the kids played. They were going to play night games like Kick the Can, Capture the flag (my favorite), Ghosts in the Graveyard, etc...but I think they only played them once and the rest of the night was riding bikes and racing. I must say I loved the racing and so did Bode. Usually Bode doesn't go out in large crowds, he just kind of keeps to himself. Surprisingly, Bode made his appearance and came outside and enjoyed the racing with all of the other kids. He was so cute!

He would squat down in the starting runners position and wait to hear "GO!"

When heard it, off he went with the other kiddos.

He ran his little heart out.

The funny thing was, when he saw that everybody was starting to come back (he was probably only half as far as they were) he would turn around right where he was and head back to the finish line, making him finish about the same time everyone else did. He thought he was pretty awesome. He was. Everyone was cheering him on.

One of the cutest munchkins on the block. Really.

Peiton even go into the races when she wasn't hanging on me.

A few of the Mommies...

Kristen

Heidi and Loree

Kari and Claire

Shea and Sondi

Raye Ann

and Lindsey!

The Amazing Race SLC

At the beginning of June, I organized an Amazing Race activity. I called it the Amazing Race SLC, it was pretty fun. We had about 50 something people participate and they were all great sports!

After I received all of the RSVP's I put everyone on a team. They were then responsible to get me a team name by a certain date. Everyone did a great job with the team names! They received extra points if they had the team name and money into me by a certain date. They also received extra points if they dressed up in some way.

Here are the teams with the team names and the costumes:

THE A TEAM (They look awesome, right?)

DENALI DEVILS AND DARLINS ( Aren't they cute?)

5 SANDY SUCKERS AND A SPUD

GREEN DAGGERS

HARD BALLS

MEXICAN MAFIA

ROAD KILL

FIRE CRACKAZ!

THE FAST AND THE DELIRIOUS

ENCANTADO

THE PI'S (PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS, sorry the pic is a little dark, you can't see the faces too well) This team probably had the worst luck of the race...ticket...cab...need I say more?

All teams had to be at the starting place by 4:00 or they would have points deducted from their score. I wanted to start on time and we did start on time, everyone was there! Wow!

I went over the rules and answered questions before we started. When it was time to go, this is what it looked like:

Herds of people running to cars and cars taking off!

Collin and I were planning on being able to follow everyone during the race and just see what was going on. Didn't happen, everyone was quick to each stop that we were only able to make it to two stops.

The third stop was a "Road Block" the team had to choose one team member to swim 4 laps, dive off the diving board and go down a water slide. It was awesome to watch.

Here are a few pics (I decided not to post any of them actually swimming, I didn't want to be in trouble by anyone:)

Who's this guy?

Heidi is excited! I love it!

This girl (Jaci) was the only girl that swam, she jumped out of the car, ran to the pool, jumped in (in her clothes) and was done in a second (a little longer). She was awesome!

All done!

Cute Mexian Mafia chicks!

Go Green Daggers!

Cute Elisha!

Go Nicky!

John and Celest! So fun!

Sudweeks

Collin and Chad

Cute Haws and Sexy Lexee!

Beautiful Trisha!

The cute Darlin's!

One of the stops was to go where High School Musical was filmed take a picture, and fill in the blanks of a map. We were only able to catch a few teams there.

The Hard Balls

Road Kill

5 Sandy Suckers and a Spud

Overall I think the race turned out pretty good. I had a few mix-ups but everyone dealt with them okay. It was kind of a bummer that we couldn't find ice for the ice blocking and that I had so many activities that most teams were not able to accomplish everything. I just hope that everyone had a great time and had some awesome memories!

The PI's getting their award. The rest of the team had to leave...go Chad and Keysha!

Everyone enjoying dinner

The winner ended up being Road Kill. It was a toss up between them and 5 Sandy Suckers and a Spud. The 5 Sandy Suckers were first, but because of me, they didn't accomplish all of the tasks, so I gave it to the other team because they did everything! And it was pretty hard to get everything done in the time alloted (I planned too much. oops!)

Go Road Kill! And thanks Sandy Suckers for being such good sports!

Thanks everyone for participating,

you were AMAZING!

Love, Collin & Nat