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WARNING really long post, tons of pictures!!!

Sunday June 28th

After church we decided for tradition we would all drive over to Cascade Springs for the day. We grew up going there. It was beautiful!! All the greenery has come back so much since the fire, it's finally looking like we remembered it. The kids just had fun being there together and it's always a good time trying to keep that many little kids from falling or JUMPING in to the springs by accident!! It was the perfect way to spend the day. We wrapped it up by enjoying a nice Sunday dinner back at the cabin and of coarse playing games!!!

Monday June, 29th

Today Missi (my sister) and my mom planned a day of games for the kids. Probably the funnest day of games ever!!! We laughed so hard and I hope it's a day my kids remember for a looong time!! The first game was a "fear factor" relay there were three teams of 3 kids. The first kid on each team had to stick their face in a pan of RED jello and with only their mouth pull out 10 little marble things, when they had all 10 the next kid could go and they had to do the same thing but they had cholcolate pudding, the last kid had a bucket of COLD water. I really didn't think they would do it but they LOVED it and us parents were laughing hysterically!!! Keaton had the jello and he was an animal, when he was done his entire was was bright red!! Braydon and Kiley versed each other with the chocolate pudding, they were really good and flinging the pudding EVERYWHERE, not so much at finding the stones!! Malerie had the bucket of water and she did awesome!! She was totally soaked when she was done!!

I'm not sure what the next game is called but it involved sugar so it was perfect for this crowd. We had 4 teams of 5 people. Every person was given a brown lunch sack with some sort of food item in it. The first person on each team had to open their bag and completely consume the item in their bag then the next person could go and so on!! I think the items were 5 pieces of bubble gum, 3 packs of pop rocks, 5 pixie stixs, a baby bottle with water (they had to drink it), and 3 or 4 of the big marshmallows!! With this group it could be anybody's game?? I loved Dysons face they dumped all five pixie sticks in at once. My cheeks hurt just think about it!! The adults eneded up with the bottles. The girls bit the top of the nipples off, Steve just squoze the bottle as hard as he could. Good times!!!Looking good Steve your policeman friends would be so proud!!WINNERS!!!WINNERS (Braydon was thrilled-sorry bud!!)

THE BEST GAME EVER !!
CRACKER WACKER!!
Pictures could never do this game justice!!
My mom strung a saltine cracker on a piece of thread and tied one to each persons back side! We had to play it by age or it would have been brutal!!
We made a big square in the grass that you had to stay inside of. Each person got a rolled up newspaper and the idea was to wack everyone elses cracker while trying to keep yours from getting "whacked". The little kids just ran in one big circle chasing each other, laughing their heads off! The bigger girls meant business and I think Malerie was the winner. That girl is fast and she can hit!! Keaton may have won out of the little boys, it's all a blur! The best was playing with my mom and sisters. NO MERCY!!! We were beating the tar out of each other and loved every minute of it! It was hard hitting each other and laughing so hard. Carli got the rest of my cracker and won!! The boys were equally as brutal but they hit even harder!! This ones going down as a new famiy favorite though!! Thanks mom!!
We also played the sawdust dig game, a couple relay games, swang on the rope swing and clothes line swings, and played human knot. To much fun for one day!!

After a great dinner and getting kiddos settled, my sisters, mom, Kiley and I snuck out to see the Proposal. Love that movie a sweet ending to an awesoem day!!