August 19, 2008

Busy day...

Today I took the girls and their BFF, Alexa, to Kid Barn to do some jumping. We ate some yummy Weinerschnitzel (they wanted corn dogs) and we had a lot of fun. Those three are like the 3 Musketeers. They are too cute together! Peyton did what she does best...hangin' out with mommy.As soon as we left there we headed home to get ready for the "Summer Olympics on Olympiad Lane". That's the name of our street in case you didn't catch it. Myself along with a few other friends on the block decided this would be fun for the kids since we all have the Olympic fever. I hosted one of the events in my front yard. I decided to do discus. I used tortillas so no one would get killed. It went awesome! I painted the driveway with the Olympic rings just to be extra corny and it was a hit. We had a great turn out. There were about 60 kids, not including parents. They all rotated between 5 homes. At the end we played the National Anthem and gave "gold medals" to all the kids. They had strawberry lemonade, sugar cookies and Popsicle's. It was adorable and the kids all had a blast! Peyton was such a sweetie! She just sat happily in her stroller and watched me wrangle tons of kids. That is not normal for her so I was VERY thankful! It all went wonderfully so we decided to make it an annual thing. Yeah!










7 comments:

Suzie said...

How cute! I know Alexa had a good time that picture of the three of them is ADORABLE i need a copy :) I'm glad the olympics went well!

MEG said...

HOLY HELL that's a lot of kids! I think it's so great that you live in a neighborhood with so many families that have kids around the same age! What a great idea for the Olympics! I love it!

Kellie said...

I am SOOOOO jealous! That would never happen here! What a cute and fun thing to do! I love that!!! That would even make a fun ward activity. haha-glad you used tortillas so no one got KILLED! haha

April said...

That was such an swesome idea!! Our neighborhood sucks. We're just usually polite to each other and wave. No one really "gets together". I wish we did though. Maybe I need to move? Any room in Utah - looks like it's a lot of fun! LOVE the tortilla idea!! Tell me you didn't spray paint your drive way?!

I'm Mindy. said...

I am so sad we missed the Olympics. It looks like so much fun!!

MEG said...

K, I was thinking "ASTRO GLIDE? DO WE HAVE THAT? IN THE SHOWER? MAYBE DANNY'S BEEN DOING A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA IN THE SHOWER!"

Thanks for the heart attack Shell! We go to Powell August 30th and come back Thursday the 4th of September. Sif is so excited to snuggle the girls!

Carolee said...

Very cute idea. I just may have to copy and bring that idea over to PA.