Family Time on America's Birthday

America's Birthday was on July 3rd this year.

Lindsay and Jeremy have a parc across the street from their house.

Wow, Lindsay can still do that?

 Sean thought it was fun to climb to the top of the swing set.

....until Dad and Jeremy tried to yank him down!

Then he thought it would be better to jump down!

Jeremy grilled four slabs of ribs.

 Kennedy and Bridger loved the corn on the cob.

After dinner we played "minute to win it". 

We divided our group into two teams and the player who accomplished the task in the least amount of time, won for their team.

Jeremy was first, he had to empty both rolls of toilet paper in less than a minute.

Kim was next.  Did you know that she is expecting a baby?  The due date is November 17, right before her birthday.

This task was blowing on a feather to keep it off the ground for less than a minute.  It was too difficult because there was too much wind.  Sean competed in this task against Lindsay.

This task was the hardest.  A pair of pantyhose with a nickel in the toe of one of the legs.  You had to get the nickel out without touching your hands to each other!

 This was fairly easy....You had to flip a shoe onto the table right side up.

I competed against Jordan.

 Heh, where did this shirt come from?  We aren't the "bird" school, we are the COUGARS!!!!!

 Throughout our competititon, Bridger was forever entertaining us with headstands, hip gyrations, and much more.  He was full of energy!!!!

 This was hard....you had to stack the cups in a pyramid but the wind was too strong.

We moved the table where the cups were sheltered from the wind, and.......ta da!!!

 This was difficult too.....Blow the ping pong ball from one cup to the other.  The cups are placed further apart as you go.

 This is the coolest picture!

 Stacking ding dongs on your forehead, 7 in all.

 I don't know.....

Afterwards we caught Jeremy reading this book.....now and then we caught him taking deep cleansing breaths.......what do you think his problem is?  Us?  Couldn't be!!!

 Good try Bridger!

 You too, Kennedy!!

 Why am I putting these on my forehead when I can put them in my mouth?

This is way harder than it looks.  You put the oreo on your forehead and contort your face to move it to your mouth.  No one was able to do it.  Try it.  You know you want to!

Since I am the administrator of this blog, I didn't upload the "freaky" picture of my contorted face.  Sean was a good coach, but I didn't succeed in the alloted minute.

 We finished the night with fireworks.  Charlotte was fascinated with this sparkler.  Priceless.