Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Minute-to-Win-it!

A few weeks ago I went to a birthday party for a friend and learned some Minute-to-Win-It games. I had so much fun I decided to play it with the family. Here are some shots of the fun we had. Like the name suggest each challenge is to be completed within a minute.


Speed Eraser: the object of the games is to bounce pencils off their eraser into 5 cups. Each cup must have one pencil in it to complete the task.  





Shoe Fly Shoe: one must toss a shoe with one's foot onto a table top. Much harder to do with flip flops :) James should get bonus points for his perfectly pointed toes.






Face the Cookie: the object of the game is to use only facial muscle to move a cookie from your forehead into your mouth.










Noodling around: using only your mouth, thread 5 penne noodles onto a linguine noodle.






Bottoms Up: with a yo yo tied behind your back you must attempt to knock over 4 pop cans. this challenge proved to be much more difficult if wearing a dress but provided some real moments of hilarity.



















Sharp Shooter: By shooting rubber bands one must knock over 6 pop cans.









































Without my knowing, I was part of a tanning contest this summer. Here are the result: Those that didn't know about the contest...won! :) Good effort Sarah and Ardie.





Close up of tans: (left to right) Tracy, Sarah, Sharon and Ardie. Even Sunny beat you, Sarah.  :)


Sunday, September 2, 2012

Surrey, Seattle and Utah

Mid-July, the kids and I went on a LONG road trip. We headed to Surrey to visit Ryan's grandma.




I took the kids to the house that Ryan grew up in.



And the house that we lived in with Ryan's parents for 6 months. 



We went down to White Rock beach to play and skimboard.










Then we drove to Bellevue to my sister Maria's place. We checked out the Lego store ...




and Build-a-Bear.



We went to the King Tut Exhibit at the Science Center.











Then we drove to Utah to visit my family there. It had been almost 4 years since I had some of my nieces and nephews!
My parents were visiting as well and we all got to meet Cache...the first great grandchild!



Ashley showed us all the fun places to visit, like Liberty Park.
















We love spending time with our cousins!



Jen's neighbours let us crash their pool.



















We even made the trip out to Eagle Mountain to visit Lincoln. He put my boys straight to work :)










We hit up more parks and pools with Auntie Ashley.




Greta and Buddy became fast friends.







We had a free lunch at the park.






Hogle Zoo was amazing and HOT!








I was even able to catch up with a dear, old friend(she's not old... we've just known each other for a long time) and her kids.