What a party!

Here is most of the gang that went to the Country Festival on Thursday evening. We had a really fun time...mostly laughing at each other during the different games we played! We had grilled meat kabobs, soup, corn on the cob, chocolate coated peanuts, candied applies, and spiced cider. Mmmmmmm. We had booths set up to play those typical fair games like shooting the cans down (with a water gun), fishing (we used the kiddy pool), and horseshoes. Then we had a treasure hunt, played musical chairs, and played a few other games that you'll see pictures of below. Lots of fun and laughed all night long...it was worth all the craziness of geting it organized!

You'd have to see it to believe it!

We had a Mr. and Ms. Country contest...and Michael won the Mr. Country! As we were getting ready to start the competition, I told Michael that everyone would have a turn to "parade" in front of everyone. To my surprise, as soon as the music started he jumped out in the middle and started dancing his heart out! I had NEVER seen him do anything like this before, much less in front of everyone! We were all cheering him on as we doubled-over with laughter...and he just kept dancing! How I wished we had taken the video camera!

Picture taking

A guy in the mission painted this for us from images that I got off the internet. It turned out really great, but what a pain to get it to the party! We rented a truck to take it to the farm where we had the party, along with the bamboo to make the booths for the games, the stove to cook the corn and keep the soup warm, and a few other bigger items that would be hard to fit in a car. I sent two guys on the truck with a list of what they needed to get on the truck. I met them at the farm around 2pm only to find out that they forgot the painting and the stove! We ended up having it brought out by the mobile clinic bus that belongs to Asas. Not exactly what the bus is to be used for, but....

Dice game

This game was pretty funny to watch... You have to unwrap the candy bar, using a fork and knife and be the one to eat the last bite of the chocolate. The chocolate bar was wrapped about 5 times in wrapping paper just to make it a bit more difficult. Those who are playing form a line and take turns rolling the dice. You have to get a 6 to get a turn at the chocolate and your turn is up whenever the next person gets a 6. You can see that having a bigger mouth helps in this game...as Steve proves by cutting off an enormous chunck of chocolate!

Find the ring in the chocolate pudding...

It looked disgusting but they all said the pudding was yummy! The found the rings pretty fast, unfortunately! I wanted to see them work harder at finding it!

My little girl...

I know I'm suspect, but she is such a pretty little girl! We were going to a birthday party of a 4 year old boy from church and I thought she looked so "Little Bo Peep" that I had to have a picture! The second picture is of Maira and her "sister", Ana Laura. Ana Laura is the daughter of friends of our from church. She and Maira have decided that they look like sisters and so whenever they are in the same building they act like it!

And here is a shot of the Birthday party! This is actually quite normal...party stores here do it all for you. We have yet to go this route...I have too much fun thinking of how to decorate for the birthday party that I don't want someone else doing it! Not to mention it is a bit cheaper...