Fun In the Woods

This weekend was so VERY enjoyable! We, as a family, were invited to the Wright triplet's birthday party at their grandparents cabin in the woods. When we got there, most of the teens were all standing, or sitting around talking or tossing footballs...not too terribly exciting. After they were sure that everyone had arrived, they numbered us off into 5 groups for a scavenger hunt. We got into our groups, each group consisted of 5-6 people, and as it turned out we had 4 family members in our group...if we only had Em and D we would have had a full family_unit! As it was, we had Alex, Christen, Tom, me and Steph. Steph, by the way, is one of the triplets which turned out to be quite in our favor because the hunt was on their family's property and she knew what a few of the clues meant. Right away, we started reading our first clue and I knew exactly where it was...the second clue came fairly easy but the third, whew, that one was a little tougher! In all, there were 13 clues, our team finished first, about 15 minutes ahead of the 2nd place team! Yes, I'll say it, WE ROCK!!!! We hope to plan another hunt for the youth group which would be around town so everyone can have a fair chance to know where things may be. Oh, another "by the way", D found 3 of the clues for his team, he was the youngest (8 yrs old) in his group :)

This afternoon turned out to be an out-of-doors day too. There was a picnic at an older couple's house today, it's actually an annual event. First, we sing hymns and then we roast hotdogs or whatever it is you bring for yourself to roast on the bon fire they prepared. After you get your fill of the potluck and bbq'd items, it's time for the annual volleyball or ultimate frisbee....neither of which I cared to participate in, so, that left me to visit with whoever else didn't feel like running, jumping or getting tackled. I'm quite glad it turned out this way because now I think I've found a supplier for my need of good mexican vanilla!!!!!! No, I will not divulge my sources! FIND YOUR OWN!!! Muwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Seriously though, I'm really, really, really excited of the idea of getting some good vanilla since I've been out for a little while now. After all the talking, a few of the youth got my attention and let me know we were running late for our "Hannibal" party...."Hannibal" party? Oh yes....we started to watch the Hannibal Lecter series last weekend, we managed to get through "Hannibal Rising" and "Red Dragon" but it got late so we decided to finish up this weekend, Sunday to be exact. Well, we had all forgotten about aforementioned picnic, sigh. We got back here and watched "The Silence of the Lambs", we as in Em, Jessica and Austen (the other 2 of the triplets), and Jake. Jake and I had already seen it so we had fun making obscene speculations outloud, hehehehe, yeah, fun times. The other 3 are now dying to see "Hannibal", as it is, it may not happen until next Sunday, we'll have to see how the week goes.

Well, a child_unit needs to get on the puter to look up definitions, so, I will finish here for now.

Y'all catch up on your Hannibal now!!
Love Ya :)