Summer cookout

Summer is here! Baseball is over!!

So, in the past few weeks we have had 2 football camps, baseball games, a friend visit from out of state which led to hanging out with friends 2 weeks ago, a birthday party that we were supposed to go to a week ago, but Ira got sick, our own party this past weekend, another party on Saturday, 2 birthdays next week, 2 weeks of speed/agility/power training, and possibly a basketball camp. And - 1 week of vacation. Phew!!

Our party went great. It started with the first ring of the doorbell at 7:55 am which led to Ira paintballing with 5 kids for 4 hours while I finished setting up the yard. Patiently waiting for the second rain to stop, of course.

At 1 we picked up the kids and they had two hours to get cleaned up before the cookout.

After that I still had to go pick up the cake, since it wasn't ready early like I had hoped. When I came back there was mud on my carpet from a paintballer and 10 lbs of rock solid frozen burger (that was being dropped off when I left) on my counter. How am I supposed to make burgers and sloppy joes with frozen burger and now I have to go get the mud spots out of my carpet. Oh yeah, and I have one hour before more people start showing up. But, thank goodness that is where the drama ended and 6 lbs of burger went into a sink of water :-)

We had 60 people through our house until 3 am. There was redneck golf, kickball, water balloons, water buckets, hoses, and alot of wet kids. There was great food, good times, and lots of laughter. There was a even a dog fight (okay, so it was one more piece of drama) between Sasha and my parents dog, Rusty. I am pretty sure I will have scars from where I was bit due to that piece of excitement. We had a bonfire later at night, but since the kids had gone through approximately 6 12 packs of faygo, cookies, brownies, and cake, I decided to keep the smores stuff in the cupboard.

We went to bed around 3 and the 7 boys in my basement went to sleep between 3 and 4 am. The poor dog looked at me like I was crazy when I said let's go to bed and she had to climb the stairs. She is used to going to bed at 10 and she was exhausted.

I was up at 9:15 the next morning to start cleaning up the yard, deck, garage, and kitchen. I made the kids cinnamon rolls and they were having so much fun they were calling their parents to stay longer. I have to admit I was ready for an empty house by that point.

There was a pool party at 1 for the spring baseball and soccer teams that I opted out of, but Ira took Jason and Alison. At 1:30, after 2 weeks of planning, shopping, cooking, painting, cleaning, and socializing, I didn't have to do anything and I had a kid-free quiet house.