Smurf Eaters

Family Fun on the Lawn

All the families at camp gathered together

and made teams.

Our reunion was large enough that we

could make our own team.

With our family reunion shirts on

(made by Jesse)

we were ready for the challenges.

First we had to come up with a team name

and cheer.

Due to the excessive brightness of our shirts

we choose the name...

"SMURF EATERS"

and our cheer was...

"La La Lalala La, WE EAT SMURFS FOR BREAKFAST!

CHOMP!!"

We are being timed to see how fast we can get our

whole group through the hula hoop while

we hold hands.

Our goal was to move the large earth ball around cones

scatter along a steep hill.

Some of the smaller kids were almost bowled over

by this massive ball.

Goal:  fill a bucket from these shooting spouts of 

water that come out of the ground with tiny cups.

The first time we brought the bucket over to the

largest sprinkler.

Then used our hands (on the freezing H2O) to direct

the water at a 90 degree angle,

which then hit Eliza's bum.

Lastly it would run off Eliza and into the bucket.

This technique only took us seconds to fill the bucket.

But then the judges decided we cheated by

 moving the bucket.

So we had to try again.

With only a few tiny cups to move the water

 some of the kidsresorted to different techniques

 of gathering water to fill the bucket.

Check out Ashlin in the corner of this picture.

She is filling her mouth with water and 

spitting it in the bucket!

With 15 groups of bouncy balls strung together,

we had to toss them into a bucket on a team members

head as quickly as we could.

This challenge is to match the colored hula hoops to 

the matching cone.

Then toss it to make the hoop land over the cone.

With only 2 blankets we had to toss the huge exercise ball

from one end of the volleyball court, going over the net

to the other side and back.

Without dropping it.

This tarp had different wholes on it.

Numbered from 1-5.

They placed a ball in the corner and

we needed to roll the ball and drop it through 

each hole in numerical order.

As fast as possible.

With mini plungers we had to move tennis balls down

the lawn.

The 2nd time we tried this we had one kid hold the

ball in their plunger and one dad ran the kid

down to the end.

Finally our creativity paid off!

With everyone holding on to a rope that

was tied to a plate,

we had to move this bottle of soda from

one spot to the next without it tipping off.

Time to toss frisbees at cones to knock them over!

The kids had a blast tossing this parachute!

It was covered in rubber chickens and

we had to get all the chickens off by lifting

the parachute off the ground.