Backwards Backyard Party May 31st

Together Again...just like the song...we were all SOOO happy to be together again!!!

Well, almost all of us. One of our friends and her kiddos weren't able to come this time but altogether we had 10 parents and 10 kiddos! The theme for our Bugaloo get-together was Backwards Backyard Party...Connor is demonstrating in one of the pics...the guys wore their caps backwards...and some wore their clothes backwards...and I even wore my earrings in my ears backwards and put my rings on the wrong hands! We said "Bye!" as the ENTERED and "What a great party we had!" as they ARRIVED. We laughed our tails off! The kids really got into the backwards stuff...even coming in walking backwards! We had a good old fashioned potluck/cookout....hot dogs, chili dogs, grilled BBQ and Italian chicken, Roxanna's fruit salad, Ceci's famous big green salad, Manuela's mushroom couscous, and Heidi's delicious dips and chips....and then there were the desserts...peanut butter cookies, chocolate chunk cookies, vanilla ice cream cones...and cherry cheesecake ice cream...yummmmmm!!!! The kids also had a scavenger hunt which was requested by Connor and David....so we sent them on a clue chase all around the yard which finally led them to a trash bag with a big 'x' that was filled with clean trash of course AND a treasure box full of water guns, candy, stickers, and little cars! The pic of the group is right after the hunt. They had a blast! The water guns were also a big hit with the Daddy's...shooting the kids, shooting the Moms.....everyone had a great time! We sure missed our friend Les and her family...but we will get pics of them at our next shindig! We finally wrapped our fun night up around 9:45pm....the kids had played so hard and so much...swimming, sliding, swinging, playing in the sand box, then taking dirt from the sand box to the little pools, and water from the pools to the sand box...that they were FILTHY! We hosed some down outside, and then most of them came inside to 2 big tubs of warm water and had a quick bath before putting on PJ's and heading home! Since they all live at least 25 minutes or so from us we learned long time ago when we get together, to bring the kiddos PJ's to our family dinners so that we have them all ready to put in bed when we get them home!

Can't wait til we all meet again!

Pics are of the backyard before the party, Connor in full backwards attire, 7 of the 10 Bugaloos at the party---from left to right: David, Matthew, Conn, Kathleen, Willow, Kate is standing in the back and Samuel is standing up front....not pictured were Karissa, Daniel and Jason who were all three much too busy playing!!!

Hugs--Kan