The EPIC water battle!

Victoria had her friend birthday party a couple weeks after her birthday. We were able to get all the invites out before school was over. We invited boys and girls, but I have a sneaking suspicion that most of the boys never got those invites to their mothers. Mainly because, only 1 boy showed up and his invite was handed to his mom personally by me! You are awesome Kinball!

The party theme was All American competitions. Kind of an Olympic feel to it. First, we played a rag tag game. The object was to not let any one get the rag hanging off your belt but to try to get everyone else's off. Last one standing wins.

We then pulled out the wheel barrow races. Kudos to the kids - our grass was pretty scritchy since it is going towards the "dead end" of life.

We also had a shoe hunt race. I took all their shoes and tossed them all over the other end of the yard & then they had to race over, find their shoes, put them on & get back to the starting line.

We then moved into the house for a little cooling off. They had a blast playing Limbo. Here Chris was giving some pointers.

It was funny to see the kids do this one. So many of them didn't get it. What is this world coming to when kids do not know how to properly do the Limbo???

We saved the very best for last. After we ate cupcakes and treats, we teamed off in the backyard. Everyone was armed with a super soaker toy and a bucket of water. Once the rules were explained, we were ready to rock and roll.

TEAM 1

TEAM 2

Ferocious bunch!

They were all so excited to finally get to the water fight. They had continually asked when it was going to be throughout the entire party! Well, at one point, I was trying to even out the little cheaters on team 1. That turned into a mutiny on "Victoria's Mom." I get pretty soaked! But we sure had a blast.

After all was said and drenched...we got a group picture.

Chalk that one up to the winning team!