7th Annual Family Fun Days and Labor Day Weekend

This past Labor Day weekend we went to Maine to compete in the Mitchell Family Fun Day event. I'm sure many of you perked up and said to yourselves, "family fun day, what is that? I bet it was fun?"
Well basically its a weekend of planned events which over the weekend help to proclaim one family as the overall winners. The events were as follows (in order of play):
badminton - which we played wrong according to Dictionary.com - too many players at once. Next year I'm looking up the rules for every event so that we don't get cheated out of a win. This would also have helped since we could have rotated in players instead of needing all four representatives to play at once. One family member was none too excited for badminton and decided to loose the game for us, not once but twice (it was double elimination.)
Horse Shoes - I'm a weakling. I couldn't throw to the pit or else they would go all crazy and nearly kill a spectator. Next year the above mentioned family member will sit out badminton and only play horse shoes. He was actually very good at this one. Boo was also pretty good.
Wiffle Ball - Ok so we did girls against boys and got spanked. Luckily it was scored by number bases touched and then divided by number of players for each family. We didn't do so bad at this considering two played and one was designated pitcher. Boo had some great hits and I only hit pop flies. I had however been practicing with some of the kids in the 'hood' and realized that wiffle ball was easier to hit with only one hand.
Archery - For the most part our family did really good at archery. We each got four tries to hit the targets to earn points for our family. I only went once considering that I nearly lost my elbow and now have an ugly bruise to show for it. I even cried a little because it hurt so bad. Grammy Albertsen got some good bruises too.
Mormon Cranium - This was our game to organize. It was hard to compete when you typed up all the questions. The little kids couldn't have cared less about this game, however in a small group it will be a great FHE activity. We did ok.
Scavenger Hunt - This was a relay event and we had to find certain items from around Grammy M's yard or shed or garage. We actually won. We happened to get the longest green bean to knock the Mitchell's out of first place. I thought it was a lot of fun.
This year it was decided that the winners would take home a poking stick, to be used with camp fires and such. Only Papa Mitchell would have saved a branch from a tree that was hit by lightening during hurricane Bob in 1991. The stick will have the winner's names carved on it and they get to keep it until the next Family Fun Days.
You might be wondering where Noelle was during all the fun? She was everywhere. Climbing, escaping, napping, playing with Grammy A or the cousins. It will be a few years before she's competing.
Hopefully next year we'll be able to get more of the Albertsens out here to help represent.
Also while we were not laboring, Boo and I got to get in a game of golf. He did really well. Now when I say well, its relative to the number of times we actually get out and play each year. Bogey golf is great! I on the other hand chose not to keep my score. However, we did have a great 9th hole. Thanks Boo.