Weekend Cookout & random stuff...

Well HELLO, a whole week later! Thought I'd share some pictures from the weekend. We ended up having a cookout Sunday complete with good food, fun yard games and more! Couldn't have asked for better weather... a perfect day to be outside!

Tyler in full swing with the Hula-Hoop

Nathan couldn't get enough of the "Twirly Thing"

This kid put his all into making it twirl!

Because it's WAY more fun to play with it like this... Ring Toss... Nathan's way..are you seeing the pattern here?
Jared & Aaron... being Jared & Aaron...
Not sure what Tyler was preaching about but Nathan was getting down! Go Nathan... And quite disturbing, as most of my food pictures

seem to turn out, but these were the FABULOUS

Beer Can Chickens, courtesy of Aaron, of course!

(didn't get many pics of food.. but we had some AWESOME eggplant

sandwiches made with a red pepper sauce, mozzarella, and prosciutto!

Corn and avocado salsa... and some homemade Sangria! YUMMY)

Amy, Pro Frisbee Player! The virgin Sangria's for the kiddlets!
Tyler in her best Miley Cyrus pose!
Two can play 'I'm a Rock Star' CHEERS!
Aaron & Amy playing dirt bike tag!
All while Nathan chills eating Oreo's
Yes folks...that's Aaron riding the dirt bike THROUGH the Hula-Hoop!
Did I say Nathan was EATING his Oreo's??...
And everyone knows only REAL MEN drink and smoke while playing Frisbee!
We've started something here....Jared's turn
and again...
I just couldn't help myself with this shot...please forward along any applications for the Circus!
You never know... might just be worth quiting the day job! :)

So that was the weekend in brief, had a very good time...and other than that did a whole lot of nothing the rest of the time!

Added a mini album to my collection of scraps that I had entered for The Design Experiment Challenge, you can check that out here.

Also, as my children have yet to disobey me, not eat their dinner, get out of bed 20 times plus (despite many threats), torture one another, etc. all resulting in annoying me... I have, in the works... a fabulous little chart that will display whatever privileged item they take for granted that I choose to take away from them for the week, perhaps even longer! So, basically it will be a reminder for them (and me as well, b/c I have more often than not thrown out a punishment or two ...here and there... and not even half way into the week, completely forget and thus my children still misbehave!!) that they have lost this because they have chosen to do that! I'll be posting a picture later this week to give you a better idea of how I plan for this nifty little chart to work! Wish me luck, as it's either THIS... or shipping my children to the nearest zoo for someone else to deal with their behavioral problems and have food thrown at them!