~1st Annual Cheney Olympics~

We had our first official marathon family day! We vowed to be together as a family ALL day on the day after Christmas (this was actually part of our gift to our parents.) Each sibling took a portion of the day and planned events. Warning: you will get tired just reading this!

The day started with all the grandkids making breakfast:

They did a great job - only slight chaos

You have to start any Olympics with a warm up!

Thanks to Daveed for leading stretches:

Now - LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!

2 teams - family rivalry

The first event was bowling - me against sweet Gracie....

With the help of the wind she got them ALL down!!! Ughh - Beat by a 5 year old!

But look at my form.....

Next was a shoot off between Benny and DJ.

Then it was Court against Mandy on the balance beam....

bye bye

A jump off between Ash and Tay-Tay

Then a friendly game of Frisbee golf with Sean and David

I think this was the best event (cuz I didn't have to do it)

Digging for cherry's....
Heath & Jordan - what great sports!

Lily did great (with a little bit of help from Ben)
in a puzzle-off with Mandy

Amber & Tracy finding safety pins in rice - harder then it looks!

Grandpa and Grandma battle their memories in a family trivia game!

Gotta love Pictionary!
(Heath and Linds were the artist)

The next game was a scavenger hunt in the house where we had to find an object for every letter of CHENEY - and we have no pictures of this because I was the scavenger!
This brought us to a tie between team 1 and team 2 (can anyone remember the team names? help me out here)
so we had a little impromptu tie-breaker race.

And YaY!!!! My team won :}

After some relaxing and play time..........

The day was only HALF done

We did some bumper bowling

And by then we were famished - so we hit the nearest pizza parler!

And to end the night we had a quiet, cuddly family movie night

While it was a very long day - it was probably one of the most fun things we've ever done as a family! We are a big, crazy, chaotic, loving, funny, creative & lucky family.