Tuesday, January 6, 2009

~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.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

a little bit of christmas

We had such a great - busy holiday season that I don't even know where to start so I'm going to just post a million pictures :)

























I have been so blessed and feel very thankful for my kids, family, and friends! God is so good.
But I have to say that by the time New Years passed - I was exhausted and ready to get 2009 rolling!
Happy New Year!!!

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

I'm so proud

~Such a cute family~
I have 500 holiday season pictures and this is the only one I can manage to have time to post! I'll get to the others later :)

Thursday, December 18, 2008

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.....

Oh wait - I'm not dreaming! When I walked out my front door this morning this is what greeted me! Snow on our little Saddleback Mountain (more like a big hill). It was so pretty!

(click on the above picture for a better view)
We decided to jump in the car this afternoon and go find the snow! We were on a snow hunt!



This was really as close as we could get without going off roading! And as soon as we found a good place to stop and take pictures - the clouds had covered our snow!

Oh well - it was still a fun little adventure - and still pretty - and exciting for this little OC community :)

Wednesday, December 17, 2008