Showing posts with label neighborhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neighborhood. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2009

Annual Neighborhood BBQ

Our neighborhood is so great. They consistently have fun community activities and events.
Saturday was the Annual Heritage Commons BBQ. The food was catered from "Goodwood".
Oh my goodness is was good; BBQ beef sandwiches, baked beans, coleslaw and an amazing potato salad. (It was the best potato salad, I have ever had! Seriously.)
There were bouncy houses for the kids to enjoy.
We were sitting close to the bouncy houses. There were some older boys who were pulling on the top of the house and making it collapse. I became the "Bouncey House Nazi". I asked them to stop and told them they would have to get out if they continued. When they thought I wasn't looking, they would do it again. One time, I jumped up out of my chair and charged over there and asked the offender to please leave the house. I'm sure he wasn't too happy with me, but he did cooperate (busted!). He was the example to all the others... the Bouncy House Nazi means business! (I didn't have any angry parents approach me, so they either didn't care or didn't have any idea whay was going on.)

Rylee and Taylee were asked to help out with the face painting. They were so excited. They came up with several simple designs and really did a good job. They had some "frequent flyer's" who started running out of places to put new paintings; up and down both arms and legs and on both cheeks.
Abree requested a watermelon and crown, by Taylee.
Treyson requested a penguin and bumblebee, by Rylee.
This was such a nice, relaxing evening.
A big Thank You, to the Heritage Commons planning committee.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Egg Hunt???

Although you can't tell from these pictures, today we went to our neighborhood's annual Easter Egg Hunt. (My camera was acting funny and didn't save the pictures of the actual hunt. Dang-it!)
There were a lot of kids there. I heard someone say that kids started lining up about 20 til. We got there about 1 1/2 minutes before they said Go! The event planner said that each child could get 7 eggs. Turns out none of my kids filled their quota, but hopefully they still had fun.
After the quick dash...I mean hunt, they provided Capri Sun juice and sugar cookies to frost.
After everyone had slurped down their juice and frosted their faces...I mean cookies, we headed home to check out what was in the eggs. Abree was delighted to find "Laffy Taffy". Taylee coveted Kyrick's chocolate. Treyson inhaled his before I could see what he got. Rylee traded her dinosaur tatoos (what we call "skin stickers") with Kyrick.