After enlisting, getting their face paint put on and camo arm bands, the kids went about playing "army" until everyone arrived.
We invited 6 friends from school as well as our cousins and some of Mom & Dad's friends from OK. We had a total of 9 kids and boy did they have fun!
They had to line up for roll-call and learn to properly salute the General {that's me!!}. They got a huge kick out of me "yelling" at them.
The first basic training drill was the obstacle course.
1. Go through the tires.
2. Climb up the swingset and go down the slide.
3. Crawl under the net.
4. Run through the hula hoops.
{Somehow both photographers forgot to capture this part.}
5. Run into the tent and shoot down an army guy with the water gun.
6. Climb up and over the tires.
7. Run around the sandbox
8. Slap the general's hand.
After that we played water balloon target practice. Mom had taken such care to paint a perfect target and she and Jeremy spent about an hour filling up 100 water balloons on Friday afternoon. All of that and then the balloons wouldn't break. They had to be the toughest water balloons I have ever seen.
It ended up just being a free for all and before I knew what was happening, anarchy was upon me and the recruits were after me with water balloons. It was fun for everyone!
That concludes part 2. Part 3 will be pictures of presents and the ensuing aftermath of nerf gun madness! Feel free to keep following, or not!
2 comments:
Looks like everyone had a GREAT time! So much fun!
you have the set the bar very very high for birthday parties...the whole town is talking to me about it....GREAT JOB much talent...you must take after your mom LOL
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