AHG Messy Game Night

Last night the girls all participated in our American Heritage Troop's Messy Game Night. Our coordinator and her husband planned and set up the games and they surely did not disappoint! My girls got messier than last year - BY FAR - and we all had a great time!

Shelby being grumpy at first. She doesn't take to doing things in groups well - without Mommy by her side. So she ended up not being put on a team. She warmed up and joined in a little later.

Paige enjoyed Bear Hunt! The point of the game was to find as many gummy bears as possible, in a bowl of pudding, using only your mouth (and spitting the "cleaned" bears into a separate bowl). 

Cheyenne playing the egg yolk relay race. Each team had to see how many egg yolks they could get from a bowl to a cup without them breaking! It definitely turned into a mess!

Paige and her team searching for marbles with their feet. The pool is filled with a water/cornstarch mix which turns the kids a pastey/white color!

Cheyenne's turn with Bear Hunt!

Shelby wanted to give it a try as well!

She got in on the cornstarch marble game earlier too (can you tell by her skin?).

She didn't get too messy!

Paige playing the egg yolk game.

Trying to get an egg yolk out of the bowl!

Paige sat down for a game of duck duck goose EGG. It's just like regular duck duck goose, only whoever is it cracks an egg on the head of the kid they pick! 

Shelby posing for a picture.

Oh this girl! She got into the messy games and got as dirty as she possibly could!

All my girls at the end of the evening!

365 in 2015 - End of Week 19

I can't seem to keep caught up with these posts anymore. I did a good job through the middle of April, then I completely got messed up and haven't gotten back on track. Anyway, since it's not that terribly important anyway, I haven't worried too much about it. I just didn't want to get so far behind as to forget what weeks I'm supposed to be doing!

Shelby made a friend at the Trail Life camp out! Here she was just talking and talking to him when we were packing up to go home.

Monday was American Heritage Girl's messy game night. Paige did not want to play most of the messiest games, but she did play musical chairs (with plates full of shaving cream).

Cheyenne also enjoyed messy game night! She was one of the cleaner girls there since she also wanted to stay out of a couple of the messiest games. She still needed a bath when she got home though! 

A favorite pass time around here is Family Fluxx. The kids pull it out and play it on their own!

I noticed these beautiful flowers in our yard on Wednesday. I don't think we've had very many of these before, and they really popped out this year! 

Paige being goofy while we were reading a story before bedtime. Obviously I took a break from reading to take a couple pictures, and Paige was all giggly because of my many attempts to catch her smiling.

Paige and Shelby before the production of Wonderland and Into the Woods put on by Artios Academies. The play was wonderful and these two went home singing the songs from the plays for the next couple days! 

This isn't the clearest picture, but I just snapped a quick shot of Shelby in her bed Saturday afternoon. Naps are actually a rare thing anymore, and Shelby put herself to bed! I don't remember what all we had done earlier that day, but she was tired and went to bed. 

AHG's Messy Game Night

On May 4th Cheyenne participated in her first Messy Game Night with her American Heritage Girl's troop. She was a little wary of getting as dirty as many of the other girls, but by the end of the night she was pretty messy herself! Although, compared to the others, she was rather clean. (I haven't included pictures of any of the other girls because I don't want to post them on here without their parent's knowledge.) Shelby and Paige also participated, but also didn't want to get very dirty.

Shelby playing the cornstarch/marble game. You stand in the pool of cornstarch/water and try to find as many marbles with your toes as you can in a set amount of time. This is the only game Shelby was willing to play and she kept coming back again and again to try! 

Paige didn't want to get dirty, but finally was willing to play this version of music chairs. Instead of chairs, there were plates filled with shaving cream. When the music stopped you were supposed to sit on one of the plates! It got quite wild and messy! 

This was another game Cheyenne enjoyed, and was one of the messiest ones! They set up a Twister board but instead of using the game's mat, they used plates with ketchup, mustard, mayo, and pickle relish. It was so gross, but the girls loved it!

Cheyenne stayed pretty clean playing Twister! 

Cheyenne at the end of the night! And she was one of the cleaner girls!