Family Fun for the Holiday’s

What do you do with 29 people for 5 days? (We had that many during the Christmas holiday’s if you recall from my last post.)

Every morning at 8:30 all the singles had morning drills and exercises in the walleyball court. The rest of us maybe should have been exercising with them but we took that time to get ourselves together and get breakfast started.

Those on the exercise schedule would come to the kitchen to find glasses of water with fresh lime juice.

Then it was out to the walleyball court for morning warm-up stretches and exercises, along with walleyball drills and walleyball.

As you can see, I did manage to get out there one morning to take a few pictures but then duty called and I had to head back inside. It really hurt my feelings that I had to miss out on all the work health benefiting exercises and very chill morning air. 🙂

We took a trip to the local ice rink for a few hours one day. Those who weren’t on the ice watched from the bleachers and watched babies.

I planned an activity for the girls that was sort of a fail even though it worked out in the end. I purchased flour sack tea towels, Aunt Martha’s hot iron transfer designs and some liquid embroidery paint. The part that was kind of a fail was the paint. Some of the colors were so so hard to squeeze out that your hand would hurt. I even busted one from squeezing too hard.

And for the younger ones we had some cookie decorating.

We started a new tradition this year. A Crokinole competition. We played until we had one team that were champions and that happened to be Wesley and his cousin Grace.

Congratulations to our 2014 Crokinole Champions!

As Sunday rolled around, family had to leave until there were only 16 of us left. A little expedition to an abandoned mine was the activity one day. I’ve been in about 3 mines in my life (all since I’ve been married! I didn’t do these types of things growing up and only having 2 other sisters! haha) and this is the best one so far.

Then it snowed. Yes! Here in Arizona! We received about 5 inches and so Frosty had to be reconstructed.

Finally, we had to say goodbye to 5 more until it was only our family and my sister and her family who were going to be with me for another week. It was a wonderful time to all be together. So glad we had the opportunity.