Friday Funday

My birthday is this Sunday so my coworkers birthday-raided my cubical. They had confetti all over the folders covering my desk. That had to go first. I can't stand confetti on my desk. It's like any reason they have to celebrate, someone goes around and peppers people's desks with confetti. My sales partner knew my aversion so she made sure to load it up for me. Crazy work people, but we, as a whole, will do anything for a laugh around here so I'll take it. It looks wonderful and I am very grateful for those crazies.

T minus one day till Field Day!!!! I"M SO EXCITED!!!!

Sports Chest Bump

The anticipation is mounting for the upcoming field day. I am currently stressing over game rules and how to set up teams the day of. I don't want to set up the teams in advance and I'd like for it to be a little bit random.

So far rules for team set up are:
1. Spouses/couples may not be on the same team-I learned that from the Wamhoffs. They figure you already argue with that person so there is no sense having you be on the same team and adding in public humiliation.
2. There needs to be an even number of boys and girls on each team. I love girl power but if I want my team to win the hammer throw I may need a man.

I don't have anymore rules. That's it. And I'm not saying rule number three is "Have fun" because everybody says that. I'm not saying that. It's a given at my parties. Duh.

I'm thinking people will draw for teams by reaching for a colored bandanna in a bag. Team colors will be Red, White, Blue, and Grey. SO EXCITED!!!

The Games are ON!!!

I get to have my party!!! I'm so excited!!! Next weekend I will host my very first Olympic Field day with family and family friends. Evites were sent out. So far I have about 12 people. I am waiting to hear back on a few more. Hopefully they can make it!!! Those who couldn't make it... this will be a dress rehearsal to us doing this again, for sure!!

In the works:
1) Creating gold, silver, and bronze medals. I plan on getting ribbon and metal washers, painting the washers and decoupaging a logo on each.

2) Committing to a game plan. I'm thinking we will go to the field first for track and field events: Hammer throw, Long jump, Punt-Pass-Kick, Discus (frisbee), Torch relay race/obstacle course, 3 legged race. Then we can go back to the house to do other events: Source of Life (soak up pool water with a sponge and bring it to fill a 2-liter timed event against other teams(this game came from a Hunger Games field day some teachers did-I'm Katniss! lol jk)), balloon shaving, cannon ball splash, brick dive.

3) Collecting all the little things needed to play about 10 games that day:

     -Hammers

     -shaving cream

     -about five 2 liter bottles

     -sponges

     -bricks

     -balloons

     -headbands

     -footballs

     -frisbees

     -"torch"

So excited!!

Olympics: Synchro News

I just learned some very sad news. The larger USA women's Synchro team did not qualify for the London games. Luckily, though, the duet team for the US IS going. Thank goodness because I'm American and I wanna root for America in my fav sport. Duh. The picture up there shows Mary and Mariya at work. They are my only hope for American Gold this summer.

Some Days You're the Pigeon...

Some days you are the pigeon and other days you are the statue. 

Today I'm the pigeon and I'm about to put this sign up at work. 

I Have a Dream

I have a dream that I will one day host an Olympic themed party. I cannot tell you how much I love the Olympics. Brilliant marketing on their part keeping it so many years apart. It is so desirable (I know the timing has more to do with tradition than marketing, roll with me, please). My favorite event is synchronized swimming. I have "liked" the USA's Women's team on Facebook and I follow them and stalk their beautiful photos often. I will be DVR'ing all of their appearances during the Olympic games. GO USA!!!

Now onto my party. I'm thinking cocktails are a must. It's really a field day. I want obstacle courses set up. I want three legged races. I want to race others while "shaving" a balloon free of shaving cream. I want a pie eating contest. I want to toss eggs. BUT why not do a javelin throw too and some other real track and field events? Hammer throw, not sure exactly what that is but we have plenty of hammers we could throw. There will be a podium salute to the gold, silver and bronze winners for the overall day. You collect points. Maybe this will be a team thing. I have not decided. We cannot rush what is still in the dream phase. Stay tuned and look for your invites in the mail. 

New Beginning

So that was Dan and I about 6 years ago....

...and here we are now.

Blog post number one: We got married! Woohoo! The wedding planning is done and we are down to executing our life plans...at a much more reasonable rate, I must say. We did that wedding thing in 7 months. Now, moving on and deciding what excatly this blog is. Thanks to my sister in law, Adrienne, I have been inspired to start this thing. I want it to help keep our out of town families in the know with us. I suppose I can also post my arts and crafts, my home projects, and little adventures Dan and I have. That might keep you entertained. I'll share our love of having fun with friends and family.  I love to party plan! Also there are several post wedding things to see/do that I can share, like a few photos and a highlight film. I have some grand ideas so when they take place I'll document them too. This is going to be awesome!! Welcome to our life.