cornhole

So the other day Tim, the girls and I went to a church bbq/cornhole tournament.  if you don't know what a cornhole tournament is then you are not alone.  We only learned of it the weekend before.  It is played kinda like horse shoes, but instead of horseshoes there is a bean bag (or filled with dried corn).  and instead of a stick in the ground there is a slanted board with a hole in it.  People take turns throwing bean bags onto the board and hopefully into the hole.  if the bags get into the hole it is 3 points and on the board is 1 point.  every round is net scoring and the first team to 21 wins.  this game is apparently popular in the Midwest (where they grow corn).

Tim and I practiced right before hand.  we NEEDED it.  much fun was had and the kids enjoyed running around with all the other kids there.  then it came time for the tournament to start.  it started kinda late and the kids had had a long day.  when it was our turn the kids decided that they wanted to be attached to us.  Tim was holding Mara and I had Resa so we were throwing bean bags with one hand and had a kid in the other.  apparently as parents our balance has shifted so much while holding children that we need to hold them in order to throw properly.  we so rocked that round.  somehow we kicked butt against two guys that play this game on a weekly basis.  then in the next round (it was bracketed because there were 30 or so teams) the kids were playing happily.  we were not holding them.  we did not do good.  it was very bad.  and kinda funny.  we left in defeat after that.  it was a couple hours after the kids bedtime anyways. :)

culture pass

We got a culture pass this week so we were able to go to the Phoenix Art Museum for free.  It was a fun family trip and I think the kids liked the train ride to get there the best.  

If you happen to live in the Phoenix Metro Area then I highly recomend that you go and check out your local library.  Right now they are offering Culture passes to go to local museums and science centers, the zoo and botanical gardens for free.  They are limited in supply and go extremely fast but are renewed weekly.  We always bring our books inside to return them instead of doing one of the outside drive by drops so I can see if there are any Passes available.  

As a side note.  I'm just going to put the t-shirt designs on the right side of the blog.  Since this is primarily a personal blog I figure no one really wants t-shirt designs taking over the content area.

how we have been spending our time

So instead of spending my free time on the computer blogging away and making sure that the pictures are updated, I picked up a new hobby and then got my luvin' hubby is into it as well.  We have been designing stuff to throw onto t-shirts for competitions like the one over at woot.  This weeks theme is air and so we did a dragon in a hot air balloon.  We have some others in the works but this is the only one submitted right now.  I figured I should up-date the post while I thought of it.  I'll also put some new photos in the slide show so all the grandma's are happy.  :)

if you want you can vote on the shirt here.  thanks.

Back to the PhotoChallenge

I decided that I should go back to the photo challenge because it gives me something to blog about daily.  Today, for the 107th day of the year, the photo challenge was gardens.  Well, I live in

 Arizona.  If you don't know, it's a desert.  Then of course I have an apartment in the city.  I have no lawn for a garden.  But fortunately I had a play date scheduled for the zoo today. 

 They have lots of  fun little gardens.  This little rose garden is nestled right by the warty pigs.  It's a really pretty area.  Mara and Resa had fun with their friends and it was pretty cool because we all had strollers and for the most part the kids didn't really want to ride in them.  We had lunch, played in the new play area and then left.  But not before stopping at the splash park.