All He Wants For Christmas...

...is a Nintendo DS.

Fete Day 2009

In case you need a refresher course, here are the basics of this made-up holiday. (You can read all about the founder here.)

1) Choose a color

2) Everyone wears the color and exchanges inexpensive gifts of the color

3) Official food is Ice Cream Cake

4) Do an activity (any activity)

5) Celebrate on or around August 16th

Our activity this year included a few outdoor games. We had a human spelling bee (I don't know if that's what it's called, but that's what I'm calling it). We split into teams, each team member wore a letter on his/her front and one on his/her back. The "caller" would yell a word, use it in a sentence (a certain fellow with a mustache on my team missed that crucial instruction), and the team had to get in the right order to spell the word. Our team lost, but I bet we laughed the most. We also played Barnyard Tag and Ladder Golf--both very fun as well. Our activity could have been "Where's (Waldo) Kelsey?". See if you can spot her in the following photos:

Throughout the post, please see evidence pointing to the fact that we will likely never have a successful family photograph without the aid of photoshop.

Exhibit A: Olivia

Here are more shots of the party-goers (I think I took plenty of pictures.)
Exhibits B & C: Darin and SeanThe parents:

A special, heartfelt Fete Day ballad from Jared to Jodi:

Exhibits D, E, F, G, H, I: (actually, I promised them that we could do this photo if they would just smile for one photo. That's my best impression of Sean's photo face. How did I do?)

Two Months

My tall boy:

Pondering...

Happiness is:

Olivia kept our hairnets and insisted on this photo (Brig didn't seem to mind!)