On Wednesday, we met under Metfield park pavilion for arts and crafts. My boys played with balloons and Reese and Quincy made these cute button monograms.
Crafts were followed by an epic water balloon fight
I am not a relaxed enough person to take 5 children to the pool. Especially when 4/5 of them cannot swim. I put Corbin and Soren in life jackets and they all had a great time, but I was pretty stressed most of the time. I don't consider myself a helicopter parent, but water really freaks me out when it comes to my little ducklings. Luckily, Katie and Julie each took turns holding Sloane for me so I could take Soren for a dip, and catch Corbin as he came off the water slide a few times, and Jill stayed in the big pool with the kids when I got out.
Again, everyone came home and crashed. We had to wake them up to go over to the Messicks for phase 2 of Wild Wednesday.
Nate made marshmallow guns for all of the kids and they had a huge marshmallow war on the lawn.
It was dusk so the pics are pretty fuzzy.
I'd take credit for the dutch oven perfection, but it goes to Julie, who did all the grunt work. I just brought ingredients in a pan.
Blueberry Dump Cake
4c fresh blueberries, 1 c sugar, 2 yellow cake mixes, a can of sprite, and another 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup of butter cubed and sprinkled on top. Julie did something magical with coals and a chimney and the result was really yummy.
Katie made a peach one, and Aaron picked up vanilla ice cream to go on top.
The grand finale for Wednesday was an outdoor movie! The messicks set up a projector and showed Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on the side of their house. Greatness.
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