Olympics

All of the Christensen girls before the Olympics.

Amy, Bryn, Dane, and Scott primarily planned the Olympics. This year the team names were based off of The Hunger Games.  

Couples always get split up..ha.  I was on the Team on Fire with Ian, Dane, Shelby, Melissa, Cameron, Amber, Sawyer, Bryn, Tabitha, and Amy.

Trent was on the Killer Everdeens with Tori, Jordan, Jen, Paige, Courtney, Greyson, Thane, Amanda, Kyle, and Jill.

First thing we did was our cheers.  In the end we found out the Killer Everdeens won best cheer.  Then we played Hostage where one team chooses and hides one of their team members somewhere in the house and the other team has to find them and carry them back to the trampoline to call time.  I handed the camera off to my mom.

The Killer Everdeens hid Greyson first.  It took us like 5 minutes to find him in a suitcase in the Lund's room.  No pictures from our turn.

We (Team on Fire) decided to hide Dane because our strategy was to hide the heaviest person upstairs to slow them down when they had to carry him back down to the trampoline.  We hid him on top of the back fridge/freezer behind all of the food that's up there and we thought we were golden.

The Killer Everdeens right as the clock started, running into the house.

Within like 2 minutes we heard they had found him - we were so shocked!  Turns out Jordan, his wife, had found him..haha.  We were all joking that she could just sense him and thinks like he does ;)

Jill calling for the team to come get him.  Wish we had a better picture of Dane's hiding place.

Dane tried to be as dead weight as possible.

At one point they dropped him!

He was such a good sport.

They beat us, hands down!

We took a little break and I got these adorable pictures of Sawyer holding Aiden :)

You can tell she's a big sister :)

Next up, we all tied a balloon around our ankle and tried to pop the other teams' balloons.  This was hilarious!  Definitely the best event!

You can see Trent was going after my balloon here..ha.

All of these pictures crack me up!

Before long it was down to Amanda and Tori from KE and Ian from TOF.

It was right around here that Amanda got out, so it was down to Ian and Tori - sibling rivalry!!

I love everyone in the background, particularly Mimi here.

It got very intense..haha.

It was so close, but in the end Ian won it for our team!

Took another little break.  Aiden loved all of the balloons :)

Next we did an event where you had to shoot rubberbands to try to knock the cans (3 for each team) from the club house that were hanging from toilet paper.  So you were aiming to try to cut through the toilet paper.

It was tricky!

Eventually the Team on Fire won it.

Next up was the watermelon toss.  Trent and Kyle went up for the Killer Everdeens.

Thunk!  I think they got 4 passes.

Dane and Ian went for the Team on Fire and tied!

So we sent out 2 more from each team for the tiebreaker.  Thane and Amanda for the Killer Everdeens.

I believe they got 5 or 6 passes.

And Amy and Bryn for the Team on Fire.

They won it with 6 or 7 passes, can't remember.

We had a few minor events, like holding breath (Dane vs. Trent - Dane took it) that I don't have pictures of.

The final, major event, was the timed relay race that everyone from the team participates in.  The Killer Everdeens went first and here are a few pictures from the relay.  It is definitely not all inclusive.

Thane eating the hanging glazed donut as fast as possible.

Then taking Greyson on piggy back to the front of the house.

Amanda (love the sunscreen nose) had to fry an egg, which Trent had to then eat.  Apparently he kind of burned his mouth :/  All for the team!!

Jen, Trent, and Jill doing the four-legged race.

Tagged Tori who kayaked over to our dock.

Leap frog to the trampoline.

Ended with a team pyramid to call time!

Our team, Team on Fire, was up.  I have some of the same and some different pictures showing the relay.

Bryn eating the donut.

Four team members had to do a charade.  I look ridiculous, but I was doing "goldfish"..haha.

Not part of our relay, but we had to get some shots of them in the background.  Aiden completely bonded with Kyle during this trip.  So dang cute!

Amber had to climb into the club house and pour chocolate syrup into Cameron's mouth for 3 seconds. Wish you could see Cameron below.

Afterward :)

Bryn, Amy, and I did the four-legged race for our team.

Leap Frog!

Cameron helping out Sawyer :)

Pyramid!

Somewhere along the way we mixed up the order of the race which cost us some time, so the Killer Everdeens beat us by a few seconds.  

Once everything was tallied up, the Team on Fire came out with the gold!  Luckily no one takes it too seriously anymore - no hurt feelings!