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4th of July Week in Review- part 4- the water olympics and Happy Birthday Jake!

Published by amberlicious July 23rd, 2008 in How I torment my kids, How we celebrate, Mostly pictures, stuff we do, stuff with extended family

Following kickball we had the water olympics. We started with a good old fashioned pillowcase toss.

Which evolved into a water fight.

The most popular game of the day? Dribble, dribble, drench. Think duck, duck, goose with soaking wet sponges.



Followed by another waterfight. It was brutal- so I didn’t take pictures during- but we all made up at the end.

Then we got out the slip and slide

Even the old men participated


I think we wore them out



That night we had a birthday party for Jake- who was turning 25. His last birthday he was in Iraq- so it didn’t take much to top that.

He just got home about two weeks before this though- so his wife and kids were the best present I’m sure.

But Sarah got him some push up bars/handles (I’m really not sure what they’re called) anyway. We made him drop and give us 20.

Then we started adding some kids for weight… It’s a bad picture- but that’s how fast he was moving! ;)

In honor of Jake’s birthday we set off some more fireworks and did sparklers.



We couldn’t have a birthday without cake right? Jake chose cheesecake- but he’d never had ‘real’ cheesecake before. He was impressed. We also had butter pecan cake. It may be my new favorite. I topped it with caramel, butterscotch and white chocolate. YUM!


oh, and pecans

We had a great visit with my family for the 4th!

7 Responses to “4th of July Week in Review- part 4- the water olympics and Happy Birthday Jake!”  

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  1. 1 Kimberly Jul 24th, 2008 at 10:17 am

    I don’t know if I’m more envious of all the fun or the cake!

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  2. 2 Jo Jul 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am

    Fun, fun pics! Water fun! Sparkler fun, those are super pictures and last but not least by a long shot, YUMMY pictures.

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  3. 3 Julie Morris Jul 28th, 2008 at 10:55 am

    What a fun fourth…I especially love the rows and rows of towels on the banister!

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  4. 4 rebecca Jul 29th, 2008 at 9:26 am

    Wow!! You had quite a 4th! Looks like you had a lot of fun and good food!

  5. 5 Jessica G. Jul 29th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    So…did you save me any cake? ;)

    Love the mega water fight! We used to have those as kids.

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  6. 6 pam Jul 29th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Looks like fun. I want to come to the next water olympics. Thanks for the great cake you made audrey. We loved seeing you. come to California!

  7. 7 africa Jul 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    I wish you could just send me a bite of that cake.