Summer Splash-Amy's Work Party

Cool Dude, Caleb loving his new Ball Poppy won him!

Love the shades

Jane having a good time sitting with Gramma listening to music

Love that smile

Just couldn't get enough of this little guy with his shades and ball

Kate and her Rose Face Paint...Oh so cute

My sister Amy and Kate just arrive back from Craft tent

Amy and I trying to take are own picture, Amy laughing as the camera is about to fall

Ok, that's a little better picture

Kate and her Sand necklace

Last weekend my sister had her annual summer work party and she invited the kids my parents and I to go this year since we where here. It was so much fun and the kids had a blast! My sister works for 1-800-Contacts so when they do something they go all out. The theme was made to make you feel like you were on a Cruise with the different decks with different activities. It was held at Thanksgiving point Electric park. It was not off to a good start, it down poured rain for an hour and everyone was crammed into the pavilion trying to eat a very pricey buffet meal they provided. It wasn't mean for everyone to eat at the same time, but the rain kind of forced that to happen. I was a little worried because the kids were getting antsy and didn't want to sit at the table any longer. After is finally stopped raining we quickly before the crown noticed the rain had stopped went to some of the other decks or areas for the kids to play. They had a swimming pool area and bouncy house area. Kate loved riding the Huge, I mean HUGE Shark blowup slide.So wish I had gotten a picture of it. As she was coming down you could see a look a worry for a moment as the slide began to make her pick up speed. Then we played some carnival games and Poppy won a soccer ball for Caleb, you would have thought that it was the best prize in the whole wide world the way he played with it all night. Everyone got tickets to get treats too, you could either get a cookie, snow cone, curio, or drink. We had some many ticket we didn't even use them all because Amy's work gave some to Jane even though she is a baby and can't use anything. Kind of a waste of money if you ask me. We then went to sit and listen to Tonic Sofa an A Capella group, they were actually pretty good. They clam they have been on Letterman and got a Grammy for one of their songs. While we were watching that Amy took Kate around to the Craft tent and made Sand layered Necklaces for her and her brother. Kate also got to make a picture out of paint and it some how spins itself onto the page. After that Kate got her face painted. Amy said she went right up to the lady and told her I want a rose on my face. I don't know why she wanted that but she did, it was super cute. Kate had a great time in the craft tent with Amy. Then once the night was winding down they had a prize drawings for all the guests and employees. You had to be present to get the prize. They of course had the drawing at the end of the evening so you had to wait. Kate was a little sad because she put her name in to win a set of Disney Princess babies and she didn't win. We had to explain how a drawing works and how we don't always win, but it's fun to try. We didn't win anything, we had over 15 tickets in various prize boxes, it was kind of disappointing, but the end made up for it all. At the end they had an employee Grand Prize winner. The winner could win a cruise to Alaska, a fully loaded Mac computer or a 55 inch 3D LED Sam sung TV with Blu-Ray player a set of 3-3D glasses and a movie and oh yeah a box of popcorn. For some reason I had a feeling Amy might have a chance at this, so did my mom. They first announce what department they work in, which was call center and that is where she workds. We started to get a little excited and then.......They called out AMY MOTT oh my goodness, we screamed so loud, we couldn't help ourselves we kept chanting Go Amy and screaming everyone was looking at us but we so didn't care. The odds of her winning this was so slim, there were so many people there. Amy was in total sock she was shaking. She picked the TV package. I was so excited and happy for Amy, words can't seem to express it. She works so hard at her job and does such a good job doing it, she so deserved this. The best part was her birthday was the day before, and she sat down and said "Wow Happy Birthday to me, what a good present." Wow the whole family couldn't believe what just happen to Amy. After the prizes where done we got to watch some Hawaiian Dancers and Fire Dancers preform, while Amy claimed her prize. Kate loved the pretty head dresses the girls wore and Caleb really got into dancing along with the fire dancers. It was a late night for the kids but they really seem to enjoy themselves, as did I. Everyone was so excited that they didn't seem like they could go to sleep. The sock, surprise and sure awe of this huge TV sitting in the front room was just to much to take in. After we finally calmed down form the excitement we finally made it to bed. Congrats Amy, we are all so excited for you! It's been about a week or so and we finally got it set-up some may wonder why we waited so long. Well the size and overwhelming amount of cords and hook-ups to different various device simply put intimidated us. So yesterday we all had the attitude to just jump right in and figure this thing out. Boy was is so worth it. This TV is so impressive. It is so clear you feel like your in the room with the characters on the screen, it kind of a sure real experience. This for me is definitely a never go back moment, everyone else felt the same way. If you read in one of my past entries I talk about never go back moments if your not sure what I am trying to say. Kate woke up today and we put in the Chipmunk movie in to watch and she kept saying" Mommy Mommy it is so clear", even a 5 year old notice the difference, so you know it has to be impressive if Kate even sees it. I am trying to get a picture of Amy in front of her new TV put I haven't yet so I just took a picture of it to show. Wow is all I can say WOW!!!!