The Obstacle Course

I'm following up the last post with the obstacle course that we did on the 4th of July weekend. We have been watching the new game show "Wipe Out" an American version of Ninja Warrior. The show is based around a giant obstacle course. The boys felt inspired to set up an obstacle course on our friend's property. The race started on one side of the property at the fence. After the horn we had to run and jump through 4 trees, then run into a shed and out the other side while grabbing a basket ball. After, we jumped onto one of two trampolines then over to the other which was under a basket ball hoop. After dunking the ball we had to run to the other side of the property and touch the fence. From there we ran through some bushes to the volley ball court where we picked up a soccer ball and punted it over the net. After clearing the net we ran over to the "army tires" which were really round pool inter tubes. From there we jumped onto a boogie board in the pool and swam over to the deep end. At the bottom of the pool were pennies, each with our own initials. We had to dive down and grab our own penny then jump out of the pool and head over to the lawn. At the lawn we jumped over over two chairs and "army crawled" under a bench. Finally from there we ran to the finish line! Wheew!!! It was fun, but hard! Matt Felt came in first beating Ryan by only seconds. The boys plan on another course soon, so watch out Matt, Ryan is coming for you!

Andy Bragg at the Army Tires

Joe on the boogie board


Ryan dunking the ball.


Ryan flashing through the trees!


Over the lawn chair and almost the the end!

Kelly in the pool!


Robby looks like a ninja!

Me at the start!


Check out my skills!


Run Andrew, run!
Go Go Go!!!
Matt on the trampoline
The winners: Ryan 2nd, Matt 1st and Andy 3rd
Matt sharing his moment of glory with his wife!
Kelly and Tiffany sunbathing

The Racers

The Girls: Amanda, Tiffany, Kelly and Ashley

The brothers: Ryan and Andrew

4th of July

Let me just start by saying that I love the 4th of July! Ryan and I had so much fun this year! We had a weekend of BBQ's, soccer volleyball, hid and seek in the dark and the ultimate obstacle course! On the 4th we got together at our friends Matt's house and enjoyed a yummy lunch while the boys played pool basket ball. They take pool basket ball very seriously as you can see in the pictures. We later pulled out the slip and slide and then played a little soccer volley ball. Soccer volley ball is just like regular volley ball only played with your feet, the boys made it up a while ago and its actually pretty fun! Later that night we lit off only two of the firework fountains that we bought because most of California is on fire right now and the police were cracking down on illegal fire works. Sad! But we will use the rest some other time. Here are some lovely pictures from the 4th

Kelly Felt after the slip and slide

Matt Felt: Kind of looks like a penguin!

Ryan slippin and sliddin!

This is Andy Fields, our democrat friend. Its ok Andy, we forgive you!

Joe playing soccer volly ball
Intense pool basket ball...
More intensity...
Is joe bitting Andy Braggs Ear? Looks like a little Mike Tyson action!