Stimson Family Picnic

This past Saturday, we spent the day at Hagg Lake for Matt's company picnic.  We loved it!  It was sprinkling when we left Newberg, but 30 minutes later at the lake, it was perfectly lovely!  We headed down to the lake to throw some rocks in the water.

 

 

 

 

Then, the kids got some tough looking tattoos from the tattoo artist (My Little Pony and a fairy)

 

 

We played some horseshoes.  I am still surprised no one was injured when Levi was allowed to throw his horseshoe!

 

 

 

Next up, the gunny sack race!  Luckily, our kids use their pillow cases as gunny sacks to jump in in the house sometimes.  Even though they are not suppose to.  But it helped them succeed in this race!  Erika won second place for the 7 and under kids!

 

 

 

Erika with her 2nd place prize and Levi and Laurel with participation prizes.

 

 

Then there was a water balloon toss.  First, it was parent to child so I tossed to Laurel and Matt tossed to Erika.  I think we both had about 3 good tosses before our balloons broke.  Levi and Laurel participated in child to child toss while Erika stopped to eat an ice cream bar.

 

 

 

 

Then, the Money Pit.  We knew this was going to be part of the picnic so we had been coaching the kids about getting as many coins as they could.  They spread sawdust all in this pit and then dumped a bag of coins and candy in and let the kids have at it.  Laurel and Levi went first in the 4 and under category.  Levi wanted nothing to do with the money.....he went straight for the candy!  He ended up with a solo cup full of candy, and $.55.  Laurel, however, listened to her wise parents and banked $4.15!  Erika was in with the 5 to 8 year olds and was a machine!  She plopped herself in the biggest mound of coins she could find and shoved them into her cup!  Most of the coins she collected were just nickels, but she still ended up with $5.50!  I told the girls that whatever money they collected they could spend on a new toy.  Good thing we had plans to go shopping the next day because they asked for the toy as soon as they stepped out of the money pit!

 

 

Fun games, super good food and snow cones.....a perfect company picnic!