Parks

Our family goes to a lot of parks.  We have soccer games, picnics and get togethers at parks.  Now to some, parks may be for just the young kids.  Not our family.  Stephen is always ready to go with some kind of game, and when he plays, the teenage boys play, we ALL play. 

One game is ball tag.  We usually have a soccer ball in tow.  Stephen and I are getting older so real tag is hard for us to keep up with the boys, yet BALL TAG makes it all possible.  It’s pretty much you throw a ball to tag somebody else.  If your aim is good, then you are good.

When Stephen decides he is going to get you, he WILL get you. 

   

The little girls play for a while and then run on to something else.  They usually run back to join in the fun after all of us are worn out.

Another game that Kaylee and Nathan were playing as we were waiting for soccer to start was Swing and Shoot.  Once again it involves a ball.  You swing a baby swing back and forth and then try to make a basket into the swing as it’s moving.

Of course the game escalates to, “let’s shoot from the top of the monkey bars, let’s shoot while sitting on the bench, let’s shoot with our eyes closed, …”

Another game that I play a lot with the little girls is Secret Missions.  I give them little tasks that they have to complete in order to receive their next mission.  I used to do this with the boys when they were little and they all have loved it for some reason.  The missions vary from go swing 20 times, go find a pinecone, go find two different colored leaves, go say hello to someone, go bring me 5 blades of grass, go touch the fence, go down the slide three times….  Notice I’m always saying “go” to get them away from me.  :)

I don’t know what it is about parks, but we love them.  The fresh air, a picnic, and a little exercise just makes for a great outing.