Day of Picnics

On Saturday, Stacey's work hosted a Western-themed picnic, which featured good-old-fashioned fun, especially for the children.

The girls enjoyed the games - here, they're taking part in a hula-hoop contest. The winner got a ticket to Disneyland! These days, that's worth nearly $100. Cora came in third.

Both girls were given animals after their plastic frogs won the frog-hopping contest.

Stace took part in the ping-pong golf game, and found it tough to hit the ball through the cutouts.

The food was good - barbecued chicken, steak and hot dogs, and a variety of side dishes and ice creams.

Later the girls enjoyed the petting zoo - Violet especially loved petting the super-soft ducks.

While Violet giggled, Cora fed grass to the goat.

Later Saturday, we went to the annual Mom2Mom family picnic. This has become an event we look forward to each year, and we had a great turnout this year, with eight families attending.

Stace played soccer with the children, and later played basketball with the other dads. At that point, the pop-up goal was put to use by Liana, Allison, Melanie, Cami and Violet.