Scatterball

When I was young something that my family loved to do together on Christmas Eve was to go to the church and play basketball. Most of us had fun, but someone always ended up crying and we knew that it was over when that happened. Since I have been married we have done it a few times and it is really fun. This year we decided to play scatterball, which is a game that Josh and I learned on our missions. It is sort of like ultimate dodgeball.

Josh is a little intense about it, and he had some serious competition this year. Palmer also played, which was really fun. At first he was a little nervous with all of the big people around (he and his brothers being the only kids), but he jumped in with both feet and was running after the ball (my strategy is to run AWAY from the ball). He wasn't afraid of anyone and did a great job.

I am sure this picture was of Josh taunting as he has been known to do :)

With the elements of running, horrible lighting and a whole lot of orange everywhere, these pictures struggle. But you get the general idea. Josh wore his Chesea soccer "carpis" which he bought in England. He LOVES those things :) Our family are now Chelsea fans. We brought home tons of their stuff.

You have to sit down where you got out until the person that got you out gets out...which is why it is challenging to win, you have to get EVERYONE out.

Sometimes I think Palmer thinks he is 15. In some ways that is such a good thing because he has a lot of confidence in his abilities, but on the down side I want him to be a little kid for as long as possible and he is aching to be older.

Lincoln and Hunter had fun watching. They played with frisbees and basketballs and even a little bit of scatterball.

McKay wasn't feeling too well so for most of it he just layed in his car seat. But he got out and crawled around for a little while at the end.

It was a fun year and NOBODY cried!