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We roasted hot dogs around the fire pit one night...
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....and talked! :-) [You can be pretty sure of that part. When you get the Townsends and Stevens together, you get to hear many lively and laughy conversations (and serious ones, too)--with plenty of good brotherly teasing sandwiched between.] ;-)
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Though almost every single picture in this post is of us playing games, we actually did a lot of other things as well. All those still in school had to get 4 hours of schoolwork done each day. And there was clean-up and cooking, and we also watched a video together.
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In the picture above, we were playing "Swap"--one of the most fun games ever! :-) (Is that a little biased?) ;-)
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And the classic: "Pit". But since it was late at night and we didn't want to be too noisy (we've had experience in that department, let me assure you) ;-) we decided to show how many cards we wanted to trade by holding up our fingers with the appropriate number.
"Finally! Someone else is trading my number!"
Some of the girls playing Spoons (with Paul and Philip, who were on the other side of the table).
Meanwhile, Maddie and Timmy enjoyed trading horses.
We had a big game of Spoons on Tuesday night.
Daddy captured a very epic "Swap" moment. :-)
After Prayer Meeting on Wednesday night we played Catch Phrase in the garage.
Something was evidently most hilarious. I think it was right after Paul tried to explain "eye candy", and he said it had something to do with gum and your vision viewers.
"It's something far away...far-reaching...think distance here." ;-)
And now...of course...on to Round Robin!
Samantha and Philip in the final show-down. The Townsend girls won the majority of the games, I think.
We had quite a crowd, especially after Jonathan and Andrew joined us after work. (Kyle comes home from school in the mid-afternoon.)
Kyle in the penalty box. ;-)
On Thursday night Mr. Townsend came to pick up his family. At dinnertime, everybody managed to squeeze into their spots around the table. Close fellowship! :-)
After dinner we played one of the funniest games on the planet earth. ;-) It has a rather odd-sounding name: "Hodgey Podgey", but let me assure it, it lives up to the name. There's a clapping, snapping rhythm going, and then one person starts the sentence off with a word, such as "the". Then the next person in line has to think up another word that would make sense in a sentence: "girl". Then the next: "walked"...then "to"....etc. You go round and round and reach hilarious, sometimes ridiculous endings!
Sometimes it was interesting trying to keep up with the snapping, clapping rhythm. I had the wrong one going, I think. ;-)
Yep...hilarious endings. :-D
Well, that was a F-U-N week! It was over all too soon.
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"Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Phil. 4:4-8)
