Sunday, July 3, 2011

World's longest slip n' slide

Remember the slip n' slides we slipped and slid on as kids? We would run and leap onto our stomachs and slid down the "long" piece of plastic that had the garden hose running down in it. We would jump up and squeal and do it again. If you had a hill to put it on it was better and if you had TWO slip n' slid's to hook toghether it was EVEN BETTER!
Now do you remember the post I did last fall when our kids played on the bags? The long white bags that were filled with corn and hay? The bags that our kids love to climb on, run on and slide down? Well, imagine one of those bags new and empty. Un-dirtied by the laws of the harvest. Brand-spanking new. Now imagine un-rolling that sucker out of the box and down the hill of a rather large lawn in 90 degree weather on July 2nd. Remember the garden hose we used to use? Now imagine a whole hand-line hooked to the pivot that is gushing water at about 10 times what a poor little hose is capable of. Now throw in our four children pluse a six year old neice and two nephews ages 11 and 16. Add in Brandon, age 27 and Lisa age 21 (hee hee).
There is Morgan using a snow sled.
Braxton sliding normally.
Brandon's nephew Cameron "surfing" on a snow sled. (Side note: I surfed. Not for very long. It was not pretty. But it was fun.)
Travin's favorite way to go was on a pool tube.
They got creative toward the end.

Dang he's cute.

And finally a train with all kids involved.
I had pictures of all the kids and the WHOLE slide, but my computer didn't let me up-load all of them so I'm missing three. But rest assured, a good time was had by ALL.