The Weather Hates Me, or Last Day of Cubs

You know when you have had the rainiest/coldest April in years so you can't do anything with cubs outdoors, so you plan an outdoor cookout at your house so you spend 8 hours cleaning up your back yard/patio and planting flowers only to have it rain all over everything so you have to do it inside in the house you didn't clean at all?  Yeah, me too.

I had set up all the chairs ahead of time, plus the fire-pit and wood.  ALL of it completely soaked.

So we used the fireplace...

And they seemed to think it worked ok.  We ended up using the stove too because only a couple boys could fit around the fireplace at once.

Ella loved having all the boys over, and being allowed to participate in everything with them!

We all played Scribblish afterwards (including Eric and Ella) and here are a few of our favorites:

This one reads :
Yoda is taking ballet lessons






Dancing Monster







The fuzzy monster likes to whistle under the sun with scribbles on it






Lint ball boy sang a melody at sunrise






Singing waffle in Arizona

I don't know why the waffle would be in Arizona, but it must have liked it there since it was singing!

This one says:
Tacos Rock






The watermelon is spitting out golf balls







The snail yelled at the confused shepard







Snail saying cuss words to a(n) egyptian guy






The snail honked angrily at the pedestrian.

How Does Superman's Slogan Turn into a Pooping Stork?

While our parents were here we all decided to take advantage of being together and play a couple games (okay, we had to force our dads, but they were ultimately good sports). Ella had gotten a board game for Christmas that was really fun with the kids, and I thought we be a blast with adults. I was right "toot, toot" (me, tooting my own horn).

The game is Scribblish (which my mom needs to promptly forget so I can get it for her for her birthday). It is as if Telephone and Pictionary had an ugly baby they weren't very proud of and gave it a weird name nobody could pronounce.

You start off with a card with a caption to illustrate. After you draw it out you cover them and pass them to someone else who looks at your "masterpiece" and has to re-caption it. Then you cover it again and someone else gets it and has to illustrate the new caption, and so forth. You don't see the parts people have done before, just the drawing or caption immediately in front.
For example this one was

"The world's biggest toaster"
Which someone drew as:
Which someone captioned as: "There are little people living in my toaster"
Which someone drew as:
Which someone captioned: "I like to see my pet toaster people"
Which someone drew as:
Which someone captioned "How did our canoes end up on the roof?"
Which ended up as:

Some stay pretty close but some get whacked out of proportion (mostly if my mom is drawing or Eric is captioning). It was really fun and I hadn't laughed that hard since Emily Smith wore her surrogate grandmothers orange cape at Thanksgiving dinner!
Here was our favorite of the night:

"It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a tank"

"The bird flew into the tank"
"The hummingbird killed the tank"
"The mutant stork pooped in my wagon."
Ta Da!

I can't wait for the cabin, or even Aspen Grove, getting my siblings and in laws involved and seeing what happens. Hilarity will ensue, I'm sure (hilarity...insanity...it's pretty much the same when we are all together). Get ready, Jes, you may even like this board game!