Ross Reunion

This weekend everyone gathered at the church by where Christy and Kim live for the Ross family reunion.  Grandma and Grandpa Ross came very prepared with a plethora of fun games to play.  We participated in "The Price is Slight" and various "Minutes to Win it" games.  I have a million pictures, but rather than do a bunch of small posts I'm going to try to power through with one big, epic,

mondo, super sized post.  Hang on to your false teeth and eyelashes because here we go. Sorry in advance for being too lazy to turn the vertical pictures the right way.

This is just before the start.  the little kids were very excited in their chairs up front

Cheering for your favorite team! From the left Xander, Tommy, Sadie, Laura, Ellie and Lucie

Ellie was the official timer with her fancy Ipod touch

Luke playing the first Minute to Win it game.  He had to balance five dice on the end of a tongue depressor.

He won a Walmart gift card

This picture is a little blurry because Ellie is moving at lighting speed.  She had 4 pedometers strapped to her limbs, she had to rack up a certain number of "steps" to win.  I think she ended up with at least double what she was suppose to, thanks to all that soccer.

Christy, Sadie and Laron waiting for the next game

Lyndsey armed with her camera to catch the action

Jacob, Christy and Jarod

Steven being his usual dorky self

All the kids under twelve took part in this game. They picked a plate and put as many golf balls as they wanted on it.  Then they had to walk halfway down the gym and back without losing any.  Grandma Ross provided quite they array of fancy choices 

Xander and Tommy

Sadie

Paizley, Ammie and Jarod

Luke as the official rule reader.  Grandma and Grandpa Ross planned a "Price is Slight" game for each of us with prizes especially for the contestant.  But unlike it's counterpart on t.v. even the losers got to keep their prizes.

I believe Steven had to number his prizes from most expensive to least.  Of  course he lost.

I'm not sure if you can really tell, but on the back row all of those bottles are specialty root beers.  Those are all in our possession now and Steven is looking for volunteers for a root beer tasting.  He also won all those glasses on the bottom row.  Paizley is pretty much obsessed with them.  Steven had to let her pick one and she has been drinking Kool-aid out of it.

If there are only two things my son loves, its hats and dinosaurs.  So a dinosaur head hat is just what he needed.

So this is my game but I guess Steven decided that you didn't really need to see anything.  I won a cell phone by the way.  Everyone should call me sometime.

Everyone watching the action

Next we played bingo with sheets fill out with everyone in the family's name

Christy and Jarod

Paizley trying really hard not to eat her marshmallow markers

The kids drew a card that had an action on it and had to act it out and everyone else followed their lead. I think Lucie had to jump on one foot.

Jarod

Christy's game. She won a binding machine I believe

This is Jacob's game but apparently I didn't actually take any pictures of him.

Laura's game.  She had to pick which food had a price listed from now or 2004.  I think she lost but won a laminator anyway.

This game there were four packs of cardboard robots that had to be put together.  They drew four names out of a hat to compete.  It was Jacob, Laron, Luke and Me!  I really wanted to beat the stinky boys.

Hard at work

Laron tried to cheat at first by putting his together wrong.  But cheaters never prosper and his fell apart.  He was never able to quite get it back together.

Jacob almost there

Luke

Laron

Jacob ultimately won.  I was almost done but my hands were shaking so bad I reached across the table for my last piece and like the bull that I am, knocked my robot over destroying it.

All the kids under sixteen took part in the punch it game.  Each hole has money in it anywhere from ten cents to ten dollars.  I heard a rumor that Grandpa Ross stayed up until a ridiculous hour of the morning finishing this awesome game board.

Sadie

Ellie

Xander.  I unfortunately don't have written down what everyone else won, but Xander totally won five dollars.  He was very excited to spend it ( he's like me and cash burns a hole in his pocket).

Tommy

Lucie

Jarod

Ammie

The adults got to play Plinko!!  That was my favorite game when we would watch the Price is Right growing up.  Grandpa Ross came through again with this awesome board!

Christy

Me. I totally won $17. Yay for gas that week.

 

Lyndsey

Cash is a girl's best friend!

 

Laura

It was a very fun day.  The games continued at Christy and Kim's house down the street for the rest of the day.  Unfortunately I guess I lost my taking pictures steam because I didn't take any more than this.  I will post about the Slapsgiving prize pack I won later, it's pretty much the most amazing thing I've ever seen.