Grandpa Frost's 65th Birthday

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Joe's family came to visit a couple of weekends ago. It was Grandpa Frost's 65th birthday, so Austin thought it would be fun to have everyone gather together to celebrate with him.

So, Grandpa and Grandma Lucy, Jonathon, Kayti and Jayne all came to visit. No one brought their kids, so it was a little less hectic. The first day, we went up to our land where Joe made the zipline and Austin grilled us yummy steaks.

Kayti, Jon and Austin also tried out Joe's moped.

We also had a cake for Grandpa. All the "Frost" grandkids.

Sunday everyone was exhausted so we caught them all sleeping.

This is the distance shot, Jayne is asleep under the blanket, Grandpa on the couch, Joe on the other couch and Austin in the recliner. After I took this picture I went in and curled up and took a short nap...

Later on, there was some heavy duty jiu-jitsu wrestling...something we are fairly used with Joe and Austin.

We also had the Survivor food challenge. Joe, Kayti, Jayne and Dad all went fishing one morning too. It was great to see everyone, and spend some time with them.

Just for fun, here are some pictures of Nate and William and Ellie and Lily. They all play really well together, Nate and William especially. They have been having a play date one day a week this year as Koni and I would trade babysitting, and it has worked out really well, especially to give them a chance to be friends.

Survivor Food Challenge, Frost Version

Joe's family was in town last weekend. They are all Survivor fans, so they created a game to play while they watched the Season Finale- a food challenge. They went to the store and bought a lot of disgusting foods. There were rounds, and everyone that was playing had to try to eat a portion of the disgusting food during the round. If you ate it and it stayed down, you won that round and could go on to the next round. If you couldn't finish the food or threw it up, you were out.

We even had the kids play. They had to eat all the same foods, just a smaller portion. We started it easy with lemon juice and then butter beans.
Some of the other early ones were Libby's sausages, and baby food peas.

Then it started to get a little tricky, we had to eat a pretty large piece of uncooked, unflavored, cold tofu. This knocked out most of the kids- including Austin's girls, who both threw up...

Like father, like daughter, I guess.

I was doing okay, but then I saw the chunks of regurgitated Vienna sausages on the floor and I lost it, luckily before I had gotten too far into the chunk of tofu.

Kayti is demonstrating one of the more effective techniques to get it down.

We also had canned oysters. Then there was the classic-liver pate...Nate wanted more.

His sentiment was not shared by all.

One of the next ones everyone had to eat was a handful of Wasabi peas. This proved more challenging than initially determined....

Keep it down, keep it down.

We also had salmon sushi.... Adam really had a hard time with that one.

By the end it was just the true Frosts...and Adam.

Near the end, everyone got to eat a large spoonful of potted meat....

That knocked most of the rest of the contestants out.

The final challenge was dog jerky, made out of duck. Kayti and Adam were the only ones who did them all. They were very proud.

A few minutes later, Kayti was off in the bathroom emptying her stomach. I asked Adam if his stomach hurt, and he said no. He even said the same thing the next day.

Afterwards, we looked in the sink and we saw some nasty stuff.....

I really can't believe my 9-year old won!

Zipline!

Joe made a zipline for our property. It's really long, over 110 feet.
The kids had a blast riding it.

Well, except Ellie, she was a little scared of the whole thing.

Not Nate though, he rode the whole thing the first time laughing as he went.

As soon as he was done he would run back to the top and beg for more.

I even went down once.

It was fun, but there is currently a big burn pile in the middle of its path that if you are an adult you have to lift your legs real high to avoid....luckily I avoided it.

Now we just need to build a full platform so it is easier to hook onto.

Ellie's Dance Recital

Ellie had her year-end dance recital last Friday.
She danced to two songs- the first one was Chapel of Love, so they all got to wear bridal veils in their hair.

She really enjoys dance and has been coming home and showing me her dance moves!

The second song was a tap routine, the stage was carpeted, so we didn't get to enjoy the taps, but it still was really cute.

Ellie and her friend, Sydney....she had 3 good friends in her dance class.