Scavenger Hunt

Every couple of months Kyle's Aunt Pam has a party. She always does a scavenger hunt and has awesome prizes. We always come in last. We include the girls and doing so gives us the slowest time, not to mention all the easiest hidden objects are gone. The last few times have meant tears. We have always taught our girls that they can't win every time. Ashley has learned this very well and gives Kaitlyn her "turn" to win. Well, with the tears has come the question of "when is it our turn to win". We have been kind of stumped at this. I guess I should mention that I think they would be fine with coming in last if they could get some of the prizes they like. Anyway, we have actually avoided the festivities and prizes the last couple of times. We just feel terrible when they get so discouraged. I won't even go into the Easter egg fiasco they were so excited for. This time is different. We have been gathering our firewood over the last few weeks and making landscaping plans. Well, when Pam put out her prefestivities points list we got excited. We think we might actually have a shot this time. There are quite a few extra points on the list that we can do. One of which is tree planting. We can acquire 1500 points for planting 30 trees. We did it. We planted 30 quaken aspen trees. We were planning on doing this sometime this fall, we just did it early. Ashley was such a big help. We went up and got firewood and our new trees last Monday. The girls have been planting bulbs- on their own. We have been sending in extra recipes for Pam's recipe blog. And a few other things. As of now our total come to 2075 extra points, and we still have the scavenger hunt to go. The girls are very excited and we are hoping that is enough to put us at first. I am waiting until tonight to post this, it should post during the party. That way we can keep our extra points a secret. I am also posting pictures of our new trees for proof. Our camera battery died before we got them all planted, but you can see the process. Cross your fingers for us.

Ashley's pictures

Kaitlyn's pictures

***Update. We went to the party and had a ton of fun. Thanks to the weather we all got to play in the mud. Kami was actually rolling in it at one point! The girls were a big help on the scavenger hunt and almost made it completely through. We didn't quite have enough points to win though. We came in third. The girls ended up with some cute prizes- no tears. Kami latched onto a stuffed NOISY cat that I think anybody would have had to wrestle away if they wanted it. We had a good time and gave our best honest effort.