Family Olympics

Some fantastic friends of ours, the Ortons, hosted a family Olympics before the Summer Olympics officially got underway. What a fun idea. We picked a country to represent and showed up ready to go for the gold. We decided on Brazil as our country.

Olympic theme: Daaaa daaaaa daa daa daa daa daa daa da da da dadadadada dadadadadaaaaaaaaaaa.

Here we are in our Brazilian flag colors, ready to compete.

We started with the opening ceremony and parade of nations. How fun! We waved our flags proudly.

 It's obvious that I'm usually a dud when it comes to remembering to bring a camera, so we were happy that Erin was nice enough to take so many and share them.
This was Tessa during the gymnastics portion of the games:

 She's just not afraid to be showcased.

 You can see the hurdles from the previous game in the background. I loved seeing how each kid decided to tackle those. Tessa chose an X jump over each one, but we saw over, under, around, and through from the different young "athletes". We also took part in target shooting (with a squirt gun and paper cups), the long jump, and javelin tossing. Tossing? Throwing? What do you do with a javelin?

 This is my favorite move:

 Such agility. Such grace.

We had to take off early for something, so Erin got Tessa a medal and took her picture by the flames. Tessa insisted that she won the gold medal for being the best "gymnasticker". That easily became my favorite word of the day.
We knew very few people there at the party, but I love that we didn't need to. When you get a bunch of nice families together, it's hard to go wrong. Erin and Christian had Olympic themed/styled foods to munch when we took a break, and really provided a lovely morning on a hot day to get us excited for the upcoming games.