Of course we once again had the family golf tournament. This year the tournament morphed from a strict couples scramble into a mixed 4-person scramble. We implemented the matching outfits rules a few years back, but this year was really something to see. We chose a Hawaiian theme for the whole tournament, then each 4-person team had a different take on the theme. The challenge was finding coordinating/matching outfits for all team members, since no actual couples were on the same team (which meant shopping for the outfits became more challenging). Although I think the final product was quite....um....colorful. The golf course was so impressed with our outfits that they sent an employee out to take all of our pictures for their website.

As usual, there was lots of swimming in the pool and lake. Although there was a bit of an E coli outbreak at the Lake, which closed down all of the public beaches for a while before we got there, so I did my best to stay out of the lake and in the nice chlorinated pool.

We had a friendly, family competition of Rock Band one evening. Needless to say, some of the younger members of the family, namely Collin and Abby, showed up us "older" rockers. Our video game playing skills are not what they used to be, but boy, can those guys rock!


Ellie enjoyed the fishing with Papa and Daddy. She caught about ten fish during this outing. She was literally reeling in a fish on each cast.



And here is a lovely picture of the doofus brothers, i.e., Jason and Bryan. They were forced to make a trip to Wal-Mart on the first night we were in town, so they decided they needed to dress the part to fit in....When in Rome.