How do you spend time during a hurricane?

By running and playing in the gutter of course!  There was no thunder, no lightening and the girls wanted to play outside.  Why not?  I want them running and and playing in the puddles.  When they laid down in the gutter full of rain water I was a bit concerned because it was gross, but I didn't stop them.  Nothing says youth like playing in the rain. 

Very proud of their wet clothes.  You can see that Abby is contantly talking.  Nothing new here.

Harper is in full run.  I think she saw one of the cats.

Sparkles

Abby let me know the other day that her name is Sparkles.  Sometimes she goes by Sparkles Abby (Abby is her middle name) and sometimes it is just Sparkles. 

It's cool.  It could be worse.

Cornhole with the Perrymans

Ah, it is summer!  I love summer.  We are enjoying every bit of the warm (okay, super hot) weather.  One of the constant activities for the summer is cornhole.  We play with our neighbors in the back yard and have a great time.  Here we are one random Saturday night.  Please note the baby on the cornhole board.

Harper has the best seat in the yard.  Abby is posing.

At the other end of the yard is the other half of the teams.  Please note that Matt is my partner in this game.  Usually, he ops for Kevin as his Cornhole partner.  Kevin is really good.  Matt is too.  I am...well...getting better. I have had one or two great games but mostly I throw all over the place.  It might be because of the distracting children.  Please note there are no distracting children on Matt's side. 

Matt's boards are the ones with the Carolina Tar Heel on it.

So why do we have custom boards?  

Because it is really fun.  Even I like it and I don't like most games.  I have played in the street on days when the ground is too wet to play in the grass.  I have played past my bed time.  I have let my kids stay up past bed time so that we can play one more game.


So where are the children during all of these events? 
Usually we serve them dinner and let them run around the house and yard to burn off energy.  They have a great time and entertain themselves until they fall into bed exhausted.  Really, a win win situation.

So how serious are we about this game?

We are so serious we have played in corn hole tournament.  My partner and I did...um...just okay in the tournament.  Matt and his partner Kevin did great.  They came in second place and I was so proud.  This was not Matt's first tournament. 
 

An amazing team.

And here is me in the game!

So come over any time, let's drag the boards into the street (not actually drag, because Matt would have a heart attack if someone moved his boards improperly) and throw some cornhole!