Company Picnic - Family Fun

Well, this last weekend we had our annual company picnic again. Once again I think it went pretty well. We have 6 employees in Kennewick and 3 in Yakima. Yet we had over 20 adults and more than 25 kids attend.

Besides family and friends, each employee brought a side dish and the company provided hot dogs, hamburgers, and bratwurst. There is always plenty of food.

After everyone was done eating we had games. Bingo was available for the adults - we had 10 nice prizes available for the winners. The kids, though, had the most fun! Besides the organized games, we had some things out that they all could play with during the afternoon. The biggest hit was the marshmallow guns. This year we used bulk cocoa puff cereal instead of marshmallows. They are not near as messy!

The organized games were also a hoot. First we filled a couple of buckets with ice water that was keeping the pop and watermelon cold. Then we had two teams that raced to fill a smaller bucket that was held over the head of a team member using a large sponge. It is fun to watch as the kids squeeze the freezing cold water over the head of the other kids.

After playing about 5 rounds of the ice-water relay we then had a ‘frozen t-shirt’ contest. Earlier my wife had twisted and knotted 4 t-shirts into small balls which were then soaked in water and frozen. 4 teams of about 4 or 5 kids each were given one of these frozen t-shirts and their job was to get one of their team mates into the t-shirt. What a hoot. The kids worked hard at opening up the t-shirt by all means possible. They pulled, they yanked, they whacked it on the concrete - and oh, was it cold when they finally pulled it over the head of one of their team members!

We finished up with a watermelon eating contest. We had about 8-10 kids in two age groups compete in eating a large slab of watermelon. The kids look forward to this each year, as do the watching adults.

Finally as each of the kids left we gave them a gift bag. Have you ever tried to shop for 30 kids? We shopped at quite a few stores but it is quite a thing to spend $120 dollars at the dollar store!

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