Summer Swim Party

Call us crazy but we decided to invite a huge chunk of the neighborhood kids over for a summer swim party this last weekend.  We invited close to 25 and had 16 show up. It was crazy screaming fun that left all the kids with a great feeling and the adults with splitting headaches. 

The kids set up their wading pool, slip n slide, and sprinkler. Plus there were water squirters and spray bottles and water balloons. 

We tried to organize some games and some of them went really well. We did a water balloon pop which the kids thought was hilarious and thought was also ridiculously hard.

Then we tried to do a duck grab but that didn't work very well so the organized fun again devolved into chaos fun with more water fights/battles occurring. 

I am not quite sure what the teams were as alliances were changed faster than episode of Survivor that I've ever seen. (full disclosure, that was only like two seasons)

By the end the kids had a great time and made some new friends. They also decided that this was the best thing ever.

Of course then my kids had to stop and pick up all the water balloon pieces then it wasn't the best thing that we've ever done.