Turkey Bowl

Every year on Thanksgiving morning my parents' ward/stake hosts a Turkey Bowl at the middle school I attended (it's still really weird going back there with my own kids). We showed up late and had no desire to join in the tackle-football game going on in the field. 

So we held our own turkey bowl!

Getting warmed up

Catherine's all ready with her ball

Seth was all ready, too.

Until, that is, he spotted the playground. 

Luckily Aunt Kenna wimped out in the middle of our game of SPUD and took the kids to play.

Pregnancy, schmengnancy--you just didn't want to lose, did you, Kenna?  ;)

Nanny Kenna with her mini-me.

No one believes Catherine is mine when Kenna is around.

Happy boy on the playground.

Those of us who weren't pregnant/wimpy played a lovely game of SPUD.

I may or may not have been the first one out.

Jon and Dad had a long battle to the death to determine the winner (Jon).

Then it was time for Ultimate!

We did a genius job dividing up the teams:

Marah, Dad & Jon (who were exhausted from SPUD)

vs.

Megan, Stephen & Brian

Guess who won?

(Many thanks to Brian and Stephen for making me look better than I really am)

Mom: "Turn around, everyone!"

Brian: "Okay everyone, turn around!"

Check:

Mom: "Very funny, Brian."

Then it was on to what will surely become a new family tradition:

The Mikesell Family Pull-up Competition!!!

First up, Team Koford!

Round 1:

 Marah's Score: 0

Round 2:

Stephen's Score: 16

Team Weirich!

Round 1:

Kenna's Score: 0

Round 2: 

Brian's score: 20+ (I stopped counting because he killed us all)

Team Blood!

Round 1:

[insert picture of being awesome here]

Megan's Score: 0

Round 2:

[insert picture of Jon being really, really lame here]

Jon's Score: 0

Round 3: 

Catherine's Score: 2

Round 4: 

Seth's Score: 1, but his score was reduced because of excessive whining

Adjusted Score: 0

Clearly, we Mikesell girls are capable of amazing feats of strength.

Those boys we married sure are lucky.