homemade croquet

I have lots of other pictures to post, but I just don't have the stamina for that kind of blogging tonight. I have a sick toddler who has thrown up a dozen times (and has had at least that many runny diapers) in the past 24 hours. I've spent my day cleaning carpets, washing bedding and giving cool baths to a really warm baby. Luckily his temperature was down to 101 before he went to sleep tonight. Anyway--

Family Home Evening wasn't very exciting... until we came up with our own version of indoor/homemade croquet. We made a course out of butter knives, each decorated our own tennis balls with markers and used spoons as mallets. It was a huge hit!

(yes, my ball has red hearts all over it. Someone needs to represent the girls in this house.)

Simon wasn't a good sport. For starters, he wasn't feeling well.... he just ruined the course and kept throwing our balls-- so he had to go to bed without any dessert (which was a good thing because he would have chucked it up later anyway.)