Day 32

Hey all!  So, today marks the start of our VACATION JOURNAL (number 120) woohoo!  So, I'm starting off, since I went to my cousin's (basically, our mom's were best friends growing up) wedding (all the way up in PA) and from there we drove about an hour farther to stay with an aunt and uncle.  It was really great to see them again, and we had a nice few days relaxing and catching up. 

The wedding =D

Aunt, Uncle, and brother!

Not too much exciting happened there, but it was still fun.  My brother, dad, and uncle had lots of fun playing pool together, while, my mom, my aunt, and myself enjoyed hot tub-ing.  Also, apparently my uncle and I have a "who has the worst tshirt" contest going on (or so my mom says).  So, some background, I found a shirt for him that says "I swear to drunk I'm not God" that we got for him for Christmas one year.  We didn't notice until we got home that the back says "I got river faced on shit street."  Oops.  Haha!  So, we have a picture of us together, and then, when we went up to visit, you can see, my shirt says "Ever Damn Day."  Anyways, this is kind of a short post, since it's not the actualy journal and I guess the guys will add on to today's entry when they go on vacation.  Maybe it'll get them to write again :).  Hope you all are having a great summer, tune in soon, the plan is to hopefully have done the numbers we agreed to do individually!

-Em

21 down, 129(ish) more to go!

Day 31

Hey everyone!

We're trying to be better about not having huge gaps in between what we do, so here are a couple of online activities for today, some that didn't get knocked out on our online day.  So, here goes number 132. Become a tattoo artist.  Honestly, I wasn't really a big fan of this game.  I thought it was actually kind of creepy.  I mean, it's a neat idea, because it's a very different game, but I was definitely creeped out.  You have to tattoo designs on people, staying in the lines and there's a pain meter for your customer.  The other online number for today is number 145. Spin a drawing.  This was basically awesome.  You draw lines and when you spin them it rotates your lines so you can see what it would look like in 3D.  I had tons of fun with this one and would highly recommend it.  Hope you guys are all also having an adventurous summer!

-Em

20 down, 130(ish) more to go!

Day 28

Oh hey guys.  Bet you thought we forgot all about this.  Well, lucky, or maybe unlucky, for you, we didn't.  Between three of us working and traveling things have been a little crazy.  Plus, with so many of the items on the list requiring outside supplies, we figured we should shop for lots of materials first.  So, we've gone on a couple shopping excursions and gathered most of the supplies we'll need.  And, for those of you counting, I know today isn't actually Day 28, Day 28 was actually two days ago, but this is the first I've been able to post, and, it would seem the guys haven't gotten a chance to post either..."forgotten" I suppose.  Just kidding.  HOPEFULLY they'll post asap :).  Anyways, back to Day 28: Fourth of July cookout, on the Fifth.  Yeah, I know, we're pretty cool.  So, we really wanted to knock several items off the list because we hadn't done anything in a while, so let's start with the big one, 89. Not keen on all the traveling? Have a potluck instead.  Well, we didn't have an actually potluck, deciding that a cookout is close enough.  Everyone came over to my house, including some other friends as well.  We cooked hot dogs on the fire and did number 27. Microwave s'mores. Or peanut butter s'mores.  We actually didn't micromave them.  Since we had a fire we just roasted marshmellows on the fire!!  Delicious :)  Before all the eating of food though, we did number 13. Get some friends together and play blindman's bluff.  This was pretty fun to start with, but after a couple rounds we were ready for something else.  It did make for some hilarious pictures. 

This would be laying on the ground to try and avoid being tagged

So, this is sideways, but it's my brother, trying to hide in a tree

If you look closely, you'll see someone behind Zach, trying to use him for a shield

  We wrapped up of evening of doing things from the list with number 79. Build edible cookie houses with cookie wafers, candy and frosting. Customize them for upcoming holidays. Christmas has gingerbread houses, so why shouldn't Labor Day or Thanksgiving have houses too?  We made a lovely 4th of July house.  It actually turned out pretty epic, but all of us icing and sticking cookies together at once made for a huge mess!  The guys insisted trying to make a guy with a machine gun to put in house and when I tried to stop it, their response was "How do you think we got our independence?"  Touche guys, touche.  Not that a Twizzler is much of a machine gun...

All of us, with our creation

Close up of the final product.  Note our flag.  And our festive icing.

What was left, after we ate it

To end the evening, we brought back telephone pictionary, because it's so fun and because we couldn't wait to see how it would get distorted this time, with four more people playing!  Let me tell you, nine people playing telephone pictionary makes for some pretty funny interpretations.  Anyways, hopefully we'll be getting together soon to do some more stuff, bye for now!!
-Em

18 down, 132(ish) more to go!