Sawyer Memorial Day Bash 2005

After painting the house for two weeks, praying that my weed control company can get my yard to look better, building a playset and preparing the house for guests the Memorial Day Bash went off without a hitch. This year was the first in a couple of years that we did not put flyers out or advertised the party. We decided to let word of mouth and reputation fill the yard with guests. It worked!!!

We invited the Young Families, Young Marrieds, and Newlyweds classes from our church. In addition we invited the ministers and their families. The Newlyweds and ministers no showed. Good thing too. If David Duncan had shown we would've run out of food. Plus if Randy Roper attended he would've been embarrassed at the volleyball court by yours truly...but I digress...

Before I release the stats I would like to thank Sgt. Will Harris and his family for attending the Bash. For those of you who did not attend, Will returned from Iraq in March and shared his thoughts on Memorial Day. It was quite moving. I also want to thank all of you who brought food and made the party GREAT!!! Special thanks to "WHAT UP GEE!!!" Chris Gee for cutting the front lawn for me.

HERE COME THE STATS!!!

Total Number Attended - 88
Number of Kids/Adults - 36/52
Number of Burgers/Chicken Cooked - 100
Number of Hot Dogs Cooked - 50
Number of bloody lips - 1 (Josh Foster hit Ty with a left jab)
Broke the most croquet mallets or BIG Marthas - Kyle Mauck
Pairs of shoes thrown away - 1
Amount my homeowners insurance premiums will increase next year - $1800
Number of "accidents" by Cheryl Kumor - 43
Amount my insurance will pay to Cheryl Kumor for her "accidents" - $0.32
Number of chocolate desserts present - 0 (What's wrong with you people?)
Number of Horseshoe games Tom won - 1
Number of Horseshow losses by Tim Breninger to Tom - 1 :)
Hours spent practicing volleyball by the Hamlins - 10 hours a week since last Memorial Day
Number of volleyball highlights by the Hamlins - 12
Welcome Back to the Court - Audrey Mauck (She let Kyle have it a couple of times)
Number of excuses Chris Gee gave during volleyball - 129
Number of positions played by David Romero during any rally - All
Number of couples that signed up to bring something and no showed, no called - Ferguson and Hollingsworth
Number of bad volleyball plays by Tim J. Priebe - 116
Number of good volleyball plays by Tim J. Priebe - 3 (Getting better Tim J.!!!)
Number of thanks from the Sawyers to all of you who attended - A million

See you next year!!!



*The opinions expressed in this blog are soley that of Tom Sawyer. Any duplication, public viewing, meditation, remediation, re-broadcast is against the law you bad, bad person.

Raiden Sees EPIII

Friday for my birthday, I took Raiden to see Star Wars Episode III. Needless to say he was so excited he could barely stand it. We arrived at the theater 50 minutes before the movie started and we were the first to sit. We played games on my cell phone, which Raiden creamed me in one game in particular, and we waited...waited....waited...until...

The music started for Star Wars to begin and Raiden started JUMPING in his seat. It was hilarious. 2 hours and 26 minutes later Raiden stood up and said, "That was sweet." Then on the way home we discussed our favorite funny moments and favorite action scenes.

It was great!