Tay loves to throw a good party- especially a party with a theme. We missed the chance to throw a few parties this year, but for a while, Taylor has been stewing on this idea. And it came together better than we could have expected.

Rosie was all on board with it too. She is totally like her mom and into a theme party, and helped out my making several decorations, including the ribbons for the ribbon dancing.

Ribbon dancing? Oh yes. But more on that in a second.

We wanted to throw an Olympic party, with some Olympic Games, but which games could we do? Some of the things we tossed around were:

• Three legged race: Nah.
• Sack race? Nah.
• Foot race? Tell me more…
• Egg toss? Absolutely
• Basketball? Possibly
• Human ring toss? Yes!

But we need one more: we have throwing, running, but what is that one more element that could tie everything together?

Rhythmic Gymnastics is the official term. Will Ferrel made this famous in the movie Old School.

But we made it famous in Starmount forest. Tay, this was a brilliant event for the end of the evening. But before we got to ribbon dancing there was:

Egg Toss.

When was the last time you threw an egg?

Foot Race.

A 100-meter-ish kind of race. With a bunch of grown-ass men (and women!) running as fast as they could down our very un-busy street.

And a great slow-motion view of Max crushing the kids competition:

Human Ring Toss

We arent done with those pool noodles yet.

Basketball.

Hey batter batter.

Rhythmic Gymnastics.

I just want to say, there were no nay-sayers in the crowd. When Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker began playing, everyone knew exactly what to do.

We keep good company to have a group of friends, including Margarat’s brother Matt who didn’t know us well, participate in such a silly, silly thing.

In case you didn’t get enough, here is a view from what the Ring camera saw of the madness:

The points were tallied, and Chad Lynam got gold.

The food was fantastic, thank you everyone for contributing. After all of the mayhem, we settled in and got to watch a good amount of the actual opening ceremony in Paris.

Here are some other great pictures from the night: