Cook Day!!

I have been having the best few days lately.  For years now we have had some friends that come over twice a year and for about two days the moms cook and freeze meals while all of the children play.  That is called Cook Day.  The moms cook and freeze, on average, about 100 meals.  They then divide them up so that when they do not feel like cooking they can just pop out a bag of frozen chicken spaghetti, jambalaya, bar-b-que, etc......  We have sooo much fun!!  The older kids stay up until about 2:30 to 5:00  every night.  We play cards, watch movies, play board games, and most of all laugh!  They are Joseph's family, the guy that I rode Wild Fire with.  They have a large family like we do.  There is the mom and dad, then going from oldest to yongest children there is: Caleb, Jared, Joseph, Matthew, and Abby.  Caleb is about Hattie's age, Jared is about Hank's age, Joseph is about my age, and Matthew is about Harris's age.  Is that not weird?  We all have a LOT of fun playing together and we can not stand it when Cook Day is over.  We always do the most random and crazy things!!  We once went " pasture surfing".  That means that you take an atv and attach a snow sled to it and pull people around at a high rate of speed and try to get each-other knocked off.  We all came out from that moaning and groaning.  Our moms don't let us do that anymore!  Although we did have a bunch of fun.  This time Hank and Jared took their wooden swords and decided to do a choreographed sword fight.  The wooden swords that they used were home-made.  Jared, Hank, and Joseph made Jared's sword and Hank and I made Hank's.  They only practiced for about thirty minutes and took 21 takes before they finally got the desired shot.  Joseph was the camera man.  Me, Harris, Matthew, and Abby were the crowd.  We had a great time.  Here is the finished result.

Hank is the one in the black shirt and Jared is the one in the white shirt.  I will post more videos later but it seems that our internet is rather slow right now.