No Ordinary Family Night

We were having a hard time scheduling Family Night this week. Lots going on. We planned it for Monday, but life got in the way and we didn't get started early enough. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights already had plans, so it looked like Tuesday was our only option unless we wanted to wait until next week....which will be even busier.

Tuesday, however, was the long-awaited and much-anticipated premier of the new series, No Ordinary Family. (Which, in 20-20 hindsight, turned out to be not such a wholesome, family friendly event. ahem. Live and learn.) Some in our family had been waiting weeks for this premier and couldn't bear the thought of missing it. Hmmm, what to do?

No Ordinary Family?

or Family Night?

No Ordinary Family?

Family Night?

HEY....

And so was born....No Ordinary Family Night.

No craft. No themed dinner. No decorations. No scavenger hunt (gasp!). Instead, we each took turns showing off our super powers (did you watch the show?), and challenging the others to try it. :) Then we watched the premier. Not fancy, but fun and laugh-filled. At the end of the night Jacob said, "That's it? That's all we're doing? This isn't like our other family nights."

Nope. It was definitely No Ordinary Family Night.

Daddy started off the Feats of Strength with one-armed pushups.



We all aced that one (ha), so he upped the ante with one-eyebrow pushups.



Pretty clear Mom came in last on that one.

Next it was Kloe's turn, with her death-defying hula-hoop stunt.




Apparently I can't hula-hoop either. Mom's not doing so well.

And, um, Daddy's "jump roping your own leg" feat? We're not even going there.



This was Jacob when it was his turn to challenge the family....



So we gave another turn to Daddy, who is a semi-expert juggler.


(it looks like Kloe has a ball stuck in her teeth)

And for my turn? Oh...um...well...ah...since I seem to have no recognizable talents that we've been able to identify (I can 10-key with the best of 'em, but you know, that's not cool), I chose to do the only thing I could think of that my family might not be able to copy - a flashback to my sorority girl days - saying the Greek alphabet before a lit match burned my fingers. Yep, I won that one. Since no one else in the family is allowed to play with matches, and all.



Oooooo, I'm good. :)



We topped off the evening with No Ordinary Brownies. Actually they were very ordinary. From a box. But still extraordinarily yummy. :)