Wild West Scavenger Hunt

For those of you who don't know, my husband and I love to send each other on scavenger hunts! He even sent me on one in order to propose, ending with him and the ring... SO CUTE! Anyways our latest adventure was a Wild West themed hunt. I thought I'd share with you guys in case any of you need inspiration to create your very own scavenger hunt.

1. I woke him up with the first clue: (p.s. Bad Man Dan is our villain that shows up time and again)

2. The next clue was hidden inside of a bucket full of sand and gold pieces. 

3. Once he found all of the gold and got the clue he was led to the driveway where the "Saloon" was set up.

4. In order for him to get his next clue he had to spit sunflower seeds into a "spittoon". This proved harder than I thought it would be and apparently made him really thirsty which I didn't think about either. If i were to do it again I'd use a bucket instead, something with a bigger opening. But since my hubby is a good sport he didn't give up, I just had him stop moving farther away from the thing and started handing him more than one piece of the clue at a time. He did awesome though!!! 

5. The next clue was two in one. On one side it had a picture leading to where the next clue would be, and on the other side it informed him to stop by the general store before heading out on his next quest. The general store was my favorite part because I could join in and be the clerk. He also had to decide what things he would NEED for the journey. He ended up having to return a few items because he ran out of money.

6. After the store he started to wake up and really get into it!! So he went into our room and changed into some "western" clothes! 

7. The picture then lead us to the paintball course below our house. With his pellet guns in hand riding his blue pool noodle horse he bought from the general store we made it to a train crossing sign. 

8. After jumping on the train he had to crack the safe. In the safe he found wanted posters and a letter from "bad man dan"

9. For his last challenge he had to go to the paintball course and find all of the "outlaws" and take them down. (We don't condone shooting people and if this would have been for our son we would have done something more along the lines of "bad man dan" let all the cattle loose and he had to now go wrangle them up)

10. Once he had found all the "outlaws" I handed him this last piece of paper...

All-in-all it was a great time!!! Can't wait for the next scavenger hunt! 

Gender Reveal Party

Well as many of you know we are expecting our first baby in August!!! Back in March we had a gender reveal party to tell our friends and family if it was a boy or girl. I had tons of fun coming up with the games and decorations... but it was SO hard not to let it slip which gender it was!! If you are expecting, I highly suggest doing a gender reveal party...

The theme was Rifles vs. Ruffles and the following clip arts are what i found on-line:

With these two guys I printed out one they could put their name on and add to a poster board to display their guess and a second one that I glued to a clothes pin so everyone could easily see which team they were on. (Don't have a picture unfortunately)

The Food!

My husband and I love throwing parties with LOTS of food choices.. So we had the following options:

Hot Dog vs. Hamburgers

Chocolate covered almonds (Nuts) vs. Chocolate covered raisins (No Nuts) 

Mini "Baby" Bell cheese Blue vs. Red

Bouncing Blue Punch vs. Pretty Pink Lemonade (with Ice Ice Baby)

Blue and Pink dinner mints

Chips and Guac.

And who knows what else!!

Oh and the cake... but we'll get to that later....

Games! 

I got most of my ideas from: this blog

Old Wives Tales-- For the first game I had everyone fill out an Old Wives Tales quiz the first three people to get 7 out of ten correct won a prize. The Prizes included Dad's Root Beer, Baby Bottle Pop, Dad's red cream Soda, and Sugar Babies.

Name Challenge-- Next we split up Rifles vs. Ruffles and came up with 10 baby names all starting with the letter H for Hurst. When we came back together the team got a point for each unique name that the other team did not have. 

Bottle Drinking contest--- This proved to be one of the best and most challenging games. I got two bottles (one pink one blue of course) and put in some milk.... I didn't fill it all the way because I didn't want to be there all night. The first to finish their bottle won. It was a very close match!!  

 Nursery Rhyme Scavenger Hunt-- Finally we went on a scavenger hunt. The winners got a HErSHEy's Bar. The clues were all made from Nursery Rhymes as follows:

1. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water. (led to the water spicket on the side of the house) 

2. Rock-a-bye baby on the tree tops. When the wind blows the cradle will rock. (led to our tree house outside)

3. Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, bakers man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can. Roll it up. Pat it up and Mark it with a “B”. Put it in the oven for baby and me. (the rack under the oven)

4. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. (the retaining wall near our driveway)

5.A-tisket a-tasket a green a yellow basket. I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it. (a green and yellow basket that had the rifles and ruffles name pins in them)

6. A tutor who tooted the flute, tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “Is it tougher to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?” (behind the toilet)

7.  Old Mother Goose, When she wanted to wander, would ride through the air on a very fine gander. Jack’s mother came in, And caught the goose soon, And mounting its back, flew up to the moon. (had to come to me to get their prize!! ) 

 

THE BIG REVEAL 

For the reveal I made a blueberry layered cake and died the inside blue. 

Everything turned out great and was tons of fun!!! Like I said earlier if you are expecting you should TOTALLY have a gender reveal party!!!