The ball is hit over harder than expected, but my cousin pops the ball up enough so I can get to it in time. I set up a perfect hit, the ball moves so fast to the Earth nobody can reach it, as the it hits the Earth we all cheer and jump for joy for it is us who has the upper hand in this match. Leading up to this event of sweat, determination and fun is the Latterell Olympics, a crazy invention made by yours truly the Latterell family, the Olympics are not necessarily testing your strength, but more about agility and the will to win the big prize. The first event we do is the easiest one, the cookie sliding down your face into your mouth. In every Olympic event you have to have a partner I choose Deanna because she is very athletic and this
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We pick up every can and set them on top of the board and without hesitation we start shooting the cans, Deanna hands me one mini marshmallow after the other we get one can down, I look over to see that my cousins already have two cans and only one to go, this gets me anxious, eager to win I shoot down another can, only one more to go. I hear a shout of joy, my cousins got their third and final can shot down. One after another people raise their hand and claim the place we should have gotten, but I can’t shoot this can down. Deanna decides that she should give it a try, so she rips the gun out of my hand shoves five or six marshmallows into the gun and blows as hard as she can, the mallows fly out in every direction, and unbelievably one of them hits the can, and it falls. Our team got fourth that round, not bad considering everyone in my family plays with nerf guns still. The next event is the last, it’s called the watermelon challenge my Aunt explains the rules again and we get into groups of four my group is Deanna, Shelby, Chelsey, and I. We have to put rubber-bands around this average sized watermelon until it pops. Everyone is so excited it start, first to go is my group, we pick out the biggest, thickest rubber-bands there is I stretch them out a little so it’s easier to put them on the watermelon, and as I stretch them one springs loose from my hand and hits the other hard. I release the three other bands and let them hit the ground I scream out in pain, and everyone wonders what is wrong with me, I cling to my hand like it’s about to fall off, but that doesn’t
We pick up every can and set them on top of the board and without hesitation we start shooting the cans, Deanna hands me one mini marshmallow after the other we get one can down, I look over to see that my cousins already have two cans and only one to go, this gets me anxious, eager to win I shoot down another can, only one more to go. I hear a shout of joy, my cousins got their third and final can shot down. One after another people raise their hand and claim the place we should have gotten, but I can’t shoot this can down. Deanna decides that she should give it a try, so she rips the gun out of my hand shoves five or six marshmallows into the gun and blows as hard as she can, the mallows fly out in every direction, and unbelievably one of them hits the can, and it falls. Our team got fourth that round, not bad considering everyone in my family plays with nerf guns still. The next event is the last, it’s called the watermelon challenge my Aunt explains the rules again and we get into groups of four my group is Deanna, Shelby, Chelsey, and I. We have to put rubber-bands around this average sized watermelon until it pops. Everyone is so excited it start, first to go is my group, we pick out the biggest, thickest rubber-bands there is I stretch them out a little so it’s easier to put them on the watermelon, and as I stretch them one springs loose from my hand and hits the other hard. I release the three other bands and let them hit the ground I scream out in pain, and everyone wonders what is wrong with me, I cling to my hand like it’s about to fall off, but that doesn’t