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Start your own TAR tradition. Your kids are gonna love it

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kadilahopper:
More photos.

kadilahopper:
Last three photos;  Drivers,  drivers and racers, and 2010 family race photo.

georgiapeach:
I LOVE your sons! What great sports and they even look good in diapers. :lol3:

kadilahopper:
Thanks Peach. They are good boys or I really should say men.  I love the fact that they are so very close as brothers.  After our 2009 race they all went out and had the chinese symbol for brother tattooed on each of them.  Just as TAR is about relationships, so is our race.   They have already been at me for months for a hint as to what this years race will be.  They will definitely need their noggin this year.  No dressing up.  Just alot of physical and mental challenges.  Our local station will be covering it this year.  It will be a blast!

kadilahopper:
As a footnote to those of you who might like this idea but don't want to go beyond your house or neighborhood, our first 4 years were at home. Mostly due to weather.

1st year:  I hid "gifts" throughout the house;  I wrote clues in envelopes to direct them to the hiding place.
                (This was fun, but it was like letting a herd of cattle stampede through the house)
2nd year: Each son had a chalk board and chalk from the dollar tree.
                I had wrote specific sentences describing a relative and they had to write down who they thought
                 the relative was.  The first person to get 20 right won.
3rd year:  I separated a manger scene and hid the pieces throughout the neighborhood.
                 I gave cryptic clues to their location.  When all pieces were found each son got to choose an
                 envelope which contained a scrambled sentence.  When each son had unscrambled their sentence
                 they had to "cross the finish line" and read their statement in the correct order to win their prize.
4th year:  I blew up about 200 balloons and let them float in my living room.  Each one had either a letter or
                 a "better luck next time" in them.   If they answered a question right they got to pop a balloon. 
                 When they had all the letters needed to solve the puzzle then they had to put the letters in the
                  right order.  Who ever solved the puzzle first was the winner.
So you see, it can be simple and you can start while your kids are young and create a wonderful Christmas tradition for them.  Think about it. :<)

 

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