As most of you know Matt will be gone for the month of October doing training at NTC. What is NTC, you ask? NTC stands for National Training Camp, and it's in California. It's where soldiers go before they deploy. NO, Matt isn't deploying, but he's "support" for those who ARE deploying, which is why they are going.
We got there at 10 because it was a "mandatory event" (stupid, I know) so Matt couldn't be late to the 10:00 formation. I didn't realize that there was going to be water to play in, so my kids didn't have swimming suits. But that didn't stop them from playing in the water!
Here they are playing on the big water jumper:
They had tons of fun!
One of the other highlights of the day was when the face painter/balloon animal maker came!! When you hear "face painter" you think of the typical 'rainbow on the cheek' right? NOT THIS LADY! She was AMAZING!!!
Matthew
(tiger) 
Nathan
(white tiger)
Natalie
(butterfly)
McKenzie
Ryan
(vampire)
Random little girl
(princess) 
one of Kenzie's friends 
Isn't that just the coolest thing you've ever seen?
She has a website. Click here to see it
Here's how Matthew started out: 
a few little white smudges went from that...
to THIS:
And here's Natalie getting painted,
before: 
and AFTER! 
After she was done with all the kids, Matt didn't want her time to go to waste
so he sat down for a Barracuda (his Company's Mascot) tattoo!!
INKED!
Later we spotted two tigers "hunting for meat"!
HAHA!
And here we all are with our Balloon Hats!
(Sarah S., this face is for you!)
Towards the end, they had a tug-o-war contest.
Matt signed up for it, but ended up not having to do it.
Anything that he doesn't HAVE to do for his company, he won't to!
At the very end of the BBQ, they had a Pie In The Face fundraiser.
The rule was, whoever was called out to be pied, if they didn't wanna get pied, they could pay to get out of it. But the company could pool in money to get them pied too.
Here's the first pie in the face,
the mean ol' 1st Sergeant Beesley!
Then Jonado
he said "not the hair". BIG mistake!
Then Massa
and Nobles
Pruitt didn't even put up a fight!
This is Justin Smith...
he is my BFF Christa's husband.
(they gave her the honors of pieing him in the face)
I think she's enjoying herself!
next was Allen. They got her ponytail too!
This is Winbush.
Her DAUGHTER pied her in the face.
She tried to threaten her by taking away driving privileges,
and told her to pie the face, but NOT THE HAIR!
She didn't want to go to the hairdresser the next day.
Her daughter didn't listen...
Last up was Rix.
She got pied by her husband.
I guess they ended up making over $600 on it (get me a bucket!)
Here's the final formation before they were all released to go home.
After the BBQ, we invited the Smith's over to our house for a little backyard BBQ with my new little fire pit!
We had S'mores and hot dogs!
It was a nice relaxing end to a chaotic day!
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