Evenings in our house always involve some sort of excitement. For those of you who don't know a lot about where we live... there is a Joe's Place link on the right side of this page.

We have room for 4 high school boys to live in this house. We started out the school year with 4... but 2 have recently moved out. That means that our two remaining guys each have their own bedroom and bathroom. The spots probably won't be filled for a couple months... but the guys already want to know who is going to have to share their room first. Steven says that Seth has had his own room longer and Seth says that since he was our first guy to move in that he has paved the way for others... meaning that he deserves to keep his own room. We decided to settle the issue last night.

We started with a 3 part Mario Cart challenge. I picked the characters, cars, and races. Seth won that round. Next up was a Football video game which Steven won by two points. We had decided earlier in the night at dinner that I would choose the remaining challenge to settle the score. I decided on a time trial that started with push ups on the main floor, a race to the basement for a different exercise, back up to the kitchen for jumping jacks and then ending with flushing the toilet. My good friend Amanda is staying with me while Dan is gone. She monitored the basement while I monitored the main floor. I think you'll be able to tell by the series of pictures who gets to keep their room.