Unfortunately for me I did not have a good showing at the Miller Family Friday Night Olympic Celebration. The girls have been really enjoying watching the Olympics and so Jamie came up with the great idea to celebrate that this Family Friday Night. We started off eating dinner at the Mall of America Food Court where everyone was required to eat some sort of international cuisine. Jamie, Tori, and I went with Chinese and Isabelle did Italian (Macie had fries from McDonalds ;)). Following our dinner, the plan was to come home, paint the girls' faces with Red, White and Blue face paint and watch the Olympics while we ate an international dessert. Well, my first minor deduction came when I did not have my dessert ready, but I recovered quickly with a relatively easy seeming fried ice cream recipe. My second deduction came when I failed to get the facepaint, but I once again recovered nicely with a quick stop at Party City on the way home from the mall. My final deduction was a big one--and really the one that probably took me out of medal contention. I sort of stepped away from the stove where the oil was heating up to check something on my recipe and I sort of had the heat a little too high...so, I sort of almost burnt the house down. Thankfully, everyone is safe. We had to spend some time outside while the house desmoked. I did gain back some grounds in my overall performance mark because I did end up making the fried ice cream and it was yummy, but not quite enough to get me on the podium. So, the standings ended up as follows...

Jamie gets the Gold for his stellar idea for Family Friday Night.
The Girls get the Silver for excited participation and no complaining when they had to venture away from the usual McDonalds at M.O.A.
And Chuck gets the Bronze for turning off all the fire alarms and getting the girls outside while Jamie and I took care of the fire. Thanks Chuck!

I guess it is back to the training room for me. Oh well.