The Lawn Olympics Gods would like to thank everyone who attended LO'01 for bringing your great competitive spirit and your appreciation for homegrown fun. Thank you, also, for donating generously to the cause; without the community piggy bank, LO would not be possible. But mostly, thank you for bringing people with you - your cousin, your neighbor, that guy you know from out of town who would just love to take part in something like this!

LO gets larger and more diverse every year, a fact that drives us to put it together again and again, every year being a little bit better than the year before. It would be inappropriate for us not to thank a few individuals for the additional help they gave us in an effort to help us pull this thing off this year. For starters, you may have noticed that there was an addition to LO'01 this year, something we like to call "the arcade." The arcade was comprised of three games: Ping Pong, Foosball and Grunt, all three of which were borrowed from willing lenders.

The LO committee, having done this thing a couple of times and better appreciating the words "recruit" and "delegate," were able to gain the help of two key players early on. We needed trophies for the awards ceremony, but none of us had the time or the creative ability to create them the way we had envisioned. We also needed something for Lawn Olympics After Dark, something that would bring everyone together at the end of the day - a central location, a meeting place, of sorts. We needed a Beer Pong table. Lucky for us, we needed only to go to one house for both our needs.

Every year it happens. Regardless of how organized the committee is in the days leading up to LO, things pop up that day that have the potential to throw things into chaos. Luckily, we have great friends who are willing to help us out at a moment's notice. Two people, in particular, stand out this year.

Once again, thank you to everyone who had any part in Lawn Olympics this year, from cleaning up broken eggs so the dogs wouldn't eat them to picking up doggie poop so the kids wouldn't step in it! We have a fun, considerate group of folks who come to our shin-dig every year and we love it! THANK YOU!!