Bowling!!

Today, we went bowling with Nana! She treated us to lunch, at the bowling alley, some video games, and three games of bowling! The children had a blast! This was the first time that we had been bowling in a LONG time. Before we left her house, she added some pink hair pieces to Emily and Sarah's hair. They looked so cute and the girls loved them. Caitlynn was spending the night with her friends, in Virginia Beach, so that's why she is not in any pictures. Luckily, Poppy dropped by, after work and went home to get his camera. I didn't know where mine was, because Rob had used it last night. He had actually put it in Emily's skate bag, but I thought he had left it in his car. So, I didn't have any pictures. Poppy drove all the way home and got his camera for us -- he's so sweet! The first two games, were played with the bumpers. The third game, was played without them. They did wonderfully without the bumpers! Enjoy the pictures!

I'm not sure about Emily's "pouting" in this picture. I think she may have just gotten a "gutter" ball and Sarah was comforting her! LOL!!

Emily and Sarah ~ such sweet cousins! You can really see their hair pieces in this pictures!

Hunter did a great job. As you can see in this picture, he knocked down all but one pin, on his first ball!

This was Sarah's second ball and she only left one pin!! Great job!

Ryan's turn!!

He's getting there!!

Emily setting her ball up!

Umm, I'm not sure what went wrong with her technique! LOL! It's right in the gutter. At least she's smiling!! he/he/he!!

Kit Kittredge Movie and Ice Skating!

Sunday, July 6, 2008:

Today, my Mom treated Emily, Caitlynn, and I to the movies!! We saw, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery." Emily got this doll for Christmas, from Santa. Emily brought Kit to the movies; and, Caitlynn brought Nicki! It was such a good movie and it was great to spend some time with Nana/my Mom! After the movie, she treated us to Sam and Steve's. This is one of Emily's favorite places to eat! Here are some pictures, before the movie!

The girls, and their dolls, outside of the movie theater!

Emily and Kit, waiting for the first movie to end, so that we can go in.

Nana and the girls, heading up to our seats!

Caitlynn, the American Girls, and Emily. They are all waiting patiently for the movie to begin!


After our late lunch, Rob took Emily, Sarah, Jamie, and Alban to the IcePlex to skate! They all seemed to have fun. Alban didn't skate at all and Jamie didn't skate for long. But, Emily and Sarah were real troopers! Here are the pictures of the evening!

Emily!

Sarah!

Emily, Sarah, and Jamie!

Emily, taking a break with an ice cold icee! Brrr!!!

Sarah, taking a break with some hot chocolate!

Bible School and Skate Camp!

Today was the start of "Outrigger Island: Living God's Unshakable Truth" Vacation Bible School, for Emily, her two friends (Maddy and Morgan), Brandon, and Joshy. The three girls were in the same class. Brandon was in his own class and so was Joshy. They go by "age" for the children, who haven't started elementary school. For the older children, they go by the grade that they just completed. Everyone had so much fun. I loved seeing how excited Brandon and Joshy were when they came out of their classes, because this was their first year at Bible School. They go from 8:45am - 12:30pm, so it's a nice break for me and a fun time for the children! Scott met me up there to pick Brandon and Joshy up, because he was off work today. I will have them for the remainder of the week, though. I dropped Emily off with Nana and she took the girls to see "Kung-Fu Panda." Emily and Sarah both really enjoyed it.

So, as you can imagine by my title, Ryan started skate camp today. This was the first session of the summer and we will probably sign him up for one more, maybe two. The camp is from 10:00am - 2:00pm. He had a great time and is working on some new tricks. He loves to skateboard. He's looking forward to tomorrow so that he can continue to perfect his new tricks. Rob picked him up and then he went over to his friend's house. Ryan didn't want to go to the movie, so that's why Nana and the girls went to an earlier movie, instead of waiting for him to get out of his camp. For some reason, he is really nervous about going to movies. He gets really panicked and doesn't like it. I have never heard of a child being afraid of the movie theaters, but he is. I guess this is just another phase that he's going through. With movies being so expensive now anyway, I guess it's better, on the budget, to only take one child. LOL! So, my sweet boy waits for them to come out on video to watch the movies.

Before I end, I should mention that my baby girl has a sty on her upper eye-lid and it's pretty painful. Luckily, Rob's Mom had just bought some over-the-counter medicine for them (she gets about 5 a year, she says). Before they went to the movie, Nana put some in her eye and made it feel much better. She sent her home with the medicine and we put some on her sty before she went to bed. I hope that it feels better tomorrow morning.

I still have tons of pictures on my camera, that I can't download, yet. We still haven't done anything about our low memory problem, on our computer. When we do fix the problem, I will update with tons of pictures.

Time for bed, for me!!