Bowling Family Fun

We got to take the girls bowling a few weeks ago... they had a pretty good time, and with the bumpers, Mommy even did pretty good!

After Daddy helped Kayla with the ball, she stood there and watched to see how many pins she hit....

Sometimes it took quite a while for the ball to get to them! Alexis would come and watch with her too! Kayla would try to sit just like Daddy!

Our little girls... notice Kayla's little pose, she always stands like this for pictures, it cracks me up!

Alexis was a little more animated after she would throw the ball... "where in the world is my ball going?"

Hanging out with Daddy....
Mommy's turn to help the girls with their bowling...

Alexis took these two pictures all by herself! She is getting pretty good with the camera!

Dad's Birthday Dinner

We went out to dinner for Dad's Birthday last weekend - we went to a restaurant in the Del Webb retirement community - there was a great musician there playing the accordian. He even played some polkas that I got to dance with my Dad to!

Mom and Dad enjoying a great dinner out with the family.

Everyone enjoying the music well after we were finished eating... we hung out for a long time dancing and listening to the music.


Mom and Dad even got out on the dance floor...
We all had to get a picture of it!
We closed down the restaurant... it was a lot of fun and the people that stay in the community were a lot of fun, we all hope we are as lively and happy as they are when we are their age!

A day at the Park

Last week we enjoyed a nice afternoon at the park with the girls - before all the rain set in!

Racing down the slide....
Mommy and Daddy's turn.... Alexis took this picture, she was quite proud of herself!

The girls love when Daddy helps them fly!

First Day Back at School

Alexis went back to school yesterday... Our big girl with her little sister... Kayla wanted to go to school so badly, but we told her she had to wait another year!

She got to pick out her outfit for the first day of school all by herself at the store! She was so excited to finally wear it!
Same teacher as last year, who she loves which makes it easier to drop her off at school for sure!
Right to business.... picking out her books for reading this week, I love the reading program the teacher administers for the kids. They bring home three books a week and when they bring them back they get to read them to the class!
Putting her new books in her cubby...
Me with my big girl!

Proud Daddy with his baby girl.... We can't wait to see what she learns this year!

Summer fun at the Fest

A few weeks ago we took the girls to a local fest at an airport... They enjoyed looking at all of the planes - at the bottom of this post is a video we took - we were able to see the Bomber from World War II take off with passengers in it - they were giving rides for around $400/person!

The girls hanging out in a Firetruck...

Alexis climbing up the very tall blow up play obstacle course.

Kayla was excited that she got to go on this rollercoaster with her sister (Alexis loves roller coasters)..... until it started moving!

You can see the hesitation in her eyes as soon as it started to move....

Uh oh... she's not very happy now.... The ticket guy was so nice to let her go on for free! I felt so bad when she started to cry but he stopped the ride and let her get off, he was very nice! The rest of the kids got to go on it again!

I don't remember the last time I was on a spinning sort of ride... but I seriously thought I was going to loose my breakfast! The girls enjoyed it though.

Farmers Market

I took the girls to the local farmer market a couple of weeks ago where we found the absolute best plums, peaches and the biggest zucchini ever (of course we bought it!)
Kayla helped me pick out the peaches

They really enjoyed seeing all the different home grown veggies and fruits!

Back home, they couldn't wait to eat the plums and peaches, they loved them!

After they were done eating and were playing in the yard, they found a little tiny frog...
Of course we washed her hands very well after she held the frog...

Daddy placed it safely in our garden...

Inside Daddy had the bright idea to play Baseball with our tomatoes and the huge zucchini we found at the market! I had to put a stop to that before one of my veggies got hurt! Or before a tomato splatted on my kitchen floor!