Daddy, Daughter, Son date......

I found two willing volunteers not too far from home....We went to Big Al's bowling alley for an hour at Slider Alley.


After the bowling, we voted on where to eat dinner. I voted for home, but was outnumbered, so we ended up at a world class seafood restaurant instead.


We decided to let the lobsters live another day, but the snow crabs weren't so lucky...Muwahahaha.....

Sour Face

Matthew wanted to show me his face after licking a lemon...

Math Night

Recently Amy's middle school had Math Night. Amy met up with one of her friends and they had a great time going from station to station doing the different math problems. They also got extra credit in their math class!

Skiing

It's been 13 years since I have been snow skiing. I forgot how much fun it can be. It was made even more enjoyable because it was Amy's first time going, and we got to spend the whole day together having an absolute blast! Amy is a natural! She picked it right up and and did GREAT all day. (and night!) We spent a good part of the day on the bunny slopes learning basic technique, but she wasn't content to stay there all day. Finally we headed up one of the real lifts. I was determined to stay on the "easy" runs all the way down. (Green circle) Somehow we ended up on an intermediate run! (Blue square) Amy handled it well and only fell once! (knocking me down!) I'm not as young as I used to be....To make it more interesting, it was nighttime and snowing like crazy while we were coming down. we finally ran into another "easy" run and made it to the bottom safe and sound. Amy had a huge grin on her face all day. I think a new hobby may have been found....

More Bowling....

Today was our second week bowling the Madagascar league. We bowled well and had a lot of fun. Here is a clip of Matthew bowling....

Bowling

Today Matthew and Ty began bowling on the Madagascar bowling league. It's every Saturday morning for the next 16 weeks. Today we established our averages and met our other team mates. It was a lot of fun and promises to be a great father-son activity!



Matthew is really enjoying bowling and is doing a great job working on keeping the ball on the lane!

White Christmas

For the first time in many, many years, we enjoyed a white Christmas in the Pacific Northwest. (Well, a Christmas with more than a dusting of snow that was gone minutes after it fell anyway!) Everyone enjoyed the snow, even though we had to put tire chains on the car to go anywhere! Believe it or not, it was the first time in my life I have ever put tire chains on a car!