Bowling Lessons

I took the kids bowling several times this summer.  Dalton absolutely loves to bowl on the Wii, but has decided the real thing isn’t near as much fun.  Something about gutter balls?!?  The bowling alley we frequent was offering 4 weeks of free bowling lessons, so we figured why not?  Blake took him the first week since I was working that morning.  He said it went well, but was pretty crowded so each kid only got to bowl a few frames.  We are hoping as the weeks pass that the crowd will thin out.  Overall I think Dalton had fun.

Summer Fun: Week 12

It’s the absolute LAST week of summer vacation.  I can’t believe how quickly the time has come and gone.  At the end of the this week, we will officially have a 2nd grader!  We kept the activities this week pretty low key.  We returned to early bedtimes and started early wake up times to prepare for the upcoming school year.  The kids have done pretty well with the change.

We did sneak in one more “summer” outing to the Splash Pad.  Probably not the last one for the year since it will be open for a few more weeks, but the last one for summer.

Addie enjoys “sunning” herself in the shade.

Dalton enjoys shooting anyone and everyone with the water guns.

The kids had also seen something on a cartoon earlier this summer about making a Sockopus (octopus out of socks….clever huh?).  They had been bugging me to let them use 4 PAIRS OF SOCKS EACH to make one.  NO WAY!  We finally had some extra time this week and came up with a solution.  I let them pick out some fabric scraps and I sewed them each 8 legs and one body.  Here they are stuffing leg one of eight.  Let’s just say, they both would still have 7 legs to go if Blake and I hadn’t pitched in to help.  Even with our help, they still are not quite done.  Oh well!  They can’t say I didn’t offer.

Our last summer adventure for 2012 was one last trip to the Magik Theatre to see the dual language version of Aladdin.  It was a great show.  We are looking forward to the start of the 2012-2013 season.

Does anyone else only seem to get a series of cheesy grins from your kids when trying to take pictures?  These are pretty classic faces around here.

Take 1:  Dalton seems to be in pain and Addie always sticks her chin in the air.

Take 2:  A little less pain and a little less chin, but still cheesy.

Here are some of the photos we snapped of the kids with the characters after the show.

Before the show, trying to take a less cheesy picture.	Dalton with the Sultan.
Dalton with Abu.	Dalton with the Genie and Jafar.
Addie with Jasmine.  She would only take a picture with the princess.	Dalton with Aladdin.

Summer Fun: Week 11

Summer is drawing to a close, so time to pack in a few last minute must do’s.  This week the kids and I enjoyed an afternoon at Chuck E. Cheese to spend the last of some birthday party tokens acquired earlier in the summer.

We finished our Summer Bridges workbooks!  Yay!  Notice the pretty flowers on the table….those were from Blake just because.  Yes, I do have the best husband in the world.

We went bowling.  I guess I forgot to take a picture of Dalton….poor kid!

And finally, we celebrated Grandma’s 51st birthday with a birthday weekend at our house.  Yes, we did put 51 candles on the cake.

On Saturday, we headed down to the Pearl Farmer’s Market.  Addie and Dalton enjoyed dancing to a live band, eating some chicken and waffles and picking flowers.  Mom’s lifelong friend, Faith, was also able to join us for the weekend.

After the farmer’s market, we hit up Crazy 8 for some tax free shopping and Sprouts to get in on the sale of Blue Bell ice cream.  Blake stocked up on one of his seasonal favorites, Southern Blackberry Cobbler.

After a morning of shopping, we went home to drop off the boys so that all the girls could enjoy an afternoon of pampering.  Addie got her first mani/pedi.  (Thanks Grandma!)

It was a great weekend!  We are so glad that we were able to celebrate Mom’s (Grandma’s) 51st Birthday with her this year!

Summer Fun: Week 10

 

This week we decided to be a bit spontaneous and start our week out with a quick trip to the beach.  The kids had so much fun on our beach vacation last year and have been begging to go back.  Since Destin, Florida (our vacation destination last year) is not quite close enough to make a day trip out of it, we settled for Port A instead.  We loaded up the car on Saturday night, enjoyed an early bedtime and an even earlier wake up on Sunday morning.  We were packed and on the road before 7am!

Our traditional beach pictures:

Building our Sand Castle:

You can even see some of the white sand that was still in our sand toys from our trip to Destin Beach last year atop part of our castle.  Addie said it was “snowing” on that part.

The beach is about more than just the waves.  Snack Time, Kite Flying and Bubble blowing were all on the agenda for Addie.

For Dalton, it really is just all about the waves.

I’m not much for the waves so I volunteered to let the kids bury me in the sand.  After covering my legs, they lost interest.

Once we finished at the beach, we headed into town for a nice seafood dinner at a local restaurant with a patio.  We even had the chance to see some of the fishing boats come in to get their daily catch weighed and measured.  We stopped at one of the local stores for a photo op, then jumped on the ferry to head home.

All in all, it was a great beach trip.  Perhaps even a new Lacy family summer tradition?

The only other thing we did this week that is blog worthy is transform our playroom back into a preschool classroom.  Addie only has one more year until she enters the world of public schools, so after a lot of talk and consideration due to changes at my job, Blake and I decided I would stay home full time with Addie this year.  Dalton and I did “homeschool preschool” the year before he went to kinder and we really enjoyed it.  I’m hoping it will be just as great of an experience with Addie.