Birthday Bowling and the Flu

Since the kids were heading back to Provo today, Sunday, we decided to celebrate my birthday a little early.

We started out at the Bowling Alley - I'm not much of a bowler but it is something we can all do together and that was the goal!

Here is the Birthday Bowler!

And of course the girls were the most stylishly dressed bowlers there!

Clark showed off his "I'm in a bowling league!" form.

Tessa was the top girl bowler with a combined score of 210 -even tying with her dad!! I was the big loser - seems like since it was my birthday they should have let me win!!

But the very best part of bowling - I get to wear velcro shoes!! Yes, my feet are so small I have to wear a children's size 4!

After bowling we went to dinner at one of our favorite little locally owned Italian restaurants. We returned home for a Samba rematch between the boys and girls - we were 1- 1 and had to break the tie. I am happy to report that the girls won!!

The evening started going downhill from there when Logan starting throwing up and a bad case of diarrhea (sorry if that is too much info) Initially we thought maybe that cream based red pepper sauce was the problem but early this morning Cali also came down with the same symptoms.

We looked into delaying their flight out but she thought she would be o.k. The family "barf" bowl accompanied them in the car and was used! Sorry to whomever parks next to the curb at the airport where Jim dumped the contents!!

The garbage can near the gate was also conveniently located and Cali took advantage of it.

Fortunately she slept on the flight to Boise and the connection to Salt Lake.

She and Logan are safely tucked away in their beds in Provo hopefully sleeping this off. Clark seems to be doing fine.

In addition to a pair of snow boots the college students left something else behind -their germs!

Tessa was up and almost ready for church when she began throwing up so off to bed she went. Jim made it through church and teaching his lesson and is now in bed upstairs. I am fine - so far!.

Holiday Entertainment, Part Two

And how could I forget the numerous games of:

Samba
Five Crowns
Qwerkle
Take Two
Settler's of Catan
Risk
Apples to Apples
Guesstures
Whoonu
and a game or two of Murder

and then maybe a lane or two of bowling this afternoon....

Holiday Entertainment

So how do you keep 3 college kids and 1 high schooler entertained during the Holiday Break? This is how...

DVD viewing: Roman Holiday, Funny Face, Charades (Tessa and I got on a bit of an Audrey Hepburn kick the week she was out of school because of snow!), Pride & Prejudice (K. Knightly verson), 3 hours of the BBC P & P mini series, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Dream Girls, Mad Money, and probably Dark Knight tonight! Can you tell it was the girls who did most of the DVD viewing??

Movie Theater viewing: Marley & Me, Seven Pounds, Vaulkrie

Sports viewing: 4 Blazer Games at the Rose Garden and who knows how many ballgames on TV!

The boys went to 3 games together and the whole family went to one together - here's proof that I was there!

We all went decked out in our red and black - the boys wore their Oden and Roy jersey's and Tessa wore her red Van's. Unfortunately it didn't help - the Blazer's lost!

We balanced all the sports watching out with a little culture too!

Broadway Show viewing: We sent to see The Color Purple. Clark didn't go with us. The kids all paid for their own tickets so when given the option Clark quickly declined. No surprise there!

Before the show Clark did join us for dinner at our new favorite hamburger spot - Five Guys Hamburgers and Fries! Thanks to our neighbor's the Quillins who gave all the kids gift cards to Five Guys!

TV viewing: what seemed like endless recorded episodes of Bones

What did you do for entertainment this holiday break???