A Bowling Trip

Shortly after Christmas Rob and I decided to switch from having every channel known to man on cable with a DVR to just plain basic cable, 14 channels! Of course, we have a digital TV so we have many more channels than just 14 but it is definitely still basic. That has made some very big changes. We know longer watch TV every night. We watch American Idol and that's about it. (I watch LOST online) Otherwise we are watching family friendly movies that we rent or the kids movies that we own. The kids aren't glued all waking hours to the TV. The little ones can only watch TV when PBS is running cartoons which is in the AM usually. Rowan and Nadine have been spending a lot of time playing together!

Another big change at that same time was our decision to purchase a Wii for the family. We played it at friends houses and loved the fact that it isn't graphic like other games. It gets you up off your butt and the little ones can do it. Nadine has developed a love for bowling! and Jourdyn as well. But Nadine has been begging to go bowling for real! So today, we invited our friends, Amy and Jason to bring their kids, Dom and Vinny along to bowl with us. The kids had a blast! Us adults were left wondering how it is that on the Wii we are PRO bowlers and in real life we struggled to break 100. We thought to complain to the attendant at the counter, and realized that our complaints would be fruitless!

I think Jourdyn also realized that her bragging rights on the Wii, don't mean she has bragging rights on the alley in real life! Rowan bowled a strike straight down the middle. He was a little over anxious at times, overall he had a ball.

You will notice in the pictures: one of Nadine's newest things is to ham it up in her pictures by making funny faces! I have no clue where she gets that from!