Mom's Birthday

~ Sunday November 22nd, 2009 ~
Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today we went to Ogallala to help Mom celebrate
her birthday. We met Mom and Becky for lunch
then went up to Teresa's to play skipbo and open
gifts.

The guys' also put up T's Christmas lights while we were
there. They did the lights around the roof-line while I did
the lights around the garage and deck....turned out to be a
BIG project!! But hopefully it will look nice at night. There
were a few of her neighbor's putting up their lights too.

It took a bit to get started and the wind was cold but atleast
the sun was shining!

Tyler and Bernie working around the roof.

After all the hard work we hit the bowling alley!! Mom
joined us to watch and cheer us on. We were the only ones
in there so we had two lanes going which worked out really
well. Bernie and I bowled 3 games while the boys' bowled 2.
We had a lot of fun!

My high game was a 139! We won't say what my LOW
game was!

Caught Bernie in this picture in an awkward position, sorry
honey. He really does have good form. His high game was
a 175! Bernie makes the rest of us look really bad! :)

Bernie and the boys' sharing a good laugh. It gets a little
competitive!

The boys' keepin' an eye on the scoreboard.
Nice shoes!

We brought Cade bowling to celebrate his birthday.

It's hard to get a good picture. Tyler started off having fun
but gets easily discouraged on the gutter balls so he eventually
gave up and sat with Grandma!

Garrett had fun though! After bowling we went to Valentino's
for supper with Mom and Dad.

Monday, Nov. 23, '09 ~ Cade was so happy
when he got home from school today and his
lego set he's been wanting finally arrived!!!

He got busy right away putting it together. Didn't take him
long!

TA-DAH!!!

And tonight Cade got his birthday cake (pie)
from Grandma Grace! yum!

It was a busy and full weekend. The boys' have
a short week at school this week, getting out
tomorrow, Tuesday. We will be preparing for
Thanksgiving on Thursday. We will join Mom and
Dad at Teresa's for the noon meal and the farm in
the evening. We had snow today so Bernie will be
out of the corn field for a day or two. Tyler will be
heading to South Dakota on Friday with a friend
and his family for 3 days of hunting so he is VERY
excited!! He went last year too so he's looking forward
to going again. Bernie is hoping to get back in the field
and Garrett will help out in between basketball practice
while they're on Thanksgiving break this week. For me,
it's time to dig out the Christmas stuff! :)