Bowl-a-rama!

For McKay's birthday party, we went to BYU Games Center and bowled. The kids all LOVED it! (I think the adults did too.) This was the first birthday party involving non-immediate family that we have done for the last 3 or 4 years. McKay just didn't enjoy having a bunch of people over. But this year, he was excited. It was people he saw a lot and knew, and so he seemed very comfortable.

With all of our kids, and the cousins and a few friends it was good we had grandparents and neighbors and aunts helping. We had the bumpers for the little kids, as well as the ramps for most of the kids. Michael liked actually throwing the ball, but the others seemed to favor the ramp.

Hannah had a particularly interesting approach. She would put her ball on the ramp and walk to the back of the chairs where the other bowlers were waiting, and then she would RUN up to the ramp and push the ball down the ramp. But even more she liked going around socializing.

Then we went over to the Creamery and got ice cream (mmmmm, BYU Creamery ice cream!) to go with the cupcakes. The kids all had a lot of fun and we even had people coming over scoping out the cupcakes...luckily we had Aunt Alison to keep out the riff raff. ;)

Sadly, when Garrett was slipping off the bench, Darwin grabbing his arm and it got sprained. We weren't sure if it was dislocated or what, so we packed up a little early and took him to the InstaCare. While we were there, the rest of the kids and I went over to our friends' house (they were at the party) and we played while Garrett got checked out and then BBQed for dinner. Garrett seemed to be doing well by the evening, and is doing fairly well this morning, though he is still tender. McKay also did really well. He wanted to sit in front of the house and wait for Darwin to come back, since one of his birthday presents was in the van and he wanted to wait and get it out. So I watched him and he did a great job staying in the front yard. I was quite impressed.

It was a fun party, minus the sprained wrist. The kids really loved the bowling, and I am sure we will go back many times.

OH! And the big bowling winners? McKay with 110. Steen (who is 18 months old) with 109. Michael with 100.