Summer Fun with Family and Friends

A shared love for cooking...

My love for cooking has carried over to Megan. She loves to be my helper in the kitchen but this time it was different. Megan baked her first batch of cookies all by herself.
Even though there was a little burn from touching a hot cookie pan, it was an experience that she loved and felt like she accomplished great things all by herself. How fun! This is only the beginning of more creations in the kitchen from Meg.


An Evening of Fun with Friends...

Playing games has always been a family favorite of my family. I can remember many hours of playing cards and board games with my parents and sisters especially when I was growing up and when we lived outside of the USA.

Last night we spent a very enjoyable time with our friends in the Singles group at West Park. It was a game night.

Our evening started out with a group of girls playing Yahtzee Turbo. When we were pulling the game out of the box we couldn't help but laugh because the speaker was covered with tape. The one and only time we had ever played this game was at Christmas a few years ago when we played it at my parent's house. The voice was so loud on the game that my mom had taped the speaker so that we could play it and not make a lot of noise. But for some reason last night we were all having a hard time hearing the voice even after the tape was removed.

After Yahtzee Turbo we moved over to another table to play Apples to Apples. I have to admit after playing a few rounds with Megan we decided she needs to be on a debate team.

Then it was on to learn a new game that we had never played before, Five Crowns. It was pretty easy to learn and we had lots of fun. I would like to play that one again.

Meanwhile, as we continued to play cards Megan enjoyed a match of bowling on the Wii with the two Chrises. She even gave them a run for their money with a pretty good score of 125 on one of the games. She loved playing with "the guys."


You know, both of these activities were not costly but they were great fun. Sometimes the simplest things bring us great joy. I am so thankful for family and friends.