The Fun of a Weekend

Friday night, Katelyn, Chelsea and I went to see the play - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
Chelsea's school was putting it on. We all love Lord of the Rings so we were quite excited about seeing this production and how they would do it. We were not disappointed. Here is a picture of Bilbo Baggins - the Hobbit-, Gandalf the Wizard and some of the dwarfs.















This is one of the goblins. Didn't they do a great job on his makeup?













Here are the elves, capturing the dwarfs.










The elves, resting at rehearsals.













They also had Smaug, the dragon and Gollum, who was looking for "precious". What a ton of work but well worth it. The only problem they faced was that Hobbits and dwarfs are are short little creatures. We were told to just assume that these were "dutch dwarfs"!
While the 3 of us were enjoying the play, Shaelyn and Dave were out together too. They had a daddy-daughter bowling night from her school. They got to bowl 2 games and eat hotdogs. They had a lot of fun too. There were lots of different bowling tricks to try in the second game. I was told that she "beat" one of the games.

Saturday - A Day of Some Fun and some Not-so-Fun

Saturday had a mixture of some fun things and some not fun things. Can any of you guess what happens when you do a load of wash and your sump pump decides to quit working? For those of you who answered - a basement room filled with water - You are CORRECT!!! I put a load of wash in the morning. Later, I went to move it to the dryer and I spot the carpet in my basement hallway - it's all wet. I go to the laundry room and see black, sludgy looking water all over. Dave had to work all morning and afternoon so I called him. He says it's the sump pump that probably quit. After calling our neighbor who's a plumber, we decide we can wait till today to fix it. The store where he gets his stuff is closed for Saturday. It ended up overflowing again during the night on Saturday. He forgot about our water softener. So now my basement has that horrid mildew like smell. We've been soaking up towels on the carpet and I'm burning candles to get rid of it. It is fixed now so tonight, we can finish ripping up the carpet in that room and clean the rest of it.

But the rest of Saturday was filled with fun. Do you see the pictures? We went bowling with my cousin and his family and Cheri's family. I do not know the last time that I went bowling but it really was fun. The kids had one lane and the adults had another. I had a few lucky throws, so I did better than I thought I would.
After the game, we headed to Mr. Burger for some supper. You can't beat a hamburger from there. Our day ended up on a better note than it started!



See, they actually do care about each other.






































Here's all the younger ones together.