Cousins and date nights

We had the privilege of exchanging babysitting services with our dear cousins Mark and Jena recently. We kept their kids one night and they kept Luke the next week. We had a great time playing with their kiddos and I know Luke had a blast at their house. It was a lovely time to just spend a few hours kidless. We went out to eat (Lonestar has a great 2 for $20 deal going on, and it comes with an appetizer!) then went shoe shopping for me! What a great guy I have. I've been needing some new tennis shoes but just haven't shopped yet. We were planning to go do something more "fun," and then Andrew comes up with this idea to go shoe shopping. I couldn't believe it, and we almost didn't do it cause it wasn't very "date like." But, it was SO nice to try on shoes without having to chase down a little boy at the same time. Next time: Mini Golf!

Here is Luke with his cousin Abe. I wish Luke wasn't in the cheesy smile stage, but it's still kinda endearing. :) They are gonna be trouble together, soon!

Christian Chicken and a Five Pin Match

While we were in Canada Gramma and Grandpa Mack watched the kid for us so that we could go out to goof off for a bit. We went out to lunch at Swiss Chalet and then off to bowl a few games of five pin. We won't talk about who won, cause we don't want to embarrass anyone.



Here we are at our table. I like Swiss Chalet. I had it first when we were engaged, I think, or nearly so. It vaguely reminds me of Chicken Jose's in Puerto Rico.


Here's a shot of Andrew's Shirley Temple, which he was oddly excited to get. I guess it reminded him of his childhood. :)


don't you think the ball brought out the colour in my eyes? Or, at least my shirt...


Showing me how it's done.


Just being silly.


Oops! I'm pretty sure it's a good thing you can't see where the ball ended up!

We had a really good time. We had hoped to go to Wonderland but it was just too much to work in with Luke being as young as he is. But we had a lovely afternoon together.