Date Night

Saturday was our date night with the kids. It was my turn to have Ryan and he wanted to go bowling. So, we went to BYU and put our name on the list for a lane. The wait was about 25 minutes so we just watched others bowl.

Ryan felt like he knew quite a bit about bowling because he attended the Young Men's activity where they had a member of our ward talk about the basics of bowling for the bowling merit badge. He candidly talked about what the bowlers should be doing to get a strike. I was very entertained by his antics.
We were sitting behind a couple that was obviously dating. She couldn't roll the ball without shrugging her shoulders and smiling like a fool. Even Ryan noticed as he said "Wow Mom, a lot of people are dating around here." I got a good laugh out of that because after all we were on a college campus.

We finally got our chance to bowl. Ryan started out using their ramp, but soon figured he was grown up enough to do it on his own. I think he did a pretty good job.


Here are some pictures of the night:



After bowling we went to the grocery store. It always feels good to go shopping and come out with tons of stuff for not so much money. I had some rainchecks from Albertson's and got a few things from Smith's. I haven't used my coupons in a while, but I did Saturday and came out quite nicely. We even had a little bit of money left over from our date, so I let Ryan buy two packs of gum because I had a B1G1 coupon. He was thrilled that we had money left over.

I enjoy going out with the kids. On our way to BYU, Ryan talked to me about wanting to go on a mission. He made the comment that he hoped he could always make good decisions so he could serve a mission. I think that is pretty impressive for a 7 year old.