President's Day

Lyle worked on President's Day, but he made sure he came home early enough so he could take us out for bowling, dinner and fun! We went to our favorite bowling alley: Jack and Jill's.  When we first moved to EM, we would go to the American Fork Jack and Jill's all the time.  It is a classic bowling alley complete with greasy fries, pool tables and stinky shoes;  we've loved the atmosphere everytime we've gone.  J&J's opened a Lehi location almost two years ago and now that it's about 10 minutes closer to us, that's the alley we go to when we want a fun night out!  It's huge compared to the original location;  the diner is bigger, there are tons of arcade games (including laser tag), corporate lanes (with massive tv's above the lanes) and more space for lanes.  It's always fun to spend a couple of hours bowling a couple of games and dining on pizza, breadsticks, fries and soda!

After bowling our standard two games (I blew Lyle out of the water on the first game, by the way), we headed over to the arcade to play some Skee-ball, Air Hockey and Wak-A-Mole.  It was such a fun night!  We ended the night at Target getting Ava some new t-shirts and new shoes because she's outgrown her current sneakers (I bought her some fabulous pink Converse...aaahhh!, I'm dying!). Ava was attached to a Big Bird plush toy she found in the toy section.  She's become slightly addicted to Sesame Street lately and can be heard all day walking around the house saying, "Eh-mo", "Cookie" and "Big Buhd" (think Boston, MA accent).  So....Daddy caved and bought her a Big Bird to play with her Elmo she had at home.  I'm finding Daddy tends to cave into Miss A's demands much faster then he ever did for Sean.  Must be because she's his little Princess!