Bowling for Ainsley's Eighth!

 Sweet Ainsley! We had so much fun bowling! 10am is perfect for a fam to bowl.

 Jude loved waiting for the ball to be returned. He only smashed his fingers once!

 Love the ramps and bumpers for little ones.

 You are getting so big, Ains! Slow down. I cannot handle it.

 I'm thankful that bowling w/ Jude was much easier this time around.

 Going!

 Going!

 Blast!

 There was an arcade (of course). For some reason, when Ains or Lance touched some of the "start" buttons, the game would let them play for free! This happened 4 times total. Very cool.  Jude caught on quickly and started shoving his fingers into the token return slots and found 3 tokens! He drove Snoopy with his tokens.

 Free game of pinball anyone?

 Love, love, love her!

 Move it, move it.

 They all had to try the motorcycle. Sage got to play this one for free.

 I heard lots and lots of squeals from both girls as they played each other on this car racing game.

Jude, saying "cheeeeeeeze".

Dear Ainsley,

I'm so glad you are my daughter.  This week I have been reminded several times that you have a great attitude about so many things!  You can just go-with-the-flow and have fun doing it.  You enjoy being spontaneous and you are very creative.  You love Jesus and you are growing in your faith.  You are a cheerful giver. You don't care what other people think about you or the clothes you wear.  You are positive and upbeat and you LOVE life.  When you really get the giggles you remind Daddy and Me of Ricky Ricardo. :) You love to play, read, paint, do gymnastics in the family room, draw and do crafts of all kinds.  You are inventive and constantly surprise me with  the things you create or ideas you come up with, especially things involving several feet of string and tape :).  You have a beautiful smile and you can be an awesome helper. You enjoy being a leader.  Last week you helped 2 little girls for a looong time when they wanted to repeatedly get up on the bar at the park.  You jumped right in to help and you didn't even know their names.  God has blessed us with you many times over.  And may you bless Him by using your gifts for His Kingdom.

I love you so much,

Mom