Yay it's Friday! The end of a great week! I've got my training schedule down now and into a routine. Always nice. Also the weather has decided to warm up a bit, upper 30's lower 40's, so the melting has begun. Which means I was able to do my long run, which I do on Fridays, outside on the roads. It felt so good. Really need a new pair of shoes though. I've worn mine out.

Bret called me in the afternoon and asked if we had anything going on and asked me if we all wanted to go bowling. He wanted to invite the new doctor that has joined the medical staff, and his family, to get to know them a bit better. I thought it was a wonderful idea, and so we invited the Bendorfs and the Monsons, some really good friends of ours, and had a great time at Cyclone Lanes! Named after our High school. It was a great night of bowling, pizza, pop and candy. Alyson kind of started a running tab and let my kids get whatever they wanted. It was a good time. Keaton bowled a 125! He's 4! I couldn't believe it. He beat me. He did have the bumpers to keep him out of the gutter, but there were times that he didn't touch those and got quite a few pins down. he even got a strike and a lot of spares. Unbelievable. Bret got the high score of the adults, no surprise there, and Ben was the winner of the kids. He got a 127. Amber didn't do her best as she was feeling really self conscious, a few lanes down there was a lot of the "popular" kids from her class celebrating a boys 16th birthday party and they were laughing and having a great time and Amber was feeling a bit left out. Plus she was feeling like they were watching her every move. Makes me a bit sad, a lot of those girls that were there, we have invited to our house when Amber was smaller for birthdays and Halloween party's and were friends. Now that they've grown up a bit, they've kind of separated into the "clicks" associated with high school. Now Amber feels like she can't talk to them because she's not a part of that crowd. Just wish everyone would be friends with everyone and not have to separate like that. Makes High school even more difficult. But after they all left she started to have more fun and play around more. The Bendorf girls, Morgan, and Jordan, are 9 and 11, and they worship the ground she walks on. She started having a lot of fun with them. I was glad.

Bret has stared another taxidermy project. He's is now skinning a coyote, and getting it ready for tanning. Which means a lot of smell and flesh hanging around. Yuck! So that's what I did after we got back and I put the little boys in bed, watched him scrape flesh off of the hide. Lovely sight.