last Friday night...

Cale had been begging to go to Chuck E Cheese for  a while now, so last Friday, we made his dreams come true :-).  It was a good chance to get out of the house and do something together.  Plus, I had some good coupons for tokens and we has to go to Indy anyway, so might as well make good use of the opportunity.  I really think that CEC is a Vegas-in-training for kids, with all the lights, games and tokens.  But, they love the over-stimulation, including Kella, who is in none of these pictures.

so happy!

wins the award for "hardest to keep track of"

I watched Marcus play the shooting baskets game.  I have to say, that boy has some skills with the ball.  Andy's not too sure where he got this talent from.  I would like to point out that I did letter in basketball the year I played in high school (ok, we weren't any good).

on one of the roller coaster sim rides

Then, we went to the hotel where our church was hosting Leadership Training for Christ.  It's kind of like 4H for church.  Marcus was signed up to do Bible Bowl on Saturday and we just needed to check him in.  I can say, it's nice having your church host the event, because the place was full of people that we knew with many eager arms to hold Kella.  While she was being watched, we took the kids to the praise assembly.  They did okay, even though they were getting super-tired.

The kids were so tired when we got home.  They had played outside all day before we went to CEC and LTC (maybe you can see that their faces are a little redder than usual). But even then, they really didn't melt down getting ready for bed. 

And that is how you wear children out.