bowlin' cousins

most years during hayden's midwinter break we have traveled to grand rapids for a couple of days to hang out with jenn and rainah. this year we decided it probably wouldn't be the best idea what with me being 37 weeks pregnant and all, so rainah and jenn decided to come to us. jenn had the idea to take the kids bowling which was a great plan since we haven't been in a really long time. actually, over the past several months, talan will randomly say "go to bowling pin store." for awhile i didn't know what he was talking about. and then i realized we were driving past a bowling alley and he simply wanted to go bowling. so i packed up the boys this morning and we headed to drakeshire lanes to meet up with jenn, rainah and mom. they were all so excited and they did really well. talan had never bowled a whole game by himself before, and today he bowled 2 whole games...the last one he actually won!! (hayden was NOT happy about that!) after bowling we headed back to mom and dad's to hang out for the rest of the day and to let the kids play together. thanks for coming out, jenn and rainah, and for giving us something fun to do!!

hayden, talan and rainah ready to bowl:
rainah showing the boys how it's done:







the results after game 1:
the results after game 2. needless to say, hayden was not happy being beat by 2 toddlers: