Life's a Hoot: Another Week

We are back, we try to update once a week, usually on Sundays. We might post once a while during the week if we have anything interesting to talk about. This past week was pretty uneventful. The weather was nice during the week, so we were able to go outside and take walks.

"Egg Hunt"

It is that time of year for the annual egg hunt that we attend at the park downtown next to the water. Megan has come a long way from only getting one two years ago to the first one filling up her bucket with plastic eggs filled with candy. Also some of the eggs have winning tickets in them which they win a big Easter basket full of candy and toys. Megan finally found one this year so she was pretty happy to find a winning egg.

"Birthday Party"

Couple hours later after the Easter egg hunt we went over to our neighbors house for a birthday party, which is usually entertaining as they always have nachos and popcorn. Alison left early for a bachelorette party, so I had the three kids, yikes! It turned out OK, except for Meredith being the human vacuum cleaner. She kept crawling under the stools at the bar and eating all the fallen popcorn. Towards the end, the moms allowed me to hang out with men for a while for some "man" time as I was hanging out with mom's most of the time watching the kids. Leaving was interesting, but handled very well.

"Meredith musically inclined?"

See the Video below, she loves to sing in the microphone and she bebops all the time to singing and music. We find it pretty funny that she knows what a microphone is for. I suppose she watches Megan, but still she goes at it every time. We are not sure what talent she'll have, but we do know she will not have a singing voice as neither side of the families are song birds, except maybe my mom who could at least carry some kind tune.

"Tomato Soup"

As some of you know, the Voakes' grew up on Tomato Soup as Dad (John) would make that for us when mom wasn't home and for some reason all of us kids still enjoy it. And of course I had to pass it along to my kids, so Megan asks for it all the time and today I introduced it to the twins. Meredith was not so receptive, but Annalyse loved it. Alison, said Meredith pretty was full already as she ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwich prior to the life changing event. Below is Megan with a Tomato Soup mustache.

"Bowling Update"

I think I am back to my old form in bowling as I bowled a 722 series (240 average) and a 635 the week before. I have been in a big slump as of late (9 weeks of shooting sub 600 series and a couple sub 500 series), but hopefully the warmer weather broken the ice of my cold game. Sorry that was bad:( Overall, our team is fifth overall, but on the move. First place will be hard to catch, they have a commanding lead with only 7 weeks left.

"Softball"

Well after years of prodding, Andy and Nick finally talked me into playing softball. I told myself I wasn't going to play as I would only play hardball. Well reality finally hit, so I will play some softball this year in the spring. It is only a fun league, as we recruited people who never really played ball. I will be playing short stop. I know I know, most of you thought I would be playing catcher, since I played throughout my entire hardball career, but catcher is softball is really boring. If anybody wants, my team is putting a pool together to see which body part I'm going to injure. All because my Dodge Ball days (the last couple of years) I kept get weird injuries, like breaking a rib and cracking two of my fingers. My bet is a concussion, a frozen rope to the head as my reflexes are not the same as they used to be. Just a hunch.

"New Car (actually van)"

I never thought this would happen, but the Voakes' are getting a minivan. It is the only practical vehicle for us as our Explorer is too small now, plus our lease is coming due. We decided on a Honda Odyssey (silver) as it is an 8 passenger van. We will still be able to put all three kids in the middle row. We really wanted to buy an American vehicle but none of them make an 8 passenger van. I know most of you say, who cares, but most of our neighbor work for the big three or they are engineers for tier 1 and 2 suppliers. I haven't told them yet. I guess if anything, we'll have less birthday party's to go too. We are getting it on Friday! I asked Alison if she wanted me to have them paint flames on the sides; she graciously said 'no'.