Roller Craze

When was the last time you were on Roller Skates?

 If you are like me, you were still in braces, and wearing jeans with paint splatters.
And let's talk about socks for a second... We wore them two at a time, different colors, and slouchy.
hahaha We. Were. Cool.

Well, my hubby had the great idea two weekends ago to rectify this lack of FUN in our lives.
We loaded everyone up, and went out for Family Night. $7 got us in with skate rental and free pizza!

Needless to say, we had a blast!!! EVEN with chasing the littles all night, and dealing with the twins and their total disinterest in anything that didn't involve the arcade. ;-)

 For an extra few bucks you can rent this INGENIOUS braces.

Isaiah went about 4ft on his skates. That was it.  Then he begged for the next hour and 58 minutes to "skate" in his socks. :-D

THEN THE FLU HIT THE STORY HOUSE

UGH

YUCK

BLECK

Ten days of laying around the house while the family members dropped. like. flies.
No therapy, no church, nothing but coughing, medicine and more coughing. Poor Mister P had a fever of 106.6!!! 
(PSA they will look at you like a crazy person if you mention, "On TV they are worried about your brain turning to Jell-O if your child's fever is over 104*!"  Thank you Grey's Anatomy and House...you have ruined my medical expectations forever.)

Today we are all better, and we decided to take the big kids out on a date. 
We have decided that just getting them out of the house, with no little people to chase, or worry about, is a priority.

Oh how I love them.  We had so much fun together!!!

 Trey won the dice game!!

 Grand prize?? SMALL SOFT DRINK!!
He was thrilled! :-D

He would like this picture subtitled, "Pondering my victory".

 Two seconds before I snapped this picture Benji and Trey were doing a "deodorant check" hahaha Life with boys... But then when I tried to capture this teenage moment on film, they balked at the idea of having it immortalized!! WIMPS!

Here is Lolo recreating the moment for you.

After nearly two hours of incident free skating, my handsome man and I were skating, hand in hand, when a very little girl with a skirt on over her jeans, wiped out, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!! 
You have hundredths of a second to decide what to do. Do you attempt a superman move?  Leaping in one great bound over the small tike...  Or do you sacrifice all dignity, and try to fall gracefully before running the child over...

My elbow, has an extra lump.  But I am proud to say that the small child was up and back to terrorizing other skaters before I completed my self-check to make sure nothing had fallen off, or was irreconcilably damaged.

Fun was had by all.