Basketball Dominoes and Dinner

Yesterday morning we woke early (for us) and made it to a birthday party in Lewisville. Our church friends, the Mathews family had their second birthday party in the last month. This one was for their son Gavon. He's Elaine's age. The had the party at the Lewisville Recreation Center. We've been there before for a birthday party. It's really great because the Rec center does all the set up, clean up and keeps the kids active with basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey and sometimes a parachute game. Elaine had lots of fun. Allan threw a little fit because he wanted to keep the one baseball bat, but the older boys wanted it too.
After the party, we went to lunch with the Mathews family and their extended family. Since we all go to church together, we know all the extended family and serve with them in different volunteer duties around our church. An uncle is a minister at our church, an aunt works around the office area, etc. We ate at Cici's Pizza. Elaine didn't want any pizza, just "leaves" (salad). Allan ate lots of garlic bread.
By now, it was 2ish and we had plans to go to a dinner party at The Mathew's house at 5pm, so we rushed home for Allan and Jimmy to grab naps. By 5pm we were back with the Mathews clan.
We are trying to get to know eachother. Jimmy works with both Trisha and Mike Mathews out in the K4C (kids for Christ) and I serve with Trisha in the church nursery. After dinner (mmm Lasagna) we played Dominoes for a few hours and took care of all the kids (between us there are five kids). It made for a long day, but we got to bond more with some great people. I've been telling Jimmy he needs more freiends his own age...and I've been saying that about myself since I had Elaine. When we can afford to, we'll invite all 5 of the Mathews over to our place for a dinner/dominoes night.