Josh's 4th Birthday Party

On Saturday, we went to Josh's (Kenton's newphew) 4th birthday party in a park - complete with a castle playground. It was pretty hot outside, but the shelter we were under provided some relief. The birthday party was themed "Iron Man" - apparently a new superhero I'd never heard of. The cake was delicious with cool whip frosting!




Spiderman (Josh) is his new outfit shooting out webs



Alyssa and I around the playset - it's hot!




Josh opening his scrapbook from us... nothing to play with :-(

Josh opening his presents

Josh blowing out his candle

Chuck E Cheese

Today we went to Chuck E Cheese with Kenton's cousin and his family, including two adorable kids - Matthew and Jacob.

I played a new game that the player uses tension in a lever to keep a moving ball in the moving green section of the game. The ball moves faster and faster making it more difficult and more frustrating.


Beth, Matthew, Jeremy, Jacob, Anna, Kenton

Jeremy and Jacob playing ski ball, Jacob's having fun!

Kenton catching apples

Thai Papaya Cuisine!

We finally got a Thai restaurant in Evansville and it is fantastic and authentic! I can't get enough of the sticky rice, green curry and chicken pad thai! Yum! They opened July 17 and I've been there at least three times in the last week!

Anna outside the Thai restaurant

Anna's in a Video!

Guess what? I'm in a video on the University of Evansville website telling prospective students about internships at UE! It's just a short clip so visit: http://www.evansville.edu/prospects/onlyue/multimedia/vidInternships/ and check it out!

Yay for UE!

Painted Kitchen!

With Kenton being at work all weekend, I kept myself busy and painted the kitchen! I was inspried by a Phi Mu alum's kitchen - I "cubed" the kitchen. Two walls I did in the cubes and the other three will be solid - 1 peach, 2 yellow (there are 5 walls because the pantry creates an extra corner). See my progress and finished product below! Yay for Aunt Chris giving me her creative genes!

Done! I had Kenton put the fuse box cover back on today and the kitchen looks great!

Kenton's First Day

Kenton's first day with the Evansville Otters was Friday. He went at 8am and worked 15 hours! He goes to most of the home games in addition to working normal business hours. They had three home games this weekend and he racked up 40 hours. Wow! He loves it though!

He gets to work outside all day which he loves... even though the heat indexes were over 100 all weekend and today too!

Kenton after his first day - 15 hours - very tired

Golf-Filled Week

This week we did a lot of golfing. Kenton went by himself on Sunday, we went to the par 3 course on Monday for 9 holes, we went putt-putting on Wednesday, and just got back from golfing 18 holes at the par 3. Whew!

Putt-putting was a lot of fun... even though I did horribly! The video below is of Kenton's ball running into one of the course obstructions, but he did beat me by quite a bit. Boo. I'll get him next time. After Putt-Putt we went for a late dinner at Texas Roadhouse - ordered two kids meals and ate a bunch of rolls and peanuts - yum!

Kenton messes up a putt - too bad he still won

On Monday when we went to the par 3, I had my best round ever and my most consistent round - every one of my drives went up in the air instead of rolling 25 yards on the ground. But when we went today... it was rough again. Golf is so difficult to be consistent at! No wonder Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete in the world (mega-endorsements don't hurt).

I did have one great putt (too bad we didn't get it on video) - I drilled it into the hole, it bounced about 2 inches off the ground and dropped in... awesome. I'm determined to get better, but it will probably take me a few years.

Anna driving the ball

Kenton sinking a putt

Anna angrily misses a putt - it hit the hole!