Our First Gotcha Day!!

We will have been a family together for one year on Monday. Can you believe it? One year. It has been a wild, wild ride. And now our lives are about to change again as Matt starts kindergarten at West Salem, and Danny starts preschool at First United Methodist Church.

We wanted to celebrate our Gotcha Day just doing fun things as a family. We left the house a little before 9am to head to our first Putt Putt experience. It was an adventure. Mateo was all about learning the game and trying to follow the rules. I was awesome at knocking in a couple of holes in two! No holes in one, but loads of fun. Danny, we weren't surprised (despite not realizing it ahead of time) wasn't ready for following the rules and waiting for turns. He still has a bit of maturing to go, but he did say he had a good time this evening before bed. . .

Here we are at the putt putt. :)

Look at this lovey hubby of mine. Doesn't he look like a real golfer?

Victory!! The ball went in the hole!!

We did use 8 tokens to race cars (quickly remembering Matt's obsession with all things related to video games).

And we played one game of air hockey. :) Danny just liked getting the new puck out of the slot, after Mateo knocked it in his slot.

Then we ate lunch at McDonalds -- %100 not there for the food, but for the park!! They had a BLAST running around with the other kids, and I laughed and laughed enjoying all the children playing together.

I really tried to get a picture. See how fast he was moving????

And here's Matt climbing and hanging off the poles, until we saw the sign telling us now to climb on the outside of the structure. :(

Then after naptime, chores, and games with the dogs, we went to a Red Sox game!! It's this the best picture??

On the way home, Danny said, "Today was a good day, right Mommy? We played that game, and we went to Old Mac Donalds' and eat the candy (cotton candy). Right Mommy? It was a good day."

Precious.