End of Summer Celebration

I wasn't able to take each of the kids out to lunch as a part of their school shopping experience, so instead we took the kids on a family date night in Toledo. We went to the movie "The Odd Life of Timothy Green", which was a great movie. It is a tear jerker, but I highly recommend it! After the movie, we went out for italian food. It was actually a bit of an experience in itself. Kaylee had her heart set on eating at the Spaghetti Warehouse in downtown Toledo, which is a bit of a drive from where we watched the movie. We drove to the distance only to discover that the restaurant had quite a wait due to the local AAA baseball team having a game that evening. The stadium is just a block away from the restaurant. Who knew? Next time we will have to check the game schedule! We then drove back to the area of town we had watched the movie in for a better selection of restaurants. Unfortunately, it was prime dinner time and all the restaurants we tried had a long wait. In the end, we settled on a nice italian restaurant and once food was in our bellies all was well again...

It was a fun night out as a family and our house guest, Alexa, joined us. Alexa is a senior at Huntington University in Indiana. She has been living with us all summer and will be with us until the beginning of December. She is here completing an internship for her degree. She spent the summer working as a camp counselor at The Centre and now is assisting the school with chapels and leading several small group bible studies. It was fun having her join us and getting to know her better. Farewell summer, school year here we come...