Our unplanned day with the Ewings

Today we had one of the strangest most fun days. It started I guess on Friday night when I was discussing with Dawn when to get Madison back from her house. During the conversation we figured out that Allison and Capri both had friends skating in a recital at the same time. Allison had mentioned that she wanted to go see her friend from school but I wasn't sure how I was going to make it work. Well since Capri was going to be there too we thought why not have them go together. Dawn mentioned that she needed to do some shopping at the outlet malls and invited me to come along with her. Kevin was finishing up a big project at work and needed to be home all day so I thought why not it will be fun. They returned Madison home for a Young Women activity and then picked the rest of us up for what we thought was just for the afternoon but turned into so much more.
Allison was very excited that she got Capri all to herself and she also got to see her friend skate. I knew that she would want pictures so I brought my camera along for her.
Once we dropped Capri and Allison off we shopped for a little bit before we ran over to pick up one of Jacob's friends to take to a movie with Jacob. Jacob picked probably the farthest away movie theater that he could find. We went from one end of Boise to the other. All along we were having a great time in the car with Ashley. She is growing up so fast. After dropping the boys off at the movie it was about time to pick the girls back up on the other side of the town. Since it was getting late we stopped and picked up some dinner because we knew that is what Allison and Capri were going to do when the competition was over.
I called Kevin to let him know so he could Madison and him dinner. They loved the idea and decided to use Madison free meal at Tucanos. Since they were going out to dinner there was no rush for us to get home so we went out and looked at Christmas lights. We really didn't have any specific ones to look at and ended up in Meridian just driving around when when we came across this.
That is one big rain deer. I could not believe it. We then moved on to one of our families favorite lights to see. A house that the lights are set to music.
It was a good night to go so we stayed a while to watch it. The girls got kind of crazy in the back seat.

What do you expect from Ashley. She has now been in this car for several hours. It is just amazing how they have everything synced. Since it was close to the time that the boys movie was getting out we just stayed with the Ewing's and ask Kevin to pick us up at there house on his way home. While we were looking at lights Capri kept on mentioning a house in the foothills that she likes to see. We weren't that close to it until we picked up the boys so we figures why not. This house had his whole front yard lit up with several different characters.
He had a portion fenced off so you could walk through it. The kids really liked that we didn't just drive by but got out of the car and walked through it.

Jacob loves that I am always taking pictures. It is was starting to get late and Allison was getting restless having to sit next to the boys in the back of the van so we headed back to the Ewing's house to wait to for Kevin and Madison. While we waited for them to come we sat down to play a game.
Ashley and I were partners but she soon lost interest and started drawing. She wanted to know how to write a star so Miss Dawn taught her and she was an expert before the end of the night.
And if you notice I won the game. We had a great day driving all over Boise with Miss Dawn. I am glad we went along on this little adventure.