Just a Little Bowling in the Livingroom!

While My sister and Nephew were here, they were turned on to the JOY that is the Wii!!!!

What a wonderful, friendly, cousin filled evening...

What a wonderful bunch of competitive, smiley children...

Memories!

I find the Wii to be platform for a myriad of wonderful family memories...

We challenge each other to bowling, golf, and baseball...we can compete in the Olympics...and right now, the favorite, all around, is car racing in Mario Kart.

When else could my, just turned, three-year old, five year old and my sixteen year old play on the same level of a game, and laugh, and roll on the ground in pure belly laughs.

Where else would a daddy be able to play right next to his five year in a round of golf...AND...get his pants beaten off of him!

When else might you see a husband and wife compete in an Olympic Race (in their living room) running as fast as possible and laughing and squealing the whole time as though they were back in Middle school, for the pure competition of it all.

I have never been a proponent of video games, EVER...but...in it's very limited quantity that we allow...this has been nothing but GOOD in our living room!

Ahhhh...and...it is a great bribe for bedroom cleaning...staying in bed at night...and a great reminder to stay well-behaved at a store.

A little Wii

We got a Wii for Christmas.

It is sooooo great! We have never let our kids watch much TV, or play the computer or video games much at all. That, hasn't changed....but I have to say, something that can entertain, two adults, a teenager and two little kids is pretty awesome!

So one of our new years resolutions for the year (for the umpteenth time) was to lose some weight and gain back some strength etc....so I really wanted to get the Wii and the Wii fit for us. It is amazing! It acts as accountability as you weight-in on it, and also gets you up off the couch and moving :) Plus, and this is the best part...it is FUN! So you want to do it again!

Plus, the kids love it. Tyler has the most interest. Makylie is still too young, to really "get it"...and Karman had already played it many times before we ever got it, so it isn't as exciting to her...but she still enjoys it. We still limit to about 1/2 hour a day...but it is so fun to watch everyone play it and learn the skills and the coordination. Plus, it is a great bargaining tool...for cleaning up, studying and staying in bed at night. :)