**Valentine's Party**

Two weekends ago Laura, Lisa and i went to a Valentine Party at our friend's house...

We mainly sat around talking and laughing, but we also played a few games like scattagories, cups, and another one but i don't remember the name of it!!

It was a lot of fun and we all laughed a lot!!

Here's some of the girls waiting for everyone else to get there so the party can begin...

The table....

everyone brought a snack to share

(Oh, and that's not beer on the table, it's pop!!)

More of the table...

Isn't the table pretty?!?

And more of the table...

Some of the girls talking and eating their snacks...

More of the girls eating and talking...

Then after everyone got done eating we played Scattagories!!

Here's the baord Vanessa and I shared...

The scattagorie box and a game board...

After a few more games and more talking and more laughing and more plain old goofing off we opened up Valentines!!...

Holly, Caitlin, and Hannah opening up their Valentines...

We all had a lot of fun!!

**posted by Ceara**

**Valentine Bowling Party**

On Valentines day we --- laura, lisa, my dad and i --- went to a bowling party!!

It was a BLAST!! there were close to 30 teenagers...including 4 chaperones/parents.

And the cool thing was, was that all the kids were homeschooled and Catholic!!

Here's the party in pictures!!

people checking in and getting their "fancy" bowling shoes!

this picture turned out a little fuzzy because people were running around.

but it's a picture of some of us waiting for everyone else to get there...

still hanging out before we started bowling...

one of the teams....

Another team...

My team...oops, i'm not in it!!

(and the kid in the back wasn't supposed to be in the picture!)

Yet another team...

And finally the last team!!

(the dads had a team, too...i just forgot to take a picture of them..oops!)

We even got digital score boards!!

For super we had pop and pizza!

**my mom let us bring her camera to the party --- it has a digital screan that flips around so it's fun to take self-portrits with it 'cause you can see yourself before you take the picture!! So we had fun with that!!**

Laura and Vanessa's self-portrait...

And Matthew and Mariah's self-portrait... here's a few more pictures, too ---


Me..

Laurie.. one of our chaperones!

Holly...

Victoria...

Gabrelle...

Cierra...

Mariah...love this picture!

Vanessa and i...

Matthew, Laura and half of Vanessa..

And

Matthew and I..

As you can see we had Lots of fun!!

And we had a great time taking pictures of each other!!

After bowling we went to a small diner to get some malts...

here's a cool picture of Mariah and Laura drinking their malts!!

We all had a great time at the Diner and laughted the whole time!!

The whole party was great and we can't wait till next years!!

**Posted by Ceara**