Update on Lisa

With basketball over, Lisa moved on to bowling. This is by far her favorite sport and the local Special Olympics group is able to offer bowling on most Saturdays. Three games each time, at no cost to the athletes. Grandma Haren always went with us to watch and cheer Lisa on.

March 25th, Lisa celebrated her birthday. We asked Uncle Cale, Aunt Diane, and the rest of the Haren clan to join us at a Mexican restaurant and then to come back home for cake afterward. Everyone came (Grandma, Cale, Diane, Tyler, his girl Tori, their baby Andrew, Jake, Autumn, Dad and me) Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera with me so we didn't get any pictures there. Uncle Cale suprised us by paying for dinner. It was a nice surprise! They also got Lisa her own basketball and some clothes. It was very good.

There was a local bowling tournament on May 9th. Bowlers from several counties came and there was a good turnout. The groups are made up of 4 bowlers with similar skill levels. Grandma and I went to watch and Lisa took the blue ribbon, first place, in her group. That's when we learned she would be going on the the State Special Olympics in Richmond for bowling.

Lisa brought home the bronze medal from the State Games. She left for Richmond on Friday morning, June 12th. There were all kinds of activities planned for the athletes and Lisa seemed to have had a great time. There was a dance on Saturday night after the games were over and after that they went back the dorms where they were staying and had a pizza party. She returned home on Sunday and enjoyed showing her medal to everyone here. I am so happy that we have a good Special Olympics program in this area.