strikes for all

Almost every year my side of the family goes bowling on New Year's Day, then we meet at someone's house and have Chinese food. Nothing super fancy, but we always have a good time. Maybe this year was better because it's been a few years since we've actually done the bowling part, but we had a ton of fun. Jake kicked everyone's hiney - twice but that may be because Jason's arm was injured - he can send a ball down the ally with some serious force man. I have to say that I was humbled because since Christmas I have been playing bowling on the Wii and have had some good success with it. Wow, real bowling is nothing like Wii bowling, I got schooled! So here are my favorite pics from the day...

Everyone got at least one strike, even the little girls! Brandon's hip action...Jake's strike streak...Cute little Laurel who kept saying, "I won!" every time she bowled, no matter how many pins she did (or didn't) knock down!...All of the celebrating...

Babies who were really good despite being bored, and they're so cute, what could be better than cute babies?...

Ethan thinking that everyone's turn was his turn and how Spencer fought off the other two older kids to be Ethan's helper when it really was his turn. Spencer is a great big brother.

Turning around every time we bowled to see this...Everyone cheering, clapping or saying, "oh you were robbed on that one!" Nothing beats family.

Later we met at our house for Chinese Food and games, we played Wii bowling of course. Taylor took on the uncles with boxing...It was Grandma and Grandpa's first time and the best part about that was mom exclaiming, "Mike, we are definitely getting a Wii for our house!" and my dad saying, "well that became evident about an hour ago". I think I have her talked into a little Guitar Hero, we'll see. Some day I'll blog about when we were little and bought our first Nintendo gaming system. Let's just say that we some times had to fight mom for our turn to play and she could really throw a turtle shell man.