January Family Dinner

I just love our monthly family dinner.  Most months, it is the only time I get to see my grandchildren and I think about each month very carefully and plan for it hoping to plan an experience that will bring some fun memories.  I look so forward to each month and the day after one happens I start planning for the next month.

To start off January I planned a bowling outing.  The food there gets some of the best awards in Cedar City so I saved up and rented a room so we could eat, bowl and have a great time.  It didn't disappoint.  For dinner there were chicken strips, hamburgers, soda's and foot long hotdogs.  Everyone seemed to really enjoy the food.

After we ate we all got our bowling shoes.  That was fun, fortunately Blaine knew exactly what sized to get.  Then it came time to go down to our lanes and pick out our bowling balls.

We got two lanes.  The far right is a normal lane and it would be Blaine, Kinsley, and Ashlyn. The lane next to it had the protectors over the gutters so NO gutter balls and it had me (I am actually a fantastic bowler but I wanted to see the newbys doing it--haha!), Maddox, Jaxon, Tessa and Ambur (who although blind, should have gone on the normal lane).   

Blaine was in charge of entering the names for both lanes.  Once he finished we were all set to get rolling the ball.

We got a great start, Tessa, in the no gutter lane, actually got the ball in the the next lane over and went all the way through the gutter.  They were laughing thank heavens.

This was pretty funny, Tessa let go of her ball a little too soon and it cam flying backward. She got it together and was smiling away.

There were lots of high 5's and Jaxon decided to show how strong he is by holding two bowling balls.

The normal lane got done long before us and played their second game almost before we got done with our first game.  Next time, I think we will do two games for the normal lane and 1 game for the no gutter team.

Jaxon wouldn't pick up his ball on the left side so he would pick it up and then walk all the way around.  Sometimes you just have to roll with it-so to speak.

And here is GrannyT as Blaine put it on the list.  I haven't been bowling since I lived in Arizona where I used to go often with friends, and it certainly showed.  I did get one strike through the night though.  I actually think everyone had at least one strike.

Gimlet just sat down by the shoes and didn't move all night.  It is always funny to me how when we are leaving, and she gets her halter on to go to work, people will say, "oh my goodness there was a dog in here the whole time.  

I thought I got pictures of both lanes final scores, but couldn't see them in the group.  As you can see we had a lot of  fun in our lane.  Kinsley did like pointing out to Blaine that he was beaten by his sister. Next time Ambur will join them and see if that holds true.

What a blessing to be able to go and have such a fun time together.  I just love these family get togethers even though they are not that often, I will take what I can get and feel blessed to have these wonderful people in my life.