2019 New Year's Day Fun

Xela and Aurora were off playing with high school friends most of New Years Eve and Christmas Eve. On New Year's Day, we started the day by playing Carcassonne - a game that takes so much time, we only play it on New Years. It took us three hours and we missed Patience Gaydo's New Year's Day brunch, which is always a tasty treat.

Here is the city that the three of us created
on New Year's Eve (a tradition),
without playing the actual game
(faster this way) 

Then the younger three and I wanted to get out of the house, but getting three kids to agree on one activity is like finding the end of the rainbow. It's not possible.

Finally, after Eric helped the sister missionaries for over an hour at the church, while Nate, Neta and I played in the gym, I decided we were going to go bowling. We grabbed McDonald's on the way and then spent about and hour and a half tossing 8-10 pound balls down lanes. Nate and Neta had bumpers on their lane while Eric, Graigry and I did not. Our lane also encountered technical difficulties so we played two games in the time it took Nate and Neta to play three.

Everyone left with smiles on their faces, even if during their last game they got a gutter ball in every turn. Yep, that was me our last game - should have been on N&N's lane. I think Nate ended up being the one with the highest score overall.

Nate awaiting results

Neta waiting on pins

Hoping for a spare

Pondering her options

"I GOT A STRIKE!!"

Eric waiting to see
how many pins will remain standing

It was good to do something together outside of the house that wasn't work or service oriented. Not that those things are bad, because they're not, but we seem to overload on that and forget that it's important to play as a family as well. Here's to a new year!