More Random Pictures from the holidays

Here's a picture of the kids on Thursday afternoon, when we left Mom and Dads...
















This picture was of the Christmas baking.... we apparently made short work of mom's stash!!!















Wednesday afternoon, the Churchills and the Mackays went bowling .... It was the girls in one lane, and the boys in another......



There were a couple of noteable shots... Taylor shot one, that bounced out of our lane, and into the girls ..... missed all of the pins in THEIR lane, and used up Anna's last shot... he was NOT popular!

After a while, we had them put the bumpers up, to help reduce the number of gutter balls...... I took one shot, I mean.. I BLISTERED it down the alley.... hit the bumper, and it went carreening into the corner... never touched a pin... I NEVER GOT ONE PIN down... with the BUMPERS up.....

David's mouth fell open.. HOW DID YOU DO THAT???? it takes a special skill, with bumpers up, to NOT knock a pin down, thank you very much!!!!

For most of us, bowling was an excercise in humility ...... Carol, at one point, decided it was futile to bowl frontwards.... and bowled backwards.....

I'm not saying she's better that way..... but you tell me????















ok, that was not the same turn.... you'd have picked up on that, if you saw there were only two pins left when she bowled backwards...

On the way home from bowling, I saw this pretty sunset view of the Bridge at the top end of downtown Belleville.... I took this while Taylor was driving... just think about how many more pictures I can take, now that I have a second DRIVER in this family!!








Taylor brought his guns to Belleville ( He has 3.... two BB guns and one airsoft pellet gun ) ..... Gramma has had a hate on for some of the rodents in the back yard.. and has threatened to buy a gun... in fact, DID go to buy one a couple of years ago...... she went, though, to TOYS R US ..... they didn't actually have the calibre she needed!!! anyway, taylor convinced gramma she should try the gun.... blew the can right off the top of the little arbour..... DEAD EYE MOM!!