Ring in the new year!

I love New Year. We partied at home. Then partied at our neighbor's house. Then we partied more at home. It was great! Rootbeer floats, as usual, for New Year's Eve.

And funny faces.

More funny faces.

More.

And more still.

This was Lily's first time to stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year. Usually we celebrate midnight at about 7:00 p.m., put the kids to bed, then go to bed ourselves. But this year I decided to stay up until midnight and invite anyone else to join me. Lily joined in immediately. Aaron finally caved at the last minute and decided to stay up with us. We played dominos, drank sparkling apple cider, and watched our neighbors' fireworks from Lily's window. It was fun!

A few days later we got to see my brother, Jordan, and his family! They drove across the country for his internship. We were soooo excited that their drive took them through Flagstaff.

Hazel and Ian were excited to see each other again.

Jordan was excited to see LaMar's donuts again. He discovered these when they were living down here. So we surprised him with some. Yum.

Happy New Year 2010!!

We had our annual New Year Party. The ball dropped at 5:30 p.m. and we had a great time! We stomped on bubble wrap, drew "2010" on our faces, played a game to guess which day Hazel will arrive (the person closest to the date will win a bag of Lindt chocolate balls!), and ate rootbeer floats. Mmm, mmm!

The kids had to make sure we got every last bubble popped!

Welcome, 2010!

Happy New Year!

Happy 2009! We had a fun party to ring in the new year. We played the lucky penny game. We find hidden pennies around the house and then talk about the cool things from the year past and the year to come. Lily found most of them!

Bummer this picture didn't turn out, but it shows the fun we had stomping on bubble wrap. That activity is so much stinking fun! It makes a great noise and the kids can't get enough of it.

Yummy rootbeer floats topped off the party.