Happy New Years!!

This was our 3rd year that we have had our New Years Eve party, and every year the crowd is different....but it's always lots of fun. The kids were very excited about their friends coming over and about Aunt Amanda coming to bring in the new year with us. This year it was our friends, Jeff and Sheila, and their 4 kiddos. And our friends Betsy and matt and their kids. Their daughter Zoe is in class with Maggie so we have just gotten to know them this year.
Here is Maggie waiting for everyone to arrive...and posing for me to try out different settings on my new camera.








































We ate and ate all evening long and the kids all played great together and watched movies while the adults all played games. We taught Amanda our favorite game, Catan, and I think she liked it pretty well...she caught on fast!

We played and the kids watched movies right through midnight so they totally missed the ball falling! Josie went to bed around 8 30 so she slept right through the new year. Jeff and Sheila and their kids ended up spending the night at our house and the kids all went to bed sometime after 1 or so. Sheila, Amanda and I followed not long after..but Jeff and Joe stayed up playing Xbox who knows how long!




















Owen wanted to go to sleep in his bed, Isaac fell asleep on the chair, and the girls all made a bed on our beanbag bed.....
















We had a fun New Years, but missed Shannon, Preston and their girls who were in NY for the weekend. Hopefully they can be there next year!














Josie loves going around the house finding clothes, undergarments, bathing suits, etc to put around her neck. Not sure why but she can sit forever in front of a drawer pulling out whatever she finds and getting it over her head until she can't put on anymore. Here are some pictures from 2 different days......once she gets them on she can't get them off which results in the furious screaming until you help her. But someday she can look back and see how silly she was!!!