Happy New Year!

After all the chaos of our huge family Christmas, we took it easy for New Year's. Our friends, the Walkers, invited us over for a very chill "Eastern Standard Time New Year's" family party. A couple of our other friends and their kids were there as well. We ate, talked, played Rock Band and Just Dance and basically hung out. The girls played dress up and acted silly. Then they put on hats and got horns to blow at "midnight" (9:00pm). It was really fun. When we got home, both of our kids were determined to stay up until actual New Year's. We gave them the green light...and they lasted til about 10:45. But they both made us promise to wake them up before midnight. So at 11:55 they came downstairs, we watched the ball drop, counted down, gave Dad some New Year's kisses...then they went back to bed. Party animals!