New Years Eve

 We partied pretty hard for New Years Eve this year, I'm not going to lie.  Chloe and Brax have been staying with my parents while Megan and Todd are in Vegas and Nathan has loved having them around.  We started it off by playing in the snow which was Nathan's first time.  All of the kids loved the snow but didn't last long because it was so cold outside.

 

Matt, Nathan and I then went with his family to Culvers for dinner and then met back up with my family for our makeshift New Years Eve party!  Chloe was in charge of getting everyone dressed up and passing out the horns.  We then blew the horns and yelled Happy New Year!  At this point it was about 8:00.

 

After that excitement wore off my dad and Chloe pulled out the pots and pans and the kids all banged on them, including Nathan!  We banged and banged and yelled Happy New Year again, this time it was 8:30.

 



Nathan banging his first pan!

 

Then at 9:00 we pulled out the streamers and yelled Happy New Year all over again!  I told you we partied pretty hard!

 

Which was then followed by all three kids crashing and crying and being so exhausted that they couldn't go to sleep.  Which meant we slept the next hour watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse before we put the kids to bed and all went to bed ourselves.  Which was about 10:00.  The neighbors woke us up at midnight lighting off fireworks but we were too exhausted to even care and went right back to sleep. 

This New Years was just so fun.  I can't really explain it but it was definitely right up there in my books.  It was so fun to see Brax and Nathan get so excited by everything we did.  And Chloe remembered traditions from the last few years and made sure we banged pans and blew streamers and yelled Happy New Year many many times.  It was a great way to ring in the new year and I am excited to see what 2013 brings!