New Year’s Eve

For New Year’s Eve, we were lucky enough to have Jake and Stacey and co. come up and spend the weekend with us.  We had a fun New Year’s Eve planned, with some delicious (and way too much!) take out Chinese food for dinner, a game of glow stick hide-and-seek, a craft of making Chinese lanterns, and best of all, a dance party of the top dance hits of 2011.  We even did our dance party in the dark, with the kids’ glow sticks and Jake and Stacey’s strobe lights on their iphones turned on.  It was quite the event.  After the kids went to bed, we played a little Super Mario and Mario Kart on the wii, and then watched the ball drop while toasting some Martinellis.  It was a great night.
   
Sunday evening, the weather was cool but nice, so we went out on a short walk.  I got a picture of our Christmas lights as we headed out.  The kids had fun running up and down the path together, and it was nice to get outside.
     
Sunday was also Davis’s first day as a Sunbeam.  He was very excited to be in the big kid Primary with Landon!  His teacher made him this cute hat, so we got a picture of him showing it off.  Of course, he couldn’t do a normal face for either picture.
 
By Monday morning, it was official – Christmas was over.  We took down our Christmas decorations and got the house back to normal.  Before I did, I took one last picture of Davis playing with our Fisher Price nativity.  He had everyone lined up looking at the baby Jesus.