New Year’s Eve

We had a good New Year’s Eve evening.  After dinner we let the kids run around & be noisy to burn off some energy.  The living room was a huge mess w/ toys & blankets & pillows everywhere.  We had a 10 minute pick up & then I laid out a blanket for our movie night.  They got their pillows & blankets & we put in Ice Age: Continental Drift.  I popped some popcorn & it was nice to have some peace & quiet for 90 minutes.

After the movie, we got our “pop-its” and went outside to celebrate.

It was a little chilly outside (40 degrees), but that didn’t bother the kids at all.  They had A BLAST playing tag & running around & throwing the pop-its at each other’s feet.  I kept asking them if they were ready to go in, but they kept saying no.  We were out there for about an hour, but I didn’t mind b/c they were running & wearing themselves out.

When I FINALLY called it quits & made them come inside it was 7:40.  We made some “fancy drinks”, which consisted of Sprite & grenadine.  We counted down from 10 to 1, yelled “Happy New Year”, and clinked our glasses.  Then we put the kids to bed & had a quiet house by 8:00 pm.  LOVE IT!

We went all out to have a super amazing & fancy snack for our last food of 2013.  Yay for mac & cheese.  LOL!

For the past few years we’ve been taking a picture of Andrew passed out w/ the Martinelli’s bottle.  I’m glad we could continue the tradition this year.

I snuck in & got one of Autumn, too.

We usually ring in the New Year at 11:00 central time & just count down w/ the ball drop in NYC.  But, this year we actually stayed up until midnight central time.

We did watch the ball drop in NYC, though.  I can’t imagine standing there for hours and hours on end w/ all those crowds.  What do people do if they need to use the restroom?

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 from Autumn & me!!!