new year celebrations

Happy New Year! So far, for us, it has been hectic--there's nothing quite like starting a "new" among vomiting children and piles of laundry. Things are starting to slowly get back to normal but I'd be remiss if I didn't post about the end of year festivities. So here's some quick pics:

If Santa didn't make it to your house it's probably because he suffered a diabetic coma after eating the cookies that Sarah & Emma left out for him. My apologies.

And, per Chelsea's request, here's our gingerbread house that we made from scratch. In the past we've done those kits, but this was easy and waaay more fun! I'm tempted to make a whole village next year.

Ringing in the new at Jeff & Felicia's playing "Rock Band" (note the snarl on Morgan's upper lip--the future Pat Benatar) Gene on bass. It doesn't matter what we do, spending time with family is the best!

Sarah was a trooper and stayed up, though semi-conscious, until midnight. Emma & Morgan didn't make it past 10:30.

We also played spoons/truth or dare (the one without the spoon had to choose) and Jordan, on a dare, had to strip down to his boxers and make a snow angel, but I love the little dance he's making in this shot!

After staying up all night and dragging the morning of New Years day, we had lunch at the Outback (so glad that Cheryl could grace us with her presence for all of 5 minutes).

My nephew, Dean, in his Air Force dress blues. We took him out to Ejo (Korean) restaurant the next day, before he headed to Omaha, NE. He also took us on a tour of Hill Air Force Base while he was here. It was so good to spend quality time with him!