New Year's Fun

Gracie looking cute in her New Year's hat with her red juice mustache.

Aunt Sarah and Daniel waiting for the party to begin.

We spent New Year's in Grace this year. It was so much fun to be with so many family members just hanging out with nothing to do. All of Kenny's siblings were in town except his sister Mindy who thought she needed to stay in Salt Lake and have her twins (I think she should have waited. JK!) We all missed them, but were happy for Mindy and Jeremy.

Hannah waiting very patiently to make some noise.

Gracie helping her cousin Carlie get her hat on. What a good girl.

The rest of us had a lot of fun in Grace doing nothing at all. We had a New Years Eve pajama party for the kids at about 10:00 on New Year's Eve. They had a lot of fun counting down to the New Year and then popping confetti and blowing noise makers. I love making memories with family that my kids will always remember. After we put the kids to bed the adults stayed up waiting for the New Year. It was nice to catch up and just spend time as adults without kids.

It's party time. Here's the kids popping confetti all over the place.

Making noise and messes. What fun.

Sarah and cousin Maddi after the party.

That night we got word that my sister-in-law had gone into the hospital to have her babies. She had wanted New Year's Eve babies, but instead ended up with the New Year's babies for her hospital. Lilly and Landon were born at 4:45 and 4:48 in the morning. We were so happy to hear of there arrival. The next day my in-laws took off to Salt Lake, in the middle of a snowstorm, to see the two new additions to the family. While there they picked up Mindy's 5 year old daughter Savannah and brought her back to the party.

The proud parents. Mindy with Lilly and Jeremy with Landon. Congrats!

While the grandparents were gone we all just hung out and enjoyed each other. We went sledding (see the other blog) swam in the hot tub, ate yummy food and played the Wii. The rest of the weekend was pretty much the same. A lot of playing in the snow having snowball fights and building a huge snowman, eating, playing, trying to get kids to nap (yeah right) and just enjoying each others company.

Hot Tubbing.

Cute little Dan bouncing in his seat.

Nikki and her friend Jordan decided to build a snowman. They wanted a big one, but didn't realize how hard it would be to put the huge snowballs on top of each other. After trying by themselves and failing, they recruited most of the males in the house to help. They decided to roll the ball up the stairs and then onto the snow. Brilliant!

Just hold it there Jordan while we pack snow around it!

The finished snowman with his original builders. Good job guys.

The last night we were all there the adults decided to go for a sledding trip in the dead of night. So about 1 in the morning Kenny and I, Karen and Cory, Nikki and her friend Jordon, Gary and Michael all headed out so sled. It was a blast. I'm sure for any cars that drove past us we looked crazy, but we all had an awesome time. The guys even decided to get the canoe out and try and pull it behind the snowmobile. There are crazy men in our family, but it was all in good fun. I wish someone had been smart enough to bring a camera to capture our craziness, but even without the camera we had a great time. Another memory to never forget.

It was a great weekend and we were so sad when Sunday came and everyone had to go home. I can't think of a better way to bring in the new year.