For New Years Eve our family goes to Dave's sister's house and this year was no exception. The whole family was there (minus a few teens who had other plans) and it was so much fun. We had a soup dinner with breadsticks and salad, along with goodies too! It was really hard for me not to partake of all the breads and noodles and treats, but I brought a yummy salad and we had lunchmeat as well. Plenty of veggies and fruits and we were good.
Allison and Lindsey are both expecting this year, only a few weeks apart. Alli a boy and Lindsey a girl. More cousin fun in the making.
At the New Years party the cousins exchange gifts from the Christmas name draw. This is always a highlight of the evening for the kids. We have each child get the gift that they are going to "give" to their cousin and then exchange. Then it's a free for all at the word "go" as the 33 cousins unwrap their gifts.
Everyone (except Maxwell...maybe Lindsey and George :)) made it to midnight where we watched to ball drop and popped balloons and blew noisemakers to ring in the new year. I also got my first kiss of the new year with all the "fireworks" going on!
Then some families stay over for a night (and morning) full of no sleep and more eating. The kids even went sledding for a few hours that day before we headed home and were all in bed by 8:30 that night ready for work and school.
We are looking forward to a great 2013. 2012 was an improvement on 2011, and we hope the trend continues. We are healthy, almost always happy, and blessed with all that we need and a lot of what we want, so it's looking like it will be a good year. Happy New Year!
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