New Years Eve

It's pretty rare that Bob gets to be home on a New Years Eve. In fact, since he works evenings he really only gets it off about once every 7-8 years when it falls on his regular day off. So needless to say, NYE has never been a big thing for us ... the girls and I are usually in bed LONG before midnight and we make no special occasion of it.

Well the past TWO years we have been lucky enough to have Bob home since NYE was on his days off. So last year we started a fun tradition and invited some friends over to 'party' with us.

My friend Sarah has always told me of the fun NYE celebrations they host where about 30-40 ppl all come over to celebrate and then crash wherever they can find a pillow. I always thought that sounded like SO much fun so we decided to try it. (On a much smaller scale though!)

Last year we had a few friends over and some even made it to midnight. And all the kids stayed up too which was fun, even though we knew they'd be cranky the next day. This year we did the same. We only had 2 other couples over, but with all the kids it added up to 13 ppl which was perfect.

We ate yummy stuff, had some fun drinks, and played games while the kids watched movies downstairs. Then one couple and their kids spent the night, since their drive was too far to go after midnight. And yes, our kids and theirs all stayed up till midnight! (After I tucked them in it took all of 5 seconds for them to fall asleep!)

I didn't take too many pictures, guess I was too busy having fun, but here's a few of the kids (taken at about 11pm) as you can see they still have plenty of silliness and energy left in them!

Oh, and the fun disco ball headbands were a steal from Target (2 for a dollar!)


Poor Ben, stuck with all the girls!


It's just too bad it will probably be another 7 years until we can do this again!