Happy New Year!!!!

News Years Eve

We had a fun New Years Eve, popping a balloon every hour and reading the scripture inside and doing what ever activity the paper had written on it.  We had "Dinner Dips" and rang in the New Year with our home made noise makers.  Noni and Poppy joined us and it was a blast.

Happy New Year!!!!

We decorated our tree for New Years, complete with a balloon to pop every hour of our count down to New Years.  Each balloon had a fun family activity in it.

We spent the day together and had our traditional dinner of appetizers!    

Daddy wasn't feeling very good... but this sweet little girl did a good job of cheering him up!

We rang in the New Year at 8:00 pm with Noni and Tom.  It was a fun, LOUD celebration.  The kids loved it!  They blew noise makers and set off those little confetti bombs.  There was lots of dancing, and yelling, and blowing, and cheering :)

Saying Goodbye to 2013

We have had a wonderful year and we are so thankful to God for the many blessings he has provided us with.  I love these people.

This is the sweet children collecting their bribe for cooperating during pictures :)

I love my babies!

Happy New Year!!!

We took down all of our Christmas decorations the day after Christmas and decorated our tree for New Years.  It was fun to decorate the tree again, this time with a color scheme, which I've never gotten to do before.  Then the day before New Years Eve we blew up balloons, one for each hour of our new years countdown (plus some extra ones for fun) and hung them on our tree.  Here it is in all its glory...

On New Year's Eve, we popped a balloon every hour and did the activity on the slip of paper inside the balloon.  We went on a family walk, had dance parties, visited with MayMay and PopPop, played games, danced some more, made fondue, took an awesome bubble bath (the kids, that is), and then rang in the new year with lots of noise makers, dancing, yelling, fire crackers, and kissing of cute little kids.  You should hear Hogan blow a noise maker.... wow.  Tom and Noni rang in the new year with us.  It was fun!  Then the kids had a sleep over in our room.  

We are thankful for all the blessings God has given us in 2012 and are looking forward to 2013!

Goodbye 2011

We welcomed in 2012 with a picnic at Noni's and a cute little New Year's Eve festival in downtown Brooksville.  Luckily, we were all in bed well before midnight;)

We thank God for out greatest blessing of 2011, Maryann Katherine... Oh, how we love her!