New Year's Eve......

Happy, Happy New Year to all of you!!

I know. I'm a bit late. Between staying up late on Friday night, a few sick children, more Christmas celebrating on Sunday and the kids going back to school yesterday, not only am I a bit late, I'm a bit behind!

Every New Year's Eve we celebrate with the other 3 families that make up our camping group. Fun times-dinner, games, the kids play-very relaxing. We used to put the kids to bed early but that's not happening anymore. All the kids made it to 12:00 this year, even my 7, 5 and 2 year olds. I thought for sure they'd crash!

We rotate houses each year and this year it was our turn. My 10 year old was in charge of decorations. She made a countdown for our wall. She pulled one down every hour until a minute before midnight.

The theme for the night was nice and easy. Chicken parmigiana, spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. So easy to prepare ahead of time and have cooking on the stove and ready to pop into the oven.

Keeping with the easy theme-ice cream for the kids for dessert. My girls made oreo balls and chocolate covered pretzels too, and we had pies for the adults.

My friend took this picture of our front door. The kids had gone out to play in the snow and this is what we found when they came back in the house. And yes, that is a pair of crocs in the front. My 2 year old thinks it's still summer. He still wants to go outside in the short sleeve shirt and sandals. I had to hide all his shorts.

12:00 midnight-not a tired child in the bunch!

but a few minutes after 12, it's a different story.....

and as I came back into the living room after saying goodbye to our last guests at about 12:30.......

Happy 2011 to you and your families!!!