New Years Eve 2012

Despite being 37 weeks pregnant, I wanted to do something fun for New Years Eve. We invited the Eids and Moehrings over to our house for a kid friendly night - including a sleepover! Since we wanted some adult time for playing games, we had the kids celebrate an early countdown at 7 and then put a movie in. 

Mallory, being the oldest, helped everyone count back from 20 (while watching a youtube video of last years ball drop). The kids each had a glass of bubbly apple cider, tiaras, lays, and blowers. 

Happy New Year!! Sienna was determined to get her blower to work but couldn't quite figure it out. Can't say I was too upset about that. A few minutes after the kids had celebrated, we found a yellow liquid on the floor. We assumed one of them had spilled their bubbly in all the excitement, but as Cran mopped it up she felt it was warm...ewwwww. After checking all the kids pants, we are blaming Conner who quickly darted in and out of the room during the celebration. 

All in jammies watching a movie with their popcorn.

After the movie was finished, we attempted to put all the older kids to bed in Sienna's room. She was up in her bed and 3 sleeping bags were laid out on the floor. For their first sleepover it went pretty well. After we tucked them in, the room was quiet for a couple minutes but soon it was filled with girly giggles and squeals. I think we all had forward flashes to them as teenagers. It took going up there a few times and finally moving Mikayla to her own room until they all fell asleep.   

The adults had a fun night too. The competition was intense between guys vs girls. After a big butt kicking game of Pictonary, the woman were nice enough to let the guys win the rest of the night. I even took pictures of the adults too! I can't say we made it until midnight, but we were close. Brent had to work early the next morning so we celebrated with New York at 11. 

The next morning Sienna woke up excited to see her friends and to her dismay they were all gone!! Ellie went home the night before while she was sleeping and Mallory snuck out of the room before she woke up. After surveying her room. she started sobbing that she missed her friends. So cute, yet so sad. Luckily Mikayla and Mallory were just downstairs waiting for her to wake up. All was well once they were reunited.