New Years Did Happen

Yes it is February 20th, which means that New Years Even was a LONG time ago. But I have so many great pictures, it would be a crime not to post a few.
For New Years Even we decided to have a huge family sleep over at my mom's house. We are grateful that my mom's house is big enough to fit everyone. The cousin's had lots of fun together.
Tommy taught Anna how to play on the DS.

Of course there was all you can eat ice cream provided by Grandma.

We all enjoyed just hanging out while the kids played. Unfortunately, the kids were up to no good and at one point took ALL the toys in the family room and made one big pile. Grandma was not happy about that at all.

From that point on we kept a better watch on the kids. Marie and Peter enjoyed playing games on the i pods.

Most of the evening and wee hours of the morning were spent playing Lego Rock Band.

Paul decided to add some cymbals to our rock band.

Once the kids went to bed the adults had a great time singing and laughing as we played rock band until the wee hours of the night...or morning. It is a good thing that our kids can sleep through pretty much anything. We were having so much fun we almost missed watching the "ball drop" at midnight.

Devin was kind enough to hold all of our rings so that we wouldn't get blisters from playing the drums. He had quite the collection. BLING BLING!

After a few hours sleep the kids were ready to play hard again. The girls had a nice tea party.

We did something different this year. We went to a movie New Years Day. We all went and saw The Princess and the Frog. This was Anna's second movie. We took her to see Up a long long time ago and she slept through most of it. Anna was excited in the beginning.

After falling asleep and then being woken up by a really loud song this is how we spent the rest of the movie.

Sad! We couldn't resist taking a picture. It was a good thing that she wasn't the only sad kid in the theater. Anna and I went for a good walk for the last half of the movie.
After the movie we went back to my mom's house to do our annual gingerbread house making extravaganza.

Hyrum was just happy watching everyone.

Devin and I did a really boring house this year. It was very plain and had a small "For Sale" sign on it to represent our current house status.
The kids then went downstairs and did all the little poppers.

By the time we were done with all of that we were all pretty tired!!! Crazy to think that we all went to Disney World just three days later. I guess we must like each other a lot!

Happy New Year Everyone!