New Year's Eve isn't quite the same once you have kids that need to go to bed at their normal scheduled time. I guess we're kind of lucky to live far enough away from Nick's parents that it's normal to stay the night when we visit! Which also means we get to put our kids to bed and still stay up and "party" with the rest of the family. And since Josh and Kaleena are in the same boat, they stayed the night too!
Kaleena wanted to make it extra fun for the kids so she brought games, party supplies, and of course treats! They all looked so cute in their hats and necklaces. And Shelby made a new friend. I thought it was so cute the way she kicked back with Grandpa and stayed a while.
Around 8pm we played a movie on Netflix that was added specifically for kids to celebrate New Year's Eve before midnight. It was a short clip with dancing and music, and then a countdown to celebrate the new year. The girls were so cute dancing!
And then after the countdown we celebrated with fringed horns and party poppers! It took some practice before the girls could really do them on their own, but once Shasta had it down there was no stopping her! She probably popped a dozen of them all on her own. And then when it came time to clean up all the confetti, she checked every single popper shell to see if it had already been used or still needed to be popped! And she was thrilled when she actually found one!
After we finished cleaning up and put the kids to bed, then the real party began! Haha! We played games until one in the morning... some of which I did really bad on, others that my husband cheated me out of points, and some that I didn't do too terrible on. I never won a game, I don't think, but it was fun all the same. We didn't pay much attention to the time and kind of missed the countdown on tv, but we still popped open some sparkling cider (a little after the fact) and celebrated with a sparkler out in the snow. Here's to another year in the books and hopefully some positive changes in the year 2015!
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