New Year's Sleep Over

For Keara's birthday in the summer she wanted to have a sleep over and invited Liv to spend the night with her.  It's was Liv's first and only sleep over and she has been begging for another ever since.  I decided New Year's Eve was the best night for a sleep over because I honestly didn't care how late they stayed up.  I got hats and roll out noise-makers for all the kids, and they loved it.

Liv was so stoked that hers had a peacock feather on it.

 It seems to have become a tradition that the Thorsteds come over to our place for games every New Years Eve.  We all groggily debate about whether we should actually go till midnight or call it a night at 10 or 11 every year.  But then, we somehow always make it to midnight.  This year the Rileys joined us as well.  We tons of a food and a lot of fun.  The girls had a night long tea party going on all with all the fun loose leaf herbal tea Nay gave me for Christmas.  We did an pre-recorded character count down with the kids at 10 pm.  They got so excited counting down and then blowing their noise makers and shouting HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!  Then, Derek and I put all our kids to bed and all the adults played Smart Ass.  Derek won as usual. Two minutes after midnight everyone shoveled out and finally headed to bed.  Our kids still woke up at 7am as usual.  Fabulous.