Sooooo glad to be past the holiday hustle and bustle and back to Zero Gravity and routine!! We missed these guys! We had our belated Christmas gift exchange and New Year's party last night and what a wild evening it was. Hanna was our door greeter in her New Year's getup. We started with pizza for dinner and then our gift exchange. Kirsten was so creative. Ben just asked for $10 and so she sewed that much in quarters into a sock guy she made for him. The kids LOVED the acrostic name pictures John and I made them. It was precious to see how excited and proud they were to have us read their names outloud and then use each letter to describe a quality we love about them.
We went outside for fireworks and then it was time for Michaela's birthday cake and snacks while we settled in a little for a movie (after a wild game of hide and seek, that is). The movie ended right about 11:50 p.m., just in time for the countdown to 2011. Party poppers filled with confetti were the craze, followed by another movie and then FINALLY the talking ended around 4:30 a.m.!! Cailin was out long before midnight of course. How she slept through all the craziness we'll never know. Oh, the pleasure we took in waking all of them at 7 for breakfast and to get dressed!!
