Happy New Year 2011

This New Year's Eve Ryan and I went to Lara's house for a "Minute to Win It" New Year's party. We snacked on appetizers and Chic Fil A nuggets and then got the games started. Each couple (4 couples in all) had come prepared with supplies for 2-3 games from the gameshow "Minute to Win It". We set the timer and had some fun! To make it a little more competitive each couple put $10 into the pot and the winner took all. Each team got one point for each game won. Some of the games that we played included: Face the Cookie, Hanky Panky, Go the Distance, Marbles Grande, Caddy Stack, Do You Hear What I Hear, and Drop Sink and Clink.

Here are some random pictures from New Year's Eve...

FACE THE COOKIE

Ryan trying to get the cookie from his forehead into his mouth just using his face.

HANKY PANKY
Lara and Ryan trying to empty the tissue boxes one handed.

GO THE DISTANCE
Yami and Ryan rolling the ping pong balls down the tape measure into the shot glasses at distances of 5, 6, and 7 feet.

MARBLES GRANDE

Lara and Ryan and Yami and Justin trying to knock all of the orange ping pong balls out of the hula hoop by throwing white ping pong balls at the one at a time.

CADDY STACK
Bishop and Ryan each gloating over their golf ball stack holding the necessary 3 seconds.

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR

Marsy and I trying to put the boxes in order from least amount of jingle bells to most. The boxes had 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 jingle bells in them.

DROP SINK AND CLINK
Ryan and I trying to get the quarters into the three shot glasses at the bottom of the fishbowl filled with water.

AND THE WINNER IS....

Welcome to 2011 :)

And the curtains were hung on the windows with care...

We finally got the curtains in the kitchen made and hung. Maybe the kitchen remodel will be finished in 2011... maybe :)

So... do we need a window treatment over the back door? I can't decide!

Merry Christmas 2010

HOPE YOURS WAS AS MERRY AS OURS!

Impromptu Group Dinner

We've been trying to schedule a Group Dinner forever but with end of the year parties and such its been impossible. So Lori emailed yesterday and wanted to see if we could all get together this week (she had some leftover desserts she wanted to get rid of from her annual Holiday Sweets party) ~ Sheri & Patrick and our family were available (Krista & Derek were busy bees this week and couldn't make it) so we scheduled it! Tonight with the kids at Kevin & Lori's house ~ spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, and wine. The kids played outside, upstairs, and hide and seek throughout the house while we ate. Great night!

The Heard Museum

The weather today was amazing and not wanting to stay inside (it was 80 today) we decided to find something outdoorsy to do. Having just bought a family membership to the Heard Museum, the kids and I (along with my parents) decided that was where we wanted to spend the day. They currently have the Dinosaurs Live exhibit along with the butterfly garden and the awesome Bugs exhibit so it was a packed 3 hours. We packed a picnic lunch and ate at the table in the woods and then headed into the museum. We toured the Bugs exhibit, excavated a dinosaur and then took the 1/2 mile trail to check out the animatronic dinosaurs. The weather was beautiful and the kids had a blast.

Total Lunar Eclipse

A total lunar eclipse on the winter solstice ~ 1:30 a.m.

Ryan and I have been in and out since the eclipse started around 12:30 a.m. trying to decide when we should wake the kids up :)

We woke the kids up around 1 am when the moon was a little over half eclipsed and went and laid outside in the front yard under heavy blankets to take in the fabulous lunar eclipse. Kids were cold and a bit complainy (it is one in the morning) but it was cool to be out there taking it in together.

Hope everyone got to see the eclipse ~ it was pretty cool and apparently there won't be another total lunar eclipse on the winter solstice until 2094.

A Year in Status Updates 2010

It's funny to see your entire year summed up in a handful of Facebook posts :)