NEW YEAR'S EVE! finally, one of our favorite holidays of the year :) --clearly the love of that one comes from daddy's side of the family! after our lovely hike and our corresponding naps, we were ready to PARTY! and no one knows a late night party like afton and grandma w! so we played a bunch of silly games like 50 cents, doggy doggy who has your bone, hot potato and huckle buckle beanstock (afton had a list of 10 or 12 games she wanted to play, we didn't quite get to all of them, but i think we all had fun with those we did play). i didn't take any pictures there because i was too busy playing!
then we got ready for uncle matthew's 'game'
rayna's all ready to go out
and afton found out what we were going to do!!!
malachi heard something about crackers, so he went running to get the crackers from the kitchen (what a helpful boy! unfortunately, we didn' really need the wheat thins to shoot fireworks!)
then we all headed outside!
we had lots of little fireworks -though the noise was enough for malachi to head off to bed, and rayna watched the second half of the show from the kitchen window
a few were BIG!!!
afton found herself a safe comfy spot to snuggle in for the rest of the show!
then we went back in for the rest of the party! lots of noisemakers, crowns (which evidentally fell off amid the blowing of the noisemakers)
and grandma's crackers--the little ones with a prize inside. i timed this shot really well though, if i do say so myself, see the little bracelet by rayna's leg? it's in mid-air coming out of her popper!
good night all! (ps, note chi is mid-yawn--i guess the flash disturbed him?)
and in case any of you are amazed we let our kids stay up so late, they were all sound asleep by 10, even with all that going on :) and i think they really had a great time too! i know i did.
happy 2013 everyone!
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