New Year's Eve Party

I have posted several photos from our FUN Family New Year's Eve Party last night. Only Jason and Heidi's families were able to join us. I thought I heard Peter say on the phone (he was at the store shopping) that the kids were throwing up and they didn't want to contaminate anyone.

So the rest of the family came over about 5:00 pm. Grandpa cooked his famous yummy waffles! Jace cooked bacon. We had a great New Year's Eve dinner. I was surprised. Each little one ate almost 2 full waffles (4 squares) of Grandpa's. That tells you how good they were.

As you see from this first photo...Noelle slept through the next half hour of noise making! We started about 6:50 pm.

Grandpa and I went to Party City earlier in the day. Grandpa checked out every aisle and had to get the perfect stuff for all 5 kids to have a great evening. We purchased glow in the dark bracelets, streamers, silly string, noise makers, and whistle-like noise makers. Here are the adults trying to pop the bracelets and hook them together so they can glow. Each child had 2.

At the beginning of our evening (after eating) we had the parents draw a Memory of a vacation or event in their family and the kids had to guess them. Heidi drew Disneyland and Haley guessed! Jason drew a train and Jaren guessed their trip to Utah. Jace then drew this photo of Christian when he broke his arm. Christian was so excited with the photo of him, we had to take a photo of it!

Here are the 5 kids on chairs. Grandpa thought if they each had an assigned chair it would make for a more orderly noisey event! They had their horns, whirling noise makers, whistles in their mouth ... but not yet the bracelets!

This next photo is after Grandpa sprayed all the kids with silly string. Haven thought she was stuck with a bomb or something. She had terror on her face. We had to hurry and get it off of her. The rest of the kids loved it! Haven had fun cleaning it all up and giving the remains to Grandpa!

At the end of the evening - here is Jace with his three kids...Haley, Haven, Christian. Some how we missed getting Jason's family in one shot.

We had a great time. They all left about 7:30 pm so they could put their little ones to bed. Then Curtis and I cleaned up, ran an errand to the Drug Store for a member of our ward, then we can home and drank bubbling Apple cider from the Jordan's and watched the New Year ring in in New York City. Then we went to bed! What a Mormon New Year's Evening!