Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Happy New Years

 We made homemade ice cream
 which Brody enjoyed....
 VERY MUCH!

 ...well, we all did.

 We let Chase pick out a couple of games to play, but considering his attention span is about 3 minutes that's about how long each game lasted.

 This chess set was an Ecuadorian souvenier.  It's little figures carved out of some kind of nut, but Chase loves the walruses.  Here is is making an "oof oof" sound like a walrus.

Can't be a party without treats, hence the chocolate in Chase's mouth.


Some neighbors were doing big pretty fireworks and suddenly Chase remembered we had some sparklers left over from the 4th of July, so we headed out to watch fireworks/ do sparklers.

We did a countdown with Chase to 8:00 and sent him to bed with the popping and crackling of fireworks in the background (which went on for the rest of the night).

We tried to stay up watching a movie and playing games but I feel asleep and headed for bed at 11:45.  I really couldn't make it the last 15 minutes.
I'm starting to think New Year's Eve is a sad excuse for teenagers and college kids to stay up all night.  It's just not the same when you have kids that are going to be getting you out of bed at 6:00 the next morning.

2 comments:

Moab Cozzens said...

Looks like fun to me! The best New Years Eves are the ones spent with family :)

Jill, Kenny, Aiden and Capri said...

Fun times! The picture of Chase's wide mouthed grin with chocolate in his mouth made me laugh...and every time I look at it I can't help but laugh again. You can see every single one of his teeth!!