Ringing in the New Year

New Years Eve for us is all about hanging out with family. My sisters & I along with our children & husbands all meet at my parents house. Enjoying time together, eating yummy appetizer food, and entertaining our children. Not very hard they kids all typically play together.

This year I decided we would add a little more fun for the kids. I saw several by the hour bags and thought our kids would enjoy this. Thinking most of the kids would be asleep before midnight we started our bags at 5 and ended with an early toast at 10pm. Little did we know that only 1 of the children would actually be asleep by midnight. Jake made it until 12 toasted the new year with us and then was sound asleep on the couch by 12:10am.

 5:00-decorating sugar cones to look like party hats

 7:00pm-playing board games

 Trying to get them all to look & smile was impossible, the 4 oldest cousins

10:00 sparkling cider toast

Of course Jake making a silly face...we can't get a picture with him smiling these days

Me with my super cute husband...and a giant 36 week belly

Happy New Year

New Year is so much fun. For the last couple of years we have all gathered at my parent's house for a fun night in. Usually with game playing, conversation, and delicious snack food. It is great to be able to hang out with Jake and all our family and some friends. It is great to not have to worry about getting out and driving with the New Year's Eve drivers.

This year we added a new tradition of a time capsule. I gave everyone the heads up earlier in the week so they could be thinking of what they were going to put in the capsule. It was so fun to see what everyone brought and hear their stories of what each thing was for. It was great to be able to review each person's year through the small things they brought to add to the bucket.

Do you do a time capsule? Do you do one every year? Do you bury it or just have it put up somewhere? Do you look in it every year or set a date for when you will go back and look through it. I would really love to hear your thoughts on this. It was a discussed a lot while we were stuffing our capsule and we aren't for sure what we want to do yet?

 Jake putting in his bitten off paci-he was so excited to put it in

 Not the best picture...putting in my race number from my 1st 5k

 Caleb putting in his John Deere ornament...since he is all about John Deere this year

 Amber putting in pictures of her twin boys

 My step-dad putting in his old business card

 Heather put in her 5k race number too

Jory put in his navy ball coin from this past year

 Mom-putting a picture from her staycation this year. 

We each put in a couple things from the past year. I know that everyone will be thinking of what they are going to put in next years time capsule!