Happy New Year!

New Years Eve was pretty low-key for us this year. Ummm...we have four young kids--obviously it was low-key!  My parents were watching Ashlee's kids for several days while she & Greg went to a wedding in Oregon, so we decided we should just all get together & have a big kid party!

We decided to do fondue & it ended up being really fun! Mike & I made three fondues--a chocolate fondue to dip strawberries, pound cake, marshmallows, gummy bears, etc., a swiss cheese fondue to dip crusty bread, and a "hot dog fondue" which was basically a slightly spicy cheese dip for hot dog slices that had a pretzel stick in them. Each of the fondues were really yummy...

After fondue, the little kids played with toys while the adults & older kids played Pit.  Ashlee introduced us to this game on Christmas Eve Day when we were all hanging out, and we've been hooked ever since...

Then we rang in the new year with the East Coast at 10:00.  Yep, we're party animals like that...

Then Nana & Poppy took Gavin, Ty & Ella home.  On his way out the door, Poppy couldn't resist giving a sleeping Cohen a kiss on his head...

Cohen has been in the faze lately where he will wipe kisses off the second he gets them. Since he was sleeping and was totally unaware of the fact he was being kissed, he couldn't wipe it off. We had to take a picture to show him the next morning that Poppy had snuck in a kiss that had actually stuck.  After we showed him, he wiped his entire face to make sure he got that kiss off.  Silly boy!

After everyone left, our little family (minus Cohen who was already asleep) decided to see if we could stay up until midnight.  I thought Connor would make it, but I was pretty sure Aiden & Viv would fall asleep.  Boy was I wrong, when the clock struck midnight, Aiden & Vivvie were both awake (and wired, to say the least), but Connor was zonked out!  We tried to wake him up to tell him it was 2013, but he seemed pretty uninterested & quickly went back to sleep.

So, that was our exciting New Years celebration this year!  Hope yours was great too.  Happy 2013 everyone!  --Lindsay