Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We had the BEST New Year's Eve! We decided to have a big sleepover at my parents' house. Food, fun and games were in abundance, but not as abundant as the laughter! It is somewhat rare for my family to play games together--not sure why, but it probably has something to do with babies and limited time with just the adults. However when we break out the occasional game, there is never a shortage of laughs and fun! Between my mom and dad's cheating, sneaky tricks, different couples getting upset with each other for various reasons, and most of all...watching challenges and dares enacted by very unwilling participants, it is SO funny and memorable!

On New Year's Eve we decided to start the party off with a round of "Would you Rather?" I thought it'd be boring, but little did I know the fun that awaited us. I was forbidden from taking any pictures, but hilarious memories of Brady shaking his money-maker on all 4's while making disgruntled and angry comments, Angie doing her best belly dance possible, and Brad holding a pickle on his nose for a full round of play are just as permanent as the real digital photographs! :) Too bad I can't pass them onto posterity! After one round of that game, no one would agree to a second :)

We moved on to the 24 DVD game--who wouldn't want to help Jack Bauer solve a case?! Well, for whatever reason, the game was slow to respond to our commands, and everything from the character to the remote to the game itself was labeled as broken, stupid, lame, and incompatible. This also provided lots of laughs, as each person took their turn unsuccessfully trying to get their character to respond to commands via the remote, and each person expressed their frustration using one of the aforementioned labels...as if the rest of the group didn't already know it was the remote that was causing their unexplained failure :) The end result of this game was also major laughter...and an early stop time :)

We stayed up a little while longer, waiting for the ball to drop. By "We," I mean most of us. At the stroke of midnight I had to nudge Josh awake, just so he'd kiss me before he went back to sleep :) Happy New Year!