It snowed on New Years Eve!
We thought we would have snow on Christmas, but New Years is the next best thing!
Since the streets were bound to be slippery, we decided to stay home for the night. We played a couple of different games, gambled away some of our quarters, and then introduced the kids to Napoleon Dynamite!
By 10:30, Luke and Ben were out. Party Poopers! Henry, Josh, and I stayed up and watched the activities in Times Square.
By the time it was midnight, Josh was too tired to get proper shoes on, so he stayed inside crying, and I was just plain to cold to go outside longer than it took to watch a couple of fireworks and bang my pot a time or two.
Henry was the only really festive one!
He banged his pot and celebrated in the front yard with the neighbors. They rewarded him with a New Years hat and some black eyed peas!
By New Years morning there was enough snow to shovel AND to go sledding!
After Mass, we all bundled up in our warmest clothes, aired up the snow tubes and headed out!
We went sledding first. It was the best sledding we've ever had!
The snow wasn't deep enough that we had to tromp thorough it, but it was iced over a bit so our sleds would speed down! It was perfect!!
There weren't even any tears from anyone--a first for us--despite the fact that we were all trying to run each other over on our way down the hill!
It was just blissful family fun!
After sledding we headed to Great Grandmas and then to Gigi's to shovel their drives and sidewalks.
Everyone wanted to help shovel. Unfortunately we have one really great shovel and one really crummy one. We need to buy a couple more good ones, so there won't be sad boys after the next snow.
Everyone got a turn, though, and we were even rewarded with hot cocoa at Gigis!
We also decided to reward ourselves with lunch out at a pizza joint! Delish!
Usually that would be enough fun for one day, but once we got home Josh, Henry and I met some up with some friends at the skating rink--Luke and Ben were too cool to join us!
It was probably against my better judgment to take a broken armed boy roller skating, but we'd already gone sledding, which is just as bad. Plus, we weren't going to let a broken arm stand in the way of fun!
(Let's all just say a prayer that it's healed correctly when it finally comes off!)
Once we got home, Ben swept the boys off to a movie to round out our day! They even got to eat dinner there--quite a treat!
We kicked the year off right--a jam packed day of fun! Hopefully it will set the tone for the rest of our year!
"Be Kind" and "Have Fun"--that's the focus for us this year!
