Happy New Year 2011

Our New Years Eve day started out by watching a play our friend Michelle's kids were performing in. It was so cute! Beriah is in the red, and Julia is in the pink.Our whole family and Laura's whole family came to support the girls, there's an older Hannah in there, too... Such cute girls- they did a great job!So time for our New Years Party!!

Jade helped make a huge 2011 poster for all the kids/adults to color thru out the night. Even the little ones got into it. Here's Hannah S. and another Hannah S.!

Some of the older kids colored, too.... Here is the complete 2011 poster- sooo colorful!!Time for party favors.... here's Maranda with baby Natalie- she's is such a chuck of love!
Laura said she was going to "Bring the Par-taaay"- and she did! Here she is with Jade...
She even had little tiaras for Hannah, Hannah... and Aiden- but we're going to call his a prince's crown!
Michelle and her daughter Tessa...Ok, everyone get your "Game Face" on. We were going to play some Bible Pictionary. We all drew numbers cause we couldn't decide whose team we were going to be on.So Team #1 was Jeromy (J3), Jason, Michelle and Jeremy (J2)....
Here we are Team #2: Laura, Maranda, Myself, Jade, Tessa and Julia at times... we're all trying to guess what Laura is drawing...All the guys trying to figure out what Michelle is drawing for their team...
So here is a picture of the Bible Pictionary champs... was there any doubt??
Okay, now it seams the tables have turned. We were now going to play Bible Trivia, I already am horrible at Trivia, I told my team mates that I was going to be an anchor in this game cause I am a "Baby Christian" meaning I'm still learning alot of what's in the Bible. Our whole team was a little nervous against the Bible Scholar team, we wanted to redraw numbers to make new teams to make it fair. But the "J2, Jason, Michelle, J3" team didn't want to break up, I think they saw their advantage to staying together. Plus us singing the " We are the Champions" song after the first game probably didn't help!!! HAHAHAHA

But it seemed luck was on our side. Cause as my Jeromy said we just made alot of good guesses, and good guesses we did make! I think Jason is starting to see how this game is going to end also...So our team wasn't trying to rub it in, I think we were just in shock that we won the 2nd game! So we wanted another picture with this game box. The "other" team seemed to make this impossible. HAHAHAHA Here's Jeromy conveniently standing in front of the camera when the picture was taken...Here they are blocking our picture with the box...We thought we'd try one more picture, and Jason thru this shoe right into the picture at the right time. It seemed we were not going to get a picture with out some sort of distraction. I don't think I've laughed that much in a long time. My face was hurting!
So we got a picture of all the kids in front of the poster...And got the camera on the tripod and timer and got one of EVERYBODY- COUNT 'EM 26 PEOPLE!!!Just minutes before midnight, I poured sparkling apple cider into over 20 cups, and like a said Laura brought a party in a bag, with horn blowers, little fireworks, and silly string! We all counted down:

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We all drank our sparkly stuff, and then we all quieted and said a prayer thanking God for all the blessings of 2010 and for all He'll continue to do for us in 2011. A few people went around giving words of thanks to God, I think it's so good for the kids to hear how thankful the parents are. It helps to give them a spirit of thankfulness.

Now out side with the silly string kids... that's not snow that's actually bits of silly string in the air, Laura had alot of cans!Oh man, it was really cold out there!

Cute girls: Nadia, Tae', Beriah and Aurora!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!