Merry New Year

"Merry New Year!" "In this country we say, 'Happy New Year'" (That's from Trading Places) We had a very merry New Year. We woke up on Friday (New Year's Eve) and decided that our kids were finally healthy enough to take a snow trip. Jeremy had been off the whole week and was pretty bored with his time off. Shoot, we all were a little stir crazy. So we gathered every single long sleeve, beanie, mitten, boot, jacket, scarf... we could find. You name it, we packed it (except our sled, which would come back later to bite us in the bootay) and we headed up to Prescott. The kids loved looking at all the snow. It was still quite fresh and so pretty. We walked around the town square and looked at all the little shops. Then it was off to find a sled, which evidently did not exist in that lovely little town. We decided that Jeremy's irrigation raft would have to do. It did. That is until I decided to use it and I popped it. I stuck my foot right through the front of it. My bad. But the kids had a great time, well at least Jake and Abby did. Annie was absolutely miserable. I went so far as to make her put on snow pants, boots, a warm jacket, mittens and a beanie. She couldn't move. She was kinda like that kid in Christmas Story that is so bundled up he can't bend his arms. Hannah just got cold after a little while. We must be slow learners because we go through this with all of our kids, assuming they will like the snow but it never happens if they're under the age of 5. Anyway, the hill was perfect for sledding. It was perfectly steep, had bumps and wasn't too long for the walking back up part.

After sledding and thawing out, we filled up on hot chocolate at a gas station. Good stuff. Then it was time to head home.

Annie fell asleep in the car after all the tormenting in the snow - that's her happy meal toy in her mouth.

We got almost home and decided to head Julie's way to our annual party / get together. ( I took no pictures of this wonderful night - crud!) Usually we are the only ones who show, but this year the Ricedorff's graced us with their presence as well as TT and Kyley's friends and Julie's friends. It was of course a great time watching Loren's fireworks and the Christmas tree bonfire that lights up the night. We were home and had the kids in bed in time for Jeremy and I to have our New Year's kiss. We kissed in front of Jake and started right before the clock chimed 12:00. We told him we were kissing for two years straight. He thought it was pretty amazing.

We spent Saturday recovering from Friday (I've never quite embraced the day of New Years as much as a holiday, more of a vegging/recovering/football day)