New Year's Eve morning Aaron spent building a coat rack shelf in the hallway just as you come in the garage door. I'll post more pictures of that project when it's all finished. The kids and I played with toys and put together this awesome safari floor puzzle that the Yoshiokas sent us for Christmas. I love the Melissa and Doug floor puzzles. We got a few of them this year and they are a huge hit at our house.
In the afternoon we packed up our stuff and headed to Hooper to spend New Year's Eve with my mom and Kerry and Gran (who is still in town from the funeral). We had a blast. We played the M&M game with the kids. Basically, you have a big bowl of M&Ms and everyone has a straw. One person uses there straw to try and suck as many M&Ms as they can and put them in their own cup. Meanwhile, the person in front of the person with the M&Ms is rolling a dice, and if they get a 1 or a 6 then it's their turn to take the bowl of M&Ms, and the next person's turn to roll the dice. At the end of 5 minutes whoever has the most M&Ms in their cup is the winner. My kids were really into it.
After the M&M game we put Adelia and Ollie to bed. Lincoln and Aaron played checkers while I did that. Then we all played a round of Go Fish. Then we played the Candy Bar game. Everyone starts out with a candy bar and a dice. You roll the dice over and over and over, and when you get a 6 you can take a candy bar from someone else and put it in your pile. You play for a set amount of time, and at the end of the time you get to keep all the candy bars in your pile. Lincoln was all over this game too. He was actually a lot of fun this New Years. Not that they kids aren't always fun, but you know what I mean. It was enjoyable to have Lincoln playing games with us, and we didn't have to baby him or favor him. I think in a few more years, New Years with our kids is going to be one of my favorite holidays.
By then it was about 9:00pm and so we put the boys to bed as well. The adults stayed up and played Dice Sequence and Progression until midnight. Happy New Year!!
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