Countdown to New Years

Have I mentioned that I LOVE Pinterest?? It is awesome!! I found an awesome Christmas present for my sister in law from her boards and Shawn (with the help of my sister in laws) found a gorgeous purse for me from my boards. AND one of my most recent pins was this fun New Years Eve Countdown. We planned to stay home since we are all at various stages of this congestion virus that we are passing around.




Here is the list of our hourly activities. I included some time to play with new, not yet played with, Christmas presents. It was really so much fun! I think this will be a new family tradition!!

1 pm Turn up the music and party like it’s 1999

2pm Make Signs, hats and decorations for New Years

3pm Time Capsule (I did a version of this)

4pm Zombie Factory

5pm Sushi Dinner

6pm Take a glow walk and drink chocolate milk

7pm Call grandma, grandpa & Nannie, papa to wish them a Happy New Year

8pm Pick a favorite Christmas Book to read together

9pm Cranium

10pm Pick a Cookie

11pm Angry Bird beanbag toss Showdown

Midnight!!! Happy 2012 Tell a favorite memory from 2011

New Neighbors

We finally have new neighbors...the house next door was vacant for over a year...Logan and I kept wondering who might move in...I know he wants a 9 year old boy who likes to play legos, basketball, and video games.

To help welcome this new family, we busted out a new Christmas gift (from a family we wish were our neighbors!), the donut hole maker.

This groovy machine makes Millions of holes. This time around they came out a little dense, more like cake then a donut, so I decided to put them on a stick and add a little bling.

Logan and Caden LOVED the pops. Caden ate about a dozen, one after another.

New Neighbors...the possibility are endless, we will have to wait and see...