New Years Eve

I'm behind, I know.  It's been a busy couple of days!

On New Years Eve, our friends invited us to come over in the evening for some fun activities to finish out 2011.
After dinner we headed over to our friend's house, hoping for decent weather so we could roast marshmallows around a campfire and have steel wool fireworks.  But the weather all day was gloomy and rainy.  We weren't there long before the rain started up again.  The kids didn't seem to mind.  We brought over glow sticks and they had fun playing with those before the fire was ready.

good friends!

Matt in all his glowing glory

The kids didn't care that they were soaking!  They had fun cooking their marshmallows.

Then it was time for fireworks.  We don't have "real" fireworks, but if you tie steel wool to a string, and then light it on fire and swing it around really fast, well you get some pretty cool displays.

We moved inside the house where it was warm and dry and snacked on cookies and cinnamon rolls while we played a game and the kids watched a movie.
Amazingly enough, all the kids were still going strong at 10:30, except for Julianne who (about an hour before) just lay down and fell asleep on the hard, cold wood floor!  I guess she was tired.