A "ROCKIN" New Year's Eve!

Ever since we have had the boys, our wild and crazy New Year's Eve parties have gone by the wayside. This year proved to be a bit different though! We had our friend Kristin, Kristin's friend Sam, and her daughter Maddie over. I tried to come up with some fun things for us to do so on the drive down to Memphis (photos coming later...I left my camera here so I'm waiting to get the pics from my mom!) my mom and I came up with an activity for each :09 at every hour. For example, at 6:09 we made homeade pizzas. At 7:09 we decorated the house with all of my 2009 decor! It made the night fun and exciting waiting to see what we would do next! While we were waiting though, we certainly weren't twiddling our thumbs! Instead we broke out our new RockBand game!

Here Nick and Kristin are singing "Should I Stay or Should I Go!" I was so impressed that Nick was singing so well into the microphone...he is a natural!
Daddy and Jack rocked out on the guitars! Dan has gotten amazingly well at the guitar as he is staying up till 1 a.m. every night playing!!! You can feel the base coming out of the basement! (A big thank you to our friend Bob who installed our fantastic surround sound system last year....we are definitely putting it to good use!)
Maddie was amazing on the drums, but that girl can sing too!
And here is the group shot! Notice Jack's feet are on Luke's drum set that Santa brought him. He also got a little microphone to sing into, which he does beautifully!
We did have one scary moment of the night when Nick accidently kicked another one of Jack's front teeth out...he is now missing 3 on top in front with no "big" teeth making any appearances. The situation was scary because, well, we couldn't find the tooth! Luckily, Kristin found it! Jack was thrilled!
Jack and his missing front teeth...
CUTE PICTURE ALERT!!! So, Luke was being kind of quiet in the living room while I was making the pizzas with Jack, Nick and Maddie and when Dan glanced over to him, he found our little dude playing with this water bottle. Go figure, all the great toys that Santa brought him and this bottle keeps him busy for a good 15 minutes! The fun was over when he dumped all the water out though...and to think I was just beginning to think about getting new furniture! Not yet, I guess!
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We certainly had a great one, likely the best ever, but I'm happy to get back to my day in day out schedule, which will be changing a bit. More to come on that...