Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve is usually very uneventful for us, with Wade's profession he is never home to celebrate with us, but we make the best of it! This year I was planning on going over to my sister's to help her throw a party for my niece and her friends, but Hannah wasn't feeling the greatest and she likes to cling to me when lots of people are around, so I decided to spare myself the irritability of dealing with her and stay home. Jakob ended up going over there for a sleep over with Ben, so I brought Andrew home so Mason would have a buddy! We ended up going over to my neighbor, who graciously opened her home to us! We ate some junk and more junk and talked while the kids played for a couple hours. When we came home I let Mason and Andrew go out in the backyard and do some poppers and yell "Happy New Year!" They thought it was the greatest. They had a little campout in the playroom and watched a movie, while I got Hannah to bed and turned on the news in hopes to see my hubby patrolling the crowded streets of the LV Strip-and guess what-I did (just for a brief second though)!

My little New Year Princess! (The hat barely lasted long enough for a picture!)

Mason and Andrew with the streamers from the poppers-cute, little buddies!

New Year's Day was spent hanging out at home, Wade watching football and my parents coming over for some yummy, homemade Baked Potato Soup in bread bowls and playing a couple games of Sorry Sliders! It was a fun, relaxing day, minus the fact that I started coming down with a cold, that Wade and Hannah also had-bummer!

So our New Year got off to kind of a bum start. Hannah started with her cold Christmas day and I finally took her to the doctor last week after almost 2 weeks of being miserable. She ended up having an ear infection. As her, myself and Wade were on the mend, Jakob came down with a bad cough and fever this past Friday and has had a fever off and on all weekend, so I finally took him to the doctor after church today and he has a yucky sinus infection. Hopefully he will feel better soon, so he can go back to school and hopefully we will have some luck in the New Year with Mason not catching any of this, I really don't want to make another trip to the doctor's office, if I can help it! Maybe when I don't have to play nurse anymore, I can sit down and make some goals for myself-I have plenty I need to work on!

Opa, Jakob, Oma and Mason playing Sorry Sliders!