Sunday, January 11, 2009

New Year's Celebrations

The Saturday after Christmas we headed down south to The Woodlands area to visit some more of our family. We spent the first few days at Lynn's house (Mike's mom). Mike's Aunt Kay and Uncle Andy, who I had never met before, were in town for Christmas but left the day we arrived so we got to have a quick 'hi/get to know you' with them. Krista, Jared, Jacob, and Emma were also there for a couple days so we got to hang with them for a bit. We also had an opportunity to go see Mike's Grandma (you may recall that she was just recently put into a nursing home). It's always good to go see her.

Then we headed over to Adam (my brother) and Jen's house in Spring for New Year's Eve. Whew, that was fun! Lisa (my sister) and John (my newly returned missionary from California brother) were there. Yay! We stayed up WAY too late...somehow we managed to stay up way past midnight...and ate WAY too much. It was a blast!

Here are some pictures of the week:



I love this picture of Zoe and Emma looking out the window at Lynn's house.



Mike teaching Zoe how to ride her new bike at Lynn's house.



This is at Adam and Jen's house now. I told them to go crazy. Jen wins.




Video of Adam, Jen, Mike, and Lisa going crazy!




I love this video! You will just have to watch it to see!



Zoe and Winnie chased each other around the whole night. And Winnie often ate Zoe's crackers from her hand when she wasn't looking. hehe.



Lisa and Zoe.



Raspberries!!!




Video of Zoe and me playing on the floor.



Jen and I coincidentally had matching PJ's.



Lisa and Zoe (with donut powder on her mouth!).




It's almost midnight!

7 comments:

  1. "Adam, are you having a conversation over there?" Classic...

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  2. I love how the last video totally shows how snippy we were getting close to midnight. Melanie snapping the drum sticks at me, me hiding under the covers, Lisa getting on to Adam...so funny!

    I love my crazy rock pic by the way!! :)

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  3. I loved the video of Lisa dancing! Looks like you guys had a blast. I love Rock Band. Was that the new guitar hero or Rock Band? I am a party pooper. I don't stay up late on New Years. I bring Greg to work at 6 PM, spend time with the girls, put them to bed, then go to bed myself. So I can get up at 5:30 to get Greg from work by 6AM.

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  4. How fun! You have such a cute, fun family!

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  5. Okay, nobody mentioned Melanie jamming on the drums in the last video. That's pretty funny.

    And I was really surprised that Adam was having a conversation, because we kept failing. Adam was over there having a conversation and not missing any notes. I, on the other hand, kept killing us.

    Good times. Thanks Adam and Jen for hosting and being so much fun.

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  7. Some of you obviously are playing way too much Rock Band.

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