New Year's Eve 2010

As I write this it is January 1, 2011.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope that each of you had as wonderful a night as we did!  

Normally, we have friends over or we go to spend the night with friends at their house.  This year, so many of our friends were working tonight or tomorrow and Pat is working both that we ended up canceling out normal party.  We decided that since we didn't really have any concrete plans that we would head to the family restaurant for the evening.  I was a little concerned about the kids being able to make it to the 9pm seating and then staying up but looking back at it now, I really shouldn't have been!

Dinner was delicious and it was so nice to spend the evening with family and good food!  After dinner, the kids started to hit their walls and were just about ready to sleep when their cousins arrived and injected a TON more energy into the evening!  Grandpa turned on the disco ball in the dining room and started up the music and the kids were able to dance and run around and have tons of fun.  Noisemakers and hats were handed out and everyone enjoyed the time until midnight.  We counted down and wished a giant Happy New Year and then piled into our cars and headed home.  The kids and Pat were asleep within minutes leaving me with the drive home to reflect on what a great night it turned out to be!

If our unexpected New Year's Eve is any indication of how great 2011 is shaping up to be, I am wholeheartedly looking forward to the coming year!

We hope that 2010 finished on a wonderful high note for you and that 2011 has already set the bar even higher!  Wishing you a very Happy and Blessed New Year 2011, from our family to yours!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!