Happy New Year 2011!!

New Years this year was really fun.  We started it off by all the girls taking Natalie out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse, My favorite place to go!!

After dinner we headed home to a house full of junk food and kids.  Ian and Scott decorated the house for Natalies birthday wth Balloons, streamers and a banner.  It was great.  We all sang happy birthday and had cake and ice cream to go along with all the other yummy treats. 

Scott and Amanda brought these blowers, the best part about them was, they didnt make noise!!

The little ones had a hard time figuring out how to blow them.

but I got the hang of it pretty quickly!

The kids all loved the balloons, so did Boss he ran after them trying to play with them and they would always pop on him.

I got a picture of everyone but Brick. 

Schaefer and Logan were having a "sword fight" with the blowers.  It was pretty funny, Schaefer would roll around and duck and logan would just run after him.

Schaef in mid roll.

Logan was very excited to play Guess Who.  So Grandma, Schaefer and Ian helped him.

He is quite the little gamer.

The Birthday girl

Little Kadrynn, she is so cute, and now addicted to Pop.

We even got Megan there for a little while, then she had to go spend time with "more important people."

We started the gaming night off with Cuponk or Beer Pong.  It was pretty funny, out of all of us Amanda was the only one who got the ball in the cup.

After Cuponk, we moved onto Quelf, which took up the rest of the night.  It was so funny, basically you do stupid stuff for no reason.  Most the time you dont get anything out of it you just have to do it.  Karen had to drink a whole cup of water from the furthest edge of the cup, so here she is. 

Scott had to yoddle with his finger in his nose until he rolled 3 2's, Russ had to pretend he was a singing willow tree and hum a love song to whoever was up.  It was a great game if you like to laugh at people, and we do.

It was  a great party, and most of the kids made it, mine didnt.  The girls told me they were tired and went to bed, and Schaefer fell asleep around 11:30 or so.  But the other kids made it, probably because they didnt have beds. 

Now onto the new year of resolutions, wish me luck!