New Year's Eve 2011

   Even though the weather turned bad just as our New Year's Eve party was supposed to start, and even though it was a Saturday night (Sunday in the morning!),...it turned out to be a great party!


The first to show up (at about 8:30), and the first to go home (about 9:30) was our beloved Luke. It really was fun to have him here even briefly. We had a chance to visit before the rest arrived!

 The first game played once people got here was "King Elephant".  Within about an hour, that room was at least 20 degrees warmer than the rest of the house!

 Since it was rather lively, James Dickey decided to watch from the sidelines and be the referee!

The next game was "Open that Gift", the game we learned at the Alzen's earlier in the week.  The person needs to roll a 6 on the die, then don a silly hat and thick gloves or mittens and try to unwrap a gift.  Inside the big gift is a smaller gift to unwrap.  This keeps going and if someone else rolls a 6, they have to stop and he gets a try.  It is really fun! Joseph and Daniel wrapped the gifts very challengingly, but no one seemed at all disappointed that the final gift was a pack of gum!  It got passed around the room for all to get a piece.

Jed

Libby

Bernard

Timothy

The winner-Libby!

Michael and Ryan went to the New Year's Eve service with us and then stayed with us until after midnight.  Can you see Timothy's black eye developing from a crash earlier in the day when they were playing outside?  It doesn't look too bad here, but it got worse! (His right eye)

Then until the countdown, we all played 4 on a couch, white socks against the black socks, since there were only 4 girls (including me) in the whole group.


The snow had stopped, and it was beautiful outside!

Of course, there are always some shirkers!

 P.S.  John and Esther were absent for the bash attending a wedding in Wisconsin.


Happy New Year Y'all!!