New Year's Eve

First picture of our family in 2010.

So, what do you do for entertainment on New Year's Eve? You put a torn stretchy sticky ball thing on your kids head of course! I have to admit, I stole this idea from my brother Kade. He did this exact thing when I was in Idaho visiting last year...only he put it on his own head. Ya...he's weird. :)

I must say I haven't laughed so hard in a very long time as when we put this on The Bug's head. I was not the only one crying from laughter. Everyone in the front room was dying of laughter. Can you see how it's pulling his eyes back?! Oh my gosh! I seriously laughed so hard, my cheeks were aching. He didn't seem to mind too much, but after it came off, he wasn't for putting it back on. :)

We had this New Year's Eve party at the Swanson's home. It's their new lake home, and it large and beautiful. It was perfect for a New Year's Eve party. The Hansen's, Williams' and McCormick's were all there as well. We had 2 6' subs and more appetizers than we could eat in a single night. So, we decided to just extend the party for the next two days. :)

We all managed to stay up until midnight, but left shortly thereafter. We were a pretty boring bunch. We kept asking what the time was, hoping we would be closer to midnight than we actually were.

We went back over to the Swanson's again the next day to play some more pond hockey in much much colder weather than on Christmas. It was just wives against husbands' with a couple kids helping the wives. Aaron put water on the pond the day before, so it was considerably more slick than on Christmas. Actually, it was fairly insane.

The husband's had much more of an advantage as far as hockey and athletic experience, so the wives (ok, maybe just Becky and I), had to even the field. Yes...I have to admit I resorted to body checking, beating with my hockey stick, tripping, and after falling on the ice grabbing legs, feet, or hockey sticks. But...don't worry, Shayne deserved some of it though. He "accidentally" slid into me faster than he thought and checked me onto the hard snow...I couldn't breath for a second. :) Miles and Aaron deserved what they had coming too...they knocked my stick out of my hand and kicked it away from me so many times, I almost decided to play without it...not like it was doing me much good anyway.

Overall, I'm pretty sure the husband's kicked the wives trash...but we cheated enough to keep the score fairly even. It's a good thing our husband's love us so much. But...we love them just as much...right Becky, Becky, and Darcy?

I'm glad we have such a good group of friends here in Alaska. Life up here could be a lot more difficult that's for sure.

So...here's to the New Year and a new decade!

Yeah for 2010!!!