Christmas and New Year's

Oh what fun we had with this year's holidays!  On Christmas Eve we did our traditional opening of the gifts from the fam.  Everyone was so thoughtful and generous to us and our girls and, once again, we are feeling very spoiled and very thankful.

We opened, tried on, read, and played with hockey sets, and Star Wars necklaces, and guinea pig earrings, and hedgehog crafts, and books, and new running shoes, and karaoke machines, and Zoomer robot dogs, and handmade shawls from Guatemala, and Wii games.  After all this excitement, the girls settled in for a Christmas Eve sleepover under the tree with their Kindles and in their new monogrammed sleeping bags.  You were all so good to us!  Thank you!

Then a week later, we celebrated again.  This time, the end to a good 2015 and with our church friends, as we've grown accustomed to doing each year.  This year's NYE Party theme was "Singing!".  We started with a few rounds of the Lyric Game, divided into teams.  Then, once we were all warmed up, we broke out the Karaoke machine for the rest of the night.  It was so fun to watch various duos and groups take the microphones for their turn in the spotlight!

Then, an impromtu, 2 hour long dance party broke out!  There was line dancing, swing dancing, some slow dancing, even the Macarena!

Our favorite Karaoke CD ended up being the one full of classic, fun to sing songs, so we heard everything from YMCA to Ice Ice Baby being performed.  Our 2 pastors (aka Slash and Axl Rose) even treated us to some air guitar playing and Sweet Child of Mine! :)

We even got a little 11:45 pm concert by the banjo, mandolin and guitar players in the group!

I've said it at least 5 times before, but there is no better way to close out one year and ring in a new one than in the company of good friends sharing laughter.  A fun theme providing a night of singing and dancing made this another memorable New Year's Eve!

Wishing you all a 2016 full of good times that never seemed so good (Bum, bum, bum...)! :)