Happy New Year!!

We had a couple families over last night for New Year's Eve. There were 9 kids, ranging in age from 2 months to 8 years old. Most were girls. Poor Drew (8 years old) bored quickly of having the girls chase him, so he turned on cartoons downstairs and escaped. Below is a picture of the kids (minus Drew, and minus Tucker, 2 months) after they have put on make-up, done their nails, put on dress up clothes, and put blue and pink streaks in their hair. Even Anderson, the only boy in the picture, has a bright blue streak in his hair. No makeup for him, though.

While the kids played as hard as they could, the adults played games. We started with Catch Phrase, and ended up with a riveting game of Loaded Questions that ended at 1:30 am with Jennifer D as the winner. Yours truly was horrible at the game, and ended up in last place. I kept getting my husband's answers confused with our friend Nate's. Below is Nate jamming out on Macy's Hannah Montana guitar.

We lost Anderson and Tucker, and Drew was asleep downstairs, so when midnight rolled around, it was all girls. We had a slight issue, in that there were 4 masks, 4 hats, 4 streamers, and 4 blow things, but 5 little girls. As it was midnight, that didn't go over well. Luckily I didn't give them each bags of confetti. We'd would have been picking it out of the carpet next New Year's. They really enjoyed counting down and yelling "Happy New Year!" Seeing Miley Cyrus on Ryan Seacrest's countdown didn't hurt, either.

The kids really hung in there--everyone left at 1:30, and for the most part, all was well. My mom has a theory that 2 or 4 girls playing together is fine, but 3 just doesn't work. That theory held pretty true--as the oldest girls, and the ones used to getting their own way, Macy, Allie and Jessica fought a little, but diversionary tactics worked to save the night.

Our girls slept until 10 today, waking in time to watch the Tigers beat the Razorbacks 38-7. Great way to end the season.

Have a wonderful 2008; thanks for checking my blog these last 6 months or so. Hopefully it's not too boring for you. :) I've enjoyed updating it.