New Years

We spent New Years Eve with some friends that live about 45 minutes away.  We call them "Big Allison" and Greg.  Yes, Alli's name for her of course!  They have a 6 month old, Karena.  And we were joined by 2 other families, all with small kids.  The girls had a blast, especially wearing the tiarras and blowing the horns.  We had to actually put them away until our count-down, which co-incided with Brazil's new year since they are 4 hours ahead of us.  Yea for an 8pm new years countdown!  Go Brazil!

I don't have any good pictures of the girls, but we have this one of our party animal husbands:

New years day started slowly, because, even though we were in bed by 10pm, we were exhausted!  (Gotta love how parenthood drains you!)  But new years day has also been a time for hiking for us.  In fact, I was hoping to hike a new trail, but  when lunch time came and we hadn't dressed yet, we went to our old stand-by, the Dixie Mine trail, because parking for the trail head is about 2 miles from our house.  Our family of 4 hiked almost 1.5 miles in before we turned around to head back to the car.  Alli was pretty tired, but quite the trooper.  Not only did she hike the whole way, she talked the whole way. Seriously, I'm not sure there was a moment of silence for the whole hike!  It was hilarious!  The blob in front of Kim is Natalie!  It was cold, so we had her pretty bundled up.  And if you can see Alli's New Years tiarra, everyone that walked by and said "happy new year", she claimed must have read her hat.  Of course nobody would have known if it hadn't been for her hat!!  :)

After hiking, we enjoyed a little relaxation.  Here's a cute pic of daddy and the girls watching Spiderman and his Amazing Friends (Alli's favorite right now).

By the way, both girls are in their Christmas PJs, or 'jamas', as Alli calls them.  We had a great New Years and I'm glad everyone is finally healthy!