New Year's at Geoff's

We went to Colorado Springs to Geoff and Annelisa's house for New Year's.  Vaughn and Marianne were visiting too.  The kids loved having cousins to play with.

They wrestled one night...

New Year's Eve

We spent our very first New Year's Eve at our house together with just our family.  We've always visited family every New Years since Dave and I got married.  It was kind of fun to stay home and do stuff with our kids.

We played lots of games.  Our favorites are the Carrom board that Grandma and Grandpa Judi gave us for Christmas and Spot It.  Kate's favorite game is Life.

Then we watched a movie and then we had some treats.  The kids all stayed awake until midnight.  After midnight when we were putting Ty to bed he said that he wanted to stay up.  He loves to stay up and asks if he can every night. 

Stop #2 and 3...Logan and Coalville

We spent a few days (from December 28th - January 1st) in Logan with Dave's sister, Melinda and her family.  They were such great hosts that we stayed longer than planned. :)

Dave's parents were visiting in Logan too and Dave's brother, Mike and his family came up too.  It was a full house, but fun to be with family. 

Here's some of what we did...

Played at the Logan Family Fun Center

 

 Saw Tangled in the theater (I missed the end, since I dropped Ty's binkie and had to spend the last 20+ minutes out in the lobby).

 Cleaned the candelier...

 while Mike held (a.k.a. shook) the ladder...

 cuddled on the ottoman watching...

Toy Story 3

Shopped at Sam's Club for some yummy cheesecake and food  -- (Ben and Ty were being so cute during this picture and then Ben hit Ty on the head -- Ben is older, you know...) Cute boys...

 Watching more of Toy Story 3 at Sam's Club (can't get enough of that movie)...

Avery and Kate loved their matching pjs...

I didn't take many pictures when we were in Logan.  The kids were so happy playing together that I forgot to take pictures of them.  Thanks to Melinda for sending me pictures that she took on her phone.

After spending New Years' Eve together at Melinda's house we headed to Layton to attend my niece, Aubrey's baptism.  I hadn't seen my sister, Lissa in over 3 years, so it was fun to see her and her cute family.  Jack and Alex (5 years old) were shy for a minute and then disappeared to play with boy stuff.

Then we spent the night at Mike and Maggie's new house in Coalville.  It was fun to see their house and their new town.  It'll be even more fun next time we visit since they'll have furniture and toys and pans.  They were still great hosts even w/out all their belongings. :)