New Years

We celebrated New Years (also known as Christmas Part 4) with Barratt and Marci's family. They actually arrived in Pocatello a few days after Christmas and we had a fourth and final present opening session with them. Sierra, Ashlee and Brayden had brought presents for Grandma and Grandpa Tutu that they had purchased with their own money, which was very sweet of them.



Then we played some family games, and watched "Better Off Dead" and "The Three Amigos". Its fun that Barratt's kids are old enough to enjoy these movies with us now. We also watched the first movie of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and one of the "Harry Potter" movies.



On New Years Eve, we dressed up in these fun sparkly hats and worked on a puzzle. It has been years since we've done a puzzle on New Years, so it was fun to get back to our old traditions. Since everyone except Barratt's family and me were asleep by midnight, we had a pretty low-key celebration. Brayden got to blow his noisemaker once and then it was time for bed.





Esme was super excited to play with her cousins, and Brayden, Ashlee and Sierra were all excellent babysitters for her. Unfortunately we didn't have enough snow for the kids to do any sledding, but they went down to Utah on their way home and went skiing as a substitute.

 Thanks for taking such good care of Esme!

 Before they left, Barratt's family decided they had to finish the puzzle. It took a wile, but they did finish it and they decided to take one piece out and hide it from Grandpa Tutu. He didn't notice a piece was missing at first, and then when he finally saw it he laughed and he knew we were playing a joke on him. It was a good mode!

Thank you so much for making the trek up to Idaho, we really appreciated having so much of our family together for this Holiday season. It was so much fun!