Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! For the first time, we allowed our boys to stay up to watch the ball drop in Times Square. To help them stay awake, we thought we would watch the Chick-Fil-A Bowl (since my honey's team was playing). Mikey made it through the entire game. Matt fell asleep somewhere around half time.Mikey was still going strong as the midnight hour approached. At 11:45 we woke Matt (which took a LOT of effort) and sent the boys to get their PJs on. That way once the ball dropped they could head straight to bed, besides those last 15 minutes can be sooo long!

We counted down and when the countdown reached zero we blew our noisemakers and popped those little bottles that shoot streamers. Matt who was still not fully awake, was startled by the noise and did not like the fanfare of ushering in the new year.

This morning started later than our usual 7:30. Had it not been for the small bladder of our young puppy, I would have been able to sleep in with my guys until 9:30! They came slowly down the stairs, still lulled by the late night before. The TV came on and they settled in to "wake up slow".
We had nothing but fun as we spent this first day of the new year cocooned in our house, watching football and eating "game food". Snow fell outside. We cheered on our teams inside. The boys' teams won. My team lost. But fun was had by all. Not a bad way to start the new year, not bad at all.