New Years Eve 2011

For New Years Eve, we stayed home and celebrated with our traditional appetizer dinner. Ava got sick while at Walmart purchasing our food, and as soon as we got home she started throwing up. Poor thing. She wanted so bad to come out and join our celebration. We included her from her bed!

Walmart was out of all their fun new years stuff, so we improvised. We made our own noise makers with metal measuring cups and spoons. We had our countdown at nine so Ava could get some rest and Ninny could go to bed. Then the older girls and I stayed up till midnight.


Poor baby, using her noisemaker from bed!


We also had silly spray, which was fun.

Gotcha!

The pro. Notice the glove. She put that on because the can was contaminated. It was such because I had been cleaning up puke, and touched the can. Nevermind that I washed my hands!

Our New Years toast.

Here is sad little Ava. Her ginger ale didn't stay where it was supposed to.

Happy New Year!

Ice skating

While PJ and Jackie were here for Christmas break, we went ice skating at the rec center. We all had so much fun, I am sure we will be going again!

Me and Ninny. She had to take a few breaks and sat with Grandma, who was taking the pictures.

They had these little walker things for the kids who didn't know how to skate. Ninny couldn't make hers go by herself, but she had no problem being pushed around as fast as you could push her! That was quite a work out.


Here is Ava on hers. She was cruising with this thing! She would run, fall down, get up, run some more, fall down, over and over. She was having fun and didn't seem to mind falling down until at the end when she got tired.

PJ was kind of funny; when he got on the ice he said "whoa." Then, "I don't like this... I don't like this at all..." We were all cracking up. He held my hand while we skated around, and after a while did warm up.

Me and Ninny!

Michaela and Payden got right out there no problem, even though they had never been before.

Here is PJ's first moments. He stayed very close to the wall for a while.

Ava running on the tips of her skates!

I think I also remember PJ saying something like, "this is wrong"!

Michaela really liked it too, although she got some uncomfortable skates and got a bruise and a blister.

We skated for about 2 hours and it was such a good time. We even got to see the zamboni thing grooming the ice.
Here is my cutie pie!