Hello 2011

For the NINTH year in a row we ditched our kids let our kids sleep over at their grandparents and brought in the new year partying with our peeps. 

It's the best party of the year.

If you like to play games that is. Because there are a LOT of games. 

There's also enough food to feed a school bus full of children.

And a little dancing to "Dynamite" blasting from the stereo, at least three times throughout the evening because when Erik likes a song it never gets old.  

Goodbye 2010 - you were wonderful and fun, except for all the dental drama, and most of all you went by very, very fast.

Hello 2011 - I'm hoping you'll bring me a finished add-on and about 30 lbs of weight loss. That's not too much for a girl to ask, right?

Russell suggested we pick two new year's resolutions each and then tell them to each other. I told him he was too late, I'd already picked mine AND his. He didn't really appreciate being told what his resolutions should be so I gave him my top "recommendations" instead. 

I mean come on, who wouldn't want to improve their dirty-laundry-picking-up habits in the new year?

I guess he had loftier ideas of being a better husband/father/servant of God or something like that. Which, okay fine, sound like good goals and all, but I still think my idea was top-notch.

Happy New Year from the Halversons!