New Year's Eve Party and Gabby's Song

I decided very last minute to throw a New Year's Eve party. I had been thinking about it a little bit and told my friend. She called me on Sunday night and asked me if I was doing it and I decided to do it. I sent out a message to some friends on facebook. 2 couples came along and my friend Lisa who came alone. It was actually a perfect number of people to play games and that's what we did all night. It was a blast. We started out eating food and playing an enpromto game of "name that song" from Scott's super old school Rockin' New Year's Eve playlist. We had prizes of leftover wedding candy. After that we played group Pictionary on Corbin's big drawing easel. Then a round of catch phrase. We finished out the night playing several hours of Tripoly. It was a great time and I'm glad there were a few people without plans that came on over. I spent all day making decorations because I am a bit of spaz and when I get on a kick with something I can't get enough.

 New Year's Day was pretty lazy. Most of us were still in our pajamas at 1:00. Scott and I watched an episode of Firefly in the middle of the day. That's what made it feel like a holiday the most. That night we just snagged a pizza from Little Caesars.

The rest of the week I have been trying to get everyone back on track and on routine. I am definitely still in staying up late, sleeping in late, and eating junk food mode. I think things will be much more on track next week. My major goals right now are with my kids. I really want to put a lot of focus on Corbin's preschool work. I also need to continue to work with and encourage Piper to walk and talk as she is doing neither.

Countdown to the New Year. Someone popped the balloon every hour on down to midnight. I should have had a prize or something to go with it but I didn't get that far. I planned this party in less than a day.

My friend Lisa beating us all at Tripoly. She doesn't have a competitive bone in her body and she had no idea what she was doing. This tends to make competitive people like myself crazy. Although I was not in a competitive mood so I didn't care. It is funny though. She is like this when we are playing games all the time!

 Per Aunt Carole's request we made a video of Gabby singing the song "Master the Tempest is Raging." It's pretty precious.

Look at the blog post below to watch a slideshow of Corbin's first 5 years.