Happy New Year!

We spent New Year's with some friends from church. They had come to our hot chocolate party and thought it was a great idea, so they had the same theme at their New Year's party. They took it up a notch though, and added long skewers so we could make chocolate covered shish-ka-bobs. It was a huge hit. The kids had so much fun playing and all of my kids made it until midnight. I think this was a first.

 After sleeping in the next day, we headed to the Children's museum to ring in the new year by playing and going to their butterfly garden.  We discovered that our children are afraid of butterflies.  I didn't think that was possible, but they jumped back every time one flew near them.

After the museum Lily played outside in the snow.  The snow was up to her waist, but that didn't slow her down.

chocolate shish-ka-bobs

counting down

LOTS of noise

LOTS of leis 

Matthew was not a fan of the noise

He did LOVE the confetti 

On the steps of Sesame Street at the museum

The kids had to teach their Daddy how to scale the side of a building like a superhero

Butterfly Garden

Quilts for Sale

Sean teaching Matthew to play chess

Merry-go-round  (Matthew has always been a non moving bench kind of guy)

So cute

Lily was determined to make it to that slide