New Years Eve

New Years Eve is the best! We love any reason to get together and party! So, here are some highlights. It's become tradition to meet at Chuck-a-rama for dinner and stuff ourselves silly. If you are like me and call it UpChuck-a-rama you know it's not my favorite but the kids sure love it. 

Here is Olive making an awesome face after eating soooo much dessert. 

We also celebrated Veronika's birthday as part of our party. The kids love the doubles game. Olive was rather disappointed that she didn't ever roll doubles and thus never got a chance to unwrap the prize. Sweet Hannah, who won the game, gave Olive her whole candy bar to make her feel better. No wonder Olive loves these girls, they spoil her!

Then we danced along to this amazing YouTube video of the proper way to do jazz hands.

Everyone got super into it. It was hilarious. I was crying laughing.  

Olive and Lizzie took this video very seriously and they followed every move. It was awesome. 

We had fun playing games. We totally rocked trivial pursuit and got like 3 pegs in a row on one turn. It was legendary. Because of that we won the game! Go us! 

2013! Oh yeah!

We let Olive stay all the way up until midnight and that may have been a terrible mistake. As soon as it was time to start dancing and having fun she was just a grumpy girl and we were having a hard time cheering her up. She didn't want to dance or be silly. She just wanted to try on hats. 

Don't worry though, Scott's fantastic dance moves got her in the mood to get her groove on. 

That's more like it! 

Gotta do the limbo! 

Matching New Years girls! 

We had so much fun dancing and partying. It's definitely one of my favorite Patterson traditions. 

Then at the strike of midnight we gave kisses and ran outside to the freezing cold and snow to ring our noise makers. It was quite the success. Since we were staying over it was right to bed at 12:05 for our tired girl. 

We are excited for 2013. It is always fun to start a new year and think of all the new things (like Kindergarten!) that will be happening this year! 2012 was a great one, but I think 2013 has a lot of good in store for us!