Our New Years came together sorta at the last minute. We were all wanting to get together but really tired from Christmas and Dad's birthday celebrations. We decided at the last minute in order to get both our families together in one location so we could all be together on New Years we'd gather at Mom and Dad's. And yes that's Uncle Andrew using Maddie as a foot stool.

It ended up being Mom, Dad, Tim, and I and the kids, Pam and John, Charlotte and Shepherd, Andrew and Esther, Chris and Michelene and the kids, and Barb, Steve, and Sara! It was a full house with lots of kids.

As in the past years we celebrated New Years New York time at 9pm our time for the little kiddos. The big kids were told to roll with it or they would have to go to bed with Natalie early. I've done this for years now and we just turn on one of the news channels usually Fox and watch the ball drop the kids have never caught on, because we pop sparkling cider for them and champagne for us and celebrate just the same.

At midnight we celebrated again with the grown ups and big kids. At 1am when we were still wide awake, I mentioned a chicken fried steak from my slowly deflating air mattress in the front room. Barb said "Let's go to Shari's!" and 15 minutes later Mom, Barb, Esther, Sara and I were in the car headed down the hill to possibly the worst 2 hours of food we'd ever encountered. Barb served as our waitress taking our orders on a napkin after waiting 2o minutes for someone to take our order.

She then found a waiter and he turned the napkin in to the kitchen. Seriously. We all need to make better decisions in the future. At 3am when we got home Tim was centered in the middle of the air mattress and it had sunk lower. I thought I'd buoy him up by hopping on it. 2 hours later we were touching floor and he fired up the air pump sending my dad flying out of bed. Esther and Andrew stayed the night too and they got the new air mattress. Anyway at 5 I decided it was time to try the couch and slept there for the next 3 hours on and off. I've had better nights sleep but we were all together and that was what mattered. Happy New Year! 
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