Happy New Year!!!

Good-bye to 2016, hello to 2017! We hosted New Year's Eve at our house this year. The Wilkens and the Buffos came over and we did our countdown for the kids around 7-ish. :) I'm not sure they really get it yet, but they had fun toasting and making noise and loved the balloon drop!

Matt's aunt Helen sent us a bunch of decorations and this was in the package. Love this!

We let the kids make their own pizzas for dinner. This is pretty easy considering all but Morgan just wanted cheese and sauce!

These three cousins are so silly! I am so glad they get to grow up so close by each other. They won't go to the same elementary school, but they will be in the same middle and high schools.

Getting ready to "cheers"! The littles got sparkling water and we got something a little more potent! :)

We got all the kids on the couch to watch the "countdown". Netflix had a bunch of different countdowns you could play with fun characters.

Then, we all clinked our glasses and had some bubbly! Morgan was the only one that drank hers. The others said it burned their tongues. Morgan just said she thought it was spicy!

Gave all the kids some noisemakers. Well, except Beckett and Hunter. Beckett liked the 2017 glasses and Hunter just stared at everyone like they were nuts!

Little Natasha was ready to keep the party going! Morgan is ready to be a babysitter. She just loves babies. She asks when she's going to have a baby brother and I keep saying "sorry, kiddo, not going to happen!"

Oh, the balloon drop! Or should I say balloon drops! We did this a few times! The balloons were getting staticky, so they weren't flying down as fast after the first few times. The kids didn't seem to care, though.