Happy New Year!

It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone. I remember when I was a kid thinking how long a year took to go by, now I can't hardly keep track of the actual date. Oh well, at least we still now how to ring in the new year!
We had a bunch of family and friends over last night to help us celebrate the passing of another year. It was nothing too extravagant-just food and fun. Everyone brought an appetizer to share and a few of their favorite games. For the most part the kids entertained themselves (it's hard to be bored when you have a Wii and a few Nintendo DS's laying around!) and the adults enjoyed a few rousing games of Hokie 5 and a new game I got for Christmas called Backseat Drawing.
I think the part of the evening the kids were looking forward to the most was when they got to climb to on our roof and literally "bang" in the new year! (We give them all wooden spoons and metal pans which we let them bang to their hearts content!)
Believe it or not, Lincoln was right there with us, ringing in the new year. He did not go down until almost 1 am-after everyone else had gone home. And it was s till a fight at that point to get him to settle down for the night! He of course did not sleep in any later this morning either, so that was loads of fun!