Happy New Year - two weeks late

For those of you with young children and no babysitter on New Year's Eve, you can understand our predicament, so we decided to invite some friends over, fire up the grill for some steaks and have a family-friendly New Year's. The Maguires joined us and let me tell you, it was a wild and crazy night! There was lots of running and screaming and only a little bit of crying (and that was just the adults!). Below are a few pictures from the end of the evening, when the noisemakers and other goodies were brought out for the big celebration (I think we celebrated around 8pm).

Sarah's got her noisemaker

and she isn't afraid to use it!

Joey and Nathan aren't too sure about everything yet

Nathan, Owen, Sarah and Joey say Happy New Year!

Nathan learned very early what you do to get beads...

Judy and Joey

Daddy and Sarah