happy New Year!

For New Years Eve dinner we always try to come up with something different that we don't have very often. Joanna and I came up with skewers this year. I have never made them so they are new for the kids. 

Chase liked the chips better

We had and orange Thai beef, and a bacon wrapped teriyaki chicken. We also had "veggies on a stick".

Then.... on to the Olympics! In the past we have not really tried to keep score or find a winner. Our youngest are a lot younger then our oldest and I didn't want them to get mad about losing. This year we did do a tournament and kept track of winners and losers for 2 events: ping pong and air hockey.

It went really well. We did a double elimination so everyone played more then one game.

We did both events at the same time so every one was busy the whole time.

We only went to 5 points on ping pong and that went really fast- cause only Andre is good at ping pong.

We did 5 minutes on air hockey.

Then we did some of our old favorites: Wii bowling,

The do nothing game, (Andre watches for any movement- if you move then you are out)

And, paper airplane contest, 3 legged race, long jump, and sack race (must wear the sack after the race apparently). 

Then we had chocolate fondue for our dessert. yummy!

The played a board game or two, then had a count down with Chase. 

He was amazed that I let him stay up until 9:30! 

The boys watched x-men together. I had a goal to get the book of Mormon read during 2013 and had a few chapters left to go. I got that done at 11:55 and joined the boys downstairs for the countdown. Alex almost made it to midnight. He has had a lot of sickness the last few months and we didn't want him to be too tired on top of it. Next year he can do it.

Happy New Year!