Ringing in 2012

We opted for a New Years Eve in our pajamas this year! It was perfect! We headed over to the Timmerings and spent the night together...making cotton candy.....

talking about 2012.....and what amazing things we would do in the new year! Brad, Jenna, Jeremy and I always make a pink swear for the new year...some things we want to do together! This year we are all about fun...I can't wait to see if our pinky swears come true!

We shot baskets....the competition was fierce!

Cheered and danced.....

wrestled....

and shook our booties!

We rang in the new year surrounded by love and happiness for sure!

Not all of us made it to Midnight....

but most of us did!

and at the stoke of midnight we wished for an amazing 2012 and we also wished Brad a happy Birthday!

Be good to us 2012! We welcome you with an open heart!

Ringing in 2011

When I got home from Indy it was straight to the store for hats and horns for the littles! You gotta have them to ring in the new year!

 It was so warm the boys played horse outside!

 And Lila Ray really enjoyed the New Years Eve brownies!

 It was a fun, laid back night surrounded by the people I love most! We watched a movie and as it was almost over.... I looked at my watch to see the New Year was less than 20 minutes away...I began to remember last New Years Eve when we rang in the new Year with Brad and Jenna at their house. It was the first pinky swear and we stuck to it. We had been going to do another this year although it was still undecided...and I began to really miss them. No pinky swear this year....and then the phone rang and that familiar ring....Hey Soul Sister.....was all I could hear. I picked up the phone and Jenna said...we are coming down! And they did!  That meant so much to us...and everyone got to ring in the New Year with their best friend! At 11:59...the 2011 pinky swear was made...3 date nights and a lake trip!

Two very special friends, indeed!

These girls...practically like sisters!

Jeremy was happy to be the first to tell "Bad" happy birthday too.
I have never met two people more
alike than these two!

So tired...but so happy with my BFF! I don't know what I would do without her!

Best friends every day of their lives!

Happy New Year!!!

New Years Eve Day Basketball

It was a day of basketball for us this New Years Eve and what fun we had in Indianapolis! Take this first picture in...really look at the cute little boys and how excited they are because after this one I took everything in color...it was not a black and white kind of day....it was a Kentucky blue day all the way!!! ooooohhhhh C-A-T-S Cats....Cats...Cats!!!!

 Everything was red and blue as it was the annual Kentucky vs. Louisville game!

Even my nachos were red and blue!

 We traveled to Indy to watch this game as we had tickets to see the Wizards play that afternoon. So we did what any devoted fan would do...we did everything in our power to see the game...and it worked out beautifully! Chris, Susan and Ben had tickets too so they watched the game with us...and my brother was going with us so he, Tonya and Syd joined us as well! Jillian's was rockin in Kentucky blue and it was so fun to watch the game with people we love and people who love Kentucky..that is always a bonus!

 Sydney came down to my end of the table with her new DS. Susan asked how old she was and I was able to tell her..how old she is today and when she will be 6...and as silly as that sounds, that felt really good...I know her birthday...it rolled off my tongue with ease. Last year was the first birthday that we had really celebrated with her...but even then I think I would have had to consult my birthday book for the exact date. She has only been in my life such a short time...it's so sad and yet so happy that I have her now.  So sitting in Jillian's with the Kentucky cheers all around us...we played with her new hot pink DS. The game faded around me and it was just Sydney and me...trying to build a roller coaster on her Phineas and Ferb game. And we did it...we built the coaster...we did it together.

 The game Basketball game was amazing as Kentucky pulled out a victory over the Cards....which means so much...it just does. We changed the boys into the Wizards wear and headed to the arena for some NBA action!

 The boys were so excited to see John Wall play....after Wildcat Camp with him this summer...he is like a living God to them...and it is like sugary sweetness to give your kids that kind of experience...one that makes them jittery with excitement!

 They wore their new John Wall basketball shoes that Santa had brought...........

 They wore their new Wall Jerseys that the Timmerings had given them...........

 And they cheered their hearts out when he came on the floor! The Wizards lost to the Pacers but Wall had an amazing game and was the leading scorer!

 To top it all off I got to share Donatos pizza...an absolute favorite of mine....with the boys for the first time! Oh it was a fun New Years Day for sure!