Daines: Our Family: Ringing in 2014!

New Years Eve is always full of family and fun. We started out the evening by running over to Blake's parents house to tell his dad happy birthday. Kenlee was very excited to deliver the gift and she even practiced saying Happy Birthday. Of course as soon as we got there she found out where Papa was and made sure he got his gift. Kenlee has always loved giving gifts and celebrating with everyone. So sweet! We stayed and visited for a little while until we all got hungry and then headed back to our house to start our New Year's Eve party. This year Karlee and Colton were able to come party with us and it was great! We started off with a yummy dinner of double decker tacos.... always a family favorite. Once the girlies were bathed and hair dried we all bundled back up and went to play with some pop it fireworks. Both Kenlee and Jordyn thought that this was an amazing idea.... thanks Daddy for the surprise! I think everyone had a great time, adults and children alike. Kenlee sang jingle bells while she played with her box of pop its while Jordyn found joy in throwing the pop its at our feet and making us jump and squeal.

Blake's stand against wearing pants.... I freeze for him.

After we had used up all the pop its we headed back down stairs to play the Logo Game. Blake and I had only played one other time and were excited to give it another shot. I told the girls that they could stay up as long as they wanted to but by 10:00 both girls were asking to go to bed. We paused the game and did the last of our fireworks which were some streamer pops. Kenlee loved to pull the strings and Jordyn just wanted to watch the streamers pop out all over the kitchen. We put the cuties to bed and played the game til about 11:30. Once the game was over we turned on the New Years count down and waited for the ball to drop. The ball dropped and we celebrated with some sparkling cider and then hung out talking til around 1:30. We were party animals.....

New Years day was spent in Liberty, Idaho with all my mom's side of the family. We had so many different yummy soups, it was more of a contest to see if you could taste test all the soups. After lunch was cleaned up some people played volleyball while some of us went and played board games. Jordyn thought that the echo of the gym was the perfect opportunity to sing at the top of her lungs, she certainly loves to perform.

Around 4 we all packed up and headed back to Cache Valley. Both the girls were so wore out from running around with all their little friends that Jordyn only stayed awake til we got out of the canyon and Kenlee (who never sleeps in the car anymore) slept the last part of our trip. They had so much fun!