Day: January 1, 2014

We were all a little under the weather for New Years Eve this year. We were tired, the parties we wanted to go to were far off, and to be honest, home sounded really good this year…

Setting off some small fireworks to get the night started.

I threw the party together in about 45 minutes. I started with a run to the dollar store for supplies: small little doodads for goodie bags, a fresh glue stick, some ribbon, and some discounted glittery balls for the Photo Booth…

Some of our New Years Eve goodies.

I made some treat bags with paper lunch sacks (we have to get a whole bag every year for school and end up using three) clocks downloaded from the internet, and lots of fun!

The garland we made last week at Grandma’s house is now complete!

Opening the first goodie bag of the night.

We were going to use some Photo Booth supplies I’d picked up ages ago at Wal-mart, but when I couldn’t find them, Nick reminded me that I’d donated them to a church pre-teen event (I never saw photos from that, btw!)

Our own little Photo Booth.

We loved glittering up these photo booth props. (We found them online and cut them out ourselves.)

David said I couldn’t post this to facebook, but he never said I couldn’t post it on my blog! Bwahaha!

Trying out the photo booth myself.

Nick said he was watching football, butslept through most of the evening.

We loved the sentiment this sign displayed, so we printed one of our own.

All our snacks came from a Christmas present from Grandma

Another hour, another goodie bag.

Even with hourly goodie bags, the evening dragged on, so we watched Harry Potter while we waited for the countdown.

Movie watching time!

Finally it’s time for the big countdown!

The end of the evening and the last of the mini fireworks.