We started the evening with gift-giving. We all opened our Christmas gifts from each other and from Josh's parents. I loved watching everyone take turns opening gifts--we've never done that with Tiffany's family before. It was fun for all the cousins to be together!
Grandma got all the grandsons scooters, and they were so happy! They rode them around and around in our kitchen constantly until just last week, when I discovered that one of them had an "accident" (that nobody fessed up to, of course), putting a large dent in one of my new lower kitchen cabinets. So now they're banned to only riding the scooters outside, which will have to wait until the snow melts!
After the gifts were all opened, the New Year's celebration got underway. There is only one radio station in Salmon, and on New Year's Eve every year, the station has an oldies music contest. They play short clips of twelve songs in a row, and you have to guess the songs and the artists. And to make it more fun, every year there's a different "theme" to the songs, and if you can figure out the theme, it's helpful in figuring out all the songs too. For example, one year the songs all had a woman's name in the title, one year the songs/artists had names of football teams in them, one year the songs/artists had numbers in them, etc. This year, the theme was "names of states in the USA". For most of the years that the Tolman family has competed, we've won the contest! And this year was no exception!!!
To pass the time, I tried to put a 1000 piece puzzle together, the kids played games and looked at photo albums with Uncle Gideon, and Josh participated in the radio trivia game throughout the night with his parents!
It was one of my favorite New Year's Eves yet, mostly because we were with just family, and the whole atmosphere was casual and enjoyable! And for the first time, all my boys stayed up until past midnight--and they rung in the new year just how they know best--noisily!!!
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