New Years felt different this year, although we did much of the same things.
Our festivities on the afternoon of New Year's Eve with the Fiesta bowl game. Boise State played against Arizona. It was a very exciting game, and as I was making food for the night's celebrations, Josh and the boys were very involved in the game. Thankfully, BSU won! I was trying to get photos of the boys when they discovered that BSU was victorious, but they were all jumping up and down so much, it was hard to get a clear shot!!
Around 6:00 that evening, we headed down to Edward and Kathy's for food, games, puzzle-piecing, and the radio's 60's music trivia contest. We found a table large enough to put together the 1,000 piece puzzle Kathy had gotten, and went straight to work.
The 60's trivia radio contest was different this year: there's always a montage of short clips from songs that we have to figure out what the song is and who the artist is. We've won it for so many years in a row, that Cope (the guy who creates the radio contest in Salmon) decided to have two this year: one for our family, and one for the rest of the public. So basically, we weren't competing against anyone but ourselves. We had to be done by 11:00 instead of midnight, and the songs were harder this year, and we couldn't figure out the theme. We gave it a good effort, and everyone was using their technology and brains to come up with the answers. But it wasn't as fun, knowing that there was no one to compete against. It felt like wasted effort, because no matter how many answers we gave of the 12-song montage, we would win.
There was a lot of people over for the party that night. Gideon and Alyssa and Malachi were all in town visiting. Tim & Barb joined us for a few hours, as well as Frank & Dixie. Dixie was a huge help with the puzzle, too! I'm glad she came and worked alongside me for a while!
Because this was the first time since Christmas that we'd had more family members over, we decided to give Kathy her Christmas present then. We bought her a day-rafting trip down the Salmon River, and Josh's siblings contributed by signing up, too, so we could have a large family float this summer. Kathy has been dreaming of doing this for years, and we were so glad to finally have a good idea of something to gift her! She was ecstatic! I love how happy she looks in this photo!
And then after that, Gideon and Alyssa were showing her some photos they had of themselves from the Tabernacle Choir's Christmas Concert that they were involved in as performing dancers. At the end of the pile of photos was a surprise: a picture of an ultrasound, announcing to Kathy and Edward that they are pregnant! That was such a fun surprise! I had no idea it was coming, or I would've been prepared with the camera for their initial reaction, but once I realized what was happening, I hurried to capture this one:
At midnight, we went outside with firecrackers and sparklers to ring in the new year. It was sooo freezing, so we weren't outside for very long! And not everyone wanted to brave the cold, either!
The next day on New Year's, we went up with Josh's family to Janoa's for lunch. They had a bonfire by their house, and we cooked tinfoil dinners outside on it. It was something I've never done in the dead of winter before, but I liked spending time with some of the Tolman cousins: Janoa & Dennis, Trisa & Greg, and Sheryl & Frank and their kids, and Tim & Barb came, too.
We were there for a couple hours, then left in time for the boys to go to the new Hobbit movie matinee with Malachi. While they were at the movie, I got the house cleaned and more food made for a New Year's party of our own that night. Gideon and Alyssa, Malachi, Amanda, and John all came over for games and food. We played "Buzzword", and then we had such a hilarious time playing the game "Things" with them and our kids. The phrase of the night ended up being "drinking beer". It was in every round (and was started by Micah as the answer for what firemen do in between fires), and was used by several people to answer all the things categories, even for the one that was "what to NOT call your kids": beer drinkers!!! I just love playing that game! I get such a crack-up playing with my kids and adults simultaneously because they try to answer as an adult would, and it's so funny to finally discover what their answers were and be so surprised by their clever brains!
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