Paul's Birthday and New Year's Eve

Happy 32nd birthday!  We celebrated the evening before at Scott and Tina's and then spent Paul's birthday day at Sea World.

Pretty funny!

Both my parents and in-laws all have passes too, so we all went.  Sure makes taking 4 kids to a theme park much easier!

Still enjoying Christmas.

Shaving cream in the bath is the new fun thing.

Luca relaxing in his new chair he got for Christmas.  He outgrew the bouncer, but we still wanted something to sit him in, ahem...contain him, and this is perfect!  He can use it up to 30lbs as a rocking chair too!

The were ready and excited for the New Years Noon party!  We had 10 families and lots of kids to ring in the new year a little early!

Luca's first New Year!!!

Luca was happy and playing as we waited up until midnight.

Love this!  First time with all of them doing sparklers.

Little voices saying Happy New Year.

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Settled in to watch our $10 fireworks display.

It was perfect for the price!

Matteo making music with Daddy's beer.  No, he's not drinking it! =)

The later it got, the wilder the kids.  Here they were riding/dragging Rudolph around the house.

By the end, we were all fading fast...except my Abuela.  She was ready for a party!  Too funny.

Sebastian was determined to not fall asleep even though he was a complete zombie.  He had to stay up for the New Years party.  His brothers crashed around 11, but he made it - this is about 5 till.  Poor guy!

Happy 2012!!  Literally in the last 60 seconds Luca woke up and I didn't want to miss it, so I dragged the poor kid out for the final seconds of his birth year, snapped a picture, hugged and kissed everyone and rushed him back to bed.  Luckily he went back to sleep!

Happy New Year 2011!

I love New Years. I always want to have a party, but you know how non-committal people are on New Years. But this year, we decided to host a New Years Eve NOON party for all the kids. And it was a huge hit! I got pretty excited about it....here are some of our decorations, starting with a balloon drop. And YES, it worked!!!

Entrance.

Playroom.

Water and lemonade. I felt like I was setting up for a crazy college bash or something. But knew it would be even more destruction with 20 or so toddlers and preschoolers running around!

Jackson, Sebastian and Matteo enjoy some hot dogs.

To get ready for the big noon/midnight countdown the kids wore hats and all had noisemakers or instruments. We watched a 2010 countdown on YouTube that we hooked up to our TV, followed by fireworks.

Matteo was ready too!

Parents and toddlers starting the countdown!

The balloon drop frenzy! Pretty hard to catch in a picture, but it was awesome!

Sebastian LOVED the balloons! Very exciting and totally made the party!

Attempt at a kid picture. We could only get these 7 of the 16 or so kids to sit for it.

Handing out sparkling cider to all our adult guests.

Matteo really wanted to try it. =)

He was a happy camper double-fisting the goodies - cupcake and cookies, oh my!

The aftermath in the playroom after the party.

Some happy boys with their Daddy.

Playing superman with Lelo.

Funny picture...and adorable shirts thanks to Auntie Tiff.

Later that night we went to church, had dinner and then Skyped with our family in Bogota and in Puerto Rico. So nice to be able to see and talk to them on special days.

Sarah and Sebastian had fun playing on New Year's Eve. Sebastian asked to go to bed around 10 pm though, he just couldn't make it I guess. Maybe next year!

We stayed up though and watched/criticized/laughed at/were embarrassed at not knowing most of the New Year's Rockin' Eve Party entertainment.

Happy 2011! Many blessings and wonderful things to everyone in this new year!

Happy New Year! Welcome 2010!

New Year's Eve family picture.

New parents with Logan.

With my baby on his first New Year's Eve!

Opening presents from Tio Daniel and Auntie Emily.

Sebastian showing us how cold it is when he wears his new sweater.

Finally a picture of the three cousins!

Baby Logan is awake!

Sebastian so happy to see his cousin!

The 2009 babies ringing in the New Year! Matteo almost made it...he missed midnight by about 20 minutes. Maybe next year! Sebastian on the other hand was wide awake and having a blast!