The New Year!

Happy New Year!!!

New Year's Eve has become one of my favorite holidays because our best-ies have started to come and stay with us and celebrate with us every year. :) So it's awesome :) 

We enjoyed a few sparklers and fireworks and other such New Years noise-makers.

Standing in line for the various noisy things

Watch 'em fly!

That was it for pictures for the night since the rest of the evening involved only the kids going to sleep and the adults watching a movie before watching big fireworks from the hot tub :)

But New Years morning was fun breakfast and lots of playing.

With the two littlest littles it's more playing next to each other than with each other. And they aren't as much for posing as the other kids. But it's always fun to try for those perfect shots :)

Notice the pjs and thus the morning hair. It's kind of cute all snarly, right? Elise pretty much has the biggest rat's nest right on the back of her head every morning. I kind of love it :)

All dressed with calmer hair.

I just kind of love her face. So forgive all the pictures :)

And now begins the process of trying to get a picture of both girls looking at the camera and smiling....

Hey, not so bad! They're both looking in the same direction and at least smirking.

Now onto the biggest of the littles. Posing is NOT a problem for them. As you can see.

(No seriously, these two need to get married because we would have THE best wedding video-picture-montage thing EVER!)

And last, but not least, the middles of the littles. Just boys being boys. :)

Mama time!

Yeah, we're back to these two.... ;)

Only one month apart. Their parents are bffs. Their siblings are bffs. It only makes sense.... ;)

Oh look, so nicely sharing...

Or so it seemed...

Sad little faces because they're leaving...? (Yeah, we'll say that. It's not just still over the book ;)
(Confession: I think this is my favorite picture of them all. Seriously, look at those sad faces. Kind of adorable!)

Awww, see? We can share. :)

Time to say good-bye!

 Sad, sad daddies :(

(After they all left I realized that we never got a shot of the moms!! Oh well. Next time for sure!)